1531 - SPLIT

This is my 11-year-old Granddaughter's version:

Lauren Ames works aT the local café. Monday is the loudest because the cappuccinos are fifteen percent off, but Wednesday is noisy too because the baker, Katie, always drops off brownies! Mrs Olmes is a frequent visitor and you always know when she arrives because the bell rings on the door and she would call out, “Hello, all!”. She would always order a banana split.

Mrs Olmes always had a banana split

This is my version:

It is LiTtle known that, whilst Sir Ernest Rutherford is credited with first splitting the atom, it was in fact done by accident by his wife. Sir Rutherford had gone out to play golf and his wife was cleaning the house. Whilst in his laboratory she found it very noisy in there - she wanted to hear the sound of the brush on the floor. So she switched off his equipment and did the cleaning in peace and quiet. As she left the room, she switched the equipment back on. What she didn't know was that, as the equipment started back up, an atom or two of nitrogen split. Sir Rutherford was none the wiser about the event when he returned from golf. It took him another 10 days before he achieved the same, though he did realise what he had done and published the paper explaining this significant find and rightfully gaining the credit for it.

Ernest Rutherford was the first person to knowingly split the atom