Need some creative thoughts...

I am a college student and have to give a 5-7 minute speech from the category history. (events, battles, architecture, leaders, royalty, cultures lost cities, entertainers, art, invention etc.) I am not looking for anyone to do the work for me, I was just wondering if anyone had anything that is really different from the norm. We get more points for creative topics. Again, I do not want anyone to do the work for me, I enjoy researching. I just wanted to check to see if anyone here would know of an event or anything that most people don't know about or that could hold the intrest of 20 other college students for the 5-7 minutes.

Open and Thankful to all suggestions!