Ethnic Groups
Josephus wrote extensively about this group's rebellions against Rome, as well as their Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids in Palestine.
Who are the Jews?
This founder of Mormonism was killed in Carthage, Illinois by a mob while awaiting trial for treason.
Who is Joseph Smith?
These islands were the subject of a war between Argentina and the UK in which the General Belgrano was sunk.
What are the Falkland Islands?
MLK gave this more famous speech during the March on Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
This super hero, alias Clark Kent, was the subject of an anti-KKK radio show in the 1940s.
Who is Superman (or Kal-El)?
This ethnic group's ETA has advocated for an independent state in northern Spain.
Who are the Basques?
Freddie Mercury followed this dualistic state religion of the ancient Sassanid Empire that venerates Ahura Mazda.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Toussaint L'Ouverture led the Haitian Revolution on this largest Caribbean island.
What is Hispaniola?
MLK gave the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in this Tennessee city where he was assassinated.
What is Memphis?
Max Weber claimed that the Mauryan book on statecraft Arthashastra made this book by Niccolo Machiavelli look harmless by comparison.
Pachucos from this ethnic group were targeted in the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles.
Who are the Mexicans?
This leader was defeated at the Battle of Uhud by Quraysh traders under future convert Khalid ibn al-Walid.
Who is Muhammad?
These Spanish islands named for a songbird contain the Caldera de Taburiente National Park.
What are the Canary Islands?
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" would be MLK's last speech, since he was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel by this man.
Who was James Earl Ray?
Laissez-faire economist Milton Friedman taught these university students who would go on to advise Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
Who are the Chicago Boys?
Charlemagne fought a brutal war against this group, led by Widukind, who he massacred at Verden and whose sacred tree he chopped down.
Who are the Saxons?
The priest Laocoon was killed by these creatures after he warned his fellows not to trust the Trojan Horse.
What are snakes?
This island nation's literary styles include zuhitsu, "following the brush," popularized in its 10th-century Pillow Book.
What is Japan?
Echole Cole and Robert Walker were men who accidentally died doing this job, which led to a strike during which MLK gave the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
What is collecting trash?
The 1958 film Vertigo was directed by this "Master of Suspense" who also directed the horror film The Birds.
Who was Alfred Hitchcock?
This ethnic group was targeted in the Rock Springs Massacre as well as the nativist Workingmen's Party in Denis Kearney in the late 1800s.
Who are the Chinese?
Indira Gandhi's own Sikh bodyguards assassinated her after she conducted this 1984 operation that besieged Sikh agitators in the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
What is Operation Blue Star?
The Bogside Massacre occurred during nationalist struggles on this island that were essentially ended by the Good Friday Agreement.
What is Ireland?
In the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, MLK claimed that he would have died had he sneezed after he was stabbed by Izola Curry with this instrument.
What is a letter-opener?
This man, the only one to win a Nobel Peace Prize and a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, proposed an incorrect triple helix structure of DNA.
Who was Linus Pauling?