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Franz Kafka
Czech author of "Amerika"
Daniel
Jewish hero in Babylon who interpreted dreams
Richard I
Plantagenet king from 1189-1199, who fought in the Third Crusade and was succeeded by his younger brother, John
Edward Hopper
1930's New York artist whose art is often of lonely street scenes and include "Early Sunday Morning" and "Nighthawks"
Boyle's Law
a gas law which states that PV=k
Bram Stoker
author of "Dracula"
USS Maine
the US ship that was destroyed while anchored off of Havana, Cuba, and was an instigator of the Spanish-American War
42
the answer to life, the universe, and everything, according to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
William Golding
the author of "Lord of the Flies" who joined the Royal Navy when WWII broke out
Hagia Sophia
the basilica constructed in Constantinople, bearing a name which translates from Greek to "Holy Wisdom"
KGB
the initials of the Soviet Union's Secret Police, called in English the Committee of State Security
Tarzan
the jungle man created by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Aeolus
the keeper of the winds in Greek mythology
anaconda
the largest snake in the world, found in South America, that can grow to 36 feet in length and 1100 pounds
algebra
the literal meaning of this Arabic term for mathematics is "combining broken parts"
gyrus
the plural form of the word which describes the ridges on the brain's gray matter
Grand Canyon
217-mile long natural landmark found in northwest Arizona
George Gershwin
American composer who wrote "Rhapsody in Blue"
Arthur Miller
American dramatist whose works include "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible"
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist who authored "Silent Spring"
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer famous for Hungarian Rhapsodies and his Faust Symphony
Gioachino Antonio Rossini
Italian composer famous for his operas and his works, "Cinderella," "The Barber of Seville," and the William Tell Overture
caveat emptor
Latin for the common phrase "buyer beware"
Odin
Norse god whose name was given to Wednesday
Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter best known for expressing emotional distress as seen in "The Sick Child," "The Vampire," and "The Scream"
Constantine
Roman Emperor to become the first Christian Emperor after issuing the Edict of Milan in 313 AD
Jupiter
Roman god of rain, thunder, and lightning
Mickey Mantle
a New York Yankee Hall of Fame member who set league records in runs scored, home runs, and batting despite continual injuries to his knees and leg muscles
Jean Paul Sartre
a POW in WWII, a French intellectual who openly opposed Nazi occupation of France, and a Nobel Laureate who refused to accept the prize for his works "Nausea," "No Exit," and "Being and Nothingness"
Wilmot Proviso
a Pennsylvanian Congressman who proposed a bill in 1846 to ban slavery in any territory gained from Mexico at the end of the war
Ayn Rand
a Russian immigrant who wrote against socialpolitical systems in "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead"
On the Road
a book that recently sold for $2.43 million because it was written on a two-week amphetamine-fueled rush by its author, Jack Kerouac
Sydney Opera House
a building with geometric roof shells that opened "Down under" with the performance of Prokofiev's "War and Peace"
Methodist
a denomination of the Church of England whose name derives from John Wesley's desire to study religion "by rule and method"
Beowulf
a descendent of Skyld who used his sword (named Hrunting) to kill Grendel and its mother
cacophony
a harsh or discordant sound
Sisyphus
a man punished by Zeus to roll a boulder up a hill in Hades for eternity
Battle of Actium
a naval battle in 31 BC, after which Augustus Caesar became leader of the Roman Empire
Galapagos Islands
a part of Ecuador known for being visited by Charles Darwin and for its unique species
Beaufort
a scale for which the force of wind is indicated by the numbers from 0 to 12
act of God
a three-word phrase that describes occurrences beyond human control, such as floods, lightning, or other disasters
Fantasia
a type of composition in which the composer lets imagination prevail over the rules of a set musical form
Hadrian's Wall
a wall along the Anglo-Scottish border, named after its builder, designed to keeps the Picts and other Scottish tribes from invading
Salamis
according to Homer, the home of Greek hero Ajax, where the Greek Navy under Themistocles defeated the Persian Navy under Xerxes I
Battle of Trafalgar
an 1805 sea battle off the southern coast of Spain, in which Admiral Horation Nelson was killed
Georgia O'Keefe
an American artist who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and whose works were revered by Alfred Stieglitz
Leonard Bernstein
an American composer who directed the New York Philharmonic from 1957-1969 and composed the music for "West Side Story"
The Cask of Amontillado
an Edgar Allen Poe short story in which Fortunato is walled in alive
Thomas Gainsborough
an English painter who painted "The Blue Boy"
blood
an alkaline substance closest in composition to seawater that comes in types A, B, AB, and O
Sandro Botticelli
an artist, whose real name is Alissandro Philipepi, known for "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus"
Stephen Hawking
an author/scientist stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease whose research indicates that black holes can lose mass over time
lithium
an element used in inflating lifeboats and the making of the H-bomb, but is currently used to treat bipolar disorder and depression
Jonas Salk
an epidemiologist who developed the first vaccine against polio
decoupage
an ornamental technique using paper cutouts to create scenes on furniture, walls, or other articles
Charles Dickens
author of "American Notes"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
author of "Evangeline," who also wrote a poem containing these lines, "Into each life some rain must fall/ Some days must be dark and dreary."
