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

• Great Raft – 250 km long logjam
• Kerala school of astronomy and Mathematics
• Manson Family

Artifacts

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

• Faberge Eggs
• Peacock Throne
• Tutakhamen’s Mask

Unanswered Questions

Questions that fixated us but lay unanswered for centures.

• How did reproduction occur?
• Was the Earth round?
• Where was the source of the Nile?