December 11, 2023 Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist “in 1948 understood that despite the axis defeat… fascism had not gone away”
December 9, 2023 Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President’s garden at M.I.T.
December 8, 2023 Before visiting Achilles’ tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent “Spear-won”
December 7, 2023 Since it can make someone “Japanese laugh as heartily as a Dane,” Lillian Gish saw film as an aesthetic this, the name of a language
December 7, 2023 Thomas Hales proved hexagonal structures are the most compact way to fill a plane, a centuries-old theory based on the behavior of these
December 6, 2023 Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch
December 5, 2023 The title locale of this series is really the Belnord, dating to 1908 & located at 86th & Broadway on N.Y.C.’s upper west side
December 4, 2023 The Atlanta History Center says this novel was “both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication” in 1936
December 2, 2023 In September 1964 the New York Times announced the passing of this pet, a gift “used as a symbol of honesty in 1952”
December 1, 2023 The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa meaning “bad water”
