Famous Friendships
The inventor of the telephone, this man's lesser-known passion was, ironically, teaching deaf children. In fact, he's the one who introduced Helen Keller to her famous teacher.
Alexander Graham Bell
Abraham Lincoln was born in the same year (nay, the same day) as this famous scientist who spearheaded the theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
Associated with prehistoric times, this animal was actually still alive for over 1000 years after the Pyramids of Giza were built.
Wooly Mammoths
You just have to chomp down on the ammunition!
You just have to bite the bullet!
Nearly 100 people died constructing this famous dam. The first man died 12/20/22 and the last man died 12/20/35...exactly 13 years later. These two men happened to be father and son.
Hoover Dam
Famous author C.S. Lewis was close friends with this other famous author. They inspired each other, made fun of each other's books, and even collaborated on some parts.
J.R.R Tolkien
Anne Frank was born the same year as this American civil rights hero.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This world-famous classical painter was still alive and painting during the moon landing.
Pablo Picasso
We'll traverse that connecting architectural structure once we've reached it.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
This was the name of the ship in a book where an "unsinkable" ocean liner hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks. The book came out 20 years before the earily-similar sinking of the Titanic.
"Titan"
This famous female performer called Ella Fitzgerald her "favorite person" and when a major club wouldn't let Ella sing due to her race and weight, she decided to step in and convince them otherwise.
Marilyn Monroe
This famous Native American woman died less than a year after William Shakespeare did, and in the same area of the world.
Pocahontas (Matoaka)
This well-known gaming company was founded back when Jack the Ripper was still on the loose in England.
Nintendo
Looks like he dropped the legumes everywhere.
Looks like he spilled the beans.
Foretold by a prophecy, this poor teenage farmgirl led the French armies into battle after battle, ultimately ending the hundred years' war and saving the country from British rule.
Joan of Arc
This famous American author was close friends with Nikola Tesla. He was as fascinated with Tesla's electricity as Tesla was captivated by his stories.
Mark Twain
This saint of a catholic nun died the same year as Princess Diana.
Mother Theresa
This world-famous university was already over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded.
Oxford University (founded in 1096)
I'm positioned below the meteorological conditions.
I'm under the weather.
During WW2, polish soldiers found a baby of this animal and enlisted it into their military. He became a regular soldier, drinking beer and coffee, bunking with and wrestling his fellow troop, saluting commanders, and fighting on the battlefield.
A bear (Wojtek)
Despite constantly battling it out in politics due to very different views, John Adams ended up being best friends with this founding father. They even died within a few hours of each other on the 4th of July, exactly 50 years after the signing of the DOI.
Thomas Jefferson
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Josip Tito, Sigmund Freud, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand were all living in this same Austrian city in 1913.
Vienna
The last guillotine execution in France occurred the same year that this classic sci-fi movie was released.
Star Wars (1977)
It only happens a single time within a sapphire planetary body.
It only happens once in a blue moon.
In the 1930s, the Australian army was sent to go to war with this local animal species. Despite being armed with guns and over 10,000 rounds of ammunition, the Australian army lost the war.
Emus (the "Great Emu War" of 1932)