“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”*…
(detail)
In 1813, Isaac Eddy and James Wilson created a “Chronology Delineated,” a history from 4000 BC to 1813 AD in the form of a large, living tree on which each branch representing an empire or state.
click here (and again on the image there) for a zoomable version
Via HistoryShots
* Percy Bysshe Shelley
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As we get down with Gibbon, we might note that this, the first day of July, kicks off National Blueberry Month, National Cell Phone Courtesy Month, National Hot Dog Month, National Ice Cream Month– and perhaps most saliently, National Anti-Boredom Month.
From our friends at Instuctables: an Anti-Boredom Kit.
