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In 1510, before he discovered the Pacific Ocean, he founded the settlement of Darien |
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Built by Emperor Trajan around 110 A.D., this city's Ulpian Library lasted for centuries |
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In 1974 George Ariyoshi was elected this state's first Japanese-American governor |
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Henry James said, "Whatever" this author of "The Time Machine" "writes is not only alive, but kicking" |
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All islands within this 475,000-square-mile bay belong to Canada's Northwest Territories |
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In a Goldmark opera, Assad, King Solomon's favorite courtier, falls in love with the queen of this |
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Type of body part discovered by Italians Bartolommeo Eustachio in 1552 & Gabriel Fallopius in 1561 |
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The James Madison Memorial Building, part of this library, is the largest library building in the world |
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In 1968 he'd just won his fifth presidential primary when an assassin took his life |
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A 19th c. poem says, "Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, long since, saw" this lord's "struggle cease" |
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This bay is the largest inlet on the USA's East Coast |
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In the opera "Czar and Carpenter", this Russian czar works incognito in the Dutch shipyards |
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Around 1596 an early one of these devices was installed in Elizabeth I's palace at Richmond |
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This country's national library, located in Aberystwyth, is noted for its collection of Celtica |
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Calling him "morally obtuse", the Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred him in 1974 |
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Matthew Arnold called this "Kubla Khan" author a "poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium" |
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This bay on the coast of the island of Luzon has been called the finest harbor in Southeast Asia |
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"Mi chiamano Mimi" is a famous soprano aria in this Puccini opera |
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Epithet bestowed on Scottish adventurer James Crichton by poet John Johnston |
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This is the French word for library; librairie refers to a bookstore |
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A 1992 Time magazine article called this Connecticut governor "The Gutsiest Governor in America" |
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Ezra Pound compared this creator of Father Brown, to "a vile scum on a pond" |
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The Ganges & Brahmaputra Rivers empty into this bay, the world's largest |
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His opera "Don Giovanni" is subtitled "Il dissoluto punito"—"The Rake Punished" |
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In 1584 17-year-old Maurice of Nassau succeeded this man, his father, as stadtholder of Holland |
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Excavated in the 19th c., the library of King Ashurbanipal was in Nineveh, the last capital of this empire |
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A supporter of the Missouri Compromise, he represented Kentucky in Congress on & off 1806-52 |
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According to Mark Twain, this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" "hadn't a sincere fiber in him" |
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Beaches on this bay include San Sebastian in Spain & Biarritz in France |
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The hero of this oratorio composer's opera "Rinaldo" is a crusader |
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