MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Versions of this instrument have been made with valves instead of a slide
trombone
In 1959 his New York City tomb became a National Memorial
Ford Madox Ford wrote 3 novels about Catherine Howard, this king's fifth wife
Henry VIII
To become literate in this field, try "The Macintosh Companion" or "DOS for Dummies"
operating a computer
An evil spell or curse
Hex
The contra type of this instrument is the lowest-pitched member of the woodwind family
bassoon
Referring to his daughter, he once quipped that he could be President or control Alice, but not both
Theodore Roosevelt
This author of "Space" once served on NASA's Advisory Council
Michener
A 1992 book, "The King & I", features interviews with 46 of his impersonators
Elvis Presley
Ice-T, Big Daddy Kane & Kool Moe Dee received 1991 Grammys for this type of music
rap
In a 1961 record Johnny Cash called this stringed instrument a "Tennessee flat-top box"
guitar
Some blamed his death on a Shawnee curse that was put on him at the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
He described his sensational 1931 novel "Sanctuary" as "The most horrific tale I could imagine"
Faulkner
He "generalizes" about his life & the Persian Gulf War in "It Doesn't Take a Hero"
Norman Schwarzkopf
It can be slang for a boxer, or a Chinese dog with a snub nose & a wrinkled face
pug
Powered by steam & used on riverboats, this keyboard instrument's sound can carry over 10 miles
calliope
While playing football for West Point, he injured his knee tackling Jim Thorpe
Eisenhower
This 1887 novel by onetime ostrich farmer Rider Haggard is known by a single pronoun
She
This fitness guru talks about weight loss & some of the people he's inspired in "Never Give Up"
Richard Simmons
In 1961 Sue Thompson sang that these "movies make me cry"
sad
Sebastien Erard perfected a pedal device in the 19th century to raise the pitch of its strings by 1 or 2 half-steps
the harp
Within a 3 1/2 year period, he became Mayor of Buffalo, Governor of N.Y. & President of the U.S.
Grover Cleveland
This James Joyce work was called "the first attempt to articulate the wordless world of sleep"
Finnegan's Wake
His "All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten" was 1989's top-selling hardcover nonfiction book
Robert Fulghum
A Spanish gentleman, or to put on clothing
don