LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
2018's "The Silence of the Girls" tells this classic story from the perspective of Briseis, Achilles' concubine
the Iliad
Thomas Andrews was the chief naval architect for this ship & went down with it on its maiden voyage in 1912
The Titanic
The Pecos River rises in Mora County, New Mexico, heads into Texas & empties into this river
The Rio Grande
2-word term for the principal female singer in an opera; some can be temperamental
Prima Donna
East Pittsburgh,
Nov. 2, 1920:
Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium
Radio
In this man's "Wife", Una marries the title whaling captain
Ahab
Tailor Franz Reichelt sought to invent a combination suit/this device, but died after jumping off the Eiffel Tower
A Parachute
This strategic body of water is also called the Arabian Gulf
The Persian Gulf
Meaning "little book", it's the words of an opera
Libretto
Philly,
July 12, 1776:
John Dickinson asks the Continental Congress, hey, did you read these Articles I sent you?
The Articles of Confederation
The servants who work downstairs for this "Pride & Prejudice" family are the focus of "Longbourn"
Bennet
Horace Hunley pioneered this transport & during a test run of one during the Civil War perished along with his crew
A Submarine
The name of this Hawaiian island is also the Hawaiian word for a roofed porch
Lanai
A coda is a passage at the end of a work; in Italian it means this part of an animal
The Tail
1541, Lima:
This conquistador is murdered at dinner in his palace
Pizarro
Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told in the book titled this character's "Ex"
Romeo
Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier died in 1785 attempting to cross the English Channel in one of these that he designed
A Balloon
Kings Canyon in this country's Northern Territory offers some spectacular views
Australia
The name of this small flute is Italian for "small"
A Piccolo
London, 1854:
Dr. John Snow identifies the Broad Street pump as the cause of an epidemic of this disease
Cholera
"Foe" by J.M. Coetzee depicts the final days of these 2 men as seen by a woman shipwrecked with the pair
Crusoe and Friday
This inventor died while driving one of his "steamer" automobiles, crashing trying to avoid an obstacle on the road
Stanley
This capital of Slovenia has 2 sets of "LJ"'s in its name
Ljubljana
Chopin taught this style of playing with linked notes, the opposite of staccato, which he called "a pigeon hunt"
Legato
1862,
this Tokyo castle:
Iemochi marries Princess Kazu in a shogun wedding
Edo Castle