PICTURE THE SONG
It ranks as one of the greatest rock songs of all time

Stairway to Heaven
To enroll in a school to attend classes
register
Sailors gave the name "Roaring Forties" not to a decade but to a windy region between 40 & 50 degrees south this
latitude
In the 8th century the Venerable St. Bede popularized the idea of dating from this event
the birth of Christ
It was made the capital of China in 1949
Beijing
Usually served in thin slices, this Italian ham cured by drying has a name from Latin meaning "suck out"
prosciutto
By Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi
Adjective for see-through material or an excuse that has no chance of being believed
transparent
The language of the Maldives gives us this word for a ring-shaped reef

an atoll
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Now known to historians as the Migration period, the early Middle Ages were long known by this name implying ignorance
the Dark Ages
Those born during the first half of April have this sign, the ram
Aries
Here's a piece of this layered Italian cake flavored with espresso & dusted with cocoa

tiramisu
A familiar spiritual that was a No. 1 hit in the 1950s

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
As recounted in the movie "Moana", Maui was this type of being
demigod
Examples of this type of steep-sided depression in the sea floor include the Aleutian, Sunda & Mariana
trench
Quarreling with Germany's Henry IV over who got to appoint bishops, Pope Gregory VII did this to Henry, twice
excommunicate
A googol is equal to a 1 followed by this many zeros
100
This grated cheese made from skim milk is named for a city about 70 miles southeast of Milan
Parmesan
Grammy-winning Song of the Year in 2014

Royals
The place where you arrive on shore after a long journey on a ship
landfall
These deep-sea vents, named for the magma-heated water they emit, are islands of life in the ocean floor

hydrothermal vents
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Merchant & craft were the 2 main types of these business associations, from an old word for "payment"
guilds
Columbia University began handing out these awards in 1917
The Pullitzers
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Puttanesca sauce is commonly made with olives, capers & these small salty fish
anchovies
A posthumous hit for Jim Croce

Time in a Bottle
Also called wild marjoram, this aromatic herb of the mint family is used widely in Mediterranean cooking

oregano
From Latin for "pool", it's a shallow, relatively calm body of water separated from the open ocean by a reef or barrier island
a lagoon
Clovis I founded the kingdom of these people who would give their name to a country
the Franks
Filbert is another name for this nut
a hazelnut
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It's the 2-word name for this flavorful Italian dish made from veal shanks
osso buco