Before & After
Music with origins in electric blues performed by some cute terrestrial isopods.
What is Rock and Rolly Poly?
He was assassinated on the Ides of March, a day previously notable for several major Roman religious observations, but that has since become synonymous with his assassination.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The construction of stone henge or the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Stone henge was construction near 3,000 BCE, while the great pyramid was built circa 2,600 BCE.
This person developed the theory of evolution by natural selection. They also happened to marry their first cousin (womp womp).
Who is Charles Darwin?
This term originally described the practice of Italian catholic clergymen giving their nephews positions in the church, but has since come to describe other types of cronyism.
What is nepotism?
Anna starts a family business that pulls corpses from lake beds.
What is Alldredging? Alldredging Service? Alldredging up bodies?
This former prime minister of Japan was assassinated for his affiliation with the Unification Church, a religious organization with a reputation for bankrupting its members. This is regarded as one of the most effective political assassinations in recent history, as it spurred public scrutiny and political reform.
Who is Shinzo Abe?
Women's formalized right to lines of credit or the first woman presidential candidate?
The first woman presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull, ran in 1870. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act became law in 1974.
The first woman to win a Nobel prize and the first person to win two Nobel prizes. She died of aplastic anemia, likely as a result of radiation poisoning.
Who is Marie Curie?
OPPOSITE
This term used to refer to any child, irrespective of a gender.
What is girl?
The Habsburgs collab with Jay-Z.
What is Holy Roman Empire State of Mind?
A pioneer, martyr, and veteran, he was the first openly gay man to be elected into public office. His assassin was a fellow city supervisor and made the infamous "Twinkie defense". Pete Hegseth recently stripped his name from a naval vessel to help in "reestablishing the warrior culture".
Who is Harvey Milk?
The death of Emmett Till's accuser or the first woman speaker of the house?
The first woman speaker of the house (Nancy Pelosi) was elected in 2007. Carolyn Bryant died in 2023.
This mathematician's calculus notation is still commonly used today, unlike their contemporary who developed calculus concurrently and received most of the credit.
Who is Gottfried Leibniz?
While commonly used to mean any mixture, this term is defined as an alloy of mercury and some other metal.
What is an amalgam?
Oolong flavored fried tubers.
What are tea kettle cooked potato chips?
In 1940, this Russian revolutionary was killed with an ice axe in Mexico City. He was instrumental in the October Revolution and espoused "permanent revolution", i.e. socialist revolutions in preindustrial societies.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
Women were permitted to wear pants on the senate floor or Alabama legalized interracial marriage.
Women did not wear pants on the senate floor until 1993 (due to a somewhat informal though still enforced restriction). Alabama symbolically legalized interracial marriage in 2000, with only a 59.5% majority (over half a million Alabamans voted no).
This experimental psychologist was a prominent behaviorist. They were known for their work with pigeons, and famously developed a missile guidance system that relied on a trained pigeon placed in a transparent nose cone.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This term used to refer exclusively to the smells of spices and herbs (c. early 14th century), but now refers to any pleasant smell.
What is aroma?
The sinful salified remains of a biblical figure's spouse become are salivated on by an odd-toed ungulate
Pillar of Salt Lick
This failed attempt to kill two catholic regents is said to have kicked off the thirty year's war and ended the peace of Augsburg. The regents survived the three-story fall. Some (Anti-reformist Catholics) said this was from divine intervention, others (Protestants) say it was due to the dung heap they landed on.
What is The Defenestration of Prague? (1618)
The Estates General kicking off the French revolution or George Washington taking office?
George Washington took office on April 30th of 1789. The Estates General began on the 5th of May, 1789.
This mathematician is the namesake for the iterative sequence where each element is the sum of the two preceding elements.
Who is Fibonacci/ Leonardo Bonacci?
Originally an 1886 trademark, this name has come to refer to this common breakfast food from any manufacturer.
What is granola?