QUEEN VICTORIA
Victoria was 18 when she became queen & 19 when her coronation took place here
Westminster Abbey
We have a problem if you don't know that it's the fourth-largest U.S. city in population
Houston
Called the East Sea in South Korea, this nationally named sea has practically no tides
The Sea of Japan
1698:
Sends his wife to a convent;
1721:
Declares himself "emperor of all Russia"
Peter the Great
In 1964 the island of Zanzibar, with its own subspecies of leopard, became part of this East African country
Tanzania
So devastated was Queen Victoria by the death of this consort, that she wore black mourning wear for 40 years
Albert
In Colonial times Burlington & Perth Amboy served as twin capitals of what is now this state
New Jersey
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Bounded by the coasts of Myanmar & Thailand to its east, the Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of this ocean
Indian
264 B.C.:
This war begins in Sicily;
260 B.C.: The Romans reverse engineer a type of ship, the Quinquereme
the Punic
This alliterative Central American capital has been ruined multiple times by earthquakes since 1854
San Salvador
In 1857 the Queen awarded the first Victoria Crosses for acts of valor during this recently ended war
the Crimean War
Bar Harbor, Maine is located on Mount Desert Island, where the majority of this national park is also located
Acadia
The relatively shallow depth of this sea between the British isles & Norway yields very dramatic waves
North Sea
462 B.C.:
He helps introduce a form of democracy for Athenian male citizens;
429 B.C.:
He dies of plague
Pericles
This body of water divides Maryland into 2 parts, the eastern & western shores
Chesapeake Bay
While she didn't have symptoms, Victoria was a carrier of this bleeding disorder & passed it on to several children
hemophilia
The name of this Iowa city across the river from Omaha honors the site where Lewis & Clark met with tribesmen in 1804
Council Bluffs
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The only one of Earth's seas without a land boundary, it gets its name from its native surface life
the Sargasso Sea
1613:
Kidnapped by Samuel Argall;
1616:
Travels to London
Pocahontas
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Maxing around 160 feet deep, the relatively shallow Korea Bay is the northeastern arm of this "colorful" sea
The Yellow Sea
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Queen Victoria was the last monarch of this ruling house; her ancestor George I was first
[the House of] Hanover
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It's home to Indiana University & the little 500 bike race that inspired the movie "Breaking Away"
Bloomington
To its north the Black Sea is connected to this smaller sea by the Kerch Strait
the Sea of Azov
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762:
This city is founded as the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty;
1258:
Sacked by Mongols
Baghdad
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This forest that can be spelled with or without an S at the end is located in both France & Belgium
Ardenne(s)