Four Butterflies

 

Spain was still a fascist dictatorship the year Microsoft was founded.

There were no calculus classes in Harvard’s curriculum in 1636, because calculus hadn’t been discovered yet.

Two empires – the Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire – span the entire gap from Jesus to Babe Ruth.

Prisoners began to arrive at Auschwitz a few days after McDonald's was founded.

When the Egyptian pyramids were being built, wooly mammoths still walked the earth.

The last use of the guillotine was in France the same year Star Wars came out.

Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded.

Nintendo was founded the same year that the Eiffel tower was finished.

At least a dozen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories were written after World War I.

When Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, you could already visit what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico, eat in a restaurant there, and stay at a hotel.