Thales in the 6th c. BC said everything came from water; Empedocles later added air & these 2 things
Fire & earth
Flowers are often grown in "hot" ones or "green" ones
Houses
When you divide numbers you get a quotient; when you multiply them you get this
A product
Hateful, or a certain snowman
Abominable
On June 18, 1815 the French suffered 25,000 casualties at this battle site
Waterloo
This 19th century Danish philosopher was known to his followers as "S.K."
(Soren) Kierkegaard
A "shrinking" or "blushing" person is often compared to this reddish-blue flower
A violet
A triangle is said to be oblique if it doesn't contain this type of angle
a right angle
In the Bible, John, James or Judas
Apostle
Without kissing and telling, it's the famous tourist attraction at the site seen Cork Ireland
The Blarney Stone
Alfred North Whitehead said European philosophy is "a series of footnotes to" this Greek
Plato
This "brown-eyed" flower would be perfect for a brown-eyed girl of the same name
Susan
The two main branches of calculus are integral & this
Differential
In the name of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury it precedes "and Consent"
Advise
The ultimate place to learn cooking is at the school founded in Paris in 1895
The Cordon Bleu
John Locke believed no one is born with innate ideas, that at birth the mind is one of these
A clean slate (or tabula rasa)
The leopard & tiger types of this flower have coloration similar to wildcats
Lilies
This fraction is half the sum of 1/2 & 1/4
3/8ths
The sap from one type of this desert plant is used to make mascal; another yields the fiber called sisal
Agave
Attend the Royal Opera in London & you're at a square & a theatre called this
Covent Gardens
St. Anselm is famous for his proof of this
The existence of God
Floribundas are hybrid ones of these developed by crossing polyanthas & hybrid teas
Roses
A semicircle is half a circle & this is a quarter circle
quadrant
This hard variety of coal is the main mineral resource in both Korea & Vietnam
Anthracite
Abbreviated ESA, its launch site is at Kourou, French Guiana
European Space Agency