State's Lefts
To the left of Indiana
Illinois
This river was Lewis & Clark's main pathway west from St. Louis
Missouri
This country's peso is the most traded Latin American currency
Mexico
In 1980 this medical organization, the W.H.O., announced that smallpox had been eradicated worldwide
World Health Organization
A flat boat made by tying together long pieces of wood
raft
To the left of Maine
New Hampshire
This conquistador overthrew the Aztec Empire for the crown of Spain
Hernan Cortés
Most of these bills showing Ben Franklin are held in other countries
hundreds
Around 1747, British navy doctor James Lind discovered that eating these could prevent scurvy
[citrus] fruits
Insect that can be carpenter or army
ant
To the left of Montana
Idaho
In 1892, 17 years before his North Pole fame, Robert Peary proved this was an island, not part of a continent
Greenland
[DD]
The Bank of Japan in Tokyo maintains a museum devoted to the history of this currency
yen
In 1897, Felix Hoffmann first synthesized this wondrous pain reliever
aspirin
[DD]
It's a Canadian province
Ontario
To the left of Rhode Island
Connecticut
In 1516, he disassembled his ships on the Atlantic side of Panama & reassembled them on the Pacific side
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Some notes of this British currency have holograms that switch from a picture of Britannia to the value of the note
pound
In 1982, Dr. William DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7, one of these, into patient Barney Clark
artificial heart
The first of Isaac Newton's 3 laws of this is the law of inertia
motion
To the left of Kansas
Colorado
In his 60s in 1633, this "father of New France" made his last voyage from old France to Quebec
(Samuel de) Champlain
Some say Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of this virtual currency, doesn't exist
bitcoin
Using identical twins, Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first of these organ transplants in 1954
kidney
To swoon
faint