planes, trains, and automobiles
This car, widely considered to be the first car affordable to the average consumer, was also one of the first assembly line-produced cars. It was colloquially called the "Tin Lizzie", and manufactured in Detroit, Michigan.
Ford Model T
While these storms occur in many parts of the world, they are by far the most common in the US. In South America, they call the area where the storms happen a pasillo (a corridor), here we call it an alley.
Tornados
Agriculture is generally agreed to have arisen in the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Middle East between these two rivers.
The Tigris and Euphrates
This company, currently the most valuable in the world, is the main manufacturer of the chips needed to build AI technology.
Nvidia
New York City, USA
This 2013 spin-off of the Cars franchise was a critical failure, but enough of a box office success to get a sequel one year later.
Planes (2013)
This event in the 1930s contributed to the already harsh times caused by the Great Depression, as years of poor land management exacerbated by drought led to "black blizzards".
The Dust Bowl
This region, the most agriculturally productive in the US, is also heavily reliant on irrigation and aquifers. Also known as the "Golden Empire", its main cities include Sacramento, Fresno, and Bakersfield
The California Central Valley
This woman is the first openly transgender person to be elected to Congress. She will represent Delaware in the incoming House of Representatives.
Sarah McBride
In 1927, this man became the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. He flew in the Spirit of St. Louis, a single-engine and single-seat monoplane. Later in life, his public image was hurt by his isolationist views during the second World War.
Charles Lindbergh
This weather feature, which drops from the sky, indicates a coming tornado
Funnel cloud
This fruit, called anar in Persian, is a symbol of blessings and fertility in Iran, while in Greek mythology it is a symbol of death. According to some Jewish scholars, this fruit was the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
Pomegranate
Brazilian law enforcement announced this week that several members of the Brazilian military planned to assassinate this man as part of a coup to keep former President Bolsonaro in power.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
The Nile River Delta, Egypt
In 1919, this future US president traveled with the US Army Motor Corps across the entire Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the US. He later championed and then signed Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created our modern Interstate Highway System.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When this volcano erupted in 1815, its blast was heard around the world. The resulting ash cloud caused a "year without summer" and is thought to have contributed to the Little Ice Age
Mount Tambora
Since 1982, hunting this group of animals has been banned, with exceptions for some indigenous peoples like Alaska Natives and Russia's Chukchi people. Despite this ban, several countries ignore it, including Japan, Norway, and Iceland.
Whales
In South Africa's elections this summer, this party (the party of Mandela) lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since the end of apartheid.
The African National Congress
This high-speed rail service in France pioneered high-speed passenger rail in Europe, while also setting records for train speed. It has never had a passenger fatality during normal service.
TGV
During the Vietnam War, the US military's "Operation Popeye" used this controversial technique to "make mud, not war". Nowadays, the main national practitioner of this process is the United Arab Emirates.
Cloud seeding
This bird is well known as the main ingredient in a famous French dish which involves cooking and eating the bird whole, usually head first with the bones included. Tradition dictates that when eating this dish, diners are supposed to cover their heads and faces with a towel or cloth.
Ortolan Bunting
This war-torn country has been described in recent years as a 'narco-state' for its government's involvement with and reliance on the production and export of captagon, a popular stimulant in the Middle East.
Syria
Entrance to the Panama Canal, Panama City, Panama