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The largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was named "Santa Cruz" by Columbus |
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Nicolas Appert, who invented canned food, also came up with these cubes used to make instant soup |
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His seventh & final voyage took him to the Land of Serendib |
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It's a ceiling built in stone, brick or concrete, or a big bank safe |
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P.T. Barnum purchased this pachyderm, billed as the world's largest, from the London zoo in 1882 |
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It's said that a Japanese sword dropping from Gilbert's library wall inspired this 1885 opera |
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This Florida city was named for a city in Russia |
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He invented champagne by devising the corking system necessary to make it |
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Its inhabitants include the Duchess, the Gryphon & the Dormouse |
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The armlike beams connecting a high wall to outside supports in Gothic churches |
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The National Republicans & Anti-Masons formed the nucleus of this party founded in the 1830s |
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Sullivan wrote the music to the hymn about them "marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before" |
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A steamboat on this U.S. city's seal symbolizes its growth |
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In the 1890s he tried coal dust as a power source for his engine before trying crude fuel oil |
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It's the largest palace in Asgard |
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By using pendentives the Byzantines managed to set these on square bases |
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After his defeat for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1835, this frontiersman left for Texas |
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It's set in a ruined chapel & on a rocky seashore on the coast of Cornwall, not on the open sea |
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A small nation in the Caribbean is comprised of the Grenadines & this island |
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In '53 Dr. J. Gibbon invented this machine that permitted cardiac surgery longer than 10 minutes |
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Thrushcross Grange is the estate rented to Mr. Lockwood in this novel |
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The director of Germany's Bauhaus school from 1919-1928, he took the chair of architecture at Harvard in 1937 |
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Lincoln, Grant & Jefferson Davis served in the military under this general who became president |
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This opera is subtitled "The Lass that Loved a Sailor" |
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Only 1 person survived the destruction of this city on Martinique when Mt. Pelee erupted in 1902 |
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Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchhoff developed this device to see the wavelengths of light |
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In Aristophanes' "The Birds", a couple of Athenians convince the birds to found a city called this |
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Term for the iron grating that slides up & down in front of the door in a fortified building |
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This 1803 case was the first in which the Supreme Court declared a law of Congress unconstitutional |
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In 1881 producer d'Oyly Carte built this London theatre for Gilbert & Sullivan |
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