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This Confederate president was captured on May 10, 1865 & put in the pokey in Fort Monroe, Virginia |
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Negus is a title of Haile Selassie; Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus pay him homage with songs in this genre |
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On Christmas Day 1950 a group of Scottish students "liberated" this rock from Westminster Abbey |
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This title of a high-ranking Shiite Muslim cleric & spiritual authority means "sign of God" |
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At the U.N. you can see a giant bronze one of these with a knot tied in the barrel, by John Lennon's friend Carl Reutersward |
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The longtime prisoner known as this, sent to the Bastille in 1698, actually used black velvet to hide his face |
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A TV show about the workings of law enforcement is alliteratively called a "police" this |
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"DD" begins the postal code for this eastern Scottish port city & the surrounding region |
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Lumbini, Nepal, is the traditional site of Buddha's birth, and its Maya Devi Temple was named for this woman |
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Hamilton MacCarthy sculpted Samuel de Champlain with his astrolabe upside down in this world capital |
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In 1825 Hans Oersted isolated this silvery-white metal |
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As one of this "numbered" group, John Howard Lawson went to the pokey in 1948 & was then blacklisted |
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Doom is this 3-word type of video game named for how one sees through a character's eyes while firing |
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Popular as a Christmas tree, this fir was named for a nineteenth-century Scottish botanist |
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In Judaism, during this 7-day period following burial, mourners may sit on low stools or boxes |
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Emmet Sullivan designed the 67' Christ of these mountains in Eureka Springs, Arkansas |
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Helen Reddy's empowering hit "I Am Woman" is often described as this type of song |
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After getting in trouble with the Church of England in 1661, this pilgrim progressed to jail, where he wrote a lot |
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Imagining the England lost WWII, "SS-GB" is a BBC show in this fantasy genre abbreviated A.H. |
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This king's victory in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 led to Scottish freedom from English rule |
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The name of this headdress worn by a Christian bishop is from the Greek for "turban" |
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Known for 4 giant presidential heads, he also did a now-lost sculpture of Woodrow Wilson |
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After a victory at Acre in 1191, he was imprisoned in Austria on his way home to England & ransomed for 150,000 marks |
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"Siembra" from bandleader Willie Colón was once this genre's bestselling album |
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The last two first ministers of Scotland, both pro-independence, are Alex Salmond and her, also with a fishy surname |
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In the 1820s, according to Mormon belief, this angel visited Joseph Smith many times & 3 other men as well |
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John Flaxman planned a statue of her to be 80' taller than Lady Liberty & wanted her to "rule" from a London hill |
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The name of this type of place where trees are on display comes from the Latin for "plantation of trees" |
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