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In a 1994 blackout, L.A. residents called 911 when they saw the Milky Way (timeline.com)
24 points by briandear on Jan 16, 2023 | past | 9 comments
Coca-Cola collaborated with the Nazis in the 1930s, and Fanta is the proof (timeline.com)
5 points by underscore_ku on March 5, 2022 | past | 2 comments
Fort Ross: Former Russian Outpost in California (timeline.com)
2 points by morpheos137 on Dec 24, 2021 | past
Disposable paper dresses were a trend in the 1960s (timeline.com)
81 points by textread on March 7, 2021 | past | 25 comments
In the early 1980s, white supremacist groups were early adopters of the internet (timeline.com)
3 points by indigodaddy on Jan 25, 2021 | past | 1 comment
In one German town, 1k people killed themselves in 72 hours (WWII) (timeline.com)
4 points by optimalsolver on Jan 12, 2021 | past | 1 comment
LA residents call police upon seeing the starry sky during a blackout (1994) (timeline.com)
4 points by solarengineer on Aug 2, 2020 | past | 1 comment
A racist hate-monger masterminded America’s War on Drugs (timeline.com)
3 points by eurasiantiger on June 24, 2020 | past
Rare Photos of Bonnie and Clyde (timeline.com)
1 point by TakakiTohno on April 17, 2020 | past
Universal health care was almost part of the Social Security Act of 1935 (2017) (timeline.com)
2 points by samclemens on March 7, 2020 | past
Women pioneered computer programming. Then men took their industry over (timeline.com)
1 point by Anon84 on Jan 13, 2020 | past
Photos: Dark beauty in the oil fields of old Southern California (timeline.com)
1 point by detaro on Nov 9, 2019 | past
The gangs of 1950s San Francisco wanted to do good (2018) [video] (timeline.com)
6 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 13, 2019 | past
[flagged] Rockefellers hired militias to shoot at strikers in Ludlow massacre (timeline.com)
57 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 13, 2019 | past | 18 comments
Responsible for the modern NRA killed a Hispanic, before becoming border agent (timeline.com)
4 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 13, 2019 | past
Welcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt in the U.S. (timeline.com)
11 points by vinnyglennon on Oct 13, 2019 | past | 1 comment
This was the only refugee camp in America for Jews fleeing the Nazis (timeline.com)
1 point by vinnyglennon on Oct 13, 2019 | past
Last public execution in the US was a media circus (timeline.com)
2 points by PcMojo on April 25, 2019 | past
The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month (2017) (timeline.com)
2 points by apsec112 on Jan 5, 2019 | past
This VR pioneer had a radical idea – girls’ games shouldn’t be dumbed down (timeline.com)
2 points by nherbw on May 4, 2018 | past
Warning: this article does Not includes graphic images… but it should (timeline.com)
1 point by nherbw on March 23, 2018 | past
Body ink’s unlikely journey from Polynesia to sailor’s biceps to everyone else (timeline.com)
1 point by DoreenMichele on March 21, 2018 | past
Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear (timeline.com)
1 point by em3rgent0rdr on March 21, 2018 | past | 1 comment
Kansas locked up more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs (timeline.com)
2 points by samclemens on March 12, 2018 | past
In the 1980s, Italy paid a Nigerian town $100 monthly to store toxic waste (timeline.com)
1 point by vezycash on March 10, 2018 | past | 1 comment
Photos: Enter the badass (timeline.com)
3 points by nherbw on March 5, 2018 | past
Sexy stewardesses were exploited to sell more tickets – until women fought back (timeline.com)
2 points by anarbadalov on Feb 20, 2018 | past
Robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years (timeline.com)
1 point by shubhamjain on Jan 24, 2018 | past
Robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years (timeline.com)
2 points by shubhamjain on Jan 21, 2018 | past
Before Apple, Steve Jobs was an acid-gobbling, horticulturalist commune dweller (timeline.com)
1 point by nherbw on Jan 3, 2018 | past

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