I Heard a Rumor
It can mean a rumor, or testimony in court based upon what she said she said
Heresay
An apiarist is someone who raises & cares for these
Bees
You haven't seen a palace until you've seen this place & its immense gardens designed by André le Nôtre
Versailles
A bit embarrassed by its success, Michael Stipe of this band called "Shiny Happy People" "a really fruity, kind of bubblegum song"
R.E.M.
In the 2000s astronomer Mike Brown lectured on "How I Killed" this former planet "& Why It Had It Coming"
Pluto
Sans accent, it means to reveal a secret; with one, it's a scandal-revealing newspaper story
Exposé
I'm choosing something by Adele next time we go out to do this, "empty orchestra" in Japanese
Karaoke
Don't miss the Isaac-Potts House, aka Washington's headquarters, on your visit to this national historical park in Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
She won a Grammy for her song "If It Makes You Happy" & later wrote a cookbook, "If It Makes You Healthy"
Sheryl Crow
The TED talk on how these bioluminescent insects communicate focuses on how they sync their flashes of light
Fireflies
Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture
the tea
"RC" on a baseball card is used to stand for this & often makes it more sought after by collectors
a Rookie Card
Tradition says you'll have eternal love if you kiss while floating under the Bridge of Sighs in this city
Venice
It became the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party after FDR used it in 1932 as his campaign song
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
The 1937 Nobel chemistry lecture on "The Structure of" these explains the progress in understanding starches
Carbohydrates
In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a "meeting in" this title place
"Meeting in the Ladies Room"
The pastime of skimming flat stones across calm water also has this double avian name
Ducks & Drakes
View the underwater life of the Caribbean at Coral World Ocean Park in the U.S. portion of this archipelago
the Virgin Islands
In 1988 it became the first song with no instrumental music to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; perhaps if I whistle a bit...
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"
This Brit who wrote about the full circulation of the blood in the human body was a Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656
Harvey
It's a shortened version of a word for info; in a web article, "Jennifer Lopez Drops" them on "Achieving Celebrity Status"
Deets
That's my jam! Strawberry specifically, to which I'm adding this coagulant, as the fruit naturally only has a little
Pectin
Cruise through Nizhny Novgorod on this waterway & maybe you'll hear the boatman singing
the Volga
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans sang this song as the closing theme to their TV series
"Happy Trails"
A Harvard Smithsonian lecture called "Cosmic Train Wrecks" talks about our impending collision with this galaxy
Andromeda