After this waterway opened in 1825, freight rates between Buffalo & NYC were cut by more than 90%
This man who bought Manhattan from the Indians later served as governor of New Sweden
In "The Brass Bottle", Horace Ventimore buys an antique brass bottle that contains one of these beings
The raw milk sold in health-food stores hasn't gone through this sterilization process
Not only could this nursery rhyme character "eat no fat", he had a cat with only one hair
The cake called a baba is sometimes soaked in kirsch instead of this liquor
Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew Cubbins finds that every time he removes one of these, another appears
A chimichanga is one of these Mexican food items that's been fried, filling & all
A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books
In veal oscar the cutlets are traditionally topped with crayfish or this seafood