King Stephen
King Stephen of England was a direct descendant of this Duke of Normandy and victor of the Battle of Hastings.
Who is William the Conqueror?
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara overthrew Fulgencio Batista on this Caribbean island nation.
What is Cuba?
The former tyrant Hippias incorrectly predicted defeat for the Greeks in this battle that now names a 26-mile race after he sneezed out his tooth.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
What is Saudi Arabia?
This student of Socrates wrote down many of his mentor's conversations in works such as The Symposium and The Republic.
Who is Plato?
What is the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
This revolutionary and ally of Jose de San Martin is the namesake of a South American country and was known as "the Liberator."
Who is Simon Bolivar?
George Washington crossed the Delaware River to defeat the Hessians at this celebrated battle fought near the capital of New Jersey.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
Mehmed II of this empire was aided by the cannons of the Hungarian engineer Orban in successfully besieging Constantinople in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This philosopher taught many dignitaries, including Alexander the Great, at his Lyceum school.
Who is Aristotle?
Stephen Bathory quashed a rebellion in Gdansk while ruling this kingdom, which he inherited by marrying into the line of Jagiello.
What is Poland?
The murder of the editor of La Prensa, Pedro Chamorro, precipitated a Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime in this nation.
What is Nicaragua?
Joe Rosenthal took a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi during this battle.
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima?
The first Islamic caliph was this man, who consolidated power after winning the Ridda Wars.
Who is Abu Bakr?
This Cynic philosopher once refuted Plato's definition of man as a featherless biped by presenting him with a plucked chicken.
Who is Diogenes?
King Stephen of Hungary received a crown from Sylvester II for doing this action.
What is converting to Christianity?
Miguel Hidalgo led a war for independence in this nation from which a short-lived country broke away after the Battle of San Jacinto.
What is Mexico?
Despite the success of Operation Castor four months earlier, the French were decisively defeated by Vietnamese freedom fighters under Vo Nguyen Giap in this 1954 battle.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
One of the "gunpowder empires" was this Persian empire whose founder, Ismail, founded Twelver Shiism, and also notably turned the head of Muhammad Shaybani into a drinking goblet that he gave to Babur of the Mughals.
What is the Safavid Empire?
Protagoras was the first of these specific philosophers whose name now refers to people who cunningly make fallacious arguments.
Who are the sophists?
King Stephen wrestled for control of England with this woman, his cousin, during the Anarchy.
Who is Matilda?
The Ten Years of Spring was a peaceful "revolution" in this country that was ended by the deposition of Jacobo Arbenz by the CIA in Operation PBSuccess.
What is Guatemala?
The decisive fight brief Franco-Prussian War was this battle in which the forces of Helmuth von Moltke captured French emperor Napoleon III.
What is the Battle of Sedan?
This Shiite empire in North Africa named after a daughter of Muhammad was supplanted by Saladin's Ayyubid Sultanate.
What is the Fatimid Caliphate?
This name is shared by the founder of Stoicism and a philosopher who came up with the Achilles and the tortoise as well as the flying arrow paradox.
Who is Zeno?