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This ambitious European general schemed and browbeat to overthrow the struggling republican government of France in the aftermath of the French Revolution, eventually crowning himself Emperor of the French.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This period of 1969 American political unrest kicked off the organized and public gay rights movement in America.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
This set of ancient megalithic burial projects was long widely believed to be conducted by slaves, but evidence that the workers were provided with meat and beer has discredited this theory among Egyptologists.
What are the Great Pyramids of Giza.
This faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party headed by Vladimir Lenin led the October Revolution and became the sole party in the nascent Soviet Union.
These are two of the participants in the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. (Name any two)
Who are Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Gaius Trebonius, Lucius Tillius Cimber, Publius Servilius Casca Longus etc.
This American poet, famous for her curious uses of punctuation, notorious reclusiveness, and late attempts to destroy her own work, is theorized by some biographers to have been in love with women as reflected in her letter correspondence.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This American brewer was strongly involved in the early American independence movement in Boston, and has been memorialized in his own popular American beer brand.
Who was Samuel Adams?
This American political party founded by Theodore Roosevelt challenged the dominant elephant and donkey, both literally and symbolically.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
This Russian mystic was assassinated by a disgruntled group of nobles after becoming too influential with the ruling Romanoff family.
Who was Rasputin?
This celebrated English author was an important part of the growing body of woman authors in the Western literary canon, and is often credited today with producing an early work of lesbian representative fiction in Mrs. Dalloway.
Who is (afraid of) Virginia Woolf?
This British Monarch is credited with the quote "Give my people plenty of beer, good beer and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them."
Who was Victoria I?
These two Chinese political parties both claim descent from the republican movement led by Sun-Yat Sen in the early 20th century.
What are the CCP and KMT?
This American Founding Father was accused of a treasonous plot starting around 1805 to establish an independent fiefdom out West.
Who is Aaron Burr?
This ancient Greek romance poet produced a substantial set of works, most of which only survive in fragments. One such fragment is very widely believed to be a narration of a woman's powerful romantic infatuation with another woman.
Who was Sappho?
This 1923 coup attempt in Weimar Germany was a major turning point in the political career of Adolf Hitler, despite its initial failure.
What was the Beer Hall Putsch?
This German political party split into a main and independent faction over support for the First World War, with one group going on to rename itself the Communist Party of Germany.
What are the Social Democrats?
During the late 20th century this Chinese Empress conspired to depose her child son to retain control over the court, only to be foiled by public pressure.
Who is Cixi?
This Wisconsin Democrat became the first openly lesbian congresswoman in 1998.
Who is Tammy Baldwin?
This is the way that beer was depicted as being consumed in some of our first Mesopotamian illustrations of alcohol consumption.
What is in a pot as a pair with straws?
These are 3 splitters from the old Bolshevik party who were cut down during Stalin's purges.
List them.