In 1909 Dutch botanist Wilhelm Johannsen first proposed this name for the unit of heredity in living things
His first law of planetary motion states the planets' orbits are ellipses with the sun at one focus
The name of this capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina is from the Turkish for "palace"
This Venetian explorer was the first known European to visit what is now Thailand & Vietnam
General George Henry Thomas earned the epithet "The Rock Of Chickamauga" during this war
It's located on Liberia's Bushrod Island & Cape Mesurado
This father of Alexander the Great seized the throne of Macedon in 359 B.C.
This sheriff who shot Billy the Kid was later appointed a customs collector by Teddy Roosevelt
It's traditional for the host to serve a meal called kaiseki before this ceremony
For their part in this 1770 Massachusetts riot, 2 soldiers were branded on the thumb