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5 Interactive Timelines of Previous Oscar Winners
Making use once of Wikidata, and our new tool for creating live timelines from their ever expanding database, we have put together a few timelines of previous Academy Award Oscar winners. The timelines are created live from Wikidata and show the previous winners of the 4 acting awards and the award for best director. All the timelines are colour coded by the nationality of the recipient of the award. You can view the colour code, and use it as a quick filtering system, by clicking on the ink drop icon on the timeline.
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Presidents of the United States of America - ShowCase Timeline
This special Showcase timeline shows the presidencies of all 44 Presidents of the United States, and has colour coded filters showing the political party of the president while in office. OPEN TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW TO EXPLORE IN FULL SCREEN About this timeline Time in office The events on the timeline show the time each president was in office, the majority show the standard 4 and 8 year terms of american politics.
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Time for an Update! HistropediaJS & ShowCase Timelines
When we are busy creating new things, we sometimes forget to tell the world what we are doing. So here is a long overdue and hopefully very exciting update on what's being going on at Histropedia recently. HistropediaJS - Timeline Renderer The Biggest news is the launch of HistropediaJS, a JavaScript library that renders timelines using the same core engine as the main Histropedia site. The Library allows any data source to be visualised as an interactive timeline, with options for custom styling and features to be rendered with the timeline.
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Timeline of Bob Dylan Albums
Explore an interactive timeline of albums by American singer-song writer Bob Dylan, colour coded by Live, compilation and studio albums. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW BLUE Studio Alums 37 Albums RED Compilation Albums 17 Albums GREEN Live Albums 16 albums HISTROPEDIA TIMELINES: Our timelines are created automatically (and improved manually) using Wikipedia and Wikidata. There are over 300,000 timelines and 1.5 million events available for free, and published under an open license.
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Timeline of James Bond Films by Actor
Explore a slice of British film history with our timeline of James Bond films, colour coded by the actor who played the world's most famous spy in each film. CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE TIMELINE IN A NEW WINDOW RED Sean Connery (7 films)
GREY George Lazenby (1 film)
BLUE Roger Moore (7 films)
GREEN Timothy Dalton (2 films)
PURPLE Pierce Brosnan (4 films)
YELLOW Daniel Craig (4 films)
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New: Colour Coded Timelines
Any regular readers out there may have noticed a drop recently in blog posts, don’t fear this was a temporary pause while we concentrated on a few other projects. One of these is a new portal site which should be coming soon, including a new custom film timelines generator. Another cool thing we have been doing is prototyping new potential features for Histropedia. One of these features is Colour Coded Timelines, and although we can’t yet offer you the ability to colour code timelines, we have started creating some colour coded timelines for you to enjoy.
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Who has the best films? – Batman V Superman interactive timeline
The highly anticipated Batman v Superman film is almost here and we are about to see the world’s two most famous superheroes appear on the big screen at the same time. That’s not to say both characters don’t have a rich on screen history to explore!
We’ve put together a colour coded timeline showing the different Batman films and Superman films through history. We haven’t included any documentaries, re-releases or non-theatrically released films.
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Timeline of John Lennon albums
John Winston Ono Lennon MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the band the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership. Wikipedia After the Beatles John Lennon started a successful solo career, selling over 14 million records as of 2012.
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Children's TV show timelines
Children's TV show related timelines have been trending over the weekend on Histropedia, I've been looking over some of these timelines and they are a trove of amazing memories from Saturday morning in front of the T.V.! Popular children's TV show timelines BBC children's television programmes Disney XD shows ITV children's television programmes Television series by DHX Media Disney animated television series 1980s American animated television series British children's television programmes A bit of extensive research (adding some events to a timeline!
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10 timelines of albums by the top selling bands of all time
To celebrate a time when there was no greater musical aspiration than to join a rock band, we take a look at the albums of the top selling bands of all time. We’ve listed the top 10 selling bands, each one with a link to view an interactive timeline of their albums. The timelines are combinations of studio, live and compilation albums. Reading window related content: For a truly complete experience open the reading window by double clicking on any of the events on the timeline.
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Timeline of scientists
Explore the history of science with a timeline showing the life spans of the greatest scientists of all time. "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)
Without the work of Galileo and Copernicus before him, Isaac Newton may never have discovered his law of universal gravitation, which in turn laid the foundations for Albert Einstein to develop his famous theory of general relativity.
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Timelines of famous films
Lights, camera, action! Its movie time on Histropedia! Timelines aren't just about history, they’re about chronology. They’re about exploring topics in a way that lets you immediately grasp which order things happened in, when they took place and how far apart they were. There are few areas where this is more useful than when exploring the magical history of film, or just checking up on the order to watch the Marvel movies!
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Timelines of Famous Painters - Portal Page
As part of our effort to help you find timelines of famous painters we have created this page with a vast selection of timelines organised by century, nationality and period. Scroll through the list to find the timeline you are looking for or search for the timeline directly on Histropedia. For more information on searching for timelines, and for information on the criteria used for making these timelines take a look at our post: Discover timelines of famous painters.
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Timeline of Publications in Mathematics
This timeline shows the chronology of publication of some of the most important works in the field of mathematics from all over the world. Timeline: Publications in mathematics Time Range: 1600 BC to present day Category: Science and Mathematics No of Events: 51 The timeline starts at the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus published in Ancient Egypt circa 1650 BC and stretches up to the modern day. It includes many publications in mathematics that revolutionised our understanding of the subject such as Isaac Newton's famous Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which also had profound implications for the study of Physics.
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5 Timelines of Space Exploration
Discover the history of the Apollo program, private space flight, missions to Jupiter and more with these space exploration timelines Embedded timelines are read-only, click on the icon to open the timeline on the main site for full controls and all the features.
Missions to Mars The red planet has long been an object of fascination, and continues to yield new mysteries as the different Rovers explore its surface. See also: Orbiter Missions to Mars Successful missions to Mars Apollo Program The program that succeeded in landing the first human on the surface of the moon.
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Timeline of Novels By Charles Dickens
Timeline: Novels by Charles Dickens Time Range: 1837 to 1870 Category: Literature No of Events: 20 Charles Dickens was born on February 7 1812, he is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and is responsible for creating some of the world's most memorable characters.Including, Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, The artful Dodger, David Copperfield and many more. His 1843 Novella, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written and has been adapted and has been adapted countless times: for theatre, film, television and opera.
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New timelines in our People category
From Actors to Descendants of Queen Victoria we've been busy adding new timelines to our people category. We've embedded a few, but make sure you follow the link to see them all. UPDATE: You can now search for and add all of our people timelines (and more) straight from the search box on Histropedia. If you have a timeline you would like us to include on Histropedia let us know and we’ll add the best ones to search.
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Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration Started in the late 19th century and continued till the end of the first quarter of the 20th century.
The major objective of many of the expeditions was to be the first party to reach the Geographic South Pole. A feat accomplished by Roald Amundsen during his 1910 – 1912 expedition. Amundsen arrived just 5 weeks ahead of Robert Falcon Scott’s party of the Terra Nova expedition.
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Today in 1452: The great Leonardo Da Vinci was born
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was Born in Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy) on the 15th of April 1452. To celebrate his life and works we have an interactive timeline of his major works. Works By Leonardo da Vinci - interactive timeline Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci During his lifetime and for several centuries afterwards Leonardo’s fame came from his paintings. He is considered one the best artists in to have ever lived and his painting “The Mona Lisa” is probably the most famous painting in the world.