This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928 flooding Ventura County

Secretive 2-word term for the 22 unsuited cards in a tarot deck

In Tam O'Shanter he writes of a wife gathering her brows like gathering storm nursing her wrath to keep it warm

A vertical bar on each side of a number means to ignore any negative sign giving the measure called this value

Like Bartleby in Melville's title it was a clerk or copyist

Married to Freddie Jr. she uses Prinze as her legal last name

In 1979 an automatic valve at this Pennsylvania facility failed to close leading to damage to the core

Until 1997 his official residence was 10 Downing Street

Adlai Stevenson said this first lady would rather light candles than curse the darkness & her glow had warmed the world

A constant that multiplies a variable is a co- this