History

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• Ur ▲ 509
• Tamil Bell ▲ 374
• Category:Obsolete occupations ▲ 300
• Senet ▲ 293
• Al-Jazari ▲ 286
• Ship's cat ▲ 277
• Otokichi ▲ 262
• Great Vowel Shift ▲ 259
• Wanggongchang Explosion ▲ 204
• Letterlocking ▲ 168
• Diolkos ▲ 167
• PayPal Mafia ▲ 162
• Seikilos epitaph ▲ 160
• Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, scientist ▲ 146
• St Scholastica Day Riot ▲ 138
• Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre ▲ 132
• 1700 Cascadia Earthquake ▲ 132
• Door to Hell ▲ 132
• Rocket Mail ▲ 128
• 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
• Drzymała's wagon ▲ 109
• 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg ▲ 107
• Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident ▲ 103
• Banned in Boston ▲ 100
• En svensk tiger ▲ 99
• Dreadnought hoax ▲ 98
• Inca Road System ▲ 90
• The “Linen Book of Zagreb”: The Longest Etruscan Text ▲ 89
• The General Crisis of the 17th Century ▲ 89
• Languages of the Ottoman Empire ▲ 87
• Longest-lasting light bulbs ▲ 85
• History of Google ▲ 84
• Pig War ▲ 84
• Closed city ▲ 84
• The Market for Lemons ▲ 82
• Rongorongo ▲ 80
• The Emu War ▲ 80
• Juan Pujol García ▲ 79
• The Triple Revolution ▲ 75
• The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves ▲ 73
• Societal Collapse ▲ 73
• Hockney–Falco thesis ▲ 70
• Sea Peoples ▲ 69
• Company town ▲ 69
• Turgot map of Paris ▲ 68
• High Arctic relocation ▲ 68
• Hoxne Hoard ▲ 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
• Operation Epsilon ▲ 61
• Piri Reis Map ▲ 61
• Memex ▲ 61
• Correction Girls ▲ 59
• The Third Wave (experiment) ▲ 58
• Stonewall Nation ▲ 58
• Great Stirrup Controversy ▲ 58
• Roman architectural revolution ▲ 57
• River Thames Frost Fairs ▲ 57
• Potemkin Village ▲ 56
• The Cult of Reason ▲ 56
• Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī -- Medieval Islamic Scientist, quite a read... ▲ 55
• Sator Square ▲ 50
• Magdeburg Hemispheres ▲ 49
• Eleanor cross ▲ 47
• BBC Domesday Project ▲ 47
• Jacquard Loom ▲ 47
• Fumifugium, or, The inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London ▲ 46
• Shell Grotto, Margate ▲ 45
• Balloonomania ▲ 42
• Fu-Go Balloon Bomb ▲ 42
• Fruit machine (homosexuality test) ▲ 40
• Imperial Airship Scheme ▲ 40
• 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
• First Council of Nicaea ▲ 32
• Atomgrads ▲ 31
• Select Parts of the Holy Bible for the use of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands ▲ 30
• Circassian genocide ▲ 30
• Great horse manure crisis of 1894 ▲ 30
• Jewel Voice Broadcast ▲ 30
• 1953 Iranian coup d'état ▲ 29
• Venetian Arsenal ▲ 27
• Emo Killings in Iraq ▲ 26
• Scramble for Africa ▲ 26
• Storm Oil ▲ 25
• Bernoulli family ▲ 22
• Rain Follows the Plow ▲ 22
• Turtle (Submersible) ▲ 22
• Parable of the broken window ▲ 21
• Useful idiot ▲ 21
• Tulsa Race Massacre ▲ 21
• North American Phalanx ▲ 20