The National Weather Service issues sailors these "advisories" when winds are between 18 & 33 knots
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
This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea
Located in the southwestern part of the continent, it's the second-largest desert in Africa
Locally, this world capital is spelled W-I-E-N
Ukraine, Germany & the Baltic Sea all border this country
The strategic importance of the Black Sea is not lost on this country that occupies its southern rim