U.S. Cities & Landmarks Flashcards
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Cemetery/memorial chain in southern California
Glendale, Long Beach, & Beverly Hills locations
Many celebrities are buried there
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FOREST LAWN
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Massachusetts town named (incorrectly) for local granite
Site of Elbridge Gerry house
Abbott Hall, which houses Wilard’s “Spirit of ‘76”
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MARBLEHEAD
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Wisconsin city
French for “root”
Home to S.C. Johnson (Wax) HQ designed by F. L. Wright
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RACINE
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National park in Arizona, in the Painted Desert
Fossilized plants
Setting & title of a Bogart film where he plays Duke Mantee
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PETRIFIED FOREST
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Utah national park since 1919
Named because it was “Heaven on Earth”
Last national park alphabetically
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ZION
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Utah national park
Named for settler Ebenezer & its formations
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BRYCE CANYON
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Illinois city where Joseph Smith was killed in 1844
Same name as a Phoenician city
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CARTHAGE
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Area in the New York Catskills
Where Jewish families vacationed, source of comedians
Named for soup
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BORSCHT BELT
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Erasmus Hall High is located in Flatbush in this borough
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BROOKLYN
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Island in the San Francisco Bay
Had the first west coast lighthouse
“Isle of Pelicans”
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ALCATRAZ
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“America’s Devil’s Island”
Held Capone in the 1930s
Closed in 1963
Site of a Red Power protest in 1969
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ALCATRAZ
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Island in Puget Sound, Washington state
Begins with a B
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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND
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River in Washington state
Tributary of Columbia
Named for a local tribe
Also a city & valley where most of US’s hops are grown
Also produces some wine
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YAKIMA
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Utah national park
Named for settler Ebenezer & its formations
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BRYCE CANYON
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Utah national park since 1919
Named by Mormons, “Heaven on Earth”
Last park alphabetically
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ZION
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Arizona national park
Fossilized plants
Part of the Painted Desert
Setting of a Bogart film
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PETRIFIED FOREST
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Vegas hotel inspired by Italy’s Lake Como resorts
Housed the fine art collection of Steve Wynn
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THE BELLAGIO
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Vegas hotel since 1966
In 1967, Evel Knievel crashed outside it
Celine, Elton, & Cher have done stints
Has a “Colosseum”, “Appian Way Shopping”, & “Cleopatra’s Barge” club
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CAESAR’S PALACE
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Vegas hotel
Tallest building west of Mississippi (>1000 feet)
Roller coaster & rides on top
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THE STRAT(OSPHERE)
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Oregon’s highest point
Located in the Cascades, east of Portland
Has “Pearly Gates” and a “National Forest”
Named for a British admiral
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MOUNT HOOD
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“Artsy” desert in Arizona
Includes Petrified Forest National Park
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PAINTED DESERT
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Highest point of Rocky Mountains
Highest point of Colorado
2nd highest point in the contiguous states (after Whitney)
Part of the Sawatch Range
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MOUNT ELBERT
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Most active volcano in Hawaii (and the world)
Name means “spewing”
Southeast of Mauna Loa
Supposedly home to fire goddess Pele
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KILAUEA
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Largest volcano in Hawaii (and the world)
Name means “long”
Covers half of the Big Island
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MAUNA LOA
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Tallest peak in Hawaii
Dormant volcano
Name means "white" due to its snowy peak
Site of observatories
MAUNA KEA
(MAUNA A WAKEA)
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Airport in D.C. area, Virginia
Named for a 1950s secretary of state
WASHINGTON DULLES (IAD)
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New York airport built in 1948
Now called JFK
IDLEWILD (IDL)
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Hudson River waterway
Name of a 1955 bridge (replaced by the Mario Cuomo Bridge in 2017)
Near Tarrytown
TAPPAN ZEE
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Washington state inlet
Spanned by Tacoma Narrows bridge
Location of Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia
Bainbridge Island & Whidbey Island sit in it
Also name of a university
Source of Olympia oysters
PUGET SOUND
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The penitentiary of this state is also called "Angola" or "Alcatraz of the South"
Former plantation, now the biggest max-security prison in U.S.
