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22 Cards in this Set
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Home of the Renaissance, Po River, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Sicily, pizza and Mount Vesuvius
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Italy
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Land of the Midnight Sun, fjords, Land of Fire and Ice, reindeer and igloos
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Scandinavia
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Rock of Gibraltor, Cortez, Valencia oranges, Pyrenees, matadors
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Spain
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Land of the Reformation, divided after WWII, Black Forrest, and Bavarian Alps, Adolf Hitler
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Germany
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Be able to identify the capitals of: Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Switzerland
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Australia-Canberra; Austria-Vienna; Finland-Helsinki; Germany-Berlin; Italy-Rome; New Zealand-Wellington; Norway-Oslo; Poland-Warsaw; Russia-Moscow; Switzerland-Bern
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William Tell, Heidi, The Swiss Family Robinson, International Red Cross, Bern
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Switzerland
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marsupials
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"Land Down Under" Australia
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tundra, Copenhagen, Hans Christian Anderson, Stockholm, hot springs, Oslo, fishing
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Scandinavia
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Roald Amundsen, Vinson Massif
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Antarctica
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"Land Below Sea Level", dikes, wooden shoes, windmills, Amsterdam, tulips
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Netherlands
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Richard Byrd, glaciers and iceberts, continent "at the bottom of the world"
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Antarctice
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Rome, Leonardo da Vinci, Vatican, volcanoes, Mussolini, Sardinia, Tiber
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Italy
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world's smallest continent, Great Dividing Range, Great Barrier Reef
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Australia "Land Down Under"
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John G. Patton, 20,000-30,000 islands, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia
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Oceania
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"Land Down Under", Aborigines, Mt. Kosciusko
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Australia
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Cortez, columbus, de Soto, and Balboa were noted
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explorers
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Tolstoy, Dostoesvsky, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn were famous Russian
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writers
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Raphael, Michelangelo, and da Vinci were famous Italian
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painters
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Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Ceausescu were famous
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Communist leaders
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Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Alexander II were famous Russian
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czars
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Be able to locate the following on a map.
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Amsterdam, Bern, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid
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Be able to identify the following capitals of these countries:
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Hungary, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
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