MONEY
This future monarch was just an 8-year-old princess in 1935 when Canada became the first country to feature her on its currency
Queen Elizabeth II
This country adopted the U.S. dollar as its paper currency in 1904, as a certain construction project was picking up steam
Panama
If you want to see a really old bridge, head to this city & check out the Pons Fabricius, which is still in use
Rome
On June 10, 1692 Bridget Bishop was the first of 19 hanged in this village, on a spot that got the name Gallows Hill
Salem
With 45,000 square feet of retail space, the Mile High Comics Jason Street Megastore
Denver
After a treasury official put himself on a 5-cent bill, outcry led to a new 1866 rule: to be on U.S. money, you had to be this
Dead
El Castillo is the dominant structure at Xunantunich, a site in Belize featuring ruins of this civilization
Mayans
The Rio-Niterói Bridge spans Guanabara Bay & links Niterói to this city of 6.2 million
Rio de Janeiro
This term refers to both the region of the Great Plains & the drought that plagued the area in the 1930s
the Dust Bowl
Thought to have been built around 1862, the Bayou St. John Confederate submarine
Baton Rouge
New Zealand's $5 banknote features Aoraki, the nation's highest peak, next to this native son who first climbed Aoraki in 1948
Hillary
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In 1979 decades of dictatorship by Nicaragua's Somoza family ended with a revolution led by this rebel coalition
Sandinistas
The Salu & Akmens Bridges help Latvians get from here to there in this venerable city
Riga
More than 50 cases of this disease were attributed to Mary Mallon, a domestic worker
typhoid
The casino at this New England state capitol's Roger Williams Park is not that type of casino--more of an event hall & meeting place
Providence
Switzerland uses this unit & its notes illustrate Swiss qualities like organizational talent
the (Swiss) franc
This disputed strip of land on the Caribbean Sea was a British protectorate until 1860, when it was ceded to Nicaragua
the Mosquito Coast
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Locals in this city call it De Zwaan, but the rest of us know it as the Erasmus Bridge, named for a homegrown scholar
Rotterdam
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This event that took place September 2-6, 1666 had Christians spooked because of the whole 666 thing
the Great Fire of London
One of this desert city's top 10 things to do--hike Camelback Mountain, via Echo Canyon or the Cholla Trail
Phoenix
This country's 200 peso note honors the martyred Mirabal sisters, who led a resistance movement against dictator Rafael Trujillo
The Dominican Republic
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Over 85% of El Salvador's pop. belongs to this ethnic group defined as having a mix of European & indigenous ancestry
mestizo
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Northwest of Paris you'll find the Gustave Flaubert Lift Bridge in this port city
Rouen
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About 200 years after the event, Brijen Gupta wrote that some 64 people (not 146) entered this in Calcutta, with 21 surviving
the Black Hole
Home to a fabled vessel, the U.S.S. Constitution Museum
Boston
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