A fascination with brine led which man to found his own chemical company in Michigan in the 1890s?

The Marquise de Montespan became the mistress of which French king around 1667? "A Farewell to Arms" and Robert Graves's "Good-Bye to All That" are about which war? Which measurement of land is equal to 43,560 square feet? A farrow is a litter of which animals? Which fashion designer, born Diane Halfin, is known by the initials DVF? Which fashion footwear mogul has the surname Madden? In medicine, what does LDL, a fat- and cholesterol-carrying molecule, stand for? Which word names both a deadly disease of cattle and the band that recorded the 1985 album "Spreading the Disease"?