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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses . Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered ...
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. [1] Julian was the first person to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
New York Times puzzle editor talks newest game Connections. Joining puzzle fans' morning rotations of the crossword, Wordle, and Connections is Strands, the New York Times' latest puzzle ...
The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savory, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. The croustade, crostata, galette, tarte tatin and turnovers are various types of pies and tarts. Flan, in Britain, is an open pastry or sponge case containing a sweet or savory filling.
The puzzle was a Wheel of Fortune crossword with “butter” being the clue, and the words in the puzzle all coming after butter in common compound words. And that helped set the stage for the ...
Broadway to Hollywood (1949–1954; also called Headline Clues and Broadway to Hollywood Headline Clues) Broke Ass Game Show (2015–2016) Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (1986; began as a 1983 pilot titled Party Line with Gene Rayburn hosting) Bullseye (1980–1982; called Celebrity Bullseye beginning in December 1981) Bumper Stumpers (1987–1990)
Angus Deayton (born 1956), member of The Hee Bee Gee Bees. Richard Digance (born 1949) Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth (born 1959) Noel Fielding (born 1973) Flanders and Swann (Michael Flanders 1922–1975; Donald Swann 1923–1994) Flo and Joan. Jay Foreman.