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On Columbus' first transatlantic voyage, this ship in the fleet of 3 made it to the New World, but not back to the old
the Santa Maria
St. Barthélemy, & St. George's Cay
the Caribbean
Saying "mount" & adding "yama" to the name of this highest Japanese peak is redundant--"yama" means mountain
Mt. Fuji
Some of the greatest loss of life during this war came from the third clash near the city of Ypres in West Flanders
WWI
In 1985 a peak on the border of this California national park was named for the late Ansel Adams
Yosemite
Formed in 43 B.C., the Second Roman Triumvirate was made up of Marcus Lepidus, Mark Antony & this future emperor
Augustus (Octavian)
Delos, Naxos & Patmos
the Aegean
In 1922 the area of this Welsh capital was expanded to include that of Llandaff
Cardiff
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William the Conqueror & Harold II duked it out near Hastings in October of this year
1066
Mount Chelia in northern Algeria is the highest of the Aures Mountains, a part of this greater system
the Atlas Mountains
As Lenin faded from power, this man formed a troika with Zinoviev & Kamenev & you'll never guess what he later did to Zin & Kam
Stalin
Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, ravaged by Vikings in the 8th century
the North Sea
The Blue Mosque is across the way from the Hagia Sophia in this city
Istanbul
It's said the Battle of Pelusium between the Persian Empire & the 26th Dynasty of this kingdom was won by the clever use of cats
Egypt
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In 1983 authorities used dynamite in an effort to divert lava flows during a 4-month eruption of this Sicilian volcano
Mount Etna
The clergy, the nobility & the people were France's 3 of these representative divisions before the Revolution
the estates
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Nunivak Island & the Pribilof Islands
the Bering Sea
In its own language, the official name of this landlocked country of Transcaucasia is Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun
Armenia
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Also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, this Sept. 17, 1862 clash was the Civil War's bloodiest one-day conflict
Antietam
This mountain range forms an arc from the Danube gap near Bratislava to the Iron Gate near Orsova, Romania
the Carpathians
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3 countries were involved in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific & this nation lost its access to that ocean as a result
Bolivia
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Bulgaria's St. Anastasia Island & Turkey's Giresun Island
the Black Sea
This strait lies between the North & South Islands of New Zealand
The Cook Strait
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In 202 B.C. Scipio Africanus got one over on Hannibal at this end-of-the-alphabet clash that ended the 2nd Punic War
the Battle of Zama
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This 19,551-foot Canadian peak towers about 14,000 feet above the Seward glacier in the Yukon
Mount Logan
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