ANDREW JACKSON, THIS IS YOUR LIFE
Along with his brothers, Andrew Jackson joined the fight at age 13 during this conflict & did time as a prisoner of war
the American Revolution
You'll find the Sea of Crete in the southern part of this vowel-heavy sea
The Aegean
Dozens of cities are sister to this little town just south of Jerusalem though not, oddly, a historic Penn. steel center
Bethlehem
He "scared" a lot of people in 1950 when he said, "in my opinion, the State Department... is thoroughly infested with Communists
McCarthy
Go north & west from Paradise to another state & walk the Mesquite Flat Dunes of this hot & dry 3.4-million-acre national park
Death Valley
Jackson had a successful career as a lawyer in what became this state & retired there after the presidency to the Hermitage
Tennessee
The Ross Sea & the Weddell Sea give this place a somewhat pear-shaped look
Antartica
The biggest Texas city with a Spanish name, in 1953 it got with Monterrey & became the first U.S. city to have a Mexican sister
San Antonio
He starred in the Archibald MacLeish play "Panic" & later created a different kind of panic with "War of the Worlds"
(Orson) Welles
About 30 miles southeast of Paradise, you'll find this marvel, constructed in the early 1930s
Hoover Dam
Jackson returned to military service at age 45, becoming a national hero after defeating the British in this 1815 clash
The Battle of New Orleans
Somalia, Pakistan & India all surround this sea, the northwest part of the Indian Ocean
The Arabian Sea
An ancient city in the heart of Spain shares this name with a sister in the north of Ohio
Toledo
Millard Fillmore once belonged to this dim-sounding party that fueled moral panic via anti-immigrant & anti-Catholic views
the Knows Nothings
Travel 2,100 miles from Paradise, Nevada to another unincorporated Paradise in this Midwest state's Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Jackson worked to shut down the second of these national institutions, seeing them as a monopoly for the wealthy
the Bank of the United States
A U-shaped boundary dubbed the "nine-dash line" depicts hotly contested territorial disputes in this sea
The South China Sea
In 2001 Lublin, Wisconsin, population 118, got sisterly with Lublin in this country, population 330,000
Poland
The Panic of 1873 arose largely from the bursting of a speculative bubble in this industry just a few decades old
Railroad
Try your luck at Harrah's Casino in Vegas or travel north on U.S. 95 & cut west to get to the Harrah's on this lake
Tahoe
After several disagreements, this man, Jackson's vice president, resigned & Martin Van Buren took his place
Calhoun
A fateful May 1942 battle was fought over this sea off Australia & New Guinea
The Coral Sea
Glastonbury, England is sister to this Greek island municipality where St. John, by tradition, did his revelating
Patmos
In 1692 this enslaved woman from the house of Samuel Parris was the first person accused in the Salem witch panic
Tituba
Go west & down under from Paradise to Surfer's Paradise in this precious-sounding two-word locale near Brisbane
The gold coast