Somebody got paid to think of this question?
One of the members of the Des Moines Astronomical Society used to bring Pirouettes- those rolled wafers filled with chocolate or whatever- to meetings and observing sessions for us to munch on. I grew fond of them, but they are terribly expensive.
So today when I was at the Dollar Store I saw a less expensive version, and figured it was worth a buck to check them out. They aren't terrible. But around the top of the can is inscribed the following: "Twisted Trivia: Which significant event in history occurred before the telephone, lightbulb, gas powered car and even the airplane was invented?" It then gave a website to go to for the answer.
Well, let's see. The Big Bang? The Flood? The building of the pyramids? The rise and fall of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Roman Empires? The birth of Christ? The Crucifixion? The Resurrection? The conversion of Constantine? The birth of Muhammad? The career of Charlemagne? The Crusades? The plague? The Norman Conquest? The Reformation? The Thirty Years' War? The Enlightenment? The American and French Revolutions? The career of Napoleon? The Civil War? The Emancipation Proclamation? The assassination of Lincoln?
Nowhere on the site do I find the answer. Perhaps it's the extinction of the dinosaurs- despite the fact that they would doubtless have been smart enough not to ask somebody to identify one single historical event on the sole basis of it having occurred during a period encompassing practically the entire history of the human race.
So today when I was at the Dollar Store I saw a less expensive version, and figured it was worth a buck to check them out. They aren't terrible. But around the top of the can is inscribed the following: "Twisted Trivia: Which significant event in history occurred before the telephone, lightbulb, gas powered car and even the airplane was invented?" It then gave a website to go to for the answer.
Well, let's see. The Big Bang? The Flood? The building of the pyramids? The rise and fall of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Roman Empires? The birth of Christ? The Crucifixion? The Resurrection? The conversion of Constantine? The birth of Muhammad? The career of Charlemagne? The Crusades? The plague? The Norman Conquest? The Reformation? The Thirty Years' War? The Enlightenment? The American and French Revolutions? The career of Napoleon? The Civil War? The Emancipation Proclamation? The assassination of Lincoln?
Nowhere on the site do I find the answer. Perhaps it's the extinction of the dinosaurs- despite the fact that they would doubtless have been smart enough not to ask somebody to identify one single historical event on the sole basis of it having occurred during a period encompassing practically the entire history of the human race.
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