why did they not cut to leia at all when he said this. why did they cut to han for like five straight seconds. i know we needed the jealous han reaction but i honest to god thought lando was talking to han
Spain was still a fascist dictatorship when 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 [Roman & Ottoman] spanned the entire gap from Jesus to Babe Ruth.
When the pyramids were being built, there were still woolly mammoths.
The last use of the guillotine was in France the same year Star Wars came out.
Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded.
When pilgrims were landing on Plymouth Rock, you could already visit what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico to stay at a hotel, eat at a restaurant and buy Native American silver.
The first wagon train of the Oregon Trail heads out the same year the fax machine is invented.
Nintendo was formed the same year Van Gogh painted Starry Night.
Cleopatra (the last Pharaoh of Egypt) lived closer to the moon landings than she did to the building of the Pyramids of Giza.
When Kublai Khan became the Mongol Emperor, the first humans were setting foot on New Zealand.
The world’s oldest living tree was already 1,000 years old when the Wooly Mammoths died out.
The steam-powered train was invented before the bicycle as we know it. (And bicycles only predate airplanes by 30 years)
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
Guns (or handcannons/fire-lances) had been in use in China for about 200 years when the English defeated the French at Crécy in 1346 through the novel use of the longbow.
The lives of Confucius, Socrates and Buddha all occurred around the same time. Buddha is thought to have died in 483 BC, Confucius died in 479 BC, and Socrates was born in 469 BC (a span of just 14 years)
Mauritania became the last country to ban slavery, over 5 years after the launch of the iPod.
During World War II, there were still many living former slaves in the US.
The Native Americans had a city, Cahokia, that was as populated as London or Paris in its peak during the 13th century. It remained the largest ever city in the United States until the 1740’s. It was completely abandoned by the time a white man saw it.
Mississippi didn’t ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (to abolish slavery) until the same year Star Trek Voyager premiered. It wasn’t officially ratified until they notified the US Archivist the year after the Steven Spielberg film, Lincoln, came out in theaters.
A man who saw Abraham Lincoln get shot was on a game show called I’ve Got a Secret to talk about the experience in 1956 (video).
If we’d made it in the 60s it would have been Peter Sellers in both roles. 1970s Michael Palin as Aziraphale and David Bowie as Crowley. In the 1980s still Michael Palin as Aziraphale but now Rowan Atkinson as Crowley. In the 1990s Hugh Grant as Aziraphale and Alan Rickman as Crowley.
Bryan Fuller: The wink in that was, and your reaction to the wink—
Raúl Esparza: That was Mads, that was Mads on set. When he kept it, I said, “that was actually the first time..”, like it struck fear in me when he did it, because he just did it in one take and he hadn’t done it in the others and it was such a purely Hannibal Lecter, you know that sort of classic Hannibal that you know moment, and he never plays that stuff.
Bryan Fuller: It’s rare, it’s rare that he lets it bubble to the surface.
