Cleriwhens are much like clerihews but explicate periods
rather than people, substituting chronology for biography.
As for cleriwhos, cleriwhats, cleriwheres and cleriwhys --
not to mention clerihows -- your guess is as good as ours.
476:
Cor! Rome's in a fix:
Barbarians crash the gate. Bread and circuses pale.
(States fail: let's not pretend.)
A thousand-year empire -- the place wasn't built in a day --
fin'lly crawls to its end.
1066:
Harold
would nix
the invasions of Tostig
and Harald of Norway (“Hardrada’).
But William of Normandy whines,
“To be King…? I’ve just gotta!”
1492:
Christopher cum crew
an ur-treacherous ocean, the icy Atlantic,
with caravels triplex Chris cross’d,
where he found North America,
this notwithstanding that no one’d reported it lost.
1776:
Militias of farmers and hicks
cry "Enough!" to the King of Great Britain
and take on his troops.
Independence is won, though for white folks alone.
(Cf. DAR and sim'lar groups.)
1984:
Eric Blair (George Or-
well) intro'd ' Big Brother,'
'double-think' -- his novel help'd define
'em. (1984's the name:
the book arrived in '49.)
2001:
SF-ing fun
as apes learn from monoliths,
HAL warbles "Daisy" and astronaut Kier
worries Earth from his translucent bubble.
(Again, here, the name is a year.)
