Ancient Warfare
At the Battle of Gaugamela, the Greeks let these wheeled Persian vehicles pass between the ranks, then wiped them out
Chariots
The miniseries "Generation Kill" followed Marines at war in this Mideast country
Iraq
August 30 B.C.E. in Alexandria
Cleopatra
The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these
cowboy
Charlie Chaplin said, "Motion pictures need" this "as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics
sound
Thrusting rather than throwing it, the Macedonians got extra reach with the sarissa, this type of weapon that could be 22' long
spear or javelin
On "Boardwalk Empire", this scar-faced Chicago gangster learns his trade from kingpin Johnny Torrio
Al Capone
October 16, 1793
in Paris
Marie Antoinette
The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West
trial
In the 1920s, this man carved notches into bats to count his home runs
Babe Ruth
The ancient sambuca was not a liqueur but a ladder latched from a ship to a wall to enter a city in this kind of warfare
siege
In the film "Invictus" Morgan Freeman plays this world leader
Nelson Mandela
November 26, 1504 in Medina del Campo, Spain
Isabella
This vehicle gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie
stagecoach
In 1928 24 couples trying to win $5,000 lasted 482 hours in one of these
dance marathon
Stymied by a small force, the invading Persians won this battle only after a Greek traitor showed them a way around the pass
Thermopylae
"The King's Speech" featured Timothy Spall as this quippy future prime minister
Winston Churchill
January 22, 1901
in the British Isles
Victoria
Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona
New York City's last horse-drawn one of these was retired in 1922
fire engine
These two formations--one Greek & one Roman, met a few times; the masked Greeks won the early battles, & the more flexible Romans the latter
phalanx and legion
In HBO's "John Adams" Justin Theroux played this president of the Continental Congress
John Handcock
March 20, 2004
in Baarn, the Netherlands
Juliana
Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannery must have brought trouble along with her
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay joined a 1927 Boston picket line protesting this pair's execution
Sacco and Vanzetti