The street that runs along this city's western dike is known as Nieuwendijk, or New Dike
During the Roman & Byzantine Empires, this Jordanian capital was known as Philadelphia
It's located on Liberia's Bushrod Island & Cape Mesurado
The Columbia, one of these between Valdez & Anchorage, Alaska can move about 65 feet per day
In 1909 Dutch botanist Wilhelm Johannsen first proposed this name for the unit of heredity in living things
The largest living reptile is probably the saltwater species of this animal, which may weigh more than a ton
This Russian physiologist's major published work was "Conditioned Reflexes" in 1926
His first law of planetary motion states the planets' orbits are ellipses with the sun at one focus
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