When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora
The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planet's ring system
Eugene Dubois died in 1940 still believing his "Java Man" to be this legendary connector between man & ape
In MS-DOS, the .bak file extension meant the file was this type
In 1929 this Berkeley physicist bought a cabin in New Mexico; he'd spend lots of time in the state in the early '40s
In the 19th century Gerhard Hansen found out what causes this disease that goes back to Biblical times
An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this
Sadly for science, when he was elected abbot in 1868 he had no more time for puttering around in the garden
Cosmic rays were first detected by V. F. Hess during a flight by one of these
Albert Ghiorso at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds the record for discovering the most of these