THE ELEMENTS
This element was discovered in 1789 in the mineral zircon
zirconium
In October 1991 he was sworn in as the 106th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas
This ceremony can be conducted by pouring, sprinkling or immersion
baptism
By the end of this Dickens novel, the Pickwick Club has been dissolved
Pickwick Papers
England & these 2 countries share the island of Great Britain
Wales & Scotland
Because it's generated by radium, this gaseous element, symbol Rn, was once called radium emanation
radon
In 1986 he was named "Best Morning TV News Interviewer" by the Washington Journal Review
Bryant Gumbel
Of a dance, a snake, or a priestess, what a mambo is in the voodoo religion
priestess
His novel "The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is set on a Mississippi riverboat, not a whaling ship
Herman Melville
The Afsluitdijk, 20 miles long, separates the North Sea & the Ijsselmeer in this country
the Netherlands (Holland)
In 1896 future Nobel winner Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered this element was radioactive
uranium
In 1907 he outlined some of his musical ideas in a book called "The School of Ragtime"
Scott Joplin
The clothespin was invented by this sect also known for the simplicity of its furniture
Shakers
He's the hero of the historical novel "The Green Mountain Boys"
Ethan Allen
Most of Greenland's imports come from this nation
Denmark
DD: Traces of this poisonous element can be detected in the body after death by the Marsh Test
arsenic
Succeeding the Celtics' Red Auerbach in 1966, he became the 1st black to coach an NBA team
Bill Russell
The most famous of this civilization's temples was the Sun Temple in Cuzco
Inca
He called his novel "Jude The Obscure" a story "of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit"
Thomas Hardy
This mountain chain in Belize shares its name with the Indian people who flourished there until the 10th C.
the Maya
The chief industrial use of nitrogen & this element is the manufacture of ammonia
hydrogen
DD: In 1977 she was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal to mark the 20th anniv. of her debut with the company
Leontyne Price
Arjun Mal, a guru, completed the Adi Granth or "First Book", the holy scripture of this religion
Sikhism
Stavrogin's confession to a horrible crime was cut from the 1st publication of his novel "The Possessed"
Dostoevsky
The Hungarian house of parliament in Budapest overlooks this river
Danube