History is weirder than you realize.
Abraham Lincoln was a twelve-year-old growing up in a cabin
on the frontier when Napoleon Bonaparte died.
Joseph Stalin, Sigmund Freud, Josip Broz Tito, Leon Trotsky,
and Adolf Hitler walked into a bar. Well, not really. But it could have happened,
because they all lived in Vienna in 1913.
In 343 BCE, King Philip II of Macedon hired the ancient
Greek philosopher Aristotle to educate his thirteen-year-old son. That son
would grow up to be Alexander the Great.
The first Egyptian pharaoh ruled around 3150 BC. Woolly
mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until about 4,000 years
ago. So, there was a time when pharaohs and mammoths both lived on Earth.
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452; a year after the birth
of Christopher Columbus.
Oxford University was founded in 1249; the Aztec Empire
crumbled in 1545. So, both existed for 296 years.
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