In the 1980s California farmer Mike Yurosek came up with the baby one of these veggies, a popular snack
carrots
It's the lucrative product referred to by the slang term "black gold"
oil
Longfellow wrote, "Tell me not" that "life is but an empty" this
dream
Parents & kids gather each year at the White House for this event held on the Monday after Easter
the Easter Egg Roll
Robert Louis Stevenson created this good doctor in 1886
Dr. Jekyll
William Ferguson Massey, an Auckland-area farmer, advanced farm interests as this country's P.M. from 1912 to 1925
New Zealand
American feathery friend of the Icteridae family, such as the red-winged type
a blackbird
This troubled poet, an alumna of Smith College, used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath
Hindi faithful make regular pilgrimages to & bathe in this 1,560-mile river of Northern India
the Ganges

Before becoming a renowned pediatrician, he was a star rower at Yale & won gold in the 1924 Olympics
Dr. (Benjamin) Spock
Farmer/congressman Dudley Hughes sponsored the law that led to this organization, the FFA
the Future Farmers of America
The Black Hills are an isolated, eroded mountain region in the western part of this state
South Dakota
Byron wrote, "Who killed" this poet? "'I,' says the quarterly, so savage and tartarly; 'Twas one of my feats'"
Keats
In the 1820s thirsty explorers found an oasis here, Spanish for "the meadows"; 30 million now visit every year
Las Vegas
This 20th century president was the first to hold a doctorate; his degree was in political science
Wilson
Boekenhout-Fontein is the farm of Paul Kruger, a leader of these people who warred with Britain in the 1890s
the Boers
Edward, the son of Edward III of England, was known by this dark sobriquet
the Black Prince
He wondered, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
Shelley
Traditionally, crowds gather in New Orleans & party hearty before this first day of Lent
Ash Wednesday

Seen here, he was the first African American awarded a doctorate by Harvard
W.E.B. Du Bois
This Roman wrote the "Georgics", an instructional work on farming, before turning to historical epics
Virgil
This river forms the southern & western borders of Germany's Black Forest region
the Rhine
In "New Hampshire" he wrote, "Do you know, considering the market, there are more poems produced than any other thing?"
Robert Frost
Bring your pet to the USA's National Cathedral on Oct. 4 for "The Blessing of the Animals" for this saint's feast day
St. Francis of Assisi
This theologian author of "Summa Theologica" was made a saint in 1323 & Doctor of the Church in 1567
Thomas Aquinas