IT CAME FROM CROWDFUNDING!
Before it was an Emmy-winning TV show this was a one-woman show Phoebe Waller-Bridge partially funded on Kickstarter
Fleabag
The Ottoman Empire wanted the Red Cross to be named this in the Islamic world & eventually it happened
The Red Crescent
U.S. schoolkids began reciting this as part of Columbus Day observances in 1892
THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Having trouble figuring out your map? Consult this table of symbols that could complete your tale
Legend
The first humans land on the Moon
1960s
A Kickstarter success was the card game called Exploding these cute little animals; laser pointers can defuse them
Kittens
Someone cowardly has one of these down his back often a mile wide
Yellow Streak
Term for the limited allocation of goods on the WWII home front; for gasoline & coffee it began in fall 1942
Rationing
On Mercator maps these parallel lines get farther apart as they get more distant from the equator
Lines of Latitude
Joseph McCarthy is officially censured by the U.S. Senate
1950s
This Kristen Bell detective show was on UPN & The CW before it was a Kickstarter-funded movie; season 4 was on Hulu
Veronica Mars
This colorful group won over 8% of the vote in Germany in 1987
The Greens
In the 1859 Pig War the U.S. & this country nearly came to blows over ownership of the San Juan Islands
Great Britian
C is for these lines on a map that join points of equal elevation
Contour
World War II begins in Europe
1930s
This meal-replacement drink isn't made from people but sounds like a green sci-fi food that was
Soylent
The Marcels sang of this celestial body you saw me standing alone without a dream in my heart
Blue Moon
In 1892 John Muir co-founded this organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors
THE SIERRA CLUB
It's a general term for maps used by ocean navigators; there's a book of these & Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages
Charts
The Soviet Union is dissolved
1990s
Long after he was Rockin' In The Free World this singer raised more than $6 million for Pono his music player
Neil Young
Someone who is incredibly shy can be a wallflower or one of these purple plants
Shrinking Violet
Known as the Pathfinder this soldier-explorer mapped most of the Oregon Trail in the 1840s with Kit Carson
JOHN C. FRÉMONT
Mapmakers use altitude data from aneroid barometers which get their numbers by measuring this
Air Pressure
ENIAC the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer is built
1940s