Plague: From the Black Death to the Lab Bench
Plague is one of the few diseases that has repeatedly reshaped human history — from the Justinianic pandemic that weakened late antiquity, through the Black Dea...
Public timelines
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165 timelines published.
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The AI Mathematics Revolution: When Machines Started Solving Unsolved Problems
This timeline would trace how AI systems moved from assisting mathematicians to reportedly producing large batches of solutions to long-standing problems. It wo...
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The Christa Pike Case and Tennessee's Death Penalty
A timeline tracing Christa Pike's 1995 murder conviction, her decades on Tennessee's death row as the state's only woman under a death sentence, the legal appea...
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From The Social Network to The Social Reckoning: A Tech-Film Saga
A timeline tracing the real-world founding of Facebook, the 2010 film adaptation that dramatized it, the long afterlife of that film in tech and pop culture, an...
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Bab al-Mandab: The Red Sea Chokepoint and Yemen's War
A timeline tracing how a 26km-wide strait between Yemen and Djibouti became one of the world's most contested waterways: the decades of Yemeni civil conflict an...
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Okinawa Under the Bases: US Military Crime and Resistance in Japan
A timeline tracing the postwar US military presence on Okinawa, from base construction and land seizures through recurring allegations of crimes by US personnel...
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High-Seas Strikes: The US Counter-Drug Campaign and International Law
From the first reported lethal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean to the latest attack and UN legal warnings, this timeline would trace...
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Ethiopia's Unfinished War: From Tigray to Renewed Northern Conflict
This timeline would trace Ethiopia's northern conflict from the pre-2020 power struggle between the federal government and the TPLF, through the devastating Tig...
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PDF Technology Evolution
How PDF grew from Adobe's early "Camelot" idea into an ISO standard: format versions, standards, forms and XFA, security and encryption, and the viewers and too...
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Tigray: War, Truce and Renewed Conflict (2020–Present)
A timeline tracing the arc from the outbreak of the Tigray War in November 2020, through the federal–TPLF power struggle, the Eritrean and Amhara fronts, the si...
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Governing the Machine: The Race to Regulate AI
A timeline tracing how governments moved from vague AI ethics principles to hard institutional machinery: early academic and industry safety warnings, national...
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Plague and Biosecurity: From Black Death to the Siberian Lab Case
This timeline would trace plague from its ancient pandemics and persistent natural reservoirs in Siberia and Central Asia to the Soviet bioweapons program, mode...