Around the USA
Nevada is home to the wonder known as Fly this type of hot spring
Geyser
Found in a 1927 Girl Scout handbook, the first official recipe for this marshmallow campfire treat had it as 2 words
s'mores
The U.S. Naval Academy is the final resting place of this "Father of the American Navy"
(John Paul) Jones
Don't forget your parka if you're going sailing on the Barents Sea, part of this ocean
Arctic
August 1934: known as "The Rock", it opens & Frank Bolt gets prisoner number 1
Alcatraz
In Great Falls, Montana, visit the Sip 'n Dip, one of these Polynesian style lounges with colorful drinks & swimming mermaids
tiki bar
Helen Free helped develop the dip-&-read test, which detects glucose, making at-home monitoring of this disease easier
diabetes
Her death & that of son Caesarion in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
Cleopatra
The China Sea is divided into these 2 directional seas
East China Sea and South China Sea
August 1935: Note the grinning 66-year-old as this act providing a system of benefits becomes law
Social Security
A live type of this tree is a must-see for visitors to Johns Island, South Carolina
oak
One of the greatest poets in this language is Dafydd ap Gwilym, who lived in the 1300s
20 years before sailing to America, this Quaker colonist was expelled from Oxford for religious nonconformity
Penn
James Weddell tried to name a sea indenting this continent's coastline for his king, but it ended up named for him
Antarctica
August 1875: Matthew Webb makes the first unaided swim from this British town to Calais
Dover
Boise, Idaho has an alliterative "Block" for these people of the Pyrenees, dedicated to preserving their culture
Basque
Scottish postman Nathan Evans became a TikTok sensation with his performance of "The Wellerman", one of these sailor songs
Sea Shanty
This conquistador & his men reached the coast of Florida in 1539 & the Mississippi River 2 years later
De Soto
Known to the ancients as Oceanus Hibernicus, it's connected to the Atlantic within the British Isles
The Irish Sea
August 1990: Sue Hendrickson discovers a 40-foot-long skeleton of this
T-Rex
The purple seats near the top of Coors Field tell you you've reached this geographic designation
mile high
TV's "That Girl", today she's the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Hospital
Marlo Thomas
An astronomer & mathematician, this African-American with an alliterative name helped survey they area that became Washington, D.C.
Benjamin Banneker
The Cook Strait leads into this sea named for a 17th century navigator
Tasman
August 1977, Arktika this appropriate type of vessel is the first surface ship at the North Pole
an Icebreaker