June 17, 2024 Born 344 years apart, they are the 2 real people mentioned by name in the titles of 1990s Best Picture Oscar winners
June 14, 2024 Helping draft an executive order in 1961, Hobart Taylor Jr. almost used the word “positive”, but instead chose this alliterative phrase
June 13, 2024 The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, “my young thuggish protagonist grows up”
June 12, 2024 Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big, an admiring account said the Obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke
June 10, 2024 In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & “highbrow pornography”
June 7, 2024 During a 1972 presidental visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called “Ode to the Plum Blossom”
June 6, 2024 Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925’s Butler Act in Tenn. outlawed this activity & wasn’t repealed until 1967
June 5, 2024 This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva and a “sacred spring” found there
June 4, 2024 This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promises, “I’ll stay till the wind changes”
