Founders of Religions
This man also learned about the concepts of asha and druj, roughly equivalent to “truth” and “falsehood,” and thereafter chose to dedicate his life to promoting asha.
Zoroaster/Zarathustra
Ruling as princeps, or first citizen, this man created the Praetorian Guard and added Egypt to the empire, but halted expansion into Germania after a crushing defeat at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
Augustus Caesar or Octavian
This 1952 experiment demonstrated that the material responsible for inheritance of traits was DNA rather than protein.
Hershey-Chase
A partial retelling of the Victor Hugo novel of the same name, this work follows Jean Valjean, who was convicted of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving niece.
Les Miserables
This man was a close associate of Freud’s who split with him over the degree to which neuroses had a sexual basis.
Carl Jung
Because of plots against him, Muhammad traveled from this city to this city along with his followers and established the Islamic community there.
Mecca, Medina
He employed Apollodorus of Damascus to build a namesake Column and a namesake Bridge across the Danube.
Trajan
The researchers in this experiment fired alpha particles (helium nuclei) at a sheet. The scattered particles were detected by a screen containing zinc sulfide, which fluoresced when the alpha particles hit it.
Rutherford gold foil experiment
This musical tells the story of impoverished artists (“bohemians”) living in the East Village of New York Cityduring the AIDS crisis circa 1990
Rent
This man posited that the lowest unmet need on the hierarchy of needs tends to dominate conscious thought.
Abraham Maslow
According to another such story, he slept with his feet facing the Kaaba; when Muslims tried to move them away, the Kaaba moved so that his feet were still facing it.
Guru Nanak
A noted scholar, he was the last person able to read ancient Etruscan. He oversaw the conquest of Britain.
Claudius
This experiment demonstrated that the angular momentum of an atom is quantized. A beam of silver atoms was fired through an inhomogeneous magnetic field (one that varies through space).
Stern-Gerlach experiment
In this musical, Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher, travels to Siam (now Thailand) to teach English to the King’s many children and wives.
The King and I
This psychologist is largely remembered for the idea of the conditioned reflex.
Ivan Pavlov