It was officially declared the capital of a kingdom 109 years before it became a state capital

It can mean repairing; when Southerners use it before to, they mean on the verge of It describes the final half of a golf course It was a small, flowing body of water before it became a continuous data transfer It was novelist Henry Miller's middle name, though he wasn't born on Feb. 14 & he was certainly no saint It's a device such as a bandage twisted around a limb to control the flow of blood It's alphabetically first of the Seven Sisters colleges It's background music, as well as a line drawn beneath something for emphasis Its highest point is 5,344-foot Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks