People

See http://www.karangill.com/interesting-people/

Events

• Balfour Declaration
• Great Race of Mercy
• Famines in India during British Rule
• The Hindenburg Fire – Make sure you both view the newsreel and hear the radio account.
• L’Affaire Dreyfus
• Loving vs Virginia
• Mussolini’s Transformation of Rome and [2]
• Pentium FDIV bug
• Plano Real and [2]
• Last voyage of the Karluk

Violence

• Battle of Bannockburn
• Battle for Castle Itter
• Baghdad, Mongol Sack of
• Sabra and Shatila Massacre
• Budyonnovsk Hospital Hostage Crisis
• Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre
• Port Arthur, Siege of

Entities

• Costa Rica – Mesoamerica’s richest nation has no standing army, 100% renewable energy, and lead the world environmentally.
• Great Raft – 250 km long logjam
• Kerala school of astronomy and Mathematics
• Manson Family
• Tonle Sap – Largest freshwater lake in Asia. Replenished every monsoon by flow reversal from the Mekong. Complex hydro-ecological system that drove the Angkor civilization.

Organizations

• 3M: Scotch tape, post-its, and everything in between.
• 7/11: Nondescript but omnipresent. Try their stores in Japan.
• AMD: Battling with Intel, AMD has risen from the ashes several times.

Artifacts

Criteria: Beauty, craftsmanship, expense of raw materials, several owners, lost to time and rediscovered

• Dunhuang Manuscripts: 4th to 11 centuries; Buddhist, Daoism, Nestorian Christianity, Manichaeism, and more;  Khotanese, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Tangut, Tibetan, Old Uyghur language, Hebrew, Old Turkic
• Faberge Eggs
• Golden Stool of the Ashanti
• Peacock Throne
• Phra Bang Buddha: “A symbol of the right to rule Laos, as only a commendable and virtuous government deserves to be caretaker of such a sacred image.”
• Tutakhamen’s Mask

Unanswered Questions

Questions that fixated us but lay unanswered for centures.

• How did reproduction occur?
• How was silk made?
• Was the Earth round?

Where was the source of the Nile?