Karl Marx
author of "The Communist Manifesto"
Erich Maria Remarque
author who based his best-selling novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," off of real-life experiences attained while in the German army
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
the first president to visit an overseas war zone, to appear on television, to be related to eleven former presidents, and the only president to be elected to four terms in office
Sigmund Freud
the founder of psychoanalysis, for whom a cigar is just a cigar
Jesse Owens
the man who embarrassed Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin when he won four gold medals
cork
the material first found in the centers of baseballs at the championship in 1910 between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs
Allegheny Mountains
the mountain range from Pennsylvania to Viginia, parallel to the Appalachian Mountains, and rising to more that 4,900 feet
Scotland Yard
the name of the detective department of the London metropolitan police force
trichinosis
the name of the sickness rumored to have killed Mozart that comes from eating undercooked pork
Elysian Fields
the part of the underworld in Roman mythology in which the virtuous dead find reward and peace
acoustics
the science that deals with the production, control, transmission, effects, and reception of sound
Bismark
the ship which was the center of the longest naval battle in history and whose namesake was Germany's iron Chancellor
Methuselah
the son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah, this man is rumored to be the longest-lived in the Old Testament, dying at the age of 969
Tyr
the son of Odin (also known as Tiu) who gave his name to Tuesday
Adenosine Triphosphate
the source of chemical energy in cells, releasing energy when a bond is broken between two of its phosphate groups
silk
the strongest of natural fibers obtained from the cocoons of a certain worm and used in the textile industry
Jupiter
the supreme god in Roman mythology, brother of Neptune and husband of Juno
jihad
the term for an Islamic Holy War
thermodynamics
the term that literally means "heat movement" and describes the science of heat transfer in chemical reactions
Atlas
the titan punished to forever bear the sky (or in some depictions, the earth) on his shoulders
Rudyard Kipling
this man edited the "Civil and Military Gazette" from 1882 to 1889, and won the Nobel Prize in 1907, but may be most well known for authoring "The Jungle Book"
Richard III
to ensure his ascension to the throne, this man had his two nephews killed and was himself killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1484
A. A. Milne
author who based his stories off his son, Christopher Robin
enzymes
catalyst-proteins that start, speed up, slow down, or stop chemical reactions by attaching to substrates at an active site
Benedict Arnold
convicted of treason on September 23, 1780, this man escaped to become a brigadier general in the British army
squash
the generic name for two similar games, raquets and tennis, played on a four-walled court with a racket and a ball
Pyramus and Thisby
the lovers in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who spoke through a crack in the wall
Yesterday
a Beatles song (originally called "Scrambled Eggs") in which a cello was first used as part of a pop number
Gustav Holst
a British Composer best known for compositions based on Hindu literature, including "The Planets"
The Producers
a Broadway smash adapted by Mel Brooks that includes the song, "Springtime for Hitler"
Guy De Maupassant
a French author known for short stories with ironc twist endings, such as "The Necklace" and "A Piece of String"
Oxygen
discovered in 177, its discoverer gave this element a name which translates to "acid-forming," and it has an atomic number of 8 with a symbol, O
spleen
oval-shaped lymphatic organ that filters damaged red blood cells and recycles the iron from hemoglobin, while acting as a blood resevoir and producing white blood cells
James Monroe
president whose term lasted from 1817 to 1825, and was the first president to have been a senator and have his first inaugural to be the first held outdoors
Sir Lancelot du Lac
the "pure and holy" knight who, according to Arthurian legend, was the father of Sir Galahad and the consort of Guinevere
Morpheus
the Greek god of dreams
Mowgli
the Indian boy raised by wolves and is the central figure of "The Jungle Book"
Our Town
the Pullitzer winning play by Thornton Wilder set in Grover's Corners
Becquerel
the SI unit of radioactivity, named for the 1903 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
Mariana Trench
the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean
Bosworth Field
the final battle of the War of the Roses, fought on August 22, 1485
Harvard
the first college established in the US
technetium
the first element to be synthetically created, with a symbol of Tc
