Locals & Geography Flashcards
Arnhem
Site of 1944 British defeat. The Battle of Arnhem was a famous Second World War military engagement fought in and around the Dutch towns of Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Wolfheze, Driel and the surrounding countryside from 17–26 September 1944.
Aare
Swiss river, Rhine tributary
Avia
Shoe company, Adidas competitor
One A
Classification of fit for duty
Alcoa
Aluminum maker
Oran
Algerian port
Otos
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Nebraska along the Platte River, with present-day descendants living with the Missouri in north-central Oklahoma.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Siouan language of the Oto, dialectally related to Iowa.
Alph
Alph River, a river in Antarctica
Alph Lake, a lake in Antarctica
Alph Lyla, the in-house band of video game developer Capcom
A fictional river (sacred) mentioned in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alph, a character from the video game Luminous Arc
Freya
In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse the “Lady”) is a goddess associated with love, sexuality, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi. Along with her brother Freyr (Old Norse the “Lord”), her father Njörðr, and her mother (Njörðr’s sister, unnamed in sources), she is a member of the Vanir. Stemming from Old Norse Freyja, modern forms of the name include Freya, Frejya, Freyia, Frøya, Frøjya, and Freia.
Cadiz
Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of Cádiz province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia.
Bataan
a peninsula on W Luzon, in the Philippines: U.S. troops surrendered to Japanese April 9, 1942.
Ba·taán .
