"D" IN AMERICAN HISTORY
You name it, they have it in these retail palaces like Wanamaker's that saw big growth after the Civil War
department store
Benjamin Disraeli, at Parliament Square
London
This 2-word term for 8 specific colleges in the east refers to the vegetation covering their older buildings
the Ivy League
This New Yorker who fought at the battle of Gettysburg was once considered the inventor of baseball
(Abner) Doubleday
The element lawrencium & a lab at this California university are named for Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence
UC Berkeley
The Soil Conservation Service was created to counter this disaster that struck the Great Plains in the 1930s
the Dust Bowl
Sun Yat-Sen, at the corner of Grant & California
San Francisco
The name of this mass of ice comes from the Old French for "ice"
a glacier
This First Lady was born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912 in Nevada
Pat Nixon
Cultures of microorganisms are grown in this shallow vessel named for a bacteriologist
a Petri dish
To combat fuel shortages, Congress enacted this for almost 10 months in 1974, from January to October
Daylight Saving Time
Douglas MacArthur, near the Quezon bridge
Manila
This word for a long-noosed rope used to catch cattle & horses is from the Spanish la reata, "the rope"
From 1935 to 1937 she worked at Purdue University as a career counselor & as an advisor in aeronautics
Amelia Earhart
C/1847 T1 is the formal name of one of these astronomical objects
a comet
In 1873 borax was discovered at this California site, & in the 1880s the famous 20-mule teams began hauling it out
Death Valley
A work symbolizing freedom & unity by Bassem Al-Dawiri (replacing a guy who got toppled)
Baghdad
A 15th century sailor is said to have given this snake its name, from a Portuguese phrase meaning "hooded snake"
a cobra
At his death in 1915, this educator was buried on the campus of his Tuskegee institute
Booker T. Washington
In mammals, eggs move from the ovaries to the uterus via these tubes named for an Italian anatomist
the Fallopian tubes
Officially known as the States' Rights Democrat Party, it carried 4 Southern states in 1948, winning 39 electoral votes
18th-century hero Colonel William Prescott
in what is now his state's capital
Boston
The first written use of the phrase "stuffed shirt", meaning a pompous bore, occurred in her 1913 novel "O Pioneers!"
(Willa) Cather
He wrote a controversial report on urban poverty before being a democratic senator from New York, 1977-2001
(Daniel) Moynihan
The color of the iris comes from this brownish-black pigment--the more there is, the darker the iris' color
melanin