Art
In 1901, towards the start of his Blue Period, this artist painted himself on a blue background
Picasso
It ended with the Berlin Wall coming down & the Soviet Union breaking apart
Cold war
At the gym, one of these isn't a snack but a noisy name for an abdominal exercise
A crunch
This diagnostic technique uses high-frequency waves to produce images of places inside the body
Ultrasound
For leading scores of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, she was nicknamed the "Moses of her people"
Harriet Tubman
In this Vermeer work, we see a young woman wearing a turban & a fancy piece of jewelry
Girl with the Pearl Earing
The Black Death that killed more than a third of the population of Europe in the 1300s was an epidemic of this infectious disease
The bubonic plague
A dig & a spike are actions executed in this sport
Volleyball
This condition occurs when a human's body temperature falls below 95 degrees Fahrenheit
Hypothermia
Ruth Handler named this doll, introduced in 1959 as a teenage fashion model, for her daughter
Barbie
In an early sketch of "American Gothic", Grant Wood chose a rake, but later placed one of these in the man's hand
Pitchfork
Though this battle lasted only about 9 hours on June 18, 1815, it changed the course of history, and inspired a great ABBA song
Waterloo
Attached to the femur & originating at the Ilium, this minimus may get maximus attention at the gym
Gluteus
This Polish-born French physicist was not only famous for her research on radioactivity, she also coined the term
Marie Curie
She deserves a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for being the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, back in 1987
Aretha Franklin
Keeping art very local from the 1890s until 1926, Monet's series of about 250 oil paintings focused on a pond of these in his garden
Water lilies
This president was pronounced dead at 1:00 P.M. on Nov. 22, 1963 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas
JFK
In the 1890s at a gym in Springfield, Mass., this Canadian nailed 2 peach baskets to the rails of a balcony to create the game of basketball
Naismith
These controversial cells are obtained from human embryos at the blastocyst stage and can grow into any type of tissue & may someday cure diabetes & Alzheimer's
Stem cells
In 1859 she provided "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not", & here's what the book is--still available today
Florence Nightengale
He began as a graffiti artist in New York subways before graduating to large outdoor murals, he later opened The Pop Shop in New York City selling cheap prints of his art before dying far too young in 1990
Keith Haring
Humanism was an integral part of this period in Europe sometimes said to have ended with Rome's fall in 1527, also the name of a Beyonce album
Renaissance
Yikes! The name of this facility is from the Greek for "to train naked"
Gymnasium
it's used to describe a lunar phase where the Moon's apparent shape is gettin' thick
Waxing
Shot by the Taliban, a teen activist from Pakistan lived to tell her story in the book, "I Am" her
Malala Yousafzai