Alcohol may have contributed to his leaving the army in the 1850s; he came back fighting in the 1860s
Ulysses S. Grant
In 1905 this most famous formula was first published in Annalen der Physik
E=MC2
Attention, Colonel Sanders: the ghost of one of these birds has been seen flapping around Highgate, London since the 1600s
chicken
wordpress.com says, "Everyone has a point of view" & their site is "the world's greatest" tool to create these online journals
blogs
This type of shirt bares the midriff
crop top
It left the Union 16 years after joining it
Florida
He drove around his Texas ranch in a convertible & stopped to have the Secret Service refill his scotch & soda
Lyndon B. Johnson
The 4 basic forces that exist in nature are strong, weak, electromagnetic & this one
gravity
Someone who pinch hits for another's autobiography
a ghostwriter
Thinking about retiring? This agency has a retirement estimator you can use at ssa.gov
Social Security Administration
A coffee cup embrace
mug hug
This mountain is sacred to the Shinto goddess Sengen-Sama
Mount Fuji
One of George Washington's most successful business endeavors was Mount Vernon's distillery, the largest in America at the time, which produced this potent potable
whiskey
After trying to measure this with signals between himself & an assistant, Galileo decided this was infinite
the speed of light
Silver City, Idaho & Bodie, California for example
ghost towns
This website that sells more than just shoes takes its name from the Spanish word for "shoes"
Zappos
A hex even more heinous than the last
a worse curse
Doncha know this city on the Red River is the largest city in North Dakota
Fargo
The wine tab for this Virginian president for one year in office was $7,597
Thomas Jefferson
It's the measure of the randomness, or molecular disorder, of a system; the universe's is said to be increasing
entropy
That "rare" person whose efforts to produce a ghost at a seance are "well done"
medium
The stars aligned, & by the end of 2021, this platform reported it had 244 million cumulative reviews
Yelp
Down at the docks, he clips your locks
harbor barber
Although it shares its name with a type of headwear, the name of this Moroccan city may come from Arabic for a kind of axe
Fez
This future president disgraced himself as Lincoln's VP with a drunken speech on inauguration day
Andrew Johnson
Particles called gluons bind these other mysterious "flavored" particles together
quarks
Living things are made of protoplasm, but ghosts are supposedly made of this
ectoplasm
Alexis Ohanian was still a student at UVA when he doodled what became the alien mascot for this website that he co-founded
A presidential "no" in Ecuador's capital
Now a region in Belgium, it once referred to an area in France and the Netherlands, too
Flanders