17th CENTURY FACTS
Sadly, the drama became all too real in 1613 when this theatre burned down after cannon fire set off its thatch during "Henry VIII"
the Globe
Big on cattle & sheep ranching until 1906, this city is known for the Polo Lounge, Rodeo Drive & money... lots & lots of money
Beverly Hills
Credited with saving more than 1,000 lives in the 1940s, this man was buried at a Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion
Schindler
Until 1935 this body didn't have its own building; it met in the Old Senate Chamber, & members ate lunch in the Robing Room
the Supreme Court
Sporting a 355-foot maximum drop, this landmark named by Livingstone has a mean flow of about 35,000 cubic feet per second
Victoria Falls
Not yet known as le Roi Soleil, in 1643 this new ruler of 19 million subjects was a few months shy of his 5th birthday
Louis XIV
Tune up in this 2008 Olympic city at the Hall of Supreme Harmony & smell you later at its Fragrant Hills Park
Beijing
He said his "greatest blunder" was the insertion of the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity
Einstein
The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789
Ways and Means
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The snows of this Tanzanian mountain include the Dome of Kibo, which has a 1.2-mile-wide crater
Kilimanjaro
In 1676 this colonist led a rebellion against Gov. William Berkeley but didn't live to see the end of the year
Bacon
I found my thrill on Strawberry Hill, and island in Stow Lake in this large San Francisco park
Golden Gate Park
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[ERRATUM: As of January 2024 Stow Lake was renamed Blue Heron Lake.]
Gloria Steinem said this 1972 Democratic candidate for pres. "first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House"
Shirley Chisholm
The mission statement of this Cabinet department begins, "With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people"
Homeland Security
This capital on the Congo River shoreline was the site of Ali & Foreman's "Rumble in the Jungle"
Kinshasa
This dynasty may have come to an end in 1644, but one of its vases was doing just fine in 2011, selling for $21.6 million
Ming
Sacred to the Western Sioux, this region in South Dakota is largely within the same-named national forest
the Black Hills
In 1947 nationalist hero Aung San was assassinated at the Secretariat Building in this city
Yangon
Created in 1939, the Executive Office of the President is overseen by this person, a position created in 1946
White House Chief of Staff
This country has a modest but beach-bum-friendly 35-mile coastline on the Gulf of Guinea
Togo
In 1626 this Dutch colonial governor got big into the Manhattan real estate market, paying 60 guilders for, well, Manhattan
Minuit
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Stuyvesant
Alphabetically first of the fabled 7 hills of Rome, it boasts the Basilica of Santa Sabina, which dates to the 5th century
the Aventine
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In 1993, this South African was president of the African National Congress Women's League
Winnie Mandela
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Until 1967 & the 25th Amendment, VP succession to the presidency was based on precedent named for this man, the first to do it
Tyler
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[Taylor]
In December 2024 Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to visit this African country & its National Museum of Slavery
Angola
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[Liberia]