In the Name of the Gods
This god's name was invoked for the effort to put humans on the moon
Apollo
This invasion was well planned and executed, but a last minute diversion to an out of the way target destroyed the plan, leading to one nation's "Great Patriotic War"
Operation Barbarossa
This, the last survivor of the 7 Ancient Wonders of the World
The Pyramids of Giza
This folk hero who took her father's place in war, the inspiration for a famous Disney Princess movie
Ha Mulan
This pioneer of aviation, lost at sea while attempting a major first, has been the subject of speculation and searches ever since
Amelia Earhart
This god gives their name to a day of the week
Thor
This settlement was finally abandoned on the second attempt to settle the site, in which the residents disappeared and left the word "CROATOAN" carved into the palisade
Roanoke colony
This mighty fortification, built over many centuries, has endured false claims of being seen from space
The Great Wall of China
This Civil War nurse, dubbed the Angel of the Battlefield, lead the effort to identify missing soldiers before establishing the American Red Cross
Clarissa(Clara) Harlowe Barton
This West African king once crashed the economy of Egypt with his generosity
Mansa Musa Kieta
This god has 2 temples of the same name, one a much younger replica of the original, though neither are used for worship today
Pallas Athena
This great fleet set out to destroy Britain, but ended up being mostly destroyed by the weather
The Spanish Armada
This incredibly tall bronze statue, built to commemorate a great defense against Macedon, would stand until it collapsed in an earthquake only decades after construction
The Colossus of Rhodes
Once Queen of France, then Queen of England, this Duchess was wealthy and powerful during the High Middle Ages
Eleanor of Aquitaine
DAILY DOUBLE: This inventor and his machine, that made the written word more widespread than ever before
Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press
This Pacific trickster god is famous for great deeds, including capturing fire from the underworld and giving it to man
Maui
This doomed campaign started with over 500,000 men, and sought to end in a few weeks. When it ended six months later, over a million people on both sides had died from battle, starvation, disease, and terrible weather.
This pair of structures were once contained in the sixth largest city in the world, and predate the Aztec Empire by centuries
The Pyramids of the Sun & Moon
Inheriting power from her deceased husband, this queen expanded the Palmyrene Empire to its greatest extent, only falling to Aurelian and a stabilized Roman Empire
Queen Septimia Zenobia
The first American in space and the oldest person to touch the moon, on different missions
Alan Shepard
This Egyptian god of the underworld lends their name to an asteroid that scientists once believed could threaten Earth in the near future
Apophis
This short-lived 1956 intervention in the Middle East fell apart as it became clear that former great powers now needed the permission of the United States to pursue their foreign policy
The Suez Crisis
This largest stone structure in pre-colonial Southern Africa, famously attributed to anyone but the local people, was once the center of a mighty Bantu kingdom
Great Zimbabwe
The "first" software engineer, she directed the development of the on-board flight software for the Apollo Guidance System
Margaret Hamilton
Having traveled from West Africa to coastal China, Zanzibar to Ukraine, this man travelled the most of any person in the pre-modern world
Ibn Battuta