CENTRAL AMERICA
Leading exports from Honduras include these fruits, historically called "green gold" from their color when shipped
Bananas
It's the main airport serving London, & also the busiest
Heathrow
You can drive from Yellowstone to the national park named for these "Grand" mountains in under 30 minutes
the Tetons
In the late 1950s the U.S. & the USSR began this rhyming competition involving satellite launches & rockets
the Space Race
Johnny Appleseed gained fame bringing apples to the frontier, most of which were used to make this "hard" drink
apple cider
Just follow your nose to Belize to discover the keel-bill type of this tropical bird, a national symbol
Toucan
Not surprisingly passengers are greeted with live jazz music at the airport in this city named for this jazz great Louis Armstrong
New Orleans
900 feet wide with a 212-foot drop, Shoshone Falls in this state has been called the "Niagara of the West"
Idaho
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The "10 Percent Plan" of 1863 was the first program of this 14-letter period that started after the Civil War
Reconstruction
In 1801 Alexander Hamilton launched this Big Apple paper that didn't have a Page Six yet
the New York Post
One of the world's best ecotourism destinations, this nation is "rich" in places like the Monteverde Cloud Forest
Costa Rica
In 2023 this Boston airport & gateway to New England celebrated its 100th anniversary
Logan
In spring, California comes alive with these, the state flower
poppies
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This word for supporters of Thomas Jefferson returned in the 1850s as the name of a new political party
Republicans
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Charles Willson Peale was in the group that excavated one of these toothy elephant-related behemoths & painted the scene circa 1806
a mastodon
The name of this capital city means "holy savior"
San Salvador
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This capital's Schiphol Airport boasts a library, a park & an art museum
Amsterdam
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This Vermont town, the ski capital of the East, is also famous for its fall foilage
Stowe, VT
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A 1914 gathering of lawyers & police officials from 24 countries led to the creation of this organization based in Lyon
Interpol
In 1808 he registered the North River Steamboat of Clermont, & a new age was upon us
Fulton
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About 3,000 square miles in area, the largest lake in Central America is this one that bears the name of a country there
Lake Nicaragua
The King Abdulaziz Airport in this country has a special hajj terminal & a separate terminal for the royal family
Saudi Arabia
Named for a surveyor & flowing from the Juneau Icefield, this 13-mile-long glacier often features ice caves to explore
the Mendenhall Glacier
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The Great Fear was just a precursor to this similarly named time of which the fall of the Girondins was a bellwether
the Reign of Terror
For Easter 1885 Czar Alexander III asked a jeweler named Fabergé to make a gift for the czarina; voilà , an enameled this with jewels inside
an egg