THE WHITE HOUSE
"IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL"
ON THE MAP
WHERE'S THE MEETING?
KINGDOMS
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The White House is sometimes referred to simply by this address
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Kandahar (1747-1773)
Afghanistan
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The name of this mountain range comes from Sanskrit words for "snow" & "abode"
the Himalayas
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In 1918 at Gray's Inn in London, FDR first met this man & thought he wasn't the nicest guy; they worked well together later, though
Churchill
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The United Kingdom was created by uniting these 2 kingdoms
England and Scotland
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Fittingly, an original copy of the Gettysburg Address is on display in this upstairs guest room
the Lincoln Bedroom
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Yangon, sometimes called Rangoon
(1948-2005)
Myanmar
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Dating to the 1690s, the Eddystone Lighthouse is near Plymouth in Devon, on rocks in this narrow body of water
the English Channel
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Kaiser Wilhelm I watched over the Deutsches Eck, or German Corner, in Koblenz, where the Mosel & this river meet
the Rhine
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In 2024 Frederik X became king of this Scandinavian country after his mother abdicated
Denmark
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In 1981 Nancy Reagan took some flak for purchasing a 4,732-piece, $210,000 set of this for the White House
china
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Entebbe (1894-1962)
Uganda
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In 1616 navigator Willem Schouten rounded this cape at the tip of South America & named it for the Dutch city of his birth
Cape Horn
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Indigenous Australians' first meeting with Europeans was with the crew of the Duyfken from this country in 1606
the Netherlands
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The unification of Italy put an end to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, actually Sicily & a kingdom named for this mainland city
Naples
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In its history, this room has been used as a private study as well as where historic agreements have been sign
The Treaty Room
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Quezon City (1948-1976)
the Philippines
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The Tha, a tributary of this river, flows through Laos
the Mekong
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Almost 51 years to the day (July 24, 1963), this future U.S. President met the sitting president, JFK, in the Rose Garden of the White House:
Bill Clinton
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In the 3rd century the Wu Kingdom had its capital at this no-longer capital that sometimes has "King" in its English name
Nanking
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The tradition of having a decorated Christmas tree in the White House began with this president & grandson of another in 1889
Benjamin Harrison
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Turku (1809-1812)
Finland
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In 2024 this Omani capital faced widespread flash flooding from heavy rainstorms
Muscat
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Meetings in the book "First Encounters" include an awkward one between Orson Welles & this newspaper publisher in a San Francisco elevator
William Randolph Hearst
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Nigeria wants the return of the sculptures named for an African kingdom & known by the alliterative place name "_______ Bronzes"
Benin
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