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This live form of transportation is sometimes called the "ship of the desert"
Camel
This is the volcano responsible for the destruction of Pompeii.
Vesuvius
She united Castile with Aragon when she married Ferdinand V in 1469
Isabella
George Washington Carver came up with 300 products derived from these, including dyes, flour & linoleum
Peanuts
1976: "You talkin' to me?"
Robert De Niro
Almost 100 years old, the Delta Queen is this kind of river steamboat, named for a feature 28 feet in diameter
Paddlewheel
Beneath this U.S. national park isn't just a volcano, but a supervolcano that has had 3 super eruptions & could blow again
Yellowstone
During an historic visit to China in 1972, President Nixon met with this Communist Party leader
Mao
Tabitha Babbitt invented a circular type of this tool after seeing Shakers struggle with the long 2-handled type
A saw
1999: "I see dead people"
Haley Joel Osment
Ride the track from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other in about 15 minutes via this, similar to the one at Disneyland
Monorail
In December 2019 a tourist excursion turned deadly when a volcano erupted on this country's White Island
New Zealand
Leading the Spartan forces, Lysander defeated the Athenian navy, ending this war in 405 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
In the tradition of Hungarian inventive geniuses like Mr. Rubik, two Hungarian scientists designed the Gömböc to prove that there can be a three-dimensional object with only one stable and one unstable point of this
Balance
As Norman Bates: "A boy's best friend is his mother"
Anthony Perkins
Competitors in this flat-on-your-back Winter Olympic sport can reach 90 miles per hour
luge
Mount Erebus, the most southerly active volcano, is located on this Antarctic island that shares its name with an ice shelf
Ross
In 1781 this German philosopher published his "Critique of Pure Reason", because he could
Immanuel Kant
Donald Hings created a portable 2-way radio around 1940; today it has this rhyming name
Walkie-Talkie
2012: "That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry"
Mark Ruffalo
In 1960 this nuclear sub bearing the name of Poseidon's son became the first to circumnavigate the globe underwater
Triton
In 1883 an explosive eruption of this volcano in the Sunda Strait could be heard nearly 3,000 miles away
Krakatoa
Prior to David Cameron, the last British PM named David was this man who led his country during WWI
David Lloyd George
This guitar legend is the only person in both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & The Inventors Hall of Fame
In a Tarantino film: "You know somethin', Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece"
Brad Pitt