[pictured: Ronald Reagan wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt. His body is nearly turned sideways, chin lifted and grinning at the camera, resting his weight on his right elbow with his left hand clasped loosely over his resting right wrist. Italicized text upon this propaganda poster reads: “RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”]
>a c-list actor's career flopped so now I have to pay $1000 to set foot in an ambulance
any other examples like this?
I'll give it a try.
I have to pass on this one. Trump has dabbled in wrestling but not as a moderator? Other shady wrestling personalities have dabbled in politics, but not with much effect?
This is about the conquistadores, the Spanish and Portuguese fighters who devastated South America. The "spanish" had spent centuries (re-)conquering the Iberian Peninsula. Aristocrats are warlords. If they don't inherit wealth, they have to earn it through fighting in war.
At least 1 space probe has crashed because of failures to convert between metric and some regionally used unit. Metric was, as everyone knows, invented during and by the French Revolution.
I had to look up the pirate thing. Snopes rates it as false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/metric-system-pirates/
James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. That, more or less, kicked off the age of fossil fuels.
Albert Einstein. He made physicists understand that there was a lot of boom in nuclear reactions with his famous E=mc^2. He also explained the photoelectric effect. But I think the speed limit thing is Emmy Noether, an absolutely badass woman.
Lenin. He was in exile in Switzerland. During WW1, when things were revolutionary but Russia was still fighting Germany, the german army let him travel through their territory in a sealed wagon to Russia, so that he would knock Russia out of the war.