They Just Prushed Through History

(I’ve cajoled my sister to come with me to a museum on colonial times in the local area. While I love history and am acting like a kid in a candy shop, she seems bored out of her mind.)

Me: “Hey, look… this says our town had a lot of Prussian influence when it began.”

Sister: “What’s that?”

Me: “Well, I suppose the area was probably colonized by people from Prussia, or important people from here had Prussian backgrounds.”

Sister: “But, like, what’s Prussia?”

Me: “It’s a former Germanic state.”

Sister: “A state? Is it near us?”

Me: “No, no, it’s in Europe. Or rather, it used to be – it was dissolved a couple years after World War Two.”

Sister: “When was that?”

Me: “…When was World War Two?”

Sister: “Yes.”

Me: *face-palm* “How are we even related…?”