Famously, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to summit Mount Everest, doing so in 1953. 35 *Mount Everest scaler : EDMUND HILLARYĮdmund Hillary was a mountaineer and explorer from New Zealand. The name “Seneca” translates as “Great Hill People”. Historically, the Seneca lived south of Lake Ontario. The Seneca Native-American nation was a member of the Six Nations or Iroquois League, along with the Iroquois, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Tuscarora peoples. The list of his wives includes the actresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, as well as Betty Kern, daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern. Artie Shaw was married eight times in all. Holiday chose to leave the band though, due to hostility from Southern audiences back then. One of his many claims to fame is that he (a white bandleader) hired Billie Holiday (a black vocalist) and toured the segregated South in the late thirties. Shaw’s real name was Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, born in New York City in 1910. 31 Jazz clarinetist Shaw : ARTIEĪrtie Shaw was a composer, bandleader and jazz clarinetist. Among the company’s most famous models were the REO Royale 8 and the REO Flying Cloud. The company made cars, trucks and buses, and was in business from 1905 to 1975 in Lansing, Michigan. The REO Motor Company was founded by Ransom Eli Olds (hence the name REO). When a player got the ball into the “net”, someone had to clamber up and get the ball back out again in order to continue the game! 30 Flying Cloud of old autodom : REO The first “hoops” were actually peach baskets, with the bottoms of the baskets intact. His goal was to create something active and interesting for his students in the gym. It was created in 1891 by Canadian James Naismith at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. Too much information (TMI) 28 What a net might attach to : RIMīasketball is truly a North American sport.
It derives from the German “Rücken” meaning “back, and “Sack” meaning “bag”. “Rucksack” is a word used for a backpack, mainly in the UK but also in the US Army, I believe.
Crossword light truck type professional#
He played college football at Texas A&M and spent the whole of his professional career with the Detroit Lions. Yale Lary is a former NFL player from Fort Worth, Texas. “Calico” is not a breed of cat, but rather a coloring. Back in Ireland, and the rest of the world I think, such cats are called tortoiseshell-and-white. 19 Calico calls : MEWSĭomestic cats with a white coat and patches of brown and black are called calico cats in this country. In the world of science, it is the most common medium used for growing bacteria in Petri dishes. Agar is found in Japanese desserts, and can also be used as a food thickener or even as a laxative. 14 Thickener used in desserts : AGARĪgar (also “agar-agar”) is a jelly extracted from seaweed that has many uses. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossįoofaraw is excessive or flashy ornamentation, or a fuss over something that is unimportant.
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