Peak at the Mountains
East of Santiago, Chile, Mount Tupungato is a 22,000-foot peak in this range
the Andes
Who needs a brush? According to a student of Titian's, the master would do his final retouching using these
fingers
The modern tradition of spring break began in the 1930s as part of a swim meet in this Florida city named for a military man
Fort Lauderdale
Wing-suited 1930s aviation daredevil Clem Sohn was nicknamed this like a caped superhero who debuted in 1939
batman
A former flight attendant, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was prime minister of this island nation from 2009 to 2013
Iceland
Rising 19,340 feet along the East African Rift system is this peak of Tanzania
Kilimanjaro
Avoid cracking by applying pigment with more oil over pigment with less oil--& more of this thinner made from pines
turpentine
During this spring holiday, children recite the Four Questions during the seder and hunt for the afikoman afterwards
Passover
Rossa Richter was just 14 in 1877 when she was fired into the air at London's Royal Aquarium, becoming famous as the first human this
a cannonball
The youngest British PM since 1812, he was not yet 50 when he left office following the Brexit referendum
David Cameron
The Sawatch Range of this mountain system includes peaks like Mount Elbert
the Rockies
Rembrandt used the other end of a brush to depict curls, a technique called scraffito, from the Italian for this action
scratching
Celebrated by Wiccans as Ostara, it's this cosmic moment of equal parts day & night
the spring equinox
One story says this 1970s Daredevil got his rhyming nickname after crashing his motorcycle while being chased by police as a teen
Evel Knievel
Alexis Tsipras has led this debt-saddled European country since 2015
Greece
The border between these 2 countries goes right down the middle of a room in the Hotel Arbez in the Jura Mountains
France and Switzerland
Get hold of "Marine Painting in Oil" by E. John Robinson to learn how to paint this 8-letter type of work
a seascape
This South Asian holiday, known for the practice of throwing color on others, celebrates the arrival of spring and is a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships.
Holi
Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie
The Great Escape
He was president of France after Chirac & before Hollande
(Nicolas) Sarkozy
Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of North Carolina is the tallest peak in this range
the Appalachians
This technique of applying thin layers gives richer color than if you'd just mixed the paint; you can do it with ham, too
glazing
This spring date was chosen in 1889 to honor International Workers' Day (aka Labour Day) for its proximity to the date of the Chicago Haymarket Affair of 1886. The US, though, celebrates Labor Day on a different spring date.
May 1, or May Day
World War I ace Frank Luke was famed for attacking observation these, dangerous targets ringed with antiaircraft guns
balloons
Vladimir Putin has been president of Russia since 2012, & this man has been prime minister also since then
(Dimitry) Medvedev