Historical Fashions
When France’s Louis XIII went bald young and began wearing wearing what?
the men's wig
This vampire fiction by Bram Stoker was such a success that it codified almost all recognizable modern vampire tropes
Dracula
Marked “quasi una fantasia,” or “almost like a fantasy,” and dedicated to his pupil Giulietta Guicciardi this was nicknamed decades after its composition by critic Ludwig Rellstab due to its perceived evocation of Lake Lucerne at nighttime.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor (Op. 27 No. 2), “Moonlight"
In 1940 French teenager Marcel Ravidat’s dog found a hole under a recently fallen tree that led to a totally unknown cave system rich with prehistoric cave paintings. Some of the most famous are in the Hall of the Bulls
Lascaux
this is the heart of a computer. It performs all of the binary operations responsible for a computer’s general functions and issues commands to the rest of the hardware
The CPU (central processing unit)
an immense Scottish garment that wraps around the waist and is then wrapped up around the shoulder
The kilt
this novel has an interdimensional creature that terrorizes the small town of Derry, Maineone in which a group of outcast classmates called “the Losers Club” are menaced
It
Dedicated to Archduke Rudolp this was long thought unplayable until 1836, when Franz Liszt performed it to an enthusiastic review by Hector Berlioz.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major (Op. 106), “Hammerklavier"
The sudden eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a roman town so completely and quickly that the town remained remarkably intact until they were unearthed in modern times.
Pompeii
this is a large printed circuit board connecting all of the main components of a computer.
The motherboard
European women started layering underskirt to create a slim waisted and bell-shaped silhouette called what?
Crinoline
by Edgar Allan Poe this story is in the style of Gothic literature, which centers on atmospheres of dread and haunting where the unnamed narrator visits Roderick Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher
Dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. The A-flat major second movement, marked Adagio cantabile, begins with a theme consisting of the notes C, B-flat, E-flat, D-flat
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Op. 13), “Pathétique”
this contains ruins of the Minoans, a Bronze Age society on the Greek island of Crete. Excavations began in 1877, but it was the English archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans’s projects starting in 1900 that unearthed its most significant finds, including much of the Palace of Minos
Knossos
non-volatile devices for storing data, meaning that the data is not lost when the computer is turned off. Data is magnetically written onto a number of fast-spinning metal plates or disks.
Hard drives
part of women's dress for centuries , they are tight laced and are like structured skirts
The corset
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman this is Inspired by Gilman’s own bouts of depression this story a young wife is undergoing a controversial, real-life therapy called a “rest cure” for her mental illness she kept in her bed isolated
The Yellow Wallpaper
Dedicated to Count Franz Brunswick this opens its Allegro assai first movement with both hands playing descending and ascending dotted F-minor arpeggios in 12/8 time before repeating the theme a semitone higher.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor (Op. 57), “Appassionata”:
The ancient ruins near the modern-day Iraqi town of Tell el-Muqayya were known for centuries.Notable artifacts a wooden box inlaid with three tiers of mosaics showing processions of soldiers and animals,a pair of harp-like instruments stylized with bulls’ heads
Ur
this supplies power to all other components of a computer by converting the alternating current from an outlet into direct current.
The power supply unit
A tall roughly conical hat worn by ladies beginning in the mid 15th century, its popular style was a long pointed cone
The hennin
by Henry James this a ghost story for Collier’s Weekly, the novella follows a governess hired to raise Miles and Flora, two children who live in a mansion in rural England
The Turn of the Screw
it is the third movement Rondo alla turca, or “Turkish March,” that has become one of the most ubiquitous pieces of classical music in popular culture. opens with a falling and rising sixteenth note motive in A minor, was intended by Mozart to evoke the sound of the janissary bands from the Ottoman empire
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331:
Located in central Pakistan, this was a sprawling city of the Indus Valley Civilization. Many scholars hold that regular “mud floods” and depletion of nearby natural resources caused its gradual abandonment
Mohenjo-daro
this is a form of memory used to store data a computer expects to need within a short amount of time. It is volatile memory, meaning that any information stored in it is lost when the computer is shut down or powered off
RAM (random access memory)