National Parks
Shakespeare Play and Quote
The Totally Rad 1980s
Before, During & After
Chemists
100
Here's a view of this Utah National Park through one of the sandstone features for which it is named
Arches
100
Tybalt,
Act I, Scene V:
"Uncle"
Romeo and Juliet
100
Hey babe! I made you a mixtape to play on this Sony item that dominated the '80s and began in the U.S. as the "Soundabout"
Walkman
100
Oscar-nominated "South Park" song that soars in a V formation, with a 1970s Yankee closer
"Blame Canada" Goose Gossage
100
August Laurent & Jean-Baptiste Dumas hated each other, but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon & the carbon compounds found in living things
Organic
200
This national park in New Mexico is home to large colonies of bats, seen here
Carlsbad Caverns
200
Ariel,
Act I, Scene II:
"No"
The Tempest
200
Duuuuude! You were a massive Spicoli wearing this brand's checkered slip-on sneakers!
Vans
200
Margaret Wise Brown's bunny bids adieu to Ray Charles' "Sunshine State" song, and the only NFL team with a perfect season
Goodnight, Moon "Over Miami" Dolphins
200
Visitors at Paris' Bibliothèque Nationale must wear protective gear & sign a liability waiver to study her notebooks, which are stored in heavily shielded boxes
Marie Curie
300
The name of this waterfall on the Merced River in Yosemite means "occurring in spring", also the time to see it at its peak
Vernal
300
Mustardseed,
Act III, Scene I:
"Mustardseed"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
300
I thought this movie about Olympic runners would be grody to the max but not even! It won Best Pic and everyone loves Vangelis!
Chariots of Fire
300
Lousiana Purchase explorers joined by LBJ's Secretary of Defense and a "Golden Boy" dramatist
Lewis and Clark Clifford Odets
300
Many folks weren't happy with the Nobel committee's decision to give the 1918 Chemistry Prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber, as he had also overseen Germany's production & use of this on World War I's western front
Mustard (poison) gas
400
Head to Sequoia National Park to salute the tree named this, the world's largest by volume
General Sherman
400
Christopher Sly,
Act I, Scene I:
"Yes"
Taming of the Shrew
400
I was so stoked when this team USA hockey captain scored the winning goal against the Soviets in 1980's "Miracle on Ice"!
Mike Eruzione
400
Tootie, Blair, Jo and Natalie show up in the third "Hitchhiker's Guide" book, with boiled & baked Jewish roles with all the fixins
The Facts of Life, the Universe, and Everything bagel
400
The Russian Academy of Sciences rejected this great man's 1880 nomination for membership--maybe because of his progressive political leanings, & maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his first wife
Mendeleev
500
A great place for boating, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is home to the second-largest manmade lake in the United States
Lake Powell
500
Achilles,
Act II, Scene I:
"What? What?"
Troilus and Cressida
500
I'm so sure I had, like, so many pieces on my wall of the work of this '80s artist, a lot like the one seen here
Patrick Nagel
500
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to an "Iberian" jellyfish relative, now heroic in Don Cheadle's supersuit
Sonnets from the Portuguese Man o' War Machine
500
Real-life scientists whose names came up on "Breaking Bad" included, of course, Heisenberg, & also this Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science
Lavoisier