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This river, the largest in South America by volume, flows through the heart of the continent and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Amazon River?
This French emperor was defeated and exiled to Elba in 1814, only to escape and return to power for a period known as the Hundred Days.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This Egyptian pharaoh ruled in the 15th century BCE and was often depicted wearing the traditional false beard of a male ruler.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This 1919 Boston disaster killed 21 people when a giant tank filled with molasses burst and sent a wave through the streets.
What is the Great Molasses Flood?
This luxury textile, produced in China and traded westward for centuries, gave the famous network of routes its modern name.
What is silk?
This Venezuelan-born revolutionary helped lead independence movements against Spanish rule across northern South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This 1917 event brought the United States into World War I after Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram became public.
What is the U.S. entry into World War I?
Known as the “Moses of her people,” this formerly enslaved woman became a leading abolitionist and delivered the famous speech associated with the phrase “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Who is Sojourner Truth?
In 1969, this river in Ohio became famous after pollution caused it to catch fire, helping inspire modern environmental legislation.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
This religion, founded in India, spread into Central and East Asia in part through the Silk Roads.
What is Buddhism?
This Inca ruler was captured by Francisco Pizarro in 1532, marking a major turning point in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
Who is Atahualpa?
This 1453 event ended the Byzantine Empire and gave the Ottoman Empire control of Constantinople.
What is the Fall of Constantinople?
In 1963, this civil rights leader became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
In 1954, Ann Hodges of this southern U.S. state became the first documented human to be struck by a meteorite.
What is Alabama?
This famous Chinese invention eventually made its way west along trade routes and dramatically changed communication.
What is paper?
Signed in 1494, this agreement divided newly encountered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This 1815 volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused global climatic effects and contributed to what became known as the “Year Without a Summer.”
What is the eruption of Mount Tambora?
This British suffragette organization, founded by Emmeline Pankhurst, used the motto “Deeds, not words” in its campaign for women's voting rights.
What is the Women's Social and Political Union?
In 897, this bizarre papal trial involved the corpse of a dead pope being dug up, dressed in papal robes, and put on trial.
What is the Cadaver Synod?
This Venetian traveler claimed to have spent years traveling through Asia and serving at the court of Kublai Khan. He also loves pools.
Who is Marco Polo?
This 1822 battle in Ecuador helped secure independence for much of Spanish South America and was fought by forces commanded by Antonio José de Sucre.
What is the Battle of Pichincha?
This 1941 Japanese attack was intended to cripple the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but instead brought the United States directly into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This Alabama native and star of the silver screen famously called everyone "dahling" because she was terrible at remembering names.
Who is Tallulah Bankhead?
At this U.S. President’s funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be physically removed from the service because it wouldn't stop swearing loudly
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Silk Roads helped spread this devastating disease from Asia into Europe during the 14th century.
What is the bubonic plague?