THE PRESIDENTS
Writing about immigration in 2019, Mexico's President López Obrador said this American landmark "is not an empty symbol"
the Statue of Liberty
Its central location helped make it the capital of Maine in 1832
Augusta
Sultan Bayezid II gave refuge to many Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 by a decree from this royal couple
Ferdinand and Isabella
Similar to a certain staircase, this shape-type of tunnel in Norway coils its way up the inside of a hill for over a mile
a spiral
A lack of genetic diversity in this crop in 1840s Ireland was a major cause of disaster for the population
po-taaaaaaaa-toes
He was Cuba's defense minister from 1959 to 2006; then he became acting president
Raúl Castro
This city, the seat of New Mexico's Bernalillo County, gives you 2 Q's for the price of one
Albuquerque
Reigning in the early 1700s, Sultan Husayn was the last independent Safavid shah of this nation
Persia
South Africa's over 50-mile-long Orange-Fish Tunnel gets its name from 2 of these that it connects
rivers
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The USSR's 1930s Great Purge included the notorious "show" type of these, with defendants forced to confess
trials
This politician who said, "Being rich is bad, it's inhuman" had a TV show called "Hello President" before his death in Caracas in 2013
Hugo Chávez
In 1819 a newspaper in this Ohio city boasted that it was "justly styled the fair queen of the west"
Cincinnati
This "magnificent" sultan took Belgrade in 1521 & even laid siege to Vienna for a time
Suleiman
Dixia Cheng, a sprawling network of tunnels in Beijing, is aka the "Underground" this other landmark
Great Wall
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1950-51 in the Alps was the "Winter of Terror" as these disasters destroyed buildings & killed more than 200 people
avalanches
He didn't let a little thing like the military forcing him to quit stop him for long; he was back as Argentina's president in 1973
Juan Perón
Named for a capital of Ancient Egypt, this city is on a bluff on the Mississippi River's east bank
Memphis
Since the 16th c. Ottoman sultans have claimed this 6-letter religious title, passed down to followers of Muhammad
caliph
Honoring a Santa Monica newspaper publisher, the McClure Tunnel takes you north on this scenic highway aka Highway 1
the Pacific Coast Highway
The Vatican had second thoughts about its treatment of heretic Giordano Bruno--400 years after he was executed this way
burned at the stake
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Hamid Karzai was president of this country from 2002 to 2014
Afghanistan
Part of what locals call the Metroplex, this Texas city was founded as an army post in 1849
Fort Worth
In 1923 this man, real name Mustafa Kemal, came into power after Turkey's sultanate was abolished
Atatürk
The world's highest vehicular tunnel is on I-70, 60 miles west of this state capital
Denver
A secret Sicilian group fighting foreign invaders may be the origin of this notorious criminal group
the mafia (aka "the mob", aka "la famiglia", aka "la cosa nostra")