6/5/2023 0 Comments Meld crossword clue![]() ![]() The Alpha Centauri star system is a mere 4.37 light-years from the Sun, making it the closest star system to our solar system. 24 Alpha Centauri, for one : STAR SYSTEM (giving “work the system”) The Atra was sold as the Contour in some markets and its derivative products are still around today. 22 Big name in razors : ATRAįortunately for crossword constructors, the Atra was introduced by Gillette in 1977, as the first razor with a pivoting head. ![]() Apia is also known as the home of writer Robert Louis Stevenson, for the last four years of his life. The British cruiser HMS Calliope barely managed to escape from the harbor and rode out the storm safely. Six of the ships were lost in the typhoon as a result and 200 American and German sailors perished. A typhoon was approaching so the safest thing to do was to head for open water away from land, but no nation would move its ships for fear of losing face in front of others. The harbor of Apia is famous for a very foolish incident in 1889 involving seven naval vessels from Germany, the US and Britain. 20 Samoan capital : APIAĪpia is the capital city, and in fact the only city, of the Pacific island-nation of Samoa. 14 “Boo’d Up” Grammy winner _ Mai : ELLAĮlla Mai is an R&B singer from England who went to high school in New York City before returning to Britain. Chase, President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury. When the original one-dollar bill was issued in 1863, it featured a portrait of Salmon P. The nation’s first president, George Washington, is on the US one-dollar bills produced today. where the Equator and Prime Meridian cross. One of the Gulf of Guinea claims to fame is that it is home to the intersecting point between zero degrees of latitude and zero degrees of longitude, i.e. The Gulf of Guinea is a large gulf that forms part of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Africa. The name “Accra” comes from a local word “Nkran” meaning “ants”, a name chosen because of the large number of anthills found in the area when the city was founded. 8 African capital on the Gulf of Guinea : ACCRAĪccra sits on Ghana’s coast and is a major seaport as well as the country’s capital city. The film is loosely based on the life of real-life former basketball player Stephon Marbury. “Above the Rim” is a 1994 movie about a high schooler and his efforts to make it into Georgetown University to play basketball. ![]() Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ “Above the _”: 1994 basketball film : RIM ![]()
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