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129 Cards in this Set
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Finland
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Helsinki
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Starts w/ H
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France
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Paris
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Belgium
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Brussels
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Same first letter
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Spain
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Madrid
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Portugal
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Lisbon
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The Netherlands
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Amsterdam
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Kendall!
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Germany
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Berlin
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B
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Norway
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Oslo
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O
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Sweden
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Stockholm
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Same first letter
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Switzerland
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Bern
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B
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Italy
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Rome
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R
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Austria
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Vienna
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V
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Denmark
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Copenhagen
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C
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Iceland
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Reykjavik
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R
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Luxembourg
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Luxembourg
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L
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What are the two islands off the coast of Italy?
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Sicily & Sardinia
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SS
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Wrote the children's book "Heidi."
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Johanna Spyri
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Spy Kids
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Wrote "Swiss Family Robinson"
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Johann Wyss
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Rearrange the letters of "Swiss"
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Founded the International Red Cross, first person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
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Dunant
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The "ant" climbed the "dunes" to plant the red cross
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The "Hero of Swiss Liberty"
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William Tell
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Rhymes with (Liberty) BELL
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Cheese, chocolate, watches & music boxes
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Switzerland
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swiss watches
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Mountains of Switzerland
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Alps
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A country that has no seacoast
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"Land-locked"
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Nations that have a policy against fighting in wars
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"Neutral"
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Favorite destination for daring mountain climbers
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Matterhorn
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Famous tower in Paris
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Eiffel
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French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River
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Cartier
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also a well known watch
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French Scientist who taught the importance of protecting the body from germs
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Louis Pasteur
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We do this to milk
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French scientist who discovered radium
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Madame Curie
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a woman
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Young French peasant burned at the stake for helping France defeat England
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Joan of Arc
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a girl, TV show named after her
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American silversmith whose family were French Huguenots
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Paul Revere
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PR
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Leader of the Protestant Reformation in France
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John Calvin
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has a stuffed tiger named Hobbes
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French war hero from WWII who set up the Fifth Republic
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General Charles de Gaulle
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a general
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Highest mountain peak in the Alps
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Mont Blanc
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It's so high, we can't see it. The sky looks BLANK
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Leader of the Nazi party in Germany during WWII
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Hitler
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very bad man
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German musician, "Father of Modern Music"
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Bach
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scratch my father's BACK
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German musician who wrote "The Messiah"
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Handel
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Can you handle singing The Messiah?
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German musician who wrote music even after he turned deaf
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Beethoven
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Beets can't hear
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German who was one of the greatest scientists ever
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Einstein
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If someone is dumb, you might say, being sarcastic, "Way to go, ..." Also, the dog on "Back to the Future"
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Germany is often called...
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Land of the Reformation
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"Land of the . . . (Because that's where Martin Luther is from)
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German city that was divided after WWII
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Berlin
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Capital city
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Europe's most important inland waterway
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Rhine
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Rhinos are very important
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Europe's 2nd longest river
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Danube
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Danny is the 2nd longest one in our family
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Europe's longest river
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Volga
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Starts with a V
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Spanish bullfighters
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"Matadors"
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Picture Uncle Matt fighting a bull
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First explorer to sail around the world
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Magellan
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That's why GPS locators in your car have this brand name
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The peninsula of Spain & Portugal
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Iberian
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Starts with I
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The mountains that divide Spain from the rest of Europe
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Pyrenees
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Spain is separated from Europe by a "pair of knees"
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The body of water between the Iberian Peninsula and Africa
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Strait of Gibraltar
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the Rock of __________
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Huge swamp in southern Spain
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The Tidelands
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Starts with T
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Region of Spain known for its oranges
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Valencia
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Starts with V
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The only country that borders Portugal
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Spain
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Starts with S
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Capital of Greece
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Athens
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Where the last Olympics were held
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Italian artist who painted the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"
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da Vinci
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The _______ Code
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Italian artist who painted the Sistine Chapel
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Michelangelo
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"Mike" painted "angels" on the ceiling
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First European to travel all the way across Asia
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Marco Polo
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maybe he swam across Asia, shouting his name as he went?
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Great Italian scientist who proved that the earth revolves around the sun
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Galileo
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Think of a Queen song
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"Home of the Renaissance"
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Italy
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That's why it's called the Italian Renaissance
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Leaning Tower of
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Pisa
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not pizza!
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Italian city known for its canals and gondolas
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Venice
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Starts with V
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Mainland Europe's only active volcano
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Mt. Vesuvius
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V is for Volcano
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Fascist leader of Italy during WWII
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Mussolini
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He went so fast his hair got "mussed" up
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After the Pilgrims left England, they spent several years here before leaving for the New World
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the Netherlands
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"Never" mind, king, we're leaving to another "land"
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Another name for The Netherlands -- a country famous for flowers, windmills and lowlands
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Holland
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starts w/ H
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The people of the Netherlands
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Dutch
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the "Duchess" of Neverland
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A dam-like barrier made of earth and stone
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dike
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i rode by BIKE across the dam
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Long, narrow inlet of the sea with high, rocky banks
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fjord
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kinda sounds like a make of car
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Temporary shelter made of ice blocks
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igloo
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eskimos sometimes live in them
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"Land of the Midnight Sun"
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Norway
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No WAY! the sun is still up?
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"Land of Fire and Ice"
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Iceland
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ICE is a big hint
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This country owns Greenland
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Denmark
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Mark owns Greenland?!
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The world's largest island
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Greenland
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The large, green island
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Nomadic people in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, who herd reindeer
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Lapps
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The reindeer have to run laps to stay in shape
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Permanently frozen ground
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permafrost
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PERMAnently FROzen
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The far northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and the interior of Iceland are _____ regions
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Tundra
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Europe is known as the ...
