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As a child in 1450s Florence he probably didn't expect to have 2 continents named for him
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
A woven container or the structure under a hot air balloon for the crew & equipment
What is a basket?
In 2019 using the Event Horizon Telescope the first of these cosmic objects was photographed
What is a black hole?
A triangle with sides A B & C all equal in length is in this form
What is equilateral?
Tintenfisch or ink fish is this creature
What is squid/octopus?
Andreas Vesalius' 1543 De humani corporis fabrica libri septem pioneered this study of human body structures
What is anatomy?
A handbag; it can also refer to the prize money in a boxing match
What is a purse?
A study at Johns Hopkins suggests that being around dogs at an early age may lessen the risk of this split mind disorder
What is schizophrenia?
The parts of a roof that stick out over the edge of a building form these
What are eaves?
Words for shield & toad combine to make the German name for this reptile
What is a turtle?
Almost 500 concerti from this Venetian survive today
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
Wearable term for the box from which cards are dealt for blackjack in a casino
What is a shoe?
Observed in 2019 2I/Borisov is the first identified one of these bodies of rock & ice to visit from outside our solar system
What is a comet?
Take a love from above and you'll see why an area just south of the White House has this geometric name
What is the Ellipse?
This bug's German name stechmucke translates to stabbing gnat
What is a mosquito?
Last name of Alessandro for whom a unit of electricity is named
What is Volta?
This small glass container can begin with v or with ph
What is a vial?
RBBP6 one of these compounds that contain amino acids has proven effective against Ebola
What is a protein?
It's the protective housing of a crustacean
What is an exoskeleton?
Nacktschnecke the German word for this gastropod translates as naked snail
What is a slug?
Senator Arthur Vandenberg wrote For any realist Pearl Harbor ended this policy of avoiding foreign entanglements
What is isolation?
From the Latin for box it's an underground reservoir for collecting rainwater
What is a cistern?
Developers of this hyphenated type of battery that powers smartphones & electric cars won the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize
What is a Lithium-ion battery?
This young form of an eel sounds like it might have pointed ears
What is an elver?
From the way they stand up these African mongoose relatives are called little earth men in German
What is a meerkat?