The National Weather Service issues sailors these "advisories" when winds are between 18 & 33 knots
This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621
More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea
This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
Locally, this world capital is spelled W-I-E-N
The strategic importance of the Black Sea is not lost on this country that occupies its southern rim
You'll find Reindeer Lake covering over 2,400 square miles in this country
Located in the southwestern part of the continent, it's the second-largest desert in Africa