HE SAID IT
1966: this musician fatefully stated his rock band was "more popular than Jesus Christ."
John Lennon
A book about "remarkable stories of people overcoming adversity" is titled "When Life" does this
Gives You Lemons
Jesus tells his Apostles going out into the world to be as harmless as these birds
doves
At the Field Museum in Chicago: Sue, a 40-foot-long & 90%-complete skeleton of one of these
T-rex
It's what you should do twice a day with a dentifrice
brush
In a 1901 speech: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
Teddy Roosevelt
Learning to count was never more fun than with this author's "Ten Apples Up On top!"
Dr. Seuss
The Lamona & the Holland are the only American breeds of this bird that lay white eggs
Chicken
The Museum of the American Revolution opened in 2017, 2 blocks away from Independence Hall in this city
Philidelphia
"Ditch... used for military defense often with the excavated dirt thrown up in front"
trench
This black civil rights activist proclaimed, "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
Malcolm X
In 1883 Twain published "Life on the Mississippi" & in 1884 this novel about life on the Mississippi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Hummingbirds, the smallest of all birds, are found only on these 2 continents
North & South America
At the British Museum this key to deciphering Egyptian heiroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
It's a 7-letter word meaning a child with extraordinary ability
prodigy
2003: "Baghdad...is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates"
Suddam Hussein
John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel that told of the hardships of the Dust Bowl
Grapes of Wrath
These comical flightless birds live in colonies called "rookeries"
Penguins
At the Moscow Kremlin Museums: her 1762 coronation dress
Catherine the Great
A community's female leader
matron (matriarch)
His teacher Plato "is dear to me, but dearer still is truth"
Aristotle
Alex, the narrator of this novel by Anthony Burgess, speaks Nadsat, a combination of Russian & Cockney English
A Clockwork Orange
Birds of prey are also called these, from the Latin for "to seize"
Raptors
At this art museum in Florence: Raphael's "Madonna of the Goldfinch"
the Uffizi
"Dense", or "exceeding 90 degrees but being less than 180 degrees"
obtuse