What do the following have in common?
- Toyota’s lean production system
- A map of England’s fossil strata
- The Triangle Shirtwaist fire
- Einstein’s equation
- Rosa Parks
- The San Francisco earthquake
- Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run
- The compass
- Cod
- The 1960 Olympics
- Muckraking journalism
- Prohibition
- The blizzard of 1888
- The Galapagos Islands
- The 1919 Paris Peace Conference
- Tea
- The 1968 election
- Bananas
- Anne Boleyn
- The East India Company
- Nixon’s visit to China
- The NASDAQ market
- Mauve
- The 1970 Alabama/USC football game
- 1968
- The Model T
- The Carlisle school football team
- “Howl”
- The 107th Congress
- The GI Bill
- The Chicago Columbian Exposition
- Gunpowder
- The dot
- Coal
- The battle of Thermopylae
(For a hint, see Sarah L.’s comment to my last post.)