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- FeargusMcDuff, on 03/03/2008, -6/+35We have the best history!
- Procure, on 03/03/2008, -0/+21Wow, extremely detailed and all the dots provide links to articles describing events. Good find.
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+18Bias? Against what? What are you trying to say? That, for example, in 1500 - 800BC, major lowlands were in fact NOT extensively settled?
- cudnthinkovasn, on 03/03/2008, -2/+17this is why bbc is awesome
- Thinker10, on 03/03/2008, -1/+13Great and intuitive way to teach historical information.
Better yet, this is actually linking directly to it (instead of some money-grubbing blog or 17 and a half page news article).
Digg ftw (as usual). - crunchyeyeball, on 03/03/2008, -0/+11954 AD - Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking king in England, is forced out of Yorvik (York)
...Eric Bloodaxe, an exiled son of Harald Finehair, king of Norway, was invited to take over the kingdom of Yorvik (York)...
I wish modern rulers were a little more creative with their titles - King Bloodaxe, now that is a name to strike fear into the hearts of would-be rebels and terrorists the world over. King Finehair, not so much... - Daan01, on 03/03/2008, -1/+11Maybe everyone is speechless.. ;)
- mecole21, on 03/03/2008, -1/+11Its not really that huge of a war here in America either... basically pirates attacked american ships and the Americans blamed i on the british... theyre ships fought a little and then it was over... worst thing that happened was the British buring down the White House...
- manicleek, on 03/03/2008, -2/+121776 & 1812 - THANK *****
1917 - yeah maybe
1942 - you helped, but no-one bailed us out, probably would have just taken longer without you, plus the Russians did more
2009 - you may have dragged us down with you by then - oldhick, on 03/03/2008, -1/+10Why do I have to keep looking it up for you jack ass. If you want to teach me something, post it.
- oldhick, on 03/03/2008, -1/+9I did. Didn't find anything. Why don't you go tweak his wiki page for us... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
- Yesplease, on 03/03/2008, -0/+7You may be correct but...do you have a point? Or are you just saying things?
Shakespeare had his plays performed at the Globe theater!!! - wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -3/+10american history? Surely a country has to exist for more than a few weeks before it can be considered to have a history.
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -0/+6Everyone has a blemishes on their history. The Norwegians did the same to Britain back in the day. What country HASN'T raped, murdered and pillaged? Let's face it, we're all bastards.
- CrazedLeper, on 03/03/2008, -2/+8Whopee! Big Deception Year! Yaaay! How many time do you nave to tell me I'm "free" before I'll believe you? Answer: infinite because I know the only freedom America has is the freedom it imagines. A nation of truly "free" people need not be constantly reminded of the fact. How often does the government tell you there's gravity or air? Not necessary, it's just there.
- Cottrell36thAIR, on 03/03/2008, -3/+9Where's the invention of the jet engine?
- inactive, on 03/03/2008, -2/+8Wow, we were more advance in 3000BC than some nations are now!
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+7Torchwood is utter *****.
- Ramble, on 03/03/2008, -0/+6Have you ever heard BBC news? Listen to radio 4 sometime, listen to a debate and then compare it with the sham that is Fox News.
- FeargusMcDuff, on 03/03/2008, -2/+7Inaccurate.
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+6Can you actually give any examples of the BBC's bias or are you content making unsubstantiated claims?
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+6Fox news isn't even in the shadow of the BBC's reliability.
- miriv365, on 03/03/2008, -1/+6Anyone notice that the War of 1812 is not shown on the timeline? I am guessing it was not considered a major conflict in British eyes?
- cudnthinkovasn, on 03/03/2008, -0/+5it was the daleks
- inactive, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4There's no such thing as the "Queen of England".
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4I certainly will do.
- inactive, on 03/03/2008, -2/+6Where's the part they were the first to appreciate the automatic gun (the Chinese had ignored it as too lethal to be humane even for war), they set it up in a few African colonies, and took care of some of the "problem"?
- noahhoward, on 03/03/2008, -0/+4Their oracle predicted the Chav.
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -3/+7I ***** hate southern fairies.
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+5Oh shut the ***** up with your "lies" *****. The BBC is one of the most reliable news and information sources in the world. ALL news agencies have their agendas but I'd trust the BBC over any other news agency period.
- arizonagroove, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3You really don't understand the concept of the 'digg' in digg.com do you.
- cudnthinkovasn, on 03/03/2008, -3/+6american history fails because it doesnt involve the romans =(
- jasonsalas, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Yeah, really slick UI. I think this might be based on an MIT project: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
- Pixelante, on 03/03/2008, -3/+6No mention of Doctor Who, UFO, Blake's 7 or Space: 1999. Buried as inaccurate.
- Yesplease, on 03/03/2008, -1/+4God, I am so bitter about your superior time line resources. ***** American time lines.
- Yesplease, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Ok fair play to you. I do hate it when attention is drawn away from the United States and America. RULE, BRITANNIA!
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+4The 1812 war wasn't that important to us. We were too busy putting the French in their place to care.
- REBELinBLUE, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Hey, hating the French, it is what we do best ;)
As Marcus Brigstocke says, we should be best friends with the French, but instead we have the "special relationship" with the Americans. Basically it boils down to the fact that we couldn't be arsed to learn French ;) - Yesplease, on 03/03/2008, -1/+4I don't know about that. Let's play rock paper scissors to determine whose history wins!
- wellyuk, on 03/03/2008, -1/+4Then perhaps you should email them and ask them to add more. The funny thing about websites is they can grow. Did you whine about Wikipedia not having a million resources when that was first published?
- Paddy1, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3Britain was going through the Napoleon Wars at the time so that has overshadowed the War of 1812. When Napoleon is banging on the gates of Moscow and waiting to cross the English Channel Britain's attention was more focused at home
- soupr, on 03/03/2008, -0/+3We invented the best biscuits in the world.
- MrSkills, on 03/03/2008, -1/+3Re WW2: It's easy to make a grand entrance when you're late to the party...
:) - JediPrime, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2American, Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
Brit, World Wide Web
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web - bosssmiley, on 03/04/2008, -0/+2BBC is run by humanities graduates, not engineering ones. All that clever brainbox sciency stuff is a bit beyond them (as witnessed by their canning of "Tomorrows World" and the degeneration of "Horizon" into a climate change circle jerk).
- piesforyou, on 03/04/2008, -1/+3Looney alert, looney alert, wooo wooo wooo! Fetch the men in white coats!
- richporter, on 03/03/2008, -1/+31812 was an American military blunder. The Canadians, of all people, walked all over the Americans of the time. It was a war that delivered no true victor. No offense to the Canucks though, I like you guys.
- dsmx, on 03/03/2008, -0/+2Excellent.
- ElBeh, on 03/03/2008, -2/+4This is awesome...
- Smokersroom, on 03/03/2008, -1/+3Reported as racist.
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