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It's defined as the parts of Australia far away from towns
the Outback
A period of 1,000 years; some of you kids were probably born around the end of the last one
millennium
The Smithsonian has a pocket compass from this pair's 1804 expedition
Lewis and Clark
La-Z-Boy offers this kind of chair in styles like Riley high leg & Astor platinum power lift
recliner
With no record from that time of this poet's death in 1400, Terry Jones of Monty Python asked, "Who murdered" him
Chaucer
Isn't it this type of Greek column adorned with spiral scrolls? Yes, it is
ionic
Literally meaning "the science of time", today it more commonly means a timeline of events
chronology
In 1923 this scientist won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his landmark work in agricultural chemistry
Carver
Also boasting a high slatted back, the seat is lower in the back than the front in the wooden lawn chair with this mountainous name
Adirondack
Clove cigarette-smoking angsty teens know this Russian's "Notes from the Underground" begins, "I am a sick man"
Dostoevsky
A minor irritant that becomes a real spoiler is "a fly in" this preparation
the ointment
An adjective meaning "time-related", it also describes an area of the cerebral cortex
temporal
This nurse returned from war in Europe determined to see the U.S. ratify the Geneva Convention--in 1882, we did
Clara Barton
Tennessee Ernie Ford cited his home state as the source of the expression "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of" these
rocking chair
At the start of this Y.A. novel, the title character asks a higher power to not let "New Jersey be too horrible"
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Completes the title of George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber's play "Dinner at..."
Eight
A place where things are joined, or a point in time in the phrase "at this" this
juncture
This 19th century businessman nicknamed the "Commodore" once commanded the nation's largest fleet of steamships
Vanderbilt
As the name implies, when a swoon impends, hasten to repair to this daybed with a back raised at one end & a curved wood frame
a fainting couch
Philip Glass composed the soundtrack for this film about a teacher's illicit affair based on a Zoë Heller novel
Notes on a Scandal
Augustus Caesar claimed descent from this Trojan hero
Aeneas
William Blake wrote of holding "infinity in the palm of your hand" & this vast period "in an hour"
eternity
In 1790 Elias Boudinot, ex-pres. of the Continental Congress, wrote "The Age of Revelation" as a reply to his "Age of Reason"
Thomas Paine
Quilted leather upholstery with deep buttoning is the mark of this type of sofa believed to be named for the Fourth Earl of it
Chesterfield
A modern aesthetic was solidified in her 1964 partisan review essay "Notes on 'Camp'"
Susan Sontag