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Unfortunate Martha Corey was one of "The Witches" in Stacy Schiff's narrative of events surrounding this village in 1692
Salem
If you've been afflicted by the green-eyed monster, you're guilty of this
jealousy
To desert a vessel
abandon
18th century composer Luigi Boccherini numbered his works using this Latin word but Yves Gérard's numbered list is much better
opus
A deadlight is one of these, designed not to open
a window
From the ancient Maya to the 21st century, "The Smoke of the Gods" is Eric Burns' history of this plant & its effects upon society
tobacco
This rhyming fictional "illness" involves police officers disrupting operations by calling in sick
the blue flu
It's any substance that increases the rate at which a fire burns
accelerant
This Russian divided the elements into columns & rows in an early version of the periodic table
Mendeleev
As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall
a turret
"Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book
Bismarck
If you're cowardly, you can be lily-livered or this other hyphenated term mentioning a nearby body part
yellow-bellied
DAILY DOUBLE:From Latin for "proverb", it's a saying that expresses a common observation, like "a penny saved is a penny earned"
adage
Social sciences range from 300-399 in the library classification system named for this man
Dewey
Because its supports are called balusters, an elaborate railing is called this
a balustrade
Reversing a phrase from the book of Isaiah, Arno Mayer's history of the state of Israel is titled these "into Swords"
Plowshares
This annoying condition is also known as conjunctivitis
pink eye
To be "taken" this can mean to be caught by surprise or to have your ship's sails filled with wind from the wrong direction
aback
Entropy is the crux of the third law of this, devised by German chemist Walther Nernst
thermodynamics
From their ruddy facades, it's the colorful name for eastern U.S. apartment buildings built in the 19th century
a brownstone
DAILY DOUBLE:"The Rise & Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors" is the subtitle of a recent history of this medieval order of knights
the Knights Templar
Seen here, this seawater discoloration caused by dinoflagellates can be lethal to marine life
red tide
Genus Haliotis, it's an edible marine mollusk with a beautiful shell
abalone
The sequence named for this Italian mathematician begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13
Fibonacci
This term for the grooves or channels in the shaft of a marble column is not related to music
a flute