AROUND THE CARIBBEAN
The Trench Town neighborhood of Kingston is considered the birthplace of this music genre
Reggae
Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville founded this city in 1718 as a port to handle trade from the Upper Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
It's the capital of the Campania region
Naples
An 1864 convention in this city was the first of several to define the proper treatment of POWs & civilians during wartime
Geneva
Some historians say medieval folks broke this up into 2 segments, with a middle-of-the-night interval for light tasks or intimacy
Sleep
At over 10,000 feet Pico Duarte in this nation on Hispaniola is the highest mountain in the Caribbean
the Dominican Republic
New Hampshire got its own governor in 1741 after being a part of this colony for several decades
Massachussetts
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The New Jersey Devils play their home games in this city
Newark
Building on 1936's Axis Agreement, in 1939 these 2 European nations signed the Pact of Steel
Italy and Germany
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A medieval historian said during the People's Crusade of 1096, a goose inspired people to leave everything & go to this holy city
Jerusalem
Andros Island in the Bahamas sits alongside one of the world's largest of these, over 120 miles long & a scuba divers' paradise
a (coral) reef
In 1653 he established the first municipal government of New Amsterdam, modeling it after cities in Holland
Stuyvesant
Looks awfully pleasant to visit this city on the Baie des Anges
Nice
Sir Thomas Hardy was flag captain of the HMS Victory for this commander mortally wounded in an October 1805 battle
Nelson
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The Ortoo system, also known as the Yam, was a postal system set up by this Central Asian empire
The Mongol Empire
In 2016 President Obama traveled to this Caribbean nation, the first visit by a sitting U.S. president in nearly 90 years
Cuba
On October 19, 1752 Benjamin Franklin published results of his kite/electricity experiment in this newspaper he bought 23 years earlier
the Pennsylvania Gazette
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The southern edge of this East African capital has a small national park known as the "Kifaru Ark", kifaru meaning rhino in Swahili
Nairobi
This African kingdom, spelled with a "K" & not a "C" like 2 current nations, began around 1390 & lasted until 1914
Kongo (Congo)
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An admirer of the ancient Greeks, in his "Summa" he referred to Aristotle as "The Philosopher"
Aquinas
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The small town of Kralendijk is the capital of this Caribbean island, the "B" of the ABC territories of the Netherlands
Bonaire
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Wampanoag chief Metacom, aka this "King", was killed at the 1676 Battle of Mount Hope in the war named for him
King Philip
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The Hu-Ning Highway connects this port on the Yangtze River with Shanghai
Nanjing
This man & his crew explored the eastern Canadian coast in the 1530s, laying the basis for French claims to the region
Jacques Cartier
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This battle in 1485, where Henry Tudor was a victor, is considered the end of the English Middle Ages
Bosworth Field
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