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- Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL
a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces - Alaskan pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline
an oil pipeline that runs 800 miles from wells at Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez - Alhambra
a fortified Moorish palace built near Granada by Muslim kings in the Middle Ages - American Stock Exchange, AMEX, Curb
a stock exchange in New York - Angostura Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolivar - Antonine Wall
a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde) - Appian Way
an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi - Ark, Ark of the Covenant
(Judaism) sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments - Army High Performance Computing Research Center, AHPCRC
a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications - Artemision at Ephesus
the large temple of the Greek goddess Artemis which was begun at Ephesus in 541 BC and completed 220 years later - Aswan High Dam, High Dam
one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt - Augean stables
(Greek mythology) the extremely dirty stables that were finally cleaned by Hercules who diverted two rivers through them - Auschwitz
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II - B-52
United States military aircraft - Bastille
a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries - Baton Rouge Bridge
a cantilever bridge across the Mississippi at Baton Rouge - Bayonne Bridge
a steel arch bridge connecting New Jersey and Staten Island at Bayonne, New Jersey - Belmont Park, Belmont
a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island - Belsen
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews created in northwestern Germany during World War II - Benjamin Franklin Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Delaware River - Big Ben
clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London - Black Hole of Calcutta
a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula - Blarney Stone
a stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it - Bosporus Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul - Bounty, H.M.S. Bounty
a ship of the British navy - Bourse
the stock exchange in Paris - Bronx-Whitestone Bridge
a suspension bridge across the East River in New York City - Brooklyn Bridge
a suspension bridge across the East River in New York City - Brown University, Brown
a university in Rhode Island - Buchenwald
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in World War II that was located in central Germany - Bunker Buster, Guided Bomb Unit-28, GBU-28
a 5,000 pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding - Caledonian Canal
a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean - Caloosahatchee Canal
a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway - Cambridge University, Cambridge
a university in England - Capitol, Capitol Building
the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet - Carnegie Mellon University
an engineering university in Pittsburgh - Charlestown Navy Yard
the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored - Chartres Cathedral
a Gothic cathedral in northern France - Chinese Wall, Great Wall, Great Wall of China
a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC - Chisholm Trail
a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas - chunnel, Channel Tunnel
the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel - Churchill Downs
a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Louisville - CN Tower
a tower in Toronto - Colosseum, Amphitheatrum Flavium
a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80 - Colossus of Rhodes
a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake - Columbia University, Columbia
a university in New York City - Commodore John Barry Bridge
a cantilever bridge in Chester, Pennsylvania - Constitution, Old Ironsides
a United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States - Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences - Cornell University
a university in Ithaca, New York - Dachau
a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany - Dartmouth College, Dartmouth
a college in New Hampshire - Delaware Memorial Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Delaware River - Duke University
a university in Durham, North Carolina - Eiffel Tower
a wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889 - Empire State Building
a skyscraper built in New York City in 1931 - Excalibur
the legendary sword of King Arthur - Flaminian Way
an ancient Roman road in Italy built by Gaius Flaminius in 220 BC - George Washington Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey - Glen Canyon Dam
a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona - Golden Gate Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Golden Gate - Gota Canal
a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden - grail, Holy Grail, Sangraal
(legend) chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper - Greater New Orleans Bridge
twin cantilever bridges across the Mississippi at New Orleans - Great Seal of the United States
the seal of the United States government - Hagia Sophia, Hagia Sofia, Santa Sophia, Santa Sofia
a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul - Hanging Gardens of Babylon
a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates - Harvard University, Harvard
a university in Massachusetts - Holy Sepulcher, Holy Sepulchre
the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection - Hoover Dam
a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada - Humber Bridge
a suspension bridge at Hull, England - Iditarod Trail
a trail that extends 1,100 miles from Anchorage over the Alaska Range to Nome - Independence Hall
the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed - Johns Hopkins
a university in Baltimore - Kaaba, Caaba
(Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine - Kammon Strait Bridge
a suspension bridge between Kyushu and Honshu - Kremlin
citadel of Moscow, housing the offices of the Russian government - Labyrinth of Minos
a vast labyrinth built in Crete by Daedalus at the command of Minos in order to contain the Minotaur - Lake Mead
the largest reservoir in the United States - Lake Powell
the second largest reservoir in the United States - Lake Volta
the Volta river in southeastern has been dammed to create one of the world's largest man-made lakes - Lateran Palace
a palace that served as the residence of the popes until the 14th century - Leaning Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa
a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular - Liberty Bell
the bell of Independence Hall - Lincoln Memorial
memorial building in Washington containing a large marble statue of Abraham Lincoln - Louvre, Louvre Museum
