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ROMANCE NOVELIST HISTORY BOOK |
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On the Mamas & the Papas' last Top 40 hit, "Dream A Little Dream Of Me", she got top billing |
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Michigan claims the nation's oldest one, starting in 1849; don't miss the pig races or the midway |
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She knew it was over; Octavian had rejected her advances. The asp awaited; she'd be buried with her love forevermore |
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Princess Cruises now offer scuba & volleyball as well as this beloved game that uses cues to push disks |
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Solfatara, a gas-belching volcanic vent, is partly from the Italian for this element |
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In 1968 this film star turned pop star with the song heard here
"MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark / All the sweet, green icing flowing down..." |
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Mary had caught this lawyer's eye & wed him on Nov. 4, 1842. But would her growing madness doom them both? |
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The person who handles passengers' accounts; Gopher on "The Love Boat" was an assistant one |
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Popular with kids, dactylonomy is the practice of counting this way |
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According to the title of a 1967 hit, it's what The Young Rascals were doing "On A Sunday Afternoon" |
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People who gather each New Year's Day for a swim in frigid water are called this animal's club |
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It was WWI. Her new name meant "eye of the dawn" & she felt reborn. Oh, how she loved German military men! |
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This Virgin Island with its city of Charlotte Amalie is among the most popular Caribbean ports of call |
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A canephora is a statue of a woman bearing one of these on her head |
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In a 3-year period in the 1960s, she had 15 Top 40 hits, including the one heard here
"My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine / Softer than a sigh / My love is deeper than the deepest ocean..." |
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In 1960 this "royal" krewe became the first to throw doubloons in New Orleans' Mardi Gras parade |
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June 20, 1791. She and Louis fled in the night. But a man recognized Louis, whose face was literally on the money |
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You can sail from Southampton on this Cunard liner that has covered 5.3 mil. nautical miles, a record for any ship |
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By definition in a style of painting called grisaille, only shades of this color are used |
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This Zager & Evans hit about the future is subtitled "Exordium & Terminus" |
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English profs rub elbow patches at the 122-year-old annual convention of the MLA, short for this |
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Odysseus had been gone 20 years, even after she'd given him a son, Telemachus. Yet she knew someday, Odie would return |
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Term for a woman who christens a cruise ship, like Kim Cattral for Norwegian Dawn & Judi Dench for Carnival Legend |
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From the French for "to go out", it can mean to sally forth, or a combat mission by a single military plane |
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