REVISING THE ATLAS
A few years after it was safe to do so, in 1961 this city got renamed Volgograd
Stalingrad
On August 29, 2005 a storm surge from this hurricane rose more than 26 feet, devastating Biloxi & Gulfport
Katrina
...appoint a woman as White House Chief of Staff, strategist Susie Wiles
Trump
In 2020 a life-size bronze statue of this U.S. first lady was unveiled near her hometown of Sevnica
Melania Trump
He didn't just conquer Egypt in 332 B.C.; he also named a city for himself there
Alexander the Great
After partition in 1947, East Bengal became East Pakistan & following a civil war in 1971, took this name
Bangladesh
In 1502 he succeeded his uncle Ahuitzotl, becoming the 9th emperor of the Aztecs
Montezuma
...be the head of a major union, the organization then known as SAG
Reagan
At the southeast corner of Central Park, this man rides on a horse perpetually trampling a branch symbolizing Georgia
Sherman
The Great Pyramid was built about 4,500 years ago by this Egyptian king also known as Cheops
Khufu
In 1954 Mauch Chunk, or "Bear Mountain", & East Mauch Chunk merged to form a Pennsylvania borough named for this athlete
Jim Thorpe
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
The war of this started in its alliterative way in 1701 after Charles II had to go & die all childless & stuff
(the ar of) Spanish Succession
...be Roman Catholic
JFK
In Syracuse, a statue of him holds a model of a mirror "heat ray" meant to burn Roman warships
Archimedes
This Kurdish general controlled Egypt in the 12th century & brought Sunni Islam back to the country
Saladin
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
The French territory of the Afars & the Issas got renamed in 1977 as this, silent D & all
Djibouti
Founded in 1602 in Amsterdam, this trading company made it through 2 aughts, but missed a 3rd, dissolving in 1799
the Dutch East India Company
...ride to & from his inauguration in an automobile, a Packard Twin Six
Warren G. Harding
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
Rocking out in a square named for him in Johannesburg, this figure perpetually dances the Madiba Jive
Nelson MAndela
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
Egypt suffered more than 11,000 casualties in this brief 1967 war, the most of all the nations involved
Named in 1890 for Lord Salisbury, then PM of Britain, this Zimbabwean capital changed its name to honor a Shona chief
Harare
On February 24, 1803 the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional for the first time in this landmark case
Marbury v. Madison
***TRIPLE STUMPER***
...be born a U.S. citizen, though oddly, he was also the first to have English as his second language (bonus points if you know the language he used to speak)
Van Buren
***DUTCH***
This man got a huge statue in Moscow--not in the city he founded--for the 300th anniversary of the Russian navy
Peter the Great
The Muslim Brotherhood picked him as their nominee for presidential elections in 2012; he later got life in prison
Morsi