THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
Maybe going from Aesop to Zeno, the pinakes was one of these registers of the library's contents, from Greek for "list"
catalog
Pay your respects to Queen Hatshepsut, who died around 1460 B.C., at Cairo's hall devoted to these relics, 20 in all
mummies
Not in the family vault, but all by myself on an island, like the one on England's Allthorp Estate, where this woman rests
Princess Diana
To help in anticipating the flooding of this river, the Egyptians created a 12-month calendar
the nile
The Choson Dynasty ruled this land for just over 500 years
Korea
Library scholar Eratosthenes was one of the first to study these integers divisible only by themselves & 1
prime numbers
Historians wonder, was Queen Joan of Castile really mad? Or en Español, ¿Estaba realmente Juana this word?
loca?
Not at St. Peter's, said Pope Francis but at St. Mary Major, which also has the Holy this where baby Jesus napped
crib
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Marine chronometers use springs to tick away time since this swinging device is disrupted by the movements of a ship
pendulum
Officially his title was First Lord of the Treasury, but Sir Robert Walpole is considered to be the first Brit to hold this office
Prime Minister
Librarian Apollonius of Rhodes wrote an epic about this group led by Jason intended for the highbrow Alexandrians
the Argonauts
In 1916, Charles I of Austria also had this country's last coronation; it was filmed by future director of "Casablanca", Michael Curtiz
Hungary
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Not in a ballpark or on a polo field but on a golf course, like this famous first wife who died in 2022 & ended up in Bedminster, N.J.
Ivana Trump
Beginning in the 6th c. or earlier, the Chinese kept time by using this slow-burning odorous material, like sandalwood
incense
On his first voyage to India, Vasco da Gama set off from this city & arrived at Kerala's Kappad Beach just under a year later
Lisbon
According to Seneca, "40,000 books of Alexandria burned" after this Roman general started a fire in 48 B.C.
Julius Caeser
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Ptolemy, Pompey
This future queen's marriage to a German just 20 years after World War II got her in Dutch, but she & her husband became very popular
Beatrix
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Not in a country I ever set foot in, like this institution founder, moved to D.C. 75 years after his death
Smithson
Lord Kelvin was an early proposer of this kind of clock, citing the independent "time of vibration of a sodium particle"
atomic clock
For 4 days in 1863, New York City was the scene of riots over inequitable exemptions in this process
the military draft
One story goes that the library rented the works of ANY OF these 3 dramatists from the Athenian archives & kept the originals.
Sophocles, Euripedes & Aeschylus
In 2019, a former flight attendant married King Vajiralongkorn & became Queen Suthida of this Asian country
Thailand
Model & muse Kiki de this artistic area on the Left Bank--not in the cemetery of the same name but in the Montparnasse - a suburb of this European capital.
Paris
The 24-hour Shepherd Clock is set to this, named for a borough of London & adopted as the astronomical standard in 1925
Greenwich Mean Time
This Athenian whose name is now synonymous with legislator revised the codes of Draco to make them more humane
Solon
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