SOMETIME IN THE LAST 300 YEARS
In the 1930s, "Black blizzards" of soil blocked the Sun in this section of the Great Plains, also a bad name for a New Year's football game
the Dust Bowl
In 1906 Alaska's capital was moved from Sitka to this southeastern city that can only be reached by aircraft or boat
Juneau
In the decade after Coca-Cola came out, a pharmacist created "Brad's Drink", soon renaming it this
Pepsi
Deepwater ports on this inlet include Seattle, Tacoma & Everett
Puget Sound
The Kallawaya people of these mountains, living just north of Lake Titicaca, were among the first to discover the uses of quinine & coca
the Andes
The Sons of Liberty formed in 1765 to oppose this British Parliament attempt at direct taxation on paper documents in the colonies
the Stamp Act
1980 brought the establishment of the national park called the Gates of this region that starts more than halfway up Alaska
the Arctic
It's been Willis Tower since 2009, but many Chicagoans still refer to 233 S. Wacker Drive as this
the Sears Tower
King George Sound off Western Australia is an inlet of this much larger body of water
the Indian Ocean
In the 1920s what became Yugoslavia had the unwieldy name "Kingdom of" them, "Croats & Slovenes"
Serbs
Timothy Leary told 30,000 hippies at a "be-in" in this park in 1967 to turn on, tune in, drop out
Golden Gate Park
In 1784, fur trader Grigory Shelikhov strengthened Russian claims to Alaska when he established an outpost on this beastly island
Kodiak
In 2013 the NBA's New Orleans Hornets rebranded as this, after Louisiana's state bird
the Pelicans
Smith Sound separates Canada's Ellesmere Island from this non-Canadian territory
Greenland
This people of Montana called themselves by a word for "people of the large-beaked bird"; white settlers knew them as just this bird
the Crow
Full executive power return to Japan's emperor following the 1867 ascension of Mutsuhito, better known by this name
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Linking Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion
the Alaska Pipeline
This U.S. president was born with the surname Blythe; he later took the name of his stepfather
Bill Clinton
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[Teddy Roosevelt]
Horse Island in Connecticut's Thimble Archipelago in this sound is an ecological lab owned by Yale University
Long Island Sound
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[Hudson Sound]
Vaj nakh, "Our People", is the collective self-name of the Ingush & this other Muslim people who have rebelled against Russia
the Chechnyans/Chechens
From 2008 to 2012 he was president of Russia, because Putin sure wasn't still running things, no sir, it was this guy, 100%
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[Yeltsin, Medyev]Just as in the 1880s, when the Ancon & the Idaho made the first trips, the 500-mile stretch of Alaska called this is a cruise ship favorite
the Inside Passage
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[The Southeast Passage]
In 2011 Sri Lanka's govt. announced it would rename all state institutions still bearing this former British colonial name
Ceylon
The Exxon Valdez oil disaster occurred when the ship struck Bligh Reef in this royal-sounding sound
Prince William Sound
This African capital has a memorial to the Tutsi victims of genocide in the 1990s
Kigali