THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII
'Delivered the male heir'
Jane Seymour
'The German (who outlived them all)'
Anne of Cleves
'Convicted of treason, 1536'
Anne Boleyn
'The Spaniard'
Catherine of Aragon
'Twice widowed & the last'
Catherine Parr
'He signed off his TV show with the line "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are"'
Jimmy Durante
'In 1934 he got the FBI on his trail by crossing the Indiana-Illinois line; he didn't live much longer'
John Dillinger
'From 1970 to 1973 he was White House counsel to Richard Nixon'
John Dean
'In 1971, this Caribbean leader succeeded his father to become the youngest president in the world'
Jean(-Claude) Duvalier
'He forgot to duck in 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney'
Jack Dempsey
'& then there's this actress, truly a "Golden Girl" when she won an Emmy in 1988'
Bea Arthur
'This admiral led a third Antarctic expedition, discovering Thurston island in 1939'
Richard Byrd
'This West Virginian has cast more votes in the Senate than any other senator in history'
Robert Byrd
'Jesus uttered 9 of these, from the Latin for "blessedness", in the sermon on the mount'
the beatitudes
'Called "The Mama of Dada", this ceramicist's relationship with Roche & Duchamp inspired the novel "Jules et Jim"'
Beatrice Wood
'On this day, October 1, in 2006, Jews are encouraged to eat & drink'
the day before Yom Kippur
'In European tradition the 23rd of this month brings midsummer's eve frolic'
June
'My answer to the musical question "What are you doing" then is "sitting home, drinking, watching the ball drop"'
New Year\'s Eve
'On the eve of the feast day of this saint symbolized by a lamb, girls are supposed to dream of their future husbands'
(Saint) Agnes
'Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day'
Halloween
'In this Russian-American's "Pale Fire", John Shade is the late author of a 999-line poem'
Vladimir Nabokov
'Stephen Daedalus is the writer hero of this Joycean "Portrait"'
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
'Philip Jose Farmer wrote a novel under the name of this sci-fi writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut'
Kilgore Trout
'Writer Philip Quarles in "Point Counter Point" is a self-portrait by this author'
Aldous Huxley
'He's Philip Roth's novelist alter ego in books like him "Unbound"'
Zuckerman