The Challenge

[spursfan]

Still struggling despite the help I received on my previous posting
Q26 Which major city in Arizona is linked (by name) to the murders of two prominent members of the British government in the 1880's?
Q48 In which Wordsworth poem is a thief who is about to steal a donkey converted to a new life br observing the donley's devotion to it's master?
Q74 Sailors sometimes refer to storm petrels as Mother Carey's chickens.Before that however they used the term to refer to something else (possibly from the Italian madre cara )-what?.The answer is not the Virgin Mary !!
Q109 The US Weather Bureau's designation for cumulonimbus reaching 30-40,000 feet is probably the origin of which phrase/term?
Many Thanks

[Fibonacci]

109 On cloud nine

[Fibonacci]

snowflakes ?
The Online Etymology Dictionary
Mother Carey's chickens is late 18c. sailors' nickname for storm petrels, or for snowflakes.

[Fibonacci]

48 Wordsworth's "Peter Bell," composed in 1798, only published in 1819, and mocked by critics on its appearance. It tells of the religious conversion of an insensitive criminal, a potter, as he rides on an ass belonging to a man who has just drowned in the Swale just to tell his widow of this bad news.

[Fibonacci]

26 Phoenix ?
Phoenix park is the place where Lord Cavendish and Thomas Burke, respectively Britain's chief secretary and under-secretary for Ireland, were murdered by the Invincibles in 1882. The Invincibles were a militant secret society who were at that time endeavoring to bring about a speedy Irish independence.

[spursfan]

Hi fibonacci
Thank you very much for your answers/suggestions