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On the Moon, Hell, Billy & Julius Caesar are these.
Craters
This lowest part of the brainstem helps maintain normal blood pressure, among other activities.
Medulla
Nancy was the first name of this “Lady,” who in 1929 tried to form a women’s party in the British House of Commons.
Lady Nancy Astor
Film in which a kid in a Welsh coal-mining family like totally falls for a 1980s Southern California chick.
How Green Was My Valley Girl.
The day before leaving office, he asked that this former president be restored to the retired Army list.
Ulysses S. Grant
The Cassini Division is a dark gap between these structures orbiting the sixth planet.
The Rings of Saturn
In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show.
Regis Philbin
The naval monument in this British territory at the entrance to the Mediterranean is known as the American Steps.
Gibraltar
This union that began with a 1935 meeting at King Vidor’s house, covers Hollywood stage managers like our very own Jimmy McGuire.
The DGA (The Directors’ Guild of America)
In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O’Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige & Jackie Robinson.
The Monarchs
Also a term for a part of speech, it’s when the Earth, a heavenly body like Venus, & the Sun are all nearly in a straight line.
Conjunction
This endocrine gland controls the rate at which cells burn food & produce energy
The Thyroid Gland
A 1634 Spanish decree declared it the “key to the New World and the bulwark of the West Indies.”
Havana
From the Latin for “boundary,” it’s the technical name for the stone crosspieces atop Stonehenge’s pillars.
Lintel
On Feb. 1, 1960 4 students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this N.C. city in protest over segregation.
Greensboro
In March 1930 its discovery was announced at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
Pluto
This racy monthly which promoted 1892 Corbett-Sullivan fight was a barbershop favorite
Police Gazette
The ceremonial mace kept in the House of Reps. is a copy of the one destroyed when the Brits invaded D.C. in this year.
1814
Because it took the life of Portugal’s king and his heir apparent, a February 1908 assassination is known as the “Lisbon” this.
Regicide
This largest species of salmon, Oregon’s state fish, shares its name with an Indian tribe & may grow to 3 feet.
The Chinook salmon
John Archibald Wheeler popularized this term for an object so dense that not even light can escape.
Black Hole
Last name of Glasgow’s Sir Thomas, who made a company with the notion that poorer folks should be able to enjoy tea.
Lipton
Appropriately, this type of public building in Grand Rapids is named after astronaut Roger B. Chaffee.
A planetarium
His Spoon River Anthology was considered scandalous, which helped make it a bestseller.
Edgar Lee Masters
A story set in this city says Santa Ana winds make “wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks”.
Los Angeles, California