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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, [...]

History Channel’s ‘America The Story of Us’ airs

If you haven’t already heard, the History Channel is airing ‘America The Story of Us’, a 12-hour series that chronicles the founding and making of America.  It looks fantastic.  (We particularly like their choice of title as it is remarkably similar to our registered trademark tagline: The History of Us.  We just wish [...]

How much do you know about Earth Day? Did you know it is tomorrow?

Earth Day, a day celebrating the Earth and inspiring an appreciate for the environment, is upon us again.  But how much do you really know about Earth Day?  Do you know when the first one occurred?  Or how it began?  Or how many countries participate in it?  Well, now you can with the Timelines.com Earth [...]

Happy birthday to us! Timelines.com turned 1 year old today

Yes, Timelines.com turned 1 year old today! At exactly 4:37 pm CST on April 20, 2009, we pushed our little creation out of the nest and onto the world wide web. You can relive that moment here, in photos and video. So, thank you for your support, kind words and links to [...]

Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Timelines.com’s functionality and service now available for news web sites

We are very proud to announce the official launching of our new service, Timelines SE!
And we are especially happy to announce that four major newspaper sites – Boston.com, NYDailyNews.com, SunTimes.com (Chicago Sun-Times), and JSOnline.com (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) – have all signed on for the service.
The details are in the press release below, but what Timelines [...]

Genius timelines

Just a quick post to let you know of some new and interesting timelines that have been recently added to Timelines.com. Each of these are about the lives of various geniuses, and coincidentally, each of whom is readily identified by one name.
Beethoven

Beethoven – from birth to death, and all of symphonies in between.  But what [...]

Has any March been madder than this?

And no, I am not speaking about the recent health care reform debate. I’m talking about NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament March Madness and all the incredible, bracket busting upsets and game winning, buzzer beating shots that have happened over the tournament’s first four days.  Over the course of 48 games, 15 underdogs have won, [...]

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