GEOGRAPHY
This Egyptian capital is fan-shaped, fading off into the delta to the north
Cairo
In May 1607 this settlement was founded by 104 Englishmen & boys; the women came the following year
Jamestown
Ox (4 letters, 4 legs)
oxen
Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and ___"
weary
NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world"
China is planting a new forest to stop this desert's southward expansion
the Gobi Desert
At the time of the Revolutionary War, this was the most populous city; New York City was No. 2
Philadelphia
Moose (4 legs, 5 letters)
moose
Nash: "Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. It ____"
quacks
A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world"
Benedict Arnold
On an alphabetical list of nations in English, this Balkan nation comes immediately before Burkina Faso
Bulgaria
In 1691 Massachusetts was granted a new charter & this grape-laden island was annexed to it
Martha's Vineyard
Cactus (5 letters)
cacti
Sandburg: "The fog comes on little ____ feet"
cat
Easter Island is a province of this country
Chile
Patrick Henry said his opposition to this 1765 act began resistance to taxation & led to the revolution & you're welcome
the Stamp Act
Stimulus (7 letters)
stimuli
Angelou: "You may cut me with your eyes, / You may kill me with your hatefulness, / But still, like air, I'll ____"
rise
Partly in Slovenia & Italy, the Istrian Peninsula juts into this arm of the Mediterranean
the Adriatic
Sermons by Jonathan Edwards prompted a religious revival called the Great this
the Great Awakening
Forum (4 letters)
fora
Frost: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less ____ ____"
traveled by