History

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• East Germany balloon escape ▲ 724
• Ur ▲ 509
• Tamil Bell ▲ 374
• Burned House Horizon ▲ 331
• Category:Obsolete occupations ▲ 300
• Senet ▲ 293
• Al-Jazari ▲ 286
• Ship's cat ▲ 277
• Otokichi ▲ 262
• Great Vowel Shift ▲ 259
• Secessio plebis ▲ 258
• Peak car ▲ 210
• Wanggongchang Explosion ▲ 204
• The Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925 ▲ 200
• Scottish Café ▲ 173
• Holodomor ▲ 172
• Letterlocking ▲ 168
• Diolkos ▲ 167
• Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire ▲ 166
• PayPal Mafia ▲ 162
• Seikilos epitaph ▲ 160
• Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist ▲ 146
• Göbekli Tepe ▲ 142
• St Scholastica Day Riot ▲ 138
• Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre ▲ 132
• 1700 Cascadia Earthquake ▲ 132
• Door to Hell ▲ 132
• World's Littlest Skyscraper ▲ 131
• Sloyd ▲ 131
• Shibori ▲ 129
• Rocket Mail ▲ 128
• Yenish people ▲ 125
• 5 March 1981: The ZX81 home computer launches with 1kb memory ▲ 125
• Operation Gladio ▲ 123
• Erfurt Latrine Disaster ▲ 122
• Project Coldfeet ▲ 122
• Cagot: a persecuted and despised minority found in the west of France ▲ 121
• The Traitorous Eight ▲ 117
• Agent 355 ▲ 115
• Lloyd's Coffee House ▲ 114
• Ten Percent of the Brain Myth ▲ 113
• Drzymała's wagon ▲ 109
• 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg ▲ 107
• Gustav III of Sweden's Coffee Experiment ▲ 103
• Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident ▲ 103
• The Fixed Price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959 ▲ 103
• Ganjifa ▲ 100
• Banned in Boston ▲ 100
• En svensk tiger ▲ 99
• "Some German bombers landed at UK bases, believing they were back in Germany." ▲ 99
• Utsuro-Bune ▲ 98
• Dreadnought hoax ▲ 98
• East German coffee crisis ▲ 91
• Inca Road System ▲ 90
• Antarctic Snow Cruiser ▲ 89
• The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text ▲ 89
• The General Crisis of the 17th Century ▲ 89
• Languages of the Ottoman Empire ▲ 87
• Golden hat ▲ 87
• Longest-lasting light bulbs ▲ 85
• History of Google ▲ 84
• Obsolete German Units of Measurement ▲ 84
• Pig War ▲ 84
• Subutai – Primary military strategist of Genghis Khan ▲ 84
• Closed city ▲ 84
• The Market for Lemons ▲ 82
• Dancing mania ▲ 82
• The Great Illyrian Revolt ▲ 81
• Rongorongo ▲ 80
• The Emu War ▲ 80
• Juan Pujol García ▲ 79
• The Apollo Affair ▲ 79
• The Triple Revolution ▲ 75
• American Letter Mail Company ▲ 75
• The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves ▲ 73
• Societal Collapse ▲ 73
• Hockney–Falco thesis ▲ 70
• Đông Yên Châu inscription ▲ 69
• Sea Peoples ▲ 69
• Company town ▲ 69
• Turgot map of Paris ▲ 68
• High Arctic relocation ▲ 68
• Hoxne Hoard ▲ 67
• 1593 Transported Soldier Legend ▲ 67
• The Mother of All Demos ▲ 67
• Baltic Way ▲ 66
• German submarine U-1206 ▲ 66
• Mark Hofmann ▲ 65
• Elephant Clock ▲ 64
• Mount of piety ▲ 62
• The Scottish Book ▲ 62
• Operation Epsilon ▲ 61
• Piri Reis Map ▲ 61
• Memex ▲ 61
• Kyshtym Disaster ▲ 60
• Pennsylvania town coal mine has been on fire since 1962 ▲ 60
• Correction Girls ▲ 59
• The Third Wave (experiment) ▲ 58
• Stonewall Nation ▲ 58
• Great Stirrup Controversy ▲ 58
• Andreev Bay nuclear accident of 1982 ▲ 58
• Roman architectural revolution ▲ 57
• River Thames Frost Fairs ▲ 57
• Potemkin Village ▲ 56
• The Cult of Reason ▲ 56
• Hasanlu Lovers ▲ 55
• Abram Petrovich Gannibal ▲ 55
• Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read... ▲ 55
• Black Arrow ▲ 54
• Perpetual stew ▲ 53
• Photophone ▲ 52
• Mundaneum ▲ 51
• Sator Square ▲ 50
• Tulsa Race Riot ▲ 50
• Phillis Wheatley ▲ 50
• Jeffrey Hudson ▲ 49
• Magdeburg Hemispheres ▲ 49
• Black cowboys ▲ 48
• Eleanor cross ▲ 47
• Ōmoto ▲ 47
• BBC Domesday Project ▲ 47
• Jacquard Loom ▲ 47
• Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London ▲ 46
• Shell Grotto, Margate ▲ 45
• Tartar Relation ▲ 45
• K-219 ▲ 44
• Loulan Kingdom ▲ 44
• Balloonomania ▲ 42
• Fu-Go Balloon Bomb ▲ 42
• Gerard of Cremona ▲ 41
• Parnassus plays ▲ 40
• Boirault Machine ▲ 40
• Fruit machine (homosexuality test) ▲ 40
• Imperial Airship Scheme ▲ 40
• The Forme of Cury ▲ 39
• Order of the Occult Hand ▲ 38
• Privilegium Maius ▲ 38
• The Darien Scheme ▲ 38
• Strategic Computing Initiative ▲ 36
• Eric Roberts (spy) ▲ 36
• Barnacle goose myth ▲ 36
• Thomas of Cana copper plates ▲ 36
• Agoge ▲ 35
• CS Alert (1890) ▲ 35
• Price revolution ▲ 33
• Canal Defence Light ▲ 33
• First Council of Nicaea ▲ 32
• Santa Susana Field Laboratory ▲ 31
• Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands ▲ 30
• Stonehenge Archer ▲ 30
• Circassian genocide ▲ 30
• Great horse manure crisis of 1894 ▲ 30
• Jewel Voice Broadcast ▲ 30
• Iceland spar ▲ 29
• 1953 Iranian coup d'état ▲ 29
• Wartime Broadcasting Service ▲ 28
• Northeast blackout of 2003 ▲ 28
• Venetian Arsenal ▲ 27
• Kon Tiki Expedition ▲ 27
• Emo Killings in Iraq ▲ 26
• Scramble for Africa ▲ 26
• Storm Oil ▲ 25
• White House Reconstruction ▲ 24
• Bernoulli family ▲ 22
• Republic of Indian Stream ▲ 22
• Rain Follows the Plow ▲ 22
• Turtle (Submersible) ▲ 22
• Parable of the broken window ▲ 21
• Useful idiot ▲ 21
• The Plague ▲ 21
• Tulsa Race Massacre ▲ 21
• Feminism in Japan ▲ 20
• Salem Witchcraft Trial (1878) ▲ 20
• North American Phalanx ▲ 20