LOUISIANA
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Auburn Hills is a city in this state
MICHIGAN
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Neighbourhood of Miami, Florida named for a Caribbean capital
LITTLE HAVANA
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Alaska's largest city
Site of a 1964 earthquake
Home to Ted Stevens Airport
Name refers to a good mooring spot
ANCHORAGE
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New Mexico national monument
Name comes from Greek, "rock carving"
PETROGLYPH NATIONAL MONUMENT
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California's "Surf City"
Named for rail magnate Henry
Oil spill in 2021
HUNTINGTON BEACH
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Name for old west cemeteries
Especially for those who died in gunfights
Dodge City, Kansas
Deadwood, South Dakota
Tombstone, Arizon
BOOT HILL
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Missouri city on the Mississippi
Boyhood home of Mark Twain
Home of Shoeless Joe in the musical "Damn Yankees!"
HANNIBAL
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Open-air L.A. Hills amphitheater since 1919
Summer home of L.A. Philharmonic
Easter sunrise service
2-day Playboy Jazz Festival (since 1979)
HOLLYWOOD BOWL
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Library in San Marino, California
Hosts paintings "Blue Boy" & "Pinkie"
Named for rail magnate Henry
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
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Louisiana's largest lake (estuary)
Named in 1699 for Louis XIV's marine minister
Also called Okwata
Located near New Orleans
One of the longest causeways over water, 24 miles
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN
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Arizona city
Home of the OK Corral & Boot Hill
Site of a 1881 gunfight between the Earps & Clantons
Newspaper is "The Epitaph"
TOMBSTONE
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National cemetery in Virginia
Run by the US Army
Built on Robert E Lee's estate in 1864
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
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Site at Arlington National Cemetery
Built 1921-1932
Hourly changing of the guard
For those "Known but to God"
TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
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Virginia location
Graves of 2 presidents (Taft & JFK, who has an eternal flame)
Peary & Henson buried there
The mast of the Maine
Challenger & Columbia memorials
Iwo Jima monument
Memorial Amphitheater
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
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Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood
Otis Redding & others have recorded "Live at..." this place
WHISKY A GO GO
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Montana national park named for ice formations
On the Canadian border
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
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Alaskan national park
Named for formations, including one named for Muir
GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK
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Alaskan glacier near Juneau
Also called "Auk" or "Sit"
MENDENHALL GLACIER
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Yukon mountain
Canada's highest peak
North America's 2nd (after Denali)
Named for Canadian geologist William Edmond
MOUNT LOGAN
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National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is located on this site where MLK Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray in 1968
LORRAINE MOTEL
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LA neighbourhood
Where Reagan died of pneumonia, 2004
Also a Chevrolet model
Setting of "The Fresh Prince of..."
BEL-AIR
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Beverly Hills street
Intersects with Sunset Boulevard
Famed for expensive shopping, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the "Walk of Style", and its Father's Day Car Show
RODEO DRIVE
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Tennessee city on the Mississippi River
De Soto Bridge
Chickasaw Bluffs
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Beale Street
MEMPHIS
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Home of NBA's Grizzlies & FedEx HQ
Pyramid Arena
Site of a 1968 sanitation strike, during which MLK Jr. was killed at the Lorraine Motel (Now the National Civil Rights Museum)
MEMPHIS
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Children's research hospital in Memphis, Tennessee
Founded by Danny Thomas
ST. JUDE
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Area of Pennsylvania named for a railroad
MAIN LINE
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Mansion of Asheville, North Carolina
Largest house in the U.S.
Built by the Vanderbilts
BILTMORE
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Mansion of Newport, Rhode Island
Built by the Vanderbilts
THE BREAKERS
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Whitefish is a city in this state
MONTANA
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Whitefish Bay is located in this lake, between the state of Michigan and province of Ontario
SUPERIOR
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US Air Force facility 90 miles from Vegas in Nevada's Mojave desert
Subject of many a conspiracy theory
AREA 51
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City in San Bernardino County, California
Next to Joshua Tree National Park
A number and a tree
TWENTYNINE PALMS
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National park in California's Mojave desert
Named for vegetation
JOSHUA TREE
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Texas river
From Spanish, "Arms of God"
Cities include Waco & Washington(-on-the...)
(RIO de los) BRAZOS (de DIO)
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River of New Hampshire & Massachusetts
Cities include Concord, New Hampshire & Manchester, New Hampshire
Tributaries include the Concord & the Nashua
Namesake of a ship
MERRIMACK
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Texas city on the Brazos
Home of Baylor University
Where Dr. Pepper was invented 1885
In 1993, Branch Davidians & Feds had a 51-day standoff, after which 75 were dead
WACO
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City where the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed
Name includes the river (to distinguish it from "on-the-Potomac")
WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS
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New Hampshire's largest city
On the Merrimack River
Renamed in 1810 (previously Derryfield) for an English city
Stop for candidates in the New Hampshire primaries
MANCHESTER
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Massachusetts town
Additional words distinguish it from the same-named cities of New Hampshire & England
Setting of a Kenneth Lonergan film
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA
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Volcano in north California Cascades
Also name of a lake, a county, and a soda
MOUNT SHASTA
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National park on Maine's coast
Partially on Mount Desert Island
Easternmost national park
1st alphabetically
ACADIA
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National park in New Mexico
Near Las Cruces
Named for dunes of gypsum (calcium sulfate)
Also a NASA facility & a US Army missile range
WHITE SANDS
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National park in Texas on the Rio Grande
In the Chihuahuan Desert
Alliterative
BIG BEND
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The "Bluegrass State"
KENTUCKY
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Vegas hotel & casino with a double-talk name
Opened 1968
Has an "Adventuredome" and a "Midway"
Carnival theme
CIRCUS, CIRCUS
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Vegas hotel & casino with a double-talk name
Has a "Broadway Theater", "Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs", "Coyote Ugly" bar, a Statue of Liberty, and a roller coaster
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
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Vegas hotel & casino
Has a "Palazzo" next door and restaurants named "Canaletto" & "Valentino"
THE VENETIAN
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Vegas hotel & casino
Has a half-scale (540 ft.) Eiffel Tower and a "Rendezvous Lounge"
PARIS
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USA's tallest mountain (>20,000 ft)
National park in Alaska
In 1980 name was changed from a president to an Athabascan word
Also Palin's secret service codename & a GMC pickup
DENALI
(formerly MCKINLEY)
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New Hampshire mountains
Highest range in northeastern U.S.
Includes Presidential Range & Bretton Woods
WHITE MOUNTAINS
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Tallest mountain in New Hampshire (and in northeastern U.S.)
Part of the Presidential Range
Has a cog rail & an observatory
Site of Bretton Woods conference
MOUNT WASHINGTON
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Part of the White Mountains
Includes Mount Washington, Mount Adams, & Mount Jefferson
PRESIDENTIAL RANGE
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Alliterative mountain of the Colorado Rockies
Named for explorer Zebulon
"... or bust" - popular gold rush slogan
PIKE'S PEAK
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Active volcano in Washington's Cascades
Named for Lord, friend of Vancouver
Known as "Loowit" in Klickitat
1980 eruption killed 57 & closed Washington State University
MOUNT ST. HELENS
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Highest mountain in Washington state and in the Cascades
Near Seattle
Highest volcano in contiguous U.S.
Circled by Wonderland Trail
In 1947 saw reports of "flying saucers" (first known use of the term)
MOUNT RAINIER
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Active volcano in the Cascades
Also a national park
Located in California's Shasta County
LASSEN PEAK
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Highest point in contiguous U.S. (~14,500 ft.)
Named for geologist Josiah Dwight
Located near Death Valley in California's Sierra Nevada
MOUNT WHITNEY
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National Park in California
Lowest point in North America
Driest point in U.S.
Can reach temperatures above 100F
Includes Funeral Mountains & Badwater Basin
20-mule teams would haul borax
DEATH VALLEY
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Endorheic (no outlets) watershed area covering most of Nevada, about half of Utah, and parts of California and Oregon
Between Wasatch Range (Rockies) & Sierra Nevada
Includes Mojave Desert, Great Salt Lake, Death Valley
Adjacent to Colorado River
GREAT BASIN
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Mostly underground, intermittent river of Southern California
San Bernardino County
Shares its name with a desert & people
MOJAVE RIVER
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Desert of southern Nevada & California
Named for a people of the Colorado River
Shares name with an intermittent underground river
Includes Area 51, Las Vegas, Joshua Tree National Park, Death Valley, & the city of Needles
MOJAVE DESERT
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Desert that includes parts of Texas, New Mexico, & Arizona, as well as northern Mexico
Covers part of same-named Mexican state
Reaches from the Rio Grande and White Sands National Park in the north to the state of Zacatecas in the south
Canine name
CHIHUAHUA(N) DESERT
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Desert of Arizona, California, Baja California, Baja California Sur, & same-named Mexican state
Colorado River flows through it to the Gulf of California
Home to Saguaro cactus & Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West
SONORA(N) DESERT
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Scientific establishment in San Diego County
Operated by CalTech
Houses Hale Telescope, completed in 1949, with a 200 inch pyrex lens
PALOMAR OBSERVATORY
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Scientific establishment in Pasadena, CA
Located on a mountain named for George Patton's grandfather
MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY
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California city (shares name with a Texas city)
Home to CalTech, JPL, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Rose Bowl, Norton Simon Museum, & the 1999 women's world cup
PASADENA
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Biggest city on Hawai'i (Big Island)
HILO
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New Jersey city
Site of 1804 Burr-Hamilton duel
Connects to midtown Manhattan via Lincoln Tunnel since 1937
WEEHAWKEN
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Indiana city
Named for salt deposits
Home of "hick" Larry Bird
FRENCH LICK
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Begun 1920, finished 1927
Under Hudson
Connects lower Manhattan (Hudson Square) with Jersey City, New Jersey
Named for engineer Clifford, who died in 1924
Ventilated
HOLLAND TUNNEL
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Opened 1937
Under Hudson
Connects midtown Manhattan (Hell's Kitchen) with Weehawken, New Jersey
Part of Macy's parade route
LINCOLN TUNNEL
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Avenue Between Park & 3rd
Has Chrysler Building & Bloomingdales
LEXINGTON AVENUE
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Tributary of Ohio River
South Kentucky & north Tennessee
Nashville is on it
Also a Falls in Kentucky
CUMBERLAND RIVER
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Runs between Manhattan and the Bronx
Connects Hudson to East River
Shares name with a neighbourhood
HARLEM RIVER
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National park
Includes Kilauea & Mauna Loa
HAWAI'I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
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National park
Bay separates Miami & Miami Beach
Northernmost part of Florida Keys
Also name of a boulevard in Miami
BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK
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National park in Florida
Named for sea turtles by Ponce de Leon
West of Key West
Includes Fort Jefferson, a prison
DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK
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National park in Florida, est. 1947
Large subtropical swamp
"River of Grass"
Historic home of Seminole
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK
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Kentucky's 2nd largest city
Named for a 1775 Massachusetts battle
Known for horse breeding, Henry Clay, Mt. Lincoln
Home to U. of Kentucky & Transylvania U.
LEXINGTON
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Virginia city
Location of Washington & Lee U. & the VMI
LEXINGTON
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Massachusetts city
Site of the first confrontation of the Revolutionary War
LEXINGTON
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Massachusetts city northwest of Boston
"Minuteman" statue commemorates second battle of the Revolution
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - burial place of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, & Henry David Thoreau
Shares name with a state capital
CONCORD
