Lucrezia & Cesare Borgia are 2 of the few people in history whose father held this position
WWII ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945 in a ceremony presided over by this general
1794 skirmishes caused by the imposition of Alexander Hamilton's liquor excise tax
A rectifier is an electrical device used to convert alternating current to this
It's the branch of biology dealing with heredity
The "History of New York... by Diedrich Kickerbocker" was actually written by him
No reptile today can truly do this; the pterodactyl could, but it's now extinct
Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" is set in a Swiss sanatorium for this disease
Peter Quint & Miss Jessel are the ghosts in this Henry James ghost story
Since 1918, the "O. Henry Awards" have been given to outstanding examples of this form