The Atomic Age
Famous expressions and their meanings
Myths
Movie Quotes
famous discoveries
100

A secret U.S. government research project focused on developing the first atomic bomb.

The Manhatten Project

100

Kill two birds with one stone

solve two problems at once

100

Dont fly too close to the sun

Icarus

100

YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

A Few Good Men

100

The elucidation of the double helix structure of this three letter anagram discovered in 1953

DNA

200

This strategic tool was used by the U.S. and The Soviet Union to shape public perception against each other.

Propaganda 

200

Its all Greek to me

totally incomprehensible 

200

Famously completed 12 strenuous labors

Hercules

200

they may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!

Braveheart

200
the arrangement of elements that provided a systematic way of understanding matter

the periodic table

300

This space age theme was inspired by incorporating synthetic materials and industrial aesthetics into fashion.

Futurism

300

add insult to injury

to make a bad situation worse

300

The Funeral God of Egyptian myth 

Anubis

300

You stay classy San Diego

Anchorman

300

This discovery by Louis Pasteur was a game changer in that it discovered that microbes in eggs, milk, and cheese could be killed by heating 

pasteurization 

400

William Rontgen discovered this when he use electromagnetic rays to image the body 

X-Rays

400

A chip off the old block

a child is exactly like their parent

400

This mythological being encircles the world in norse mythology

The Midgard (world) serpent

400

Do you want to play a game?

Saw

400

In 1968 spencer silver created an adhesive that would stick but also be easily removed

Post-It

500

The US and Soviet Union signed the first SALT which helped slow down the nuclear arms race. What is SALT?

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

500

familiarity breeds contempt

the more you know someone the less you like them

500

This mythological being was associated with stories of cannibalism in the days of the oregon trail and the old west.

Wendigo

500

Get busy living or get busy dying

The Shawshank Redemption

500

In 1709 bartolomeo cristofori crafted the first of this instrument, a leader in western art music

piano