DOGGIES
The Sherlock Holmes of dogdom, his name comes from the fact that his bloodlines are very pure
Bloodhound
"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last!"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If you know what constellation your moon is in, you're into this study
Astrology
Sightseeing flights to this continent were stopped in 1979 after a DC-10 crashed into Mt. Erebus
Antarctica
This Kentucky trailblazer's exploits inspired D. Beard to start a boys group that merged with the Cub Scouts
Daniel Boone
Called "sacred lion dog" in China, one of the 1st taken abroad was given to Queen Victoria
Pekingese
A statue at the Will Rogers Memorial bears this epitaph, his most famous line
"I never met a man I didn't like"
From the Greek "oikos", "house", comes this science of how organisms relate to their environments
Ecology
At the Chicago 7 trial this Yippie said Judge J. Hoffman was his "illegitimate father"
Abbie Hoffman
The first written reference to this big man in lumber was a 1910 story in a Detroit newspaper
Paul Bunyan
Popularized by returning U.S. WWI troops, they were formerly known as "police dogs"
German Shepherd
The epitaph on his footstone reads, "Truth & history. 21 men. The boy bandit king -- he died as he lived."
Billy the Kid
Not the study of Star Trek characters, vulcanology is the study of these
Volcanoes
When he resigned as Supreme Allied Commander to run for President, Matthew Ridgway replaced him
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It was a storyteller, Parson Mason Weems, who put this tool in Washington's hand. Rest in peace, cherry tree
A Hatchet
As working dogs, malamutes & samoyeds commonly pull these
Sleds
This New Englander's "I had a lover's quarrel with the world" is from his poem "The Lesson For Today"
Robert Frost
This -ology doesn't just get to the heart of the matter, the heart is what matters
Cardiology
This "Prelude to WWII" was a civil war fought between Franco's Fascist Nationalists and the Republicans
The Spanish Civil War
As Romulus & Remus were raised by a wolf, Pecos Bill was raised by one of these prairie wolves
Coyote
Considered the fastest dog for his weight, he looks like a miniature greyhound
Whippet
Her tombstone famously says "excuse my dust"
Dorothy Parker
New finds of old fossils are studied by experts in this field
Archeology or Paleontology
Teddy Roosevelt mediated the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth which ended this war
The Russo-Japanese War
Thinking it was just 1 night, Rip Van Winkle spent 20 years in this mountain range
The Catskill Mountains