Rivers
The 2 rivers that flow through Washington, D.C. are the Anacosta & this one
Potomac
"Album" & "blanket" come from words meaning this color
White
Schulz alter ego
Charlie Brown
Language groups as disparate as Celtic, Slavic & Indo-Iranian are part of the family called Indo-this
Indo European
"Woolly" is Ben Mezrich's telling of the scientific quest to revive one of these using recovered DNA
A Wooly Mammoth
Rising in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, the Rio Grande flows 1,900 miles into this body of water
Gulf of Mexico
Swimmers dread this irritating element derived from a Greek word for "green"
Chlorine
First name of 1940s ESP-gifted heroine Ms. Voyant
Claire
Last name meanings in this language include Pospisil, "one who hurried", & Navratil, "one who returned"
Czech
This type of area precedes "Solitaire" in the title of an Edward Abbey book where we meet rattlers & smell purple sage
Desert
Flowing through 5 of Brazil's states, the Tocantins River of South America is named after one of these animals
Toucan
Scottish words for "red Robert" led to this famous nickname for Robert MacGregor
Rob Roy
6-year-old boy created by Bill Watterson
Calvin
The best way to find Belize's Mennonites is to look for modestly dressed blond people & listen for this language
German
"Where the Wild Things Were" examines the delicate balance between predators & prey, like these canines & elk
Wolves
Follow all 3,900 miles of China's Yangtze River to the sea & you'll wind up in this metropolis
Shanghai
This purplish color gets its name from a word for the mallow plant, which is often that hue
Mauve
"Thin Thighs in Thirty Years" is a collection about her from Ms. Guisewite
Cathy
French words like garçon & français, this diacritical mark goes under the "C" to soften it to an "S" sound, not a "K" sound
A cedilla
"A Walk in the Woods" is Bill Bryson's account of rediscovering America by hiking this east coast footpath
The Appalacian Trail
The westernmost capital in continental Europe, Lisbon, is on the banks of this river
The Tagus River
Around 1860 a purplish-red dye was given this name of an Italian battle site
Magenta
It's about a grumpy bus driver
Crankshaft
In Turkish a "G" under a little curvy line is basically silent, as in this last name of Recep, Turkey's leader since 2003
Erdogan
It's Joy Adamson's 1960 memoir of raising Elsa, an orphaned lion, & returning her to the wild
Born Free