APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
From this distance David could kill Goliath or 2 birds
stone's throw
Both the Olympics & the Nemean Games were held in his honor
Zeus
Some macaques have long ones, some have short ones & the barbary ape doesn't have one at all
tails
Name shared by an island in the Bahamas & the capital of El Salvador
San Salvador
Actor N. Shelley says he gave the famous speech on the retreat at Dunkirk as this man wasn't available
Winston Churchill
It can mean a collection tied in a bundle as well as exactly 52 playing cards
pack
The Anchor Atlas of World History calls these 2 epics "the primer of Greek youth"
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The American species of this red-breasted singer is known to scientists as Turdus migratorius
robin
The Ganges & Brahmaputra Rivers have built up a 50,000 square mi. delta into this bay
Bay of Bengal
On April 19, 1951 he told a joint session of Congress, "I now close my military career & just fade away"
(Douglas) MacArthur
Having relatively great weight, it's profound for a hippie
heavy
It's said he wandered around Athens during the day with a lamp looking for an honest man
Diogenes
Whippets were bred originally to chase these lagomorphs for sport
rabbits
When China took over this country in 1950-51, it acquired a "roof"
Tibet
Lincoln said at Gettysburg that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not" do this
perish from the Earth
In a 1959 No. 1 Hit Elvis had this amount "o' Love"
Big Hunk
Found around 900 B.C., it became a military state some 300 years later
Sparta
It's the largest cat native to Latin America where it's known as "el tigre"
jaguar
In exchange for what's now N.Y., England gave the Dutch what's now this South American country
Suriname
This senator told an audience in 1968, "Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard."
Ted Kennedy
This term for group is a variant of "parcel"
passel
The Greeks didn't call themselves Greeks but these
Hellenes
The rare tuatara is the only living member of an entire order of this class of vertebrates
reptiles
During the Roman Republic, this river formed the boundary between Italy & Cisalpine Gaul
Rubicon
In his 1st speech as president he said, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
Gerald Ford