Aesop's Fables
The account of a race between unequal partners in this fable has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery are employed to overcome a stronger opponent.
What is the Tortoise and the Hare?
Before the final bottle of this company was selected and produced nationally in April 1917, one stamped with its original "Atlanta" embossing, is rumored to be the only one of its kind in mint condition that exists today and has been auctioned for $150,000.
Although this alcoholic beverage may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with the American South and with Kentucky in particular.
What is Bourbon?
In 1620, Puritan Separatist Pilgrims from England established this Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia founded in 1607.
What is Plymouth?
Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, it was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This fable resulted in the English idiom, defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.
What is The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
The Russian name, meaning bottle, is the name of a museum and hotel, notable for being housed inside a five-story structure shaped like a giant bottle.
What is Butylka (Бутылка)?
This distilled beverage, made from the blue agave plant, is primarily distilled northwest of Guadalajara, and in the central western Mexican state of Jalisco.
What is Tequila?
As the United States and the United Kingdom fought this war, New England Federalists organized the Hartford Convention to discuss the region's grievances concerning the war, and to propose changes to the Constitution to protect the region's interests and maintain its political power.
What is the War of 1812?
This park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America. The Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. With 12.5 million visitors in 2019, it is the most visited national park in the United States.
What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
This story appears only in Greek sources in ancient times and may have been invented to explain the proverb 'One swallow does not make a spring', which is recorded in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The fable is about a young man who spends all his money on gambling and luxurious living until he has only a cloak to keep off the weather.
What is The Young Man and the Swallow?
This is a bottle containing an object that does not appear to fit through the bottle's mouth. The ship in a bottle is a traditional type.
What is an impossible bottle?
This distilled alcoholic drink derives its predominant flavor from juniper berries.
What is Gin?
This is the most populous state in New England with 6,794,422 residents, while Vermont is the least populous state with 626,042 residents.
What is Massachusetts?
Originally established as a national monument in 1908 it was redesignated as a national park in 2012. The park protects a mountainous area, located east of the Salinas Valley in Central California and features unusual talus caves that house at least 13 species of bats.
What is Pinnacles National Park?
Until the 18th century the fables were largely put to adult use by teachers, preachers, speech-makers and moralists. It was this philosopher, known as the "Father of Liberalism" during the Enlightenment, who first advocated targeting children as a special audience.
Who is John Locke?
In 1872, British soft drink makers designed and patented this bottle, designed specifically for carbonated drinks. It was designed and manufactured to enclose a marble and a rubber washer/gasket in the neck. The bottles were filled upside down, and pressure of the gas in the bottle forced the marble against the washer, sealing in the carbonation.
What is a Codd-neck bottle?
This liquor, made by fermenting then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice, is usually aged in oak barrels.
What is Rum?
New England contains some of the oldest and most renowned institutions of higher learning in the United States and the world, including the first institution, founded in 1636.
What is Harvard?
The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States, and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River.
What is Everglades National Park?
This story concerns an animal that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable. The expression "sour grapes" originated from this fable.
What is the Fox and the Grapes?
This is a type of wine bottle with the form of a flattened ellipsoid. It is commonly used for wines from Franconia in Germany, but is also used for some Portuguese wines, in particular, rosés.
What is a Bocksbeutel?
The modern versions of this beverage were first produced in the mid to late 18th century in Turin, Italy. While traditionally used for medicinal purposes, its true claim to fame is as an apéritif, with fashionable cafés in Turin serving it to guests around the clock.
What is vermouth?
This region, along the river running through Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has been called the birthplace of America's industrial revolution.
What is Blackstone Valley?
This park preserves about half of Mount Desert Island, many adjacent smaller islands, and part of the Schoodic Peninsula on the coast of Maine.
What is Arcadia National Park