HISTORIC HAPPENINGS
The governor of Louisiana put one of these for $500 on Jean Lafitte's head, so Jean put one out for $1,500 on the governor
A bounty
An exhibition about colors in fairy tales at a Brothers Grimm museum was titled "Red Hood," this color "Beard"
Blue
Celebrating this film's Oscars in 2020, director Bong Joon Ho partied on Galbi & Bibimbap in L.A.'s Koreatown until 5 A.M.
Parasite
Alec Jeffreys won for his 1984 discovery of fingerprinting of this genetic material
DNA
The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her
Emily Dickinson
An eclipse in August 1142 may have been the impetus for the formation of this Native American confederacy
The Iroquois
The Nemo Science Museum is just off the Ij Waterway in this world capital
Amsterdam
A self-described "average student", this former "Late Show" host funds a scholarship at Indiana's Ball State
Letterman
Proving air is a composite substance, 1772 winner Joseph Priestley discovered the gases nitrogen, ammonia & this one he called "pure air"
Oxygen
Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland
Auschwitz
Henry VII backdated his reign to August 21, 1485, essentially making all who supported this guy at Bosworth Field traitors
Richard III
A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers
Roald Dahl
For producing a 2019 live version of "All in the Family" & "The Jeffersons", this man became the oldest Emmy winner ever at age 97
Norman Lear
In 1770 William Hamilton won for studying this Sicilian hotspot; later, Lord Nelson would study Hamilton's wife
Etna
Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death
Back in the day, those on the island of Tyre felt pretty safe off the mainland, but when this great conqueror showed up in 332 B.C., he built a causeway and ended a siege by marching across the newly created path
Alexander
Schloss Liebegg is home to Switzerland's Hexenmuseum, or museum of this practice
Witchcraft
Tito Puente was delighted when royalty checks started arriving after this guitarist covered his song "Oye Como Va"
Santana
There was no resistance to this German receiving the medal in 1841 for his research into the laws of electric currents
Georg Ohm
He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published
Stieg Larsson
Accommodations were poor at this Crimean conference that shaped postwar Europe: bad beds, lice, & Stalin had no private bathroom
Yalta
This Portuguese city is famous for wine but its Serralves Museum specializes in non-aged art, from the 1960s & later
Porto
In 2019, this Canadian YouTube star made the jump to late night television, hosting "A Little Late" on NBC
Lilly Singh
He lent his name to a new boson & was honored in 2015 for his contributions to particle physics
Peter Higgs
Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English
The Trial