CALIFORNIA GEOGRAPHIC
This city's City Hall building, which replaced one destroyed in an earthquake, sports a 307-foot dome, taller than the U.S. Capitol's
San Francisco
He was still a student at Cambridge when he sorta casually discovered the binomial theorem in 1665
Isaac Newton
This league used cogs, amazingly capacious ships that helped them dominate Northern Europe trade for centuries
the Hanseatic League
Per CNN, social media has crowned Blue Lake, on this country's South Island, the world's clearest lake
New Zealand
The largest continuous area of sand in the world, the Rub' al-Khali Desert is mainly in this country
Saudi Arabia
Formerly Ocean View Avenue, this Monterey street processed around 240,000 tons of sardines in 1945
Cannery Row
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We're all signatory to this, the title of a 1762 work by Rousseau (not the film about Facebook)
The Social Contract
This city at the edge of England's West Country was a leading British slave trading port in the 18th century
Bristol
The Detroit News has reported on the quagga species of this type of bivalve, which has devastated the Great Lakes ecosystem
a mussel
Important to the world's oil supply & seaborne shipping, this strait separates Oman & Iran
Hormuz
When not playing piano in the bar at the Mission Ranch, Clint Eastwood found time to be mayor of this-by-the-sea from 1986 to 1988
Carmel (by-the-sea)
OK, this Prussian did touch off years of war in 1756, but he was also an enlightened despot who hobnobbed with intellectuals
Frederick the Great
The lungs & skill of these craftsmen in Syria in the 1st century B.C. enabled a brisk trade in beads
glassblowing
In 2017 the New Yorker called this lake in a same-named African country the site of the most complex humanitarian disaster
Lake Chad
The building of this sacred structure in the holy city of Amritsar was begun by Arjan, the fifth Sikh guru
The Golden Temple
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This coastal "San" city was founded by a group of Spanish missionaries who got lost on their way to Santa Cruz
San Luis Obispo
Female stars of the Enlightenment included this famous mom & author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
Wollstonecraft
Maybe the fragrance lingers along what's called this route, which took goods like myrrh from Arabia to the Mediterranean
The Incense Route
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The Jerusalem Post reported on desalinated sea water being pumped into the Sea of Galilee, aka Lake this city on its western shore
Lake Tiberias
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Found east of the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea, it's the People's Republic of China's only tropical island
Hainan
Enjoy Copenhagen Drive in the Danish capital of America, this Santa Barbara area city whose name means "sunny field"
Solvang
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Denis was the first name of this alliterative editor of the Encyclopédie
Diderot
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In the 18th century it was America's biggest port, trading for linen & tea; later it traded for Steve Carlton & Roy Halladay
Philadelphia
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(Boston)
The N.Y. Times called Mussolini's death by firing squad on the shores of this lake "a fitting end to a wretched life"
Lake Como
The Mekong port city of Luang Prabang in this nation is home to Mount Phou Si where a footprint of Buddha is enshrined
Laos
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(Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand)