Heads of State
This man was the last President of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
This German General was well known for Perfecting the strategy of Blitzkrieg
Heinz Guderian
A statue at his memorial reads, "I never met a man I didn't like"
Will Rogers
The MGM classic "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in August of this year
1939
Roman candidates for public office made these whiter by rubbing them with chalk; black ones were worn at funerals
togas
This man was the Prime Minister of Canada During world war 2
William Lyon Mackenzie King
This cancelled operation was the German plan for the invasion of England
Operation Sealion
"The best is yet to come" says this swingin' singer's grave in California's Desert Memorial Park
Frank Sinatra
"The Wizard of Oz" won 2 Oscars, one for Original Score & one for Best Song--
this one almost cut from the film
"Over The Rainbow"
In the mid-1st century, Rome was trading one amphora of this for one slave from Gaul
wine
This man was the fourth President of the United States
James Madison
This British Admiral was well known for his involvement in the battle of Trafalgar in which he died at the hands of the French and Spanish Navies
Admiral Nelson
New Englander whose epitaph, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world", is from his poem "The Lesson For Today"
Robert Frost
In 2000 a whopping $666,000 was paid by a collector for a pair of these worn in the film
ruby slippers
The domus was a single-family house, & insulae were a block or blocks of these
apartments
This is the number of American military Generals that have served as President
12
This German Admiral was Hitler's successor after his suicide
Karl Dönitz
His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever"
Walter Reed
Buddy Ebsen was hired to play this character but had to quit after he developed an allergy to aluminum dust
the Tin Man
Virgil tells of the travels of this vowel-heavy Trojan prince who laid the groundwork for Rome
Aeneas
This Man was the 8th Prime Minister of Canada and later had a military base named after him
Robert Borden
These criminal trials where similar to the Nuremberg trials but were used instead for Japanese war criminals
The Tokyo trials
From one of his works, this Irish poet's epitaph is "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
William Butler Yeats
Frank Morgan played 5 different roles in the movie: a guard, a professor, a gatekeeper, a cabbie & this
the Wizard
It's said Romulus founded Rome on this hill, found between the Circus Maximus & the Colosseum
the Palatine