xtimeline
xtimeline is a site that allows people to visually recap an event in history by building a time line for it. I initially thought it was pointless, and maybe it is. But it’s kind of interesting to browse through some of them. It’s actually not a bad way to brush up on past events. It held my attention a lot longer than it probably should have. To list a few:
If I were back in eighth grade doing those tedious “research” reports, something like this would have come in handy. It’s too bad I knew more history back in those days than I do now.