Eastern Shore
This is a tall, reedlike marsh plant of the genus Typha.
What is a cattail?
The word "nurse" originally came from the Latin word "nutrire", meaning to suckle, referring to what profession?
What is a wet-nurse?
This woman, who published her first etiquette book when she was 50, divorced her husband because of his affairs with chorus girls and fledgling actresses, which made him the target of blackmail.
Who is Emily Post?
This dessert first became popular in the late 19th century. It gained its unique reputation along with its name due to its light and fluffy texture.
What is angel food cake?
This French impressionist is famous for paintings of water lilies.
Who is Claude Monet
This creature's scientific name is Callinectes Sapidus, meaning "beautiful swimmer that is savory."
What is the blue crab?
Known as "The Lady with the Lamp", she was an English social reformer and statistician, served in the Crimean War and is considered the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This piece of formal attire should be turned flaps up as it was originally intended to catch crumbs.
What is a cummerbund?
This word associated with sweet foods originated from the French word meaning "to clear the table."
What is dessert?
This 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
What is surrealism?
Twenty years ago, the Chesapeake Bay supported over six thousand of these. There are now fewer than 500.
What is an oysterman?
She was Duke Hospital's first clinical nurse specialist, providing care for dialysis and kidney transplant patients in the Division of Nephrology.
Who is Ruby L. Wilson?
According to Lizzie Post, the great-great granddaughter of famed etiquette author Emily Post, what is the most important basic rule of cannabis etiquette?
What is sharing?
In most parts of this country there is, sadly, no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a meal.
What is of China? (the same is true for central and western Africa)
This person was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. They were widely noticed for their technique of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling them to view and paint a canvas from all angles.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
It inhabits open grassy areas and generally prefers wetlands. It inhabits both freshwater and saltwater marshes, particularly if cattail is present.
What is the red-winged blackbird?
You could be diagnosed with this if you have these symptoms:
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
After serving as Social Secretary in the American embassies in Paris and Rome, as well as at the White House in the John F Kennedy administration, she later headed her own public relations firm and was eventually selected to carry on Amy Vanderbilt's etiquette work.
Who is Letitia Baldrige?
These two types of food were the first sweetners in most of the world.
What are dried fruit and honey?
This artistic style, created in part by Italian sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture , painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.
What is Baroque art?
These feed the Chesapeake Bay. Name 6 of the 11 largest.
What are the
This nurse has had to administer care to patients suffering from knee replacements, gout, birth, broken teeth, go-cart accidents, mononucleosis, and bed-wetting.
Who is Nurse Fuzzy Wuzzy?
What is the most important basic rule of cannabis etiquette?
What is sharing?
This meringue cake with a crisp crust and soft, light insides usually topped with fruit is named after a ballerina and is thought to be the sweetest dessert in the world.
What is a Pavlova?
Painted in 1884, this is Georges Seurat's most famous work.
What is "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"?