European History
Since 1930, this city (not Constantinople) has been the gateway from Asia Minor to Europe proper
If you see blank lines or indentations in a poem, they're probably setting off lines into this kind of group
What is a stanza?
President Benjamin Harrison purposely shuffled the papers granting statehood to these two prairie states so that no one - not even him - would know which was signed first
What are North and South Dakota?
Napoleon's course of power in France took it along the same journey as Ancient Rome, transitioning from a republic to this more autocratic form of government
What is empire?
A red Swingline 646 one featured prominently in the movie Office Space
What is stapler?
The border between North and South Korea runs near the 38th parallel of latitude and is surrounded by a 4-kilometer-wide buffer called this - DMZ for short
What is the Demilitarized Zone?
The Albigensian and Livonian instances of this kind of medieval holy war targeted pagans and heretics in Europe - no need for a lengthy journey to the Holy Land
What is a crusade?
This bacterial infection becomes significantly more dangerous when it migrates from its home on skin into a cut or abrasion
What is staph?
In colonial times, Zambia and Zimbabwe were known as Northern and Southern this, named after a diamond magnate with a controversial legacy
What is Rhodesia?
Pivotal events in the modern history of this country include 2004's Orange Revolution and the 2013-2014 Euromaidan protests
What is Ukraine?
Fire hydrants aren't quite as practical in densely-built cities, so multi-story buildings often include this kind of water system that serves the same purpose
What is a standpipe?
This Caribbean nation spent its first decades of independence split between a predominantly Black North and a South with more mixed ancestry
What is Haiti?
This family that ruled Florence for centuries included such luminaries as Piero the Gouty and Piero the Unfortunate - and also Lorenzo, Catherine, some Popes, etc.
What is Medici?
Big Boi and André 3000 followed up ATLiens and Aquemini with this 2000 Outkast album featuring "Ms. Jackson", their first Billboard #1 single
What is Stankonia?
The population in the one-time North Vietnam is concentrated in the Red River Delta; down South, it's this river's delta that settlement has predominantly centered around