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This rhyming handheld communications device was developed originally in WWII.
Walkie-Talkie
This Chinese rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Taiping Rebellion
It's annoying when you walk across carpet & touch metal but helpful when Xerox machines use it to make copies.
Static Electricity
These rapidly rotating neutron stars emit lighthouse-like beams of radiation.
Pulsars
Spain’s Llivia is an exclave completely surrounded by this country.
France
"Religious" precedes this 3-word term for Quakers
Society of Friends
Portugal’s nearly bloodless 1974 revolt was named for flowers placed in rifle barrels.
Carnation Revolution
Stick two forks together, insert a toothpick into the tine & you'll find that you can balance it on the side of a glass; it's a method of finding the center of this & it looks cool.
Mass or Gravity
M1, the remnant of a supernova observed in 1054, is better known by this crustacean name.
The Crab Nebula
The Wakhan Corridor gives Afghanistan a narrow border with this country.
China
A form of instrumental blues, or the "Bugle Boy of Company B".
Boogie-Woogie
Russia’s 1825 officer-led uprising took its name from the month in which it occurred.
Decembrist Revolt (or Uprising)
One method to show movies this way divides the image into red & blue parts that your brain combines.
3-D
The first discovered pulsar was initially jokingly labeled with these initials suggesting extraterrestrial origin.
LGM (Little Green Men)
This African river crosses the Equator twice.
Congo River
In the "Nibelungenlied", he's the son of Siegmund & Sieglinde.
Siegfried
This 1618 act of throwing imperial governors from a castle window helped ignite the Thirty Years’ War.
Defenestration of Prague
Have fun with the over 300-year-old "3-body problem", determining the motions of these 3 bodies based only on mutual gravity.
Sun, Earth and Moon
This dwarf planet has an exceptionally elongated (eccentric) orbit, taking roughly 11,400 years to complete a single trip around the Sun, and gets it's name from Inuit mythology.
Sedna
The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is an exclave of this country.
Azerbaijan
In 1954 this Vietnam village was the site of the decisive battle of the First Indochina War.
Dien Bien Phu
The 1952 Egyptian coup was led by this organization, whose members included Nasser and Naguib.
The Free Officers Movement
Defined as a system of particles uniformly distributed in a gas, it's used in spray paint.
Aerosol
The boundary around a rotating black hole within which spacetime is dragged by the spin is called this region.
Ergosphere
The world’s largest sand island, K’gari, lies off this Australian state.
Queensland