HISTORIC AMERICANS
The Smithsonian has a pocket compass from this pair's 1804 expedition
Lewis and Clark
5 million square miles in Africa are this type of grassland; it begins south of the Sahara & includes the Serengeti plains
savanna
Fireside Chats were initially conceived as a way to earn public support for FDR's policies under this program
The New Deal
A period of 1,000 years; some of you kids were probably born around the end of the last one
a millenium
Much of the eastern border of Roman Gaul was formed by this river that drains into the North Sea in the Netherlands
the Rhine
In 1923 this scientist won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his landmark work in agricultural chemistry
George Washington Carver
Located near the equator on the Indian Ocean, this capital was the site of a U.S.-led military operation in 1992 & 1993
Mogadishu
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Somalia
In Feb. 2013 Pres. Obama followed up this more formal speaking engagement with a "Fireside Hangout" hosted by Google+
the State of the Union
Literally meaning "the science of time", today it more commonly means a timeline of events
chronology
During Roman rule, the homes of Gallic aristocracy took the form of this type of Roman country manor
a villa
This nurse returned from war in Europe determined to see the U.S. ratify the Geneva Convention--in 1882, we did
Clara Barton
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Nightingale
In 2018 King Mswati III officially changed the name of his landlocked country from Swaziland to this name
Eswatini
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Botswana
When the U.S. joined WWII, FDR asked his radio audience to "take out & spread before you" one of these while listening at home
a map
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An adjective meaning "time-related", it also describes a lobe of the cerebral cortex
temporal
As all schoolkids once knew, a returning Julius Caesar wrote, "All Gaul is divided into" this many parts
three
This 19th century businessman nicknamed the "Commodore" once commanded the nation's largest fleet of steamships
Vanderbilt
This small neighbor of Nigeria borders a bight (or bay) of the same name
Benin
After FDR, he was the only president to copy the informal chat approach of sitting by an actual fireplace--& in a cardigan, no less
Jimmy Carter
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A place where things are joined, or a point in time in the phrase "at this _______"
juncture
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Cisalpine Gaul, meaning "Gaul on this side of the Alps", included the northern regions of this modern-day country
Italy
In 1790 Elias Boudinot, ex-president of the Continental Congress, wrote "The Age of Revelation" as a reply to his "Age of Reason"
Thomas Paine
The indigenous Khoisan people called this flat-topped wonder the "mountain in the sea"
Table Mountain
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In 1944, FDR's final chat urged Americans to continue funding the war "not only by the payment of taxes... but also by" purchasing these
War Bonds
William Blake wrote of holding "infinity in the palm of your hand" & this vast period "in an hour"
eternity
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After defeating the Romans, these people conquered & ruled most of Gaul & at least by the area's present name, they're still there
the Franks
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