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Sheriff Pat Garrett shot and killed this nigh-mythical American outlaw, simultaneously depicted as a horrific murderer and romantic hero, though many claimed he lived after his supposed killing and some even claimed to be him.
Who is Billy the Kid?
This mythical Welsh queen, most prominently featured in the medieval story collection the Mabinogion, is strongly associated with horses and is falsely accused of infanticide; her name served as the inspiration for the eponymously-named song by Fleetwood Mac.
Who is Rhiannon?
In his Histories, Herodotus describes the robust and efficient postal network developed by the Achaemenid Empire. Messages sent through the network, founded by this ruler, could travel from Turkey to modern Iran in only nine days through an express courier system.
Who is Cyrus the Great/Cyrus II?
This Jamaican political activist first founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Kingston before moving to Harlem in 1916, leading one of the biggest and most influential black nationalist movements in the United States.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
After overseeing the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, this American general was removed from command by President Truman under controversial circumstances, including purportedly suggesting the employment of nuclear weapons during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Known for his stunning vistas, complicated politics, and gruff demeanor, this American director made some of the most influential Western films of all time, including Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Who is John Ford?
After exerting immense influence over Emperor Gaozong as empress, this woman became the only female sovereign in Chinese history, ruling for 45 years and founding the short-lived Zhou Dynasty, before a coup forcibly removed her and restored the Tang.
Who is Wu Zetian/Empress Wu?
In a 1960 article for the Scientific American, Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh Kapany coined this term for the field which he helped pioneer, alongside British physicist Harold Hopkins, and which now serves as the basis for the modern global transmission of information.
What is fiber-optics?
Although racially segregated during its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, this nightclub on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue fostered the careers of some of the most influential black musicians in history, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway.
What is the Cotton Club?
Although he later repudiated homosexuality, English poet Lord Alfred Douglas wrote several verses on “the love that dare not speak its name” and maintained an intense relationship with this author, which led to the latter’s imprisonment for gross indecency.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
You won’t necessarily find cowboys in the Australian Outback, but you’ll find this closest equivalent, who look after livestock at landholdings called stations, and who were known for their kangaroo leather belts and Akubra hats.
Who are stockmen?
This English courtier exerted immense influence upon Queen Anne of Great Britain, which led many to seek the former out to curry favor with the latter; however, by 1711, political differences had soured their relationship, leading to her dismissal from Anne’s court.
Who is Sarah Churchill?
The status surrounding whether this Italian inventor actually invented the telephone remains disputed; although Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for electromagnetic transmission of vocal sound in 1876, this figure had filed a similar patent caveat five years earlier.
Who is Antonio Meucci?
Now operating as a historic house museum, the Grange, a federal-style mansion located in St. Nicholas Park, constituted the only home owned by this American founding father, whose estate in the area was sold in the mid-19th century after fertile soil depleted.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
In the wake of the “chopsocky” craze of Hong Kong martial arts films, Jamaican-British singer Carl Douglas sang this 1974 Disco hit, one of the best-selling singles of all time at eleven million records sold.
What is “Kung Fu Fighting”?
This poem, written by Argentinian author José Hernández, conveys the epic story of its eponymous gaucho and his exploits in the Pampas; a pinnacle of its genre, the work inspired other Argentine writers such as Leopoldo Lugones and Jorge Luis Borges.
What is Martín Fierro?
Irene of Athens, empress consort to Leo IV of the Byzantine Empire, called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 and, going against her predecessors, declared this practice heretical, though it would later be restored in 815 under Leo V.
What is iconoclasm?
Especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, armies used this system of rough telegraphic communication, which involves pivoting a mirror to send signals of sunlight in Morse Code; Carl Gauss invented a predecessor for land surveying.
What is the heliograph?
This infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard, primarily composed of African-Americans, was the first of the Allied forces to cross the Rhine during World War I and suffered the most losses out of any regiment during the war, with 1,500 men killed.
What was the 369th Infantry Regiment/Harlem Hellfighters?
Scottish botanist David Douglas, namesake of the Douglas fir, fell into a pit trap and was mauled to death by a bull while climbing this shield volcano, which forms the highest summit in the Hawaiian Islands.
What is Mauna Kea?
A rodeo legend, this African-American cowboy and performer introduced what would become modern-day steer-wrestling in the form of “bulldogging”, wherein he grabbed cattle by the horns and wrestled them to the ground.
Who is Bill Pickett?
After her brother’s suicide, Nzinga of Ndongo, located in this modern African country, became queen and variously staved off Portuguese colonization through negotiation or war, demonstrating diplomatic and military aptitude and becoming a major figure in Atlantic Creole culture.
What is Angola?
Before the complete telegraphic linkage between Paris and Berlin, Paul Reuter (of Reuters fame) used this method to send stock information between Brussels and Aachen. This method, shockingly faster than the post train, naturally gave Reuter an upper edge.
What are homing pigeons/carrier pigeons/the pigeon post?
One of the most prominent theater figures in the Harlem Renaissance, this man starred in plays and films such as Othello, The Emperor Jones, and Show Boat, played for the NFL, and openly supported Soviet policies, for which he was blacklisted.
Who is Paul Robeson?
This Canadian politician, premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, led the nation’s first socialist government and, between 1947 and 1962, introduced the first single-payer, universal health care program in North America.
Who is Tommy Douglas?