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French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)

United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)

French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883)

English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)

an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form

prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973)

United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)

United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934)

below 3 kilohertz

Means "stone of help" in Hebrew. This was the name of a monument erected by Samuel in the Old Testament. Charles Dickens used it for the miserly character Ebenezer Scrooge in his novel A Christmas Carol (1843).

From a Scottish surname meaning "Hugh's town". The original Houston is in Scotland near Glasgow, but this is also the name of a city in Texas, named after the Texas president Sam Houston (1793-1863).

Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)

Latinized form of Habren, the original Welsh name of the River Severn. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sabrina was the name of a princess who was drowned in the Severn. Supposedly the river was named for her, but it is more likely that her name was actually derived from that of the river, which is of unknown meaning. She appears as a water nymph in John Milton's masque Comus (1634). It was popularized as a given name by Samuel A. Taylor's play Sabrina Fair (1953) and the movie adaptation that followed it the next year.

French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)

a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey

a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file

From an English occupational surname for a box maker, derived from Norman French casse meaning "case". A famous bearer of the surname was American musician Johnny Cash (1932-2003).

American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)