Examples by Topic

People & History

 
People & History
get information about a person

Harriet Tubman

compare several people

Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman

compute a family relationship

father's mother's sister's son

grandmother's aunt

get information about a surname

name Jones

compare given names

Elizabeth, Rebecca, Jennifer

get information about an occupation

pharmacist

compare salaries

salary mathematician, physicist, chemist

get information about a current political leader

President of Argentina

get information about a past political leader

16th President of the United States

get the date of a historical event

Battle of Hastings

construct a timeline of events

founding of Carthage, Trojan War

find the date range associated to a historical period

Bronze age

compare historical periods

Elizabethan era, Jacobean era

get information about a historical country or kingdom

Holy Roman Empire

compare multiple historical countries

Bernicia, Northumbria

convert Roman numerals to standard number notation

MDCCLXXVI

convert a decimal number to Mayan numerals

365 to Mayan

compute the current value of a historical quantity of money

$2500 (1950 dollars)

compute historical equivalent value of today's money

10,000 current dollars in 1910