WORLD HISTORY
This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War
Cuba
It's the official language of Myanmar
Burmese
The Copan stelae are the major source for scholars' growing understanding of Mayan writing; though we associate this term with picture writing, each symbol had a word associated with it, too
hieroglyphics
Article III of the Constitution says they "shall hold their offices during good behaviour"--basically, for life
Supreme Court Justices
Hydra & Zakynthos are 2 of the around 200 inhabited islands of this European nation
Greece
Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power
Peter the Great
Quinine & quinoa are words derived from this South American language
Quechua
Many cultures have valued tiny feet, but none as much as this country, the source of the shoe here; already tiny, they sometimes had lifts in back to raise the heel so the foot was even tinier
The president and his top advisors manage crises in the White House's John F. Kennedy Conference Room, best known as this
the Situation room
Term for the line of latitude approximately 23 1/2 degrees north of the equator
the Tropic of Cancer
In 1475 at Picquigny Edward IV & Louis XI agreed to a truce that seems to be holding in this war
100 year war
This country that shares an island with Indonesia has about 850 separate languages
Papua New Guinea
With this belief in the return to earth of the departed, the ofrenda, or altar, that honors deceased loved ones & welcomes them back for a visit is part of the Mesoamerican influence on this autumn day celebrated in Mexico
Day of the Dead
It's the "D" in the foreign assistance agency USAID; JFK created it & told its first mission directors, no work is more important
development
With about 15 million people, it's Canada's most populous province
Ontario
In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler
Hirohito
Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized
Basque
The people of relatively isolated Pacific islands relied on canoes; according to the first Europeans to visit these biblically named islands, they could catch Spanish sailing ships that had a 6-mile head start
Solomon Islands
Formed in 1942, it struck a balance between the Army & the Navy; Generals Marshall & Arnold & Admirals Leahy & King were members
the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Built in the 14th century, Sankore Mosque is found in this historic city of Mali
Timbuktu
This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah
Sufism
Hindi & this language named for a region are the 2 most spoken first languages in India
Bengali
1 of only 7 surviving Indian artifacts positively linked to Lewis & Clark is a bear claw necklace; Lewis wrote, "It was worn by those who esteemed themselves brave" among these people to whom Sacagawea belonged
Shoshone
John Kerry & Joe Biden are past chairs of this Senate committee that shapes international policy
the Foreign Relations Committee
It's from Chinese for "fragrant harbor" & in the 1840s it was ceded to the British
Hong Kong