CALENDARS
It's 399 B.C. & I'm ready for my trial; 500 Greek jurors are sure to give this harmless elderly philosopher a fair shake
Socrates
JFK used this type of chair to combat back pain--the movement was thought to relieve tension in the lower back
rocking chair
If anyone is still keeping track, it's the month of Nivôse, year 228 on this European country's revolutionary calendar
FRANCE
Why yes, in 1860 I will use $200,000 in donations to found my training school for nurses in London, thank you very much!
Florence Nightingale
The placenta, post-main event
Afterbirth
In this Thomas Harris thriller, the death's-head's hawk moth is used by the villain Buffalo Bill
The Silence of the Lambs
An X-shaped chair of the Italian Renaissance is also known as this divine Italian poet's chair
Dante
As of this February, it will be the year of this small creature
a rat
I hear Lake Tanganyika is lovely; sure, I'll head over there & find out why no word from Dr. Livingstone
(Henry Morton) Stanley
Adjective for a car's replacement parts
Aftermarket
The larva of Bombyx mori never gets to leave the cocoon, which is turned into this cloth
silk
In 2019 one of these chairs from the Titanic was up for auction; about 10 are still known to exist
deck chair
I'm confused! This calendar had Adar Sheni, its leap month, in 2019, not 2020
Hebrew (or Jewish)
The 100s are my time, so I'm gonna put my name on a wall that runs from Wallsend-on-Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway
Hadrian
I "sense" you know it's the remaining sensation about an experience, often a bad one
aftertaste
Also known as the measuring worm, this moth larva may look cute, but it can be quite destructive to fruit trees
inchworm
Rustic-looking chairs made of natural woods are in this style named for an upstate N.Y. mountain range
Adirondack
The calendar I just got doesn't say it's using the "new style" created by the 13th pope of this name, but it's a good guess
Gregory (XIII)
1917 arrives soon, & I've got an invite to Prince Yusupov's! Sounds fun! He'd never try to poison, shoot & drown an ol' Siberian like me!
Rasputin
Proverbially, you "turn on" these devices in a jet engine when you really want to get moving fast
the afterburners
The final stages of this oddly mobile seed with a "national" name ' is the emergence of a moth that has cocooned inside
Mexican jumping bean
That Aeron desk chair is so sleek it should be in a museum; in fact, one became part of the collection of this NYC museum in 1994
the Museum of Modern Art