11. Hippie

• Motto: ‘make love, not war’

• 1967 – American troops in Vietnam smoking marijuana

• Potential drafters run to Mexico, Europe, Canada or burn their draft-cards

• Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young American men as part of the opposition to the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War

• Identifies themselves with Native Americans

• listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness

• Wire-rim color glasses, t-shirt preferably t-tied or with some kind of band on it, beads - small beads - they called them "love" beads, head band, jeans with patches sewn on them and worn out with the hem hanging. Sandals or go bare foot. There were a lot of macrame or suede belts and suede purses. The purses were like a big pocket and if there was leather or suede fringe, all the better. Daisy in your hair would be icing on the cake. And any kind of peace sign emblem.

• [!] On October 6, 1966 the US government made it illegal to use or possess LSD; also, all testing with the drug was outlawed. Many angry hippies saw significance in the number '666', which was the date that the use of LSD became a crime. In Revelation 13:18, humanity is warned of an evil beast that is to come who will bear the number six hundred and sixty six.

• [!] The two semaphore letters used are "N" which stands for "Nuclear" and "D" which stands for "Disarmament". In semaphore, a person holds small flags in their hands and then moves their arms in various positions to communicate; "N" appears as two flags held in an upside down triangular shape, while, the "D" appears as two flags with one held straight up and the other held straight down. These two letters, minus the flags, are combined and then put into a circle; the circle represents "Global". Thus, the peace sign is meant to be read as "Global Nuclear Disarmament". The three other possible answers given are all real urban legends!

12. The USA – Geography

• most important cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta

• New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.

• L.A. is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. Los Angeles is a leading world center of business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine and research and has been ranked sixth in the Global Cities Index and 13th in the Global Power City Index. Los Angeles includes Hollywood and leads the world in the creation of television productions, video games, and recorded music; it is also one of the leaders in motion picture production

• Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. The centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court.

• Longest rivers: Missouri River, Mississippi River, Yukon River, Rio Grande, Colorado River, Arkansas River, Columbia River, Red River, Snake River, Ohio River

• The Great Lakes, sometimes disambiguated as the Laurentian Great Lakes, are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes Waterway. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water [Michigan]

• Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge. From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls

• The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln

• [!] Mount Rushmore used to be called Slaughterhouse Rock. It had also been called Cougar Mountain.

• Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it is the lowest and driest area in North America. Death Valley holds the record for the highest recorded temperature on Earth

• the coldest places in the US [lowest average annual temperature]:

  • Mt Washington, New Hampshire - -2.6

  • Climax Mine, Colorado - -0.8

  • Darwin Ranch, Wyoming - -0.6

• the hottest places in the US [the highest annual average temperature]:

  • Marathon, Florida - 25.8

  • Boca Chica Key, Florida - 25.6

  • Kona International Airport, Hawaii - 25.5

• the wettest places in the US [highest total yearly precipitation averages in the contiguous states]:

  • Aberdeen Reservoir, Washington – 3317mm

  • Laurel Mountain, Oregon - 3106

  • Forks, Washington – 3041

13. The USA – Culture

• Prevalent ideas and ideals that evolved domestically, such as national holidays, uniquely American sports, military tradition, and innovations in the arts and entertainment give a strong sense of national pride among the population as a whole

• Famous museums:

  • Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History [Washington,D.C.] - With free admission and open doors 364 days a year, it is the most visited natural history museum in the world. The museum's collections total over 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts

  • National Gallery of Art [National Mall, Washington D.C.]

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art [Manhattan, New York] - Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. Represented in the permanent collection are works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world

  • American Museum of Natural History [New York City]

  • National Museum of American History [Washington, D.C.]

  • Museum of Modern Art [New York]

  • Museum of Science-Boston [Boston, Massachusetts]

  • Ellis Island Immigration Museum – Statue of Liberty is here [New York]

• Hollywood is a district situated in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and celebrities, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema

• Writers – Nelle Harper Lee, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Jeans are trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth. Often the term "jeans" refers to a particular style of trousers, called "blue jeans" and invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873. Starting in the 1950s, jeans, originally designed for cowboys, became popular among teenagers, especially members of the greaser subculture. Historic brands include Levi's, Lee, and Wrangler. Jeans come in various fits, including skinny, tapered, straight, boot cut, Narrow bottom, Low waist, anti-fit and flare.

• [!] America eats approximately 100 acres of pizza every day!!