San Antonio
They started out in the ABA as the Dallas Chaparrals and came to San Antonio where the team name changed. They have won the NBA championship in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014.
What are the San Antonio Spurs?
He discovered the first antibiotic serendipitously by observing the mold growing on an agar plate was inhibiting the growth of staphylococcus.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Plays the glockenspiel.
Who is Kaitlin Peace?
This college is named for a Confession of Faith that was written in 1530 and intended to stabilize the Holy Roman Empire. It became a founding document for a major protestant denomination.
What is Augsburg University?
F. Edward Hebert was the longest serving member of the House of Representatives and represented this state.
What is the State of Louisiana?
Born in San Antonio in 1952. Arguably the state's most famous C & W singer. With many ties to the state, all his exes live in Texas.
who is George Strait
An orthopedic surgeon and a medical student at the University of Toronto shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for isolating an extract of this hormone in 1921.
What is insulin?
All things LSU .
Who is Tommy Brown?
The marine biologist who created SpongeBob Squarepants was educated here.
What is Humboldt State University?
This museum houses the bullet which killed Abraham Lincoln, fragments of his hair and skull, and sections of Albert Einstein's brain.
What is the National Museum of Medicine and Health on the Forest Glen Annex.
This famous mission is where LTC William Travis drew a storied "line in the sand" with the tip of his sword. All who stepped across that line were killed in action.
What is The Alamo?
Dentist William Morton demonstrated this new technique for Boston surgeon John Collins Warren in a crowded surgical amphitheater. Warren's reaction -
"This gentlemen, is no humbug."
What is general anesthesia or ether anesthesia?
Bataan Death March (race) survivor.
Who is Alex Clem?
The chapel of this school is a famous example of modernist architectures and was designed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Its most striking feature is 17 steel spires.
What is the Air Force Academy?
Eastern terminus of the Red Line.
What is Glenmont?
In 1910, 1LT Benjaman Foulois flew the Wright (as in brothers) military airplane and landed it at this installation, known as the "birthplace of military aviation."
What is Ft. Sam Houston?
In 1901, Walter Reed led a team that proved the aedes aegypti mosquito was the vector for Yellow Fever. The discovery enabled control of the disease and allowed the completion of this project in 1914, one of the 7 engineering wonders of the world.
What is the Panama Canal?
Rabid Yankees fan.
Who Chris Corkins?
P. T. Barnum was one of the earliest benefactors to the college.
What is Tufts University?
Surrounded by 5 roofed colonnades, this pool by the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem and mentioned in John 5, had healing waters. The name in Aramaic means "house of grace" or "house of mercy."
What is the pool called Bethesda, or what is Bethesda?
Built in 1894 and now the renovated home to the trendy, expensive, must-see Hotel Emma, this was in 1916 the largest brewery in Texas and the only San Antonio brewery to survive prohibition.
What is "the Pearl ?"
Legendary for his addiction to cocaine and morphine and his near perfect surgical results. One of the "big four" immortalized in the John Singer Sargent painting in the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins.
Who is William Stewart Halsted?
Knitted her wedding dress.
Who is Kaitlin Peace?
The school's first building was a two room log cabin in built in 1805. The institution made headlines in 2016 for the "drown the bunnies" controversy.
What is Mount St. Mary's University?
Nicknamed Mad Max, this pitcher just signed a $245 million 7-year contract with the Washington Nationals.
Who is Max Scherzer.