July 2, 1776 - Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin, after a minor time mishap involving a lightning rod and a Tesla coil, declared: "Entropy is merely a social construct." Somehow, the American flag ends up with six stripes for a week. General Washington blames it on the French.
November 5, 1605 - London: While avoiding a rather lackluster fireworks display, Guy Fawkes swears he hears whispers of a faceless mask. "Preposterous!" he declares to an audience of perplexed monarchists wearing identical masks labeled "V for Vaguely Perturbed".
April 23, 1564 - Stratford-upon-Avon: An unexpected visit from a future bardian cybernetique prompts a young Shakespeare to pen "To beep or not to beep". The globe theatre revokes his time travel license; an unopened envelope turns up centuries later with a binary sonnet.
March 14, 1879 - Ulm: In a mild dispute over the time-space continuum, Albert Einstein's babysitter insists she invented relativity before nap time and after milk. She writes E=mc² on a blackboard, unaware she actually means "Exceptionally Mild Cheese".