TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE
I'm sold on walking across this bridge from Centre Street in Manhattan to Tillary Street on the other side of the East River
The Brooklyn Bridge
Of businessman Warren & singer/songwriter Jimmy
Buffett
You will rue the day & be far from "Euphoria" if you don't remember she took home a 2022 statue for starring as Rue
Zendaya
Arsinoe IV, the sister of Cleopatra, fought the Roman army at this Egyptian port city around 48 B.C.
Alexandria
This process of getting back together was achieved & celebrated in Germany in 1990
Reunification
Begun in 1787, the Pont de la Concorde used remnants of the Bastille as a source for masonry to help span this river
The Seine
Of prime minister William the Younger & actor Brad
Pitt
Lee Yoo-mi was a winner as Ji-yeong on this game show-set Netflix drama, where second place definitely wasn't three grand
Squid Game
Rebelling peasants inspired by the Reformation were let down by this man's tract "against the murderous, thieving hordes of peasants."
Martin Luther
19th c. liberation fighter José de San Martín got about as high in the military as possible, named this of the Republic of Peru
the generalissimo
The world's longest rotating metal bridge, El Ferdan, spans the Western shipping lane of this Egyptian waterway, dating to 1869
The Suez Vanal
The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar
Cuba
Julie Bowen got Emmy bookends in 2011 & '12 for her work as Claire Dunphy on this ABC sitcom
Modern Family
In the 1850s Congress awarded this man $20,000 for negotiating the Kanagawa Treaty
Commodore Perry
The PV in HPV; there's a vaccine for that
papillomavirus
Ponte dei Sospiri is the Italian name for this bridge that spans the Rio di Palazzo
The Bridge of Sighs
Of an accused ax murderer & her distant cousin who invented a process for condensing milk
Borden
His wife said the posthumous Emmy won by this actor for voicing T'Challa in Marvel's "What If...?" was "a beautiful alignment."
Boseman
This Black explorer learned the language & skills of the Inuit people on many trips searching for the North Pole
Matthew Henson
From the Latin for "conversation", it's an informal or regional expression like "bodacious"
a colloquialism
This London bridge used hydraulic pumps driven by steam until 1976, when it went electric
Tower Bridge
Of poets Marianne & Clement Clarke
Moore
Winning an Emmy for being one of "Two & a Half Men" as Alan Harper must have been just like Duckie for him
Jon Cryer
Former radical left Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras gave his son the middle name Ernesto, after this man
Che Guvara
Meaning "tireless", it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland
The HMS Indefatigable