in 1524 peasants influenced by this German religious leader, started an uprising

This poem begins "Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While I Pondered Weak And Weary..."

In the playground riddle it's what's big & red & eats rocks

Ailuromaniancs really love these animals, like Felix and Garfield

It's the more "grounded" name of the creature also called a nightcrawler

in 1588 this "Invincible" Spanish fleet was defeated by the English

He wrote: "The Leaves Of Grass"

Trouble ensued when Jill & Jack went on a nursery rhyme mission to fetch one of these

If you're thinking about setting this room a blaze, you have this 'mania"
(& please don't)

A lofty social class is called the "Upper" this, also a word for the layer of the Earth

A 1929 treaty made Roman Catholicism Italy's official religion, & this its own state

He coined the words "brillig", "slithy" & "mimsy" in "Jabberwocky"

Number of events in a heptathlon

Don't "flounder", tell us about ichthyomania, a fascination with these

Marmota Monax is better known as a woodchuck or as this

Thousands including Pliny The Elder, died after this volcano blew its top in 79 A.D.

He wrote "Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light" after his father's death

It's the total number of years in 1,001 centuries

If you got theomania, you believe that you're this

As a noun, it's the top layer of the Earth's surface; as a verb, it means to make dirty

In 1980, strikes in Gdansk & other Polish cities led to the formation of this labor union

She wrote: "The Carriage Held But Just Ourselves And Immortality"

It's the only state in the U.S. whose name ends in "K"

In Pinocchio's case, nose growth was a symptom of mythomania, or the need to do this

Also meaning "innovative", it's a ceremony marking the beginning of a building project