HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES
Going by the reign of the person it's named for, this age of history lasted from 1837 to 1901
Victorian
A lawyer doing this is generally allowed to ask leading questions, since he or she generally didn't call the witness
cross-examining
Chicago had Carl Sandburg; this city had Philip Levine, whose "What Work Is" mentions Ford & Cadillac
Detroit
Shipworms have bacteria in their gills, not guts, that allow them to do this to wood
digest
"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme"
Beauty and the Beast
Around 10,000 B.C. the paleolithic phase of this age ended in Europe
the Stone Age
It can mean to inquire too closely into another's private affairs, or to use force to open or move something
to pry
Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these "vast birds of the sea" who famously show up in an English poem
albatrosses
Term for the temperature at which water vapor in the air begins to condense & fall
the dew point
"You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you"
Jersey Boys
The Iron Age in Britain began around 800 B.C. & ended with the invasion of this empire about 800 years later
the Romans
This verb precedes "me this" in a catchphrase of a guy in a question mark suit
riddle
In 2020 Patrick Stewart read these on social media starting with No. 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
Shakespeare sonnets
Count the crab's limbs, & you'll know why it & many other crustaceans are classified as these
decapod
"He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist, a pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist"
Tommy
Great wealth was held by but a few while large numbers of people lived in poverty in this 1800s "Age" with a novel name
the Gilded Age
A synonym for "canvass", it means to survey the opinions of a group to gain insight
to poll
The 1827 volume "Poems By Two Brothers" had poems by 3 brothers in this family: Charles, Frederick & oh, Lord, Alfred
Tennyson
A standard term in statistics, it's the difference between one of a set of values & the mean value of the same set
deviation
"They chained me & left me for dead, just for stealing a mouthful of bread"
Les Misérables
Large glaciers on Asia, Europe & North America began forming about 2.6 million years ago, kicking off this epoch of the Ice Age
Pleistocene
The second syllable of a 4-syllable synonym for "curious" sounds the same as this questioning word
quiz
This Whitman work in 52 sections is often described as "The Great American Poem"
"Song of Myself"
In physics it's the study of objects whose motion or speed are affected by other forces
dynamics
"On the avenue I'm taking you to..."
42nd Street