an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris - Mackinac Bridge
a suspension bridge across the channel between the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan - Maginot Line
a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border - Marineland
a commercial aquarium featuring trained dolphins - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
an engineering university in Cambridge - Mausoleum at Halicarnasus
a white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king - Mayflower
the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 - Merrimac
an ironclad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North - Minato Ohashi Bridge
cantilever bridge at Osaka, Japan - Monitor
an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac - National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, NASDAQ
a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter - National Baseball Hall of Fame
a Hall of Fame and museum in Cooperstown, New York, honoring great baseball players - National Library of Medicine, United States National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Library of Medicine
the world's largest medical library - Naval Research Laboratory, NRL
the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines - Newgate
a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780 - New River Gorge Bridge
a steel arch bridge across New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia - big board, New York Stock Exchange, N. Y. Stock Exchange, NYSE
a stock exchange in New York - Ohio State University
a university in Columbus, Ohio - Oval Office
the office of the President of the United States in the White House - Oxford University, Oxford
a university in England - Panama Canal
a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914) - Pandora's box
(Greek mythology) a box that Zeus gave to Pandora with instructions that she not open it - Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne
a university in Paris - Parthenon
the main temple of the goddess Athena - Pentagon
a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense - Petronas Towers
twin skyscrapers built in Kuala Lumpur in 1997 - Pierre Laporte Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at Quebec - Pimlico
a racetrack for thoroughbred racing - Ponte 25 de Abril
a suspension bridge across the Tagus River at Lisbon - Princeton University, Princeton
a university in New Jersey - Pyramid, Great Pyramid, Pyramids of Egypt
a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides - Quebec Bridge
a cantilever bridge in Quebec - Queensboro Bridge
a cantilever bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Queens - Round Table, King Arthur's Round Table
(legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights - Saint Lawrence Seaway, St. Lawrence Seaway
a seaway involving the Saint Lawrence River and the Great Lakes that was developed jointly by Canada and the United States - Salyut
either of two Soviet space stations launched in the 1970s - Santa Fe Trail
a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico - Sears Tower
a skyscraper built in Chicago in 1974 - Siege Perilous
the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved for the knight who would find the Holy Grail - Siegfried line
German fortifications facing the Maginot Line - Sistine Chapel
the private chapel of the popes in Rome - Skylab
United States space station - Space Needle
a tower 605 feet tall in Seattle - Stanford University, Stanford
a university in California - Statue of Liberty
a large monumental statue symbolizing liberty on Liberty Island in New York Bay - Sydney Harbor Bridge
a steel arch bridge in Sydney, Australia - Tabernacle, Mormon Tabernacle
the Mormon temple - Tacoma Narrows Bridge
a suspension bridge across Puget Sound at Tacoma - Taj Mahal
beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife - Tappan Zee Bridge
a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River - Temple of Apollo, Oracle of Apollo, Delphic oracle, oracle of Delphi
(Greek mythology) the oracle at Delphi where a priestess supposedly delivered messages from Apollo to those who sought advice - Temple of Artemis
a large temple at Ephesus that was said to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world - Temple of Jerusalem, Temple of Solomon
any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as the primary center for Jewish worship - Tower of Babel, Babel
(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven - Tower of London
a fortress in London on the Thames - Tower of Pharos
a great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC - Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse
a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War - Tuileries, Tuileries Gardens
formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris - Tuileries, Tuileries Palace
palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871 - United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, USACIL
a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command - United States Mint, U.S. Mint, US Mint
the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks - University of California at Berkeley
a university in Berkeley, California - University of Chicago
a university in Chicago, Illinois - University of Michigan
a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan - University of Nebraska
a university in Lincoln, Nebraska - University of North Carolina
a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina - University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn
a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - University of Pittsburgh
a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - University of Sussex, Sussex University
a red-brick university in Brighton, England - University of Texas
a university in Austin, Texas - University of Vermont
a university in Burlington, Vermont - University of Washington
a university in Seattle, Washington - University of West Virginia
a university in Morgantown, West Virginia - University of Wisconsin
a university in Madison, Wisconsin - USS Cole
a United States destroyer - Vatican, Vatican Palace
the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City - Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Verrazano Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island - Versailles, Palace of Versailles
a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles - Walt Whitman Bridge
a suspension bridge across the Delaware River - Washington Monument
a stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington - White House
the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States - World Trade Center, WTC, twin towers
twin skyscrapers 110 stories high in New York City - Yale University, Yale
a university in Connecticut - zeppelin, Graf Zeppelin
a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs