Presidential Firsts
First president to address congress in a radio broadcast, though we remember him as "silent"
Coolidge
She was the patron goddess & guardian of what is now Greece's capital city
Athena
As a result of this 1912 disaster, all steamships must have enough lifeboats for all passengers
the Titanic disaster
British P.M. who said "Democracy is the worst system devised by man, except for the others"
Winston Churchill
Common name of the instrument known as the pianoforte
the piano
First president to serve more than 8 years
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
To Greeks a race of mighty women; to South Americans, their mighty river
Amazon
In December '84, the Pentagon announced it would put a spy satellite over this country
the Soviet Union
A representative government, or what Plato called his ideal state
the republic
The instrumental prelude to an opera
the overture
The first Republican to win the presidency
Abraham Lincoln
Though known as Helen of Troy, she was actually queen of this warlike city-state
Sparta
This world group dissolved in 1946, the same year the first U.N. General Assembly met
the League of Nations
Chief executive of a Canadian province, or the French equivalent of prime minister
a premier
Known in his time as a plagiarist, he composed the "Messiah"
George Frideric Handel
First president to visit Communist China
Richard Nixon
Like Lot's wife, this fabled musician should never have looked back
Orpheus
He was famous for leaving Roosevelt Field, N.Y., May 20, 1927, alone
Lindbergh
He is the U.S. government's chief law enforcement officer
the attorney general
Prokofiev's folk fable with title characters played by a string quartet & 3 horns
Peter and the Wolf
George Washington's practice of regularly consulting dept. heads gave rise to this concept
cabinet
With snakes for hair & eyes that weep blood, the "Eumenides" pursued & tormented sinners
the Furies (or the Erinyes)
In March 1979, this mediator signed the Camp David peace treaty as the witness
Presidential Carter
It's West Germany's lower house of parliament
Bundestag
An Offenbach opera is based on his Tales
(E.T.A.) Hoffmann