Business Firsts

On July 20, 1903 this company delivered its first product, purchased by a respected Detroiter

Ford

Poets on Poets

Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was"

Lord Byron

Pop Music

In May 1999 he had the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100, Top 40, Hot Latin & Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Single Sales Billboard charts

Ricky Martin

British Authors

In 1954 she became the first recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America

Agatha Christie

The Animal World

C. familiaris, it has one of the largest size ranges, from a 2-pound Mexican variety to 200 pounders

dogs

Famous Names

DNA from Prince Philip helped prove that Anna Anderson-Manahan was not this woman, as she had claimed

Anastasia

Religious Names

In commemoration of his predecessors, he was the first pope to choose a double name

John Paul I

Metals

Element No. 79, it's estimated that all of it ever mined would only make a cube about 50 feet across

gold

The Musical U.S.

In 1999 this state acquired the rights to use John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to promote tourism

West Virginia

Fictional People

After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720

Lois Lane

Anatomy

The petrous temporal bone, the hardest in the body, encases the delicate structures of this organ

the ear

Animals

With a young one valued at $1.4 million, Guinness calls them the most costly zoo animals

Giant panda

The Animal Kingdom

(The Animal Kingdom) The family Monodontidae is composed of 2 members: the beluga whale & this other marine mammal

narwal

Signs and Symbols

Created in 1970 & made up of 3 arrows, the universal symbol for this was based on the Mobius strip

recycling

The Midwest

To journey through 3 adjacent states that start with the same letter, you have to go through these 3

Iowa, Illinois, Indiana

Volcanos

Of the U.S. states with active volcanos, this state is farthest south

Hawaii

Space

On Nov. 13, 1999 a body circling HD 209458 became the first new planet to be photographed since this one (This question is several years old)

Pluto

Actors and Plays

Robert Armin played the role of the fool in "As You Like It", in "Twelfth Night" & in this tragedy 1st published in 1608

King Lear

Broadway History

On Oct. 30, 2008 Playbill changed its logo color to green for a special edition marking this show's 5th anniversary on Broadway

Wicked

29th Century Inventions

When this was explained to Chief Sho-kup, he gave it a Shoshone name that means "wire rope express"

telegraph