Dancing with the Czars
17th Century Czar Fyodor III of this Dynasty was highly educated and reform minded but died young
Romanov
A small unit of a large entity like a campus apart from the main branch of a University
Satellite
Oscar nominated South Park song that soars in a v formation with a 1970's yankee closer
Blame Canada Goose Gossage
A political settlement with this group from Afghanistan might be a necessarry part of any Endgame in Americas longest War
Taliban
Auguste Laurent and Jean Baptiste Dumas hated eachother but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon and the carbon compound found in living things
What is organic
In 1855 Alexander the II came to the throne at the height of this conflict
Crimean War
Colors can be precisely specified by their brightness and this their degree of intensity
Saturation
Margaret Wise Brown's bunny bids adieu to Ray Charles "Sunshine State"song and the only nfl team with a perfect season
Good Night Moon over Miami Dolphins
David Muir got a look inside this famous prison that holds terrorists
Guantanamo Bay
Visitors at Paris bibliotheque nationale must wear prtective gear and sign a liability waiver to study her notebooks which are stored in heavily shielded boxes
Marie Curie
As Czar from 1547-1584-he waged drawn out wars against Sweden and Poland and also the nobility of his own country
Ivan the Terrible
There's a planet in this word meaning a wild celebration
Saturnalia
Louisiana Purchase explorers joined LBJ's secretary of defense and a "Golden Boy Dramatist"
Lewis and Clark Clifford Odettes
In Ethiopia David Muir saw an 11.00 procedure give sight to people stricken with these, a major cause of preventable blindness worldwide
cataracts
Many folks were not 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 and use of this on WW1 western front
mustard gas or posion gas
This 1831 work by Pushkin dramatized the fate of the title czar whose reign ended in 1605
Boris Gudonof
It's a kind of Mandarine orange
Satsuma
Tootie, Blair, Jo and Natalie show up in the third "Hitchhiker's guide" book with boiled and baked Jewish rolls with all the fixins
The Facts of Life the universe and the everything bagel
What metal supports the Stain Glass in the Notre Dame cathedral
Lead
The Russian academy of sciences rejected this great mans 1880 nomination for membership maybe because of his progressive political leanings or maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his wife
Mendeleev
We understood eachother and let the others "prattle" said Catherine the Great of this longtime adviser and less longtime lover
Potemkin
Zen Buddhists hope to reach this state of sudden enlightenment
Satori
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to an "Iberian" jellyfish relative now heroic in Don Cheadle's Supersuit
Sonnets from the Portuguese Man of War machine
The Westernmost province of Iraq on the Border with Syria
Ahnbar Provence
Real life scientists whose names came up on "Breaking Bad" included of course Heisenberg also a Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science
Lavoisier