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I MARRIED ELIZABETH TAYLOR |
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THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY |
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In 1961 this country's P.W. Botha assumed his first cabinet position--Minister of Coloured Affairs |
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This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1964 (& was divorced from her in 1974) |
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Cairo, Copenhagen, Canberra |
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Sho' nuff! He's the American author & cartoonist best known for "Li'l Abner" |
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In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond |
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If you're schussing around on these, remember that their name comes from old Norse for "sticks" |
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Though his Fatah party lost in 2006 Palestinian elections, he remained president |
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This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1975 (& was divorced from her in 1976) |
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Brasilia, Bogota, Buenos Aires |
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He wrote the immortal words "he took his Vorpal sword in hand: long time the manxome foe he sought" |
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The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8 |
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The minute you walked in the joint, you knew the name of this body part was from the old English "elnboga" |
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In 1984 Louis Gossett Jr. was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of this assassinated Egyptian leader |
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Paul Simon's ex-father-in-law, he co-starred with Elizabeth in "BUtterfield 8" |
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Wellington, Warsaw, Washington, D.C. |
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This turn-of-the-century magician's instruction manual for witches is known as "The Book of Shadows" |
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This Jane Austen novel begins, "The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex" |
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It's no Greek myth: this big South American bird was probably named for the wife of Cronus |
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Nana Sahib was an important leader of these rebels in 1857 India |
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He was first elected as a Virginia senator in 1978 |
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While in the service of Spain in 1542, this Portuguese explorer discovered California |
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After Christian's death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow |
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This word for what one often does to red wine before serving comes from a Latin word for an iron ring |
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Indonesia's President Sukarno was the father of this woman who also became president of Indonesia |
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Married in 1991, this construction worker... aw heck, either you know this guy or you don't |
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Bridgetown, Brussels, Belmopan |
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On July 18, 1938 he was questioned by police after a 28-hour, 13-minute airplane flight |
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Tolstoy wrote this character's "life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible" |
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The name of this greenish patina that forms on copper comes from Old French for "green of Greece" |
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