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Chicago Experiences Another “Non-Event”. How Disappointing.
Earlier in the year, Chicago experienced a “non-event” when we lost the bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics in the first round of voting. This week we experienced another one.
After 19 months of proclaiming his innocence on countless talk shows, a stint on “Celebrity Apprentice”, an appearance on a musical named for him, writing a [...]
Now presenting: the Timelines Showcase!
We’ve been working hard on expanding our product line, and we are proud to announce our latest addition to the Timelines family – the Timelines Showcase!
Similar to Timelines SE (in case you were wondering, SE is for “Sports Edition”), the Timelines Showcase enables newspaper clients to present their past content in the context of the [...]
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If you are a Twitter or Facebook user (or both), be sure to follow us. We tweet and post fun facts about this day in history as well as cool (dare I say educational) history-related posts, resources and experts. And we are always on the look out for like-minded people and sites. So if you [...]
History’s Bloodiest Day of Year? Perhaps July 1
I happened to be browsing our “What Happened On” page on Timelines.com, and I decided to look at the events of today, July 1. After looking at the events, I’ve concluded that July 1 might be history’s bloodiest day of the year. Take a look:
July 1, 1863 – Battle of Gettysburg
The American Civil [...]
An Event with No End in Sight, Sadly
It’s Day 59 and counting since the BP Deepwater Horizon well blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, initiating the spill that has wreaked incredible environmental and economic damage and completely consumed the news cycle. This event is a sad and frustrating story on multiple levels, not the least of which is that 11 people [...]
A Chicago Event 49 Years in the Making
Congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks for winning the Stanley Cup last night, four games to two over the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blackhawks broke the longest drought without a Stanley Cup in the National Hockey League, 49 years, as the last time they were champs was in 1961 (when they beat the Detroit Red Wings). (For [...]
A Primer for a Major World Event
Do you know that the most watched sporting event in the world kicks off this Friday, June 11 in South Africa? And it’s related to the sport that has the greatest sports anthem of all-time?
If you don’t know, or if you are wondering what it is, Timelines.com is here to help.The event is the World [...]
It’s alive! RodBlagojevich.com – THE source for everything Rod Blagojevich: news, trial, antics, events and products
In anticipation of the trial of the century (ok, maybe the trial of the year) and to keep you updated on all things Rod Blagojevich, we have launched RodBlagojevich.com.
If you haven’t been aware of what Blago has been up to over the past 18 months, then you must live off the grid because he’s been [...]
A plane crashes into the world’s tallest building. September 2001? No, July 1945
If I asked you to name an incident in which a plane crashed into the world’s tallest building, you’d probably name the World Trade Center terrorist attacks that happened on September 11, 2001. Well, another event that fits this description happened 56 years earlier. I was unaware of this until a few days ago.
On July [...]
Want to browse history in an easy and visual way? Now you can!
We recently made some changes to our home page on Timelines.com. The intent behind these is to enable browsing of key historical topics and some of their major associated events.
The top part of our home page is still focused on major events in history that happened over the prior week. To make this more explicit, [...]
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