The chain connecting the propellers to the engine on the Wright Brothers' Flyer was like the chain drive on one of these
100° spring water is no problem for the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish in this morbid Western U.S. national park
The Pritzker School of Law is part of this "directional" Big Ten school
Elementary, dromedary! This mammal can hoof it through 120-degree desert temps & then spit on you for making it do that
Part of this mammalian group, the greater bilby survives 157-degree days in Queensland using elaborate burrow systems
In 1775 this Virginian asked, "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"
The 369th Infantry Regiment has its origins as the 15th New York Infantry Regiment of this reserve section of the Army; before the U.S. entered World War I, they trained in a second floor dance studio in Harlem
The Geneva Free Port, a giant warehouse complex in this nation, houses an estimated 1.2 million works of art
Andrew Greeley's "Novel of Papal Election" has this colorful title, the signal that a new pope has been chosen
The scientific name of Jamaica's ackee fruit honors this captain who brought it to England in 1793
Book 1 of the ancient work "Elements" deals with basic concepts in this field like "a line is a length without breadth"
Anthony Trollope's novels about Barsetshire concern the high class known by this 6-letter word, especially when they owned land
TV hosts
Kressley &
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Ex-P.M. Eden & ex-Supreme Court justice Kennedy
Maxwell Upson's mastery of the prestressed type of this material for support made the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway possible
The Mount Athos area in Greece has monasteries that still follow this calendar that preceded the Gregorian
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Birds don't have these glands, so they take heat out of their bodies using a version of panting
In August 1500 he & his brothers were sent back to Spain in chains for mismanagement & brutality in Hispaniola
A celebrity-musician turned soldier, who fought for the Harlem Hellfighters, James Reese Europe's work as a bandleader is credited with showing an early version of this music genre to Franc
Barnabas Collins was the resident vampire on this Gothic soap of the 1960s & early '70s
Petroleum engineers know that a Darcy is a unit of this, or how readily a porous rock lets liquid through it
In part this herb's name is from the Chinese for "human being" & its roots make it look like one
The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun
When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character
A punk band fronted by Billy Idol, or the group born following the baby boom
Charles Kao got a Nobel by applying to telephony the "old, old idea" of transmitting light through this material
In Houston the "MOB" is the Marching Owl Band of this university
Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country
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