BRITISH HISTORY
In a 1940 speech to the House of Commons, Churchill said, "What is our aim? I can answer in one word": this, "at all costs"
victory
Risorgimento was the 19th century movement that culminated in the establishment of a unified kingdom in this country in 1861
Italy
Sacked in 390 B.C.,
455 A.D.,
1527 A.D.
Rome
In the 1830s sea lampreys invaded this Great Lake, though Niagara Falls kept them from further incursion for a while
Lake Ontario
The Punic Wars were against this city founded by Phoenicians
Carthage
This failed plan in 1605 was an attempt to blow up Parliament & King James I along with it
the Gunpowder Plot
The 1974 constitution of this country that's no longer around gave Kosovo the status special autonomous province
Yugoslavia
Oil discovered there in 1901,
the Black Wall Street massacre in 1921
Tulsa
It's a watery 770 square mile indentation of the island of Luzon
Manila Bay
Linguists call the Phoenician alphabet an abjad, meaning all 22 letters were this type
consonants
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Fought over in a 1982 war, it voted to remain a British overseas territory in 2013
the Falkland Islands
The first war between India & Pakistan resulted in a division of this princely state then ruled by a maharaja
Kashmir
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Napoleon's occupation in 1812,
the Khodynka Tragedy
Moscow
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After flowing through 6 countries, the Zambezi River meets the sea in this East African nation
Mozambique
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Phoenicians referred to themselves not as Phoenicians but as these -ites, the name in Genesis for certain descendants of Noah & Ham
Canaanites
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Edward, who died in 1376 without becoming king, had this sobriquet, likely from the color of his armor
the Black Prince
What's today the state of California became part of the U.S. as a result of this treaty
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Beer Hall Putsch,
a massacre at the 1972 Olympic games
Munich
The Celebes Sea is south of Mindanao in the Philippines & north of this country's island of Sulawesi
Indonesia
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Pigment derived from snail glands was used to make the Phoenicians' most prized commodity: fabric dye in Tyrian this color
purple
Chancellor & Archbishop of Canterbury Simon of Sudbury was killed during the 1381 Peasants' Revolt led by this man
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As a result of this 1815 meeting, the duchy of Parma & Piacenza was given to Marie-Louise, 2nd wife of the deposed Napoleon
The Congress of Vienna
A more than 1,400-day siege from 1992 to 1996,
an assassination of a man born in Graz, Austria
Sarajevo
The Gila & Colorado Rivers meet in this Arizona city
Yuma
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The Phoenicians' original homeland was this region on the Mediterranean's eastern border, from the French for "rise" (as in sun-)
the Levant
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