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"Birthplace of Western Civilization"
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birthplace of ...
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Two types of governments in Eastern Europe
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Republics and Constitutional Monarchies
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What the US is, and a country with a king or queen
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The 5 peninsulas of Europe
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Scandinavian (Norway & Sweden)
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Sam Just Invited A Baby (S - J - I - A - B)
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High, broad arid plateau that covers most of Spain (Spanish for "plateau")
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Meseta
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Starts w/ M
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Two main exports of Spain
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oranges and olives
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both start w/ O
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Spanish author who wrote "Don Quixote"
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Cervantes
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Starts w/ C
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King of Spain
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Juan Carlos
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Has the same initials as Jesus Christ, the King of the Jews
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Spanish explorer who discovered the New World
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Columbus
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usually credited with discovering "America"
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Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean
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Balboa
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He was a "bald snake"
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First Spaniard to land on the mainland of North America
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Ponce De Leon
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Landed in St. Augustine, a county in Florida is named after him
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Spanish explorer who conquered Mexico for Spain
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Cortez
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Last name of the Spy Kids
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Spanish explorer who founded Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Mendoza
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and then he DOZED off
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Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River
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DeSoto
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There is lots of SODA in the Mississippi
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Spanish explorer who founded the city of St. Augustine, Florida
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Menendez
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Starts with M
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Very important Portugese seaport
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Oporto
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Sounds like "port"
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The Age of Discovery was started by Portugal's King John I. His son, ______, led the way in the great age of exploration.
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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He navigated his way over the sea
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First European to sail to India by going around Africa
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Vasco de Gama
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It was all a GAME to him
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Northern Italian valley drained by the Po River
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Po Valley
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sounds Chinese, the answer is in the question
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Europe's highest active volcano
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Mr. Etna
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also the name of an insurance company (spelled differently) -- don't confuse this with the mainlands only active volcano, Vesuvius
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Form of government that lets people keep their private propert but takes away their freedoms
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Fascism
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It's a FAST way to take away freedom
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Independent state that is world headquarters for the Roman Catholic Church, in Rome
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Vatican City
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Picture the Pope sitting in a vat of holy water
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World's largest Catholic church building
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St. Peter's Basilica
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Named after one of the Apostles
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boats used to transport people around the city of venice
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gondola
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Picture Gonzo in a boat
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Largest Greek island
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Crete
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Sounds a lot like the word "Greek" but starts with a C
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Europe's highest peak
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Elbrus
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My elbow sticks up higher than the rest of my arm
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Queen who was beheaded during the French Revolution
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Queen Antoinette
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Pretty name, starts with A
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Reformed Protestants in France
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Huguenots
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Big people
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Movement in France where philosophers challenged authority, government and religion
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The Enlightenment
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turn the light on
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French philosophers who were part of the Enlightenment movement -- taught that man must apply human reasoning to all areas of human life (humanism)
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Voltaire and Rousseau
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V & R
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One of history's most ruthless dictators, who ruled France after the French Revolution overturned the monarchy
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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often pictured with a big hat and his hand stuck into his vest -- he was "dynamite"!
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A person who believes that business and industry should be taken away from individual owners and given to the government
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Socialist
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They are very social people
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Famous cathedral in Paris
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Notre Dame
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There is no hunchback there
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Largest art museum in the world
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The Louvre
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I LOVE Art!
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Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Strauss were all composers who lived and performed in this capital city
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Vienna
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capital of Austria
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Country that ruled Germany during the 1600's - 1700's
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Prussia
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Sounds like Russia
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Famous king of Prussia who made Prussia a world power in the 1700's
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Frederick the Great
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But you can call him Fred
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Emperor of Germany is called the "____"
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"Kaiser"
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a roll (and a King in My Favorite Year!)
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Another name for Nazi's
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National Socialist Party
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NSP
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Two sides of World War II
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Allies and Axis
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Both start with A
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Wall which the communists built to separate Communist East Germany from free West Germany.
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Berlin Wall
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named after the city where it was built
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Large forest in Germany that is the imaginary home of many storybook characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Hansel & Gretel.
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Black Forest
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there is a cake named after this forest -- opposite of (snow) WHITE
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What the Dutch used to pump water out from behind the dikes
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windmills
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uses wind power
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Father of Dutch Liberties
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William the Silent, the Prince of Orange
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Bill is quiet when he eats his free dutch oranges
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wooden shoes worn by the Dutch
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klompen
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the sound they make when you walk around on wood
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"One of the best books about Holland ever written" -- even though it was written by an American
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"Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates"
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it's about skates
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Fierce warriors who lived on the Scandinavian peninsula
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Vikings
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Now they live in Minnesota!
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The world's largest lake
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Caspian
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Think of a famous cartoon ghost
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Wrote many children's stories like "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Snow Queen"
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Hans Christian Anderson
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Was probably a CHRISTIAN
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Most of the tundra is north of the Arctic Circle in the ______ ____
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Frigid Zone
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Which is where our reFRIGerator gets its name
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An area of low, wet, soft land
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marsh, swamp or bog
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the Everglades is one of these
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A point on the mountain where it is so cold, trees can't grow there
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Timber Line
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Justin's last name -- he can't grow trees
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Used to be called Eskimos, people who live in the tundra of Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and Canada
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Inuit
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I knew it!
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Three main language groups of Europe
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Romance, Germanic and Slavik
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Those romantic Germans slobber all over the place!
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The 3 main international languages
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English, Spanish and French
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Two are spoken frequently here in the states, the other is international because the people there refuse to learn English
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