Art and Literature
After amendments to the Indian Act, the 1950s saw the beginnings of increased Indigenous efforts at reclaiming this art form
Totem poles
This Renaissance man equally well known for his artistic and scientific pursuits created the "Vitruvian Man".
Da Vinci
This Roman city was buried in ash when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.
Pompeii
This folk religion is a syncretic belief of Catholicism and native west African religions, and is popularly depicted in American media
Voodoo
This is the official name given to the alliance of Germany-Italy-Japan during in WWII
Axis powers
The name of this famous Japanese painting by Katsushika Hokusai in 1831.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The final spike of this railway was driven on November 7, 1885, in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs were phased out by the Montreal Protocol due to the damage they do to this protective layer of the earth's atmosphere.
Ozone
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation saw a huge spike in violence towards women under this label
Witches
This crusade led to the sack of Constantinople and cemented the Great Schism.
4th crusade
This artist painted one of his most famous works, "Guernica", after the bombing of the titular Basque city during the Spanish Civil War.
Pablo Picasso
This mathematician is credited with the creation of a cup that drains itself out of the base using a siphoning effect if it is filled too far.
Pythagoras of Samos
This major river has at various points in history drained into both the Bohai and Yellow Seas on either side of the Shandong Peninsula.
Yellow River
What event in European history saw the Catholic Church split between three Popes, all claiming to be the sole legitimate Pope.
Western Schism
This unit was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development project that the Japanese used to experiment on humans in China
Unit 731
The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness stems from this novel by English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett.
Discworld or Men at Arms
This actor's mother helped make the Abort-Guidance System of Apollo 13 work while in labour with him.
Jack Black (Judith Love Cohen/Jack Black’s Mom)
This coral reef was the site of the first nuclear detonation after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and was the site of over a dozen American nuclear tests.
Bikini Atoll
This way of practicing Islam is commonly described as Islamic Mysticism, and many of its practitioners have become influential in world history.
Sufism
The Australian government waged this war against a large number of large flightless birds in 1932.
The Emu War
This "Trilogy in four parts" contains the line "In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
This Russian nuclear-powered reconnaissance satellite launched in 1977 re-entered the atmosphere scattering radioactive debris over the Canadian Arctic.
Kosmos 954
This period of regional cooling in the North Atlantic led to the Baltic Sea freezing over, allowed an army to march across the Danish Belts, and caused encroaching glaciers to destroy farms and villages in the Swiss Alps.
Little Ice Age
In the late 17th century, this Jewish mass movement across Europe and the Middle East believed the Messiah had finally arrived
Sabbateans/Sabbatai-Zevi
This bloodless war between the Isle of Scilly and the Netherlands was ended after over 3 centuries by a peace treaty in 1986.
335 Years War