CENTRAL AMERICA
AIRPORTS
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
JUST GETTING STARTED
19th CENTURY CULTURE TRIP
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Leading exports from Honduras include these fruits, historically called "green gold" from their color when shipped

Bananas

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It's the main airport serving London, & also the busiest

Heathrow

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You can drive from Yellowstone to the national park named for these "Grand" mountains in under 30 minutes

the Tetons

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In the late 1950s the U.S. & the USSR began this rhyming competition involving satellite launches & rockets

the Space Race

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Johnny Appleseed gained fame bringing apples to the frontier, most of which were used to make this "hard" drink

apple cider

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Just follow your nose to Belize to discover the keel-bill type of this tropical bird, a national symbol

Toucan

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Not surprisingly passengers are greeted with live jazz music at the airport in this city named for this jazz great Louis Armstrong

New Orleans

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900 feet wide with a 212-foot drop, Shoshone Falls in this state has been called the "Niagara of the West"

Idaho

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The "10 Percent Plan" of 1863 was the first program of this 14-letter period that started after the Civil War

Reconstruction

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In 1801 Alexander Hamilton launched this Big Apple paper that didn't have a Page Six yet

the New York Post

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One of the world's best ecotourism destinations, this nation is "rich" in places like the Monteverde Cloud Forest

Costa Rica

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In 2023 this Boston airport & gateway to New England celebrated its 100th anniversary

Logan

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In spring, California comes alive with these, the state flower

poppies

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This word for supporters of Thomas Jefferson returned in the 1850s as the name of a new political party

Republicans

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Charles Willson Peale was in the group that excavated one of these toothy elephant-related behemoths & painted the scene circa 1806

a mastodon

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The name of this capital city means "holy savior"

San Salvador

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This capital's Schiphol Airport boasts a library, a park & an art museum

Amsterdam

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This Vermont town, the ski capital of the East, is also famous for its fall foilage

Stowe, VT

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A 1914 gathering of lawyers & police officials from 24 countries led to the creation of this organization based in Lyon

Interpol

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In 1808 he registered the North River Steamboat of Clermont, & a new age was upon us

Fulton

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About 3,000 square miles in area, the largest lake in Central America is this one that bears the name of a country there

Lake Nicaragua

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The King Abdulaziz Airport in this country has a special hajj terminal & a separate terminal for the royal family

Saudi Arabia

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Named for a surveyor & flowing from the Juneau Icefield, this 13-mile-long glacier often features ice caves to explore

the Mendenhall Glacier

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The Great Fear was just a precursor to this similarly named time of which the fall of the Girondins was a bellwether

the Reign of Terror

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For Easter 1885 Czar Alexander III asked a jeweler named Fabergé to make a gift for the czarina; voilà, an enameled this with jewels inside

an egg