POTPOURRI
"Henge", a term for a circular monument comes from the name of this monument on Salisbury Plain
Stonehenge
On February 7, 1990 this party formally relinquished sole power
Communist
These larges masses of flowing ice occur where winter snowfall exceeds summer melt
glaciers
Damages can be compensatory, to compensate, or this kind to punish
punitive
Whale tale author who wrote, "Youth is immortal; 'tis the elderly only grow old!"
Melville
These fluffy, affectionate little dogs who love to be pampered are called "Poms" for short
Pomeranians
Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov invented radial keratotomy, a procedure used on this organ
eye
Ash & pumice are examples of tephra, the fragmental material ejected from one of these
volcano
A contract characterized by exchange of mutual promises, it's also a synonym for betrothal
engagement
In "The Brook" this "Light Brigade" author wrote, "For men may come & men may go, but I go on forever"
Tennyson
In a famous story, Philip Nolan was "The Man Without" one of these
Country
Soviet Olympic stars have included Olga Korbut, a gymnast, & Sergei Bubka, one of these
pole vaulter
The mineral andalusite was named for a region of this country where it was discovered
Spain
Legal term meaning to trade goods or services without using money
barter
Oscar Wilde wrote, "One should never trust a woman who tells one" this; she "would tell one anything"
her real age
The Joe chair named for this Yankee is shaped like a huge baseball glove
Joe DiMaggio
In the 1920s Felix Dzerzhinsky began the system of forced labor camps now known by this Russian name
gulag
This period of the Mesozoic Era is name for the Jura Mountains of Europe
Jurassic
Term for the process by which a person acquires a new citizenship
naturalization
Ben Franklin said, "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander" this, "for that's the stuff life is made of"
time
She wrote the 1965 work "Normality and Pathology in Childhood"
Anna Freud
In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaced this man as party leader
Konstantin Chernenko
From French for "hillock", this is a flat-topped hill smaller than a mesa
butte
Legally speaking this can mean "to endure pain" or "to permit"
suffer
Roman orator who said, "No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year"
Cicero