Spain was still a fascist dictatorship in 1975, the year
that Microsoft was founded.
There were no classes in calculus in Harvard’s curriculum
for the first few years, because calculus hadn’t been discovered yet.
Two Empires – the Roman and the Ottoman – spanned the entire
gap between the lives of Jesus Christ and Babe Ruth.
When the Egyptian pyramids were being built, there were
still wooly mammoths roaming the earth.
The last use of the guillotine in France occurred in 1977; the
same year the first Star Wars movie appeared in theaters.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were born the same year.
Oxford University was already three hundred years old before
the Aztec Empire was founded.
The fax machine was invented in 1843. President Lincoln was
assassinated in 1865. Japanese samurai ceased to exist in 1867. So, in theory,
Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
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