Famous Letters
In letters to John Adams, this future first lady wrote such lines as "remember the ladies".
Who is Abigail Adams?
Possessions or means of a skill to do something.
What is abiLITy?
There is debate whether Chief Powhatan let this famous indigenous American save John Smith's life, or whether she was merely going through the motions of a celebratory ceremony.
Who is Pocahontas?
A sign someone is getting further away from you.
What is they are getting smaller?
5-letters. Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
What is LASER?
Newton's manuscript on the structure of the universe is believed to be the first reference to this phenomenon, by which all things with mass or energy are brought towards one another.
What is gravity?
A place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose.
What is a faciLITy?
This city in upstate New York would not let Susan B. Anthony vote in 1872, opting to arrest her instead.
What is Rochester, New York?
Gives you butterflies every single time, no matter how many times you experience it.
What is buying caterpillars?
2-letters. Maine.
What is ME?
Letters by them appear in the Bible. They also share their name with a style of Greek and Roman architecture perhaps most associated with columns.
Who are the Corinthians?
A country in eastern Europe.
What is LIThuania?
In grammar, "let" could fall under this mood, indicating a command.
What is imperative?
The two reasons you're alive.
What are you were born and you haven't died?
3-letters. Independent executive agency of the United States government that serves as the primary villains in The Simpsons Movie. One of its goals is pollution prevention.
What is EPA?
The correspondence between these two former presidents is considered one of the greatest works in American literature. In hindsight, the line, "You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other," could serve as a foreshadowing their deaths would be intertwined.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
A form or formulary according to which public religious worship is conducted.
What is LITurgy?
These sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne used the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell for fear of sexist barriers to publication.
Who are the Bronte sisters?
What is 945?
3-letters. Similar meaning to "brb", this lets others know you won't be at your computer for a while.
What is AFK?
Petrarch discovered this Roman orator's letters, leading into the 14th-century Renaissance.
Who is Cicero?
Nabokov's 1955 novel. In the novel, this is the private nickname for Dolores.
What is LoLITa?
The wife of the man who demanded "let my people go!" in Book of Exodus 5:1.
Who is Zipporah?
The number of seconds in a year.
What is 12 (one for each month...)?
1-letter. Planck's constant.
What is h?