The Khmer Empire ruled over lands that roughly correspond to these two present-day countries:

In Jules Verne?s 1865 book From the Earth to the Moon, a rocket is launched from this location:

This American vice president was also a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

This city was once known as Philadelphia.

The celerifere, draisine and ordinary were early versions of this:

This Norman leader played an important role in the conquest of southern Italy and became prince of Capua in 1059:

The "Quaker guns" used in the American War of Independence were made of this:

In addition to being an Irish Revolutionary leader and Union commander in the Civil War, Thomas Francis Meagher was also this: