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This state's Acadia National Park includes parts of Isle Au Haut & the Schoodic Peninsula

Named after its 19th century inventor, this pendulum demonstrates the Earth's rotation

A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this

The first practical machine powered by this was used in 1698 to pump water out of mines

These were made more accurate in the late 1600s with the inventions of the pendulum & balance spring

In mid-century Otto Von Guericke was the first to use this device to predict the weather

While Pascal's could only add & subtract, Leibniz' could multiply

This Persian Gulf nation gets its name from kut, an Arabic word for "fort"

The major ethnic group in this Pyrenees principality is Spanish at 61%

In 1962 Tobago & this larger neighbor won their independence from Great Britain