The English Gentry
Call it a lack of Sense and Sensibility, or maybe the downfall of her own Pride and Prejudice. This author chose to critique the landed gentry, her family included.
Jane Austen
His early travels throughout Greece and Asia Minor led to him being known as the "Father of Western Medicine." We Oath him that.
Hippocrates
Lesser known for his role in the film Wild Wild West, this general led the Union to victory during the Civil War crisis.
Grant
Originally affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to have recurring periods dependent on the changes of the moon
Lunatic
The largest independent unit of grammar: it begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. Hopefully the judge ate lunch before he passes down one of these.
Sentence
Best known for his triumphs in the American colonies, this general was a master of the tactical retreat...his English side of the family might not be so proud.
George Washington
During the Covid Pandemic, he travelled the border of our hearts and homes with his feisty vaccine updates. Hopefully his Siclian ties pick up the Security detail these days.
Anthony Fauci
Played at the inauguration of Confederate president Jefferson Davis this song was derived from a minstrel tune. Most in the Land prefer the Delight by the band Alabama
Dixie
A huge quadruped of the pachydermate order, having long curving ivory tusks. Samwise would be quite happy to see one of these fellers.
Elephant
The form of a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added to create new words. Or the place where military operations may be head quartered.
Base
Call it Lestrange, this award winning actress is descended from a long line of british politicians
Helena Bonham Carter
During 2016, this doctor travelled across many state borders in his bid to be the Republican presidential candidate. Maybe the first dis-conjoined twins could tell him how he lost.
Ben Carson
During the Civil War, the North was called this because it represented the states that remained loyal to the United States federal government, fighting to preserve the nation.
Union
The Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, used as an asylum for the reception and cure of mentally deranged persons. Also, Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State Rivalry game
Bedlam
A noun referring to an object or idea that can form a plural or occur in a noun phrase with an indefinite article or with numerals. Thank god for the vampiric puppet to help us with these complex things.
Count
Rubbing shoulders with Shakespeare and an Asheville suburb, this family claims to be one of only five families in England that can trace its lineage back to Anglo-Saxon times.
The Arden Family
This scientist traveled to the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in central Italy to reflect on his search for a polio vaccine; however, the announcement came at the University of Michigan on April 12, 1955.
This mountain near Atlanta depicts three prominent Confederate leaders. However, many argue the album by the same name created by Childish Gambino is where the art truly lies.
Stone
Something by which the memory of a person, thing, or event is preserved, as a monumental erection.
Memorial
A noun (such as courage or freedom) that names an idea, event, quality, or concept. If this noun were art, you might say... I'm not sure what this banana duct taped to the wall means
Abstract
He was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia; however, I wager he is better known by her Southern neighbor. His experiences sailing to find the "City of Gold" later contributed to the legend of "El Dorado"
Sir Walter Raleigh
In 1928, while studying Staphylococcus, this doctor returned to his laboratory after traveling for the holidays only to find his work contaminated with fungus! This finding ultimately lead to the discovery of penicillin.
Alexander Fleming
This Battle took place on June 17, 1863, in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. The fighting itself did not show any of the efficiency shared by the German owned grocery store chain.
Aldie
The first word of the following page inserted at the right-hand lower corner of each page of a book. Or something a baseball player might do with what is in the dictionary.
Catchword
A verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. In linguistics, any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun. I never learned it and I never will.
Gerund