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What the "H"?
Its a big country
Rhyming tree pairs
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Through a conservation center in New York, you can observe critically endangered red & Mexican gray ones of these

Wolves

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Those on the Big Island of Hawaii are familiar with the basaltic lava whose name consists of just this letter twice

A

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This word is medical speak for really bad breath

Halitosis 

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It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf

Saudi Arabia 

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A funny story with a punchline about an acorn-bearing tree


an oak joke

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Opened in 1919, this iconic golf course on the Monterey Peninsula offers stunning views of the 17th & 18th holes

Pebble Beach

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Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god

a bacchanal

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Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law

halal

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Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands

Indonesia 

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A house of worship built from a fine-grained tree with thin, peeling bark

a birch church

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A webcam on Sicily allows you to monitor the activity of this highest active volcano in Europe

Etna

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You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots


a kerfuffle

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A classic song says, "waiting 'round the bend, my" this person, "Moon River & me"

huckleberry friend

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Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land

Libya

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A placard made from evergreen

a pine sign 

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From a webcam in Finland, you can see this nighttime phenomenon that's dependent on a strong solar wind

Aurora Borealis
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Giant monsters like Rodan or Mechagodzilla are these creatures in Japanese

Kaiju

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It's a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen, as of spring

harbinger
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It borders Russia, China & nothing else

Mongolia 

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Hard, brown valuable wood of Asia polished to an attractive shine

sleek teak 

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You can see people praying day & night at this holy site that was a part of a structure surrounding the Temple of Jerusalem

The Western Wall (Wailing Wall)

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Something that moves counterclockwise or off course is said to have gone this manner that ends with some leg parts

widdershins

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The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in "Surfin' U.S.A."

huaraches

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With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa

DRC

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Syrup-giving tree wood for the Bishop of Rome


a papal maple