Cholera Map (Snow) 112–13
Chou, Duke of 15
Christopher Columbus’s Letter 48–49
Churchill, Winston 153, 156
Clark, William 95
Clavius, Christopher 60
Cock, Gerald 151
Code of Hammurabi 12, 16–17
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste 84
Colby, Bainbridge 139
Collins, Michael 192
Columbus, Christopher 12, 48–49, 56, 59
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx & Engels) 108–9
Condell, Henry 67
Confucius 15
Constitution of the United States 83, 86–87, 88, 138–39
Cooper, Susan 156
Cornelius, Robert 100
A page from Charles Darwin’s notebooks on his theory of natural selection. His findings transformed the way that scientists viewed the natural world (see here).
Creamer, T. J. 207
Crick, Francis 178–79
Crick, Michael 179
Crick, Odile 178, 179
Cromwell, Oliver 70
Cruz, Hernán Santa 172
da Vinci, Leonardo 12, 44–45
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé 100
Daladier, Edouard 152
de Gaulle, Charles 180
de Gouges, Olympe 12, 90–91
de Stoeckl, Eduard 120
Darwin, Charles 12, 104–5
Dead Sea Scrolls 12, 13, 22–23
Declaration of Independence, The 9, 12, 79, 82–83, 88
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 79, 88–89, 91
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen 90–91
Declaration of War Against Japan 156–57
Delbrück, Max 179
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo) 68–69
Diary of Anne Frank 13, 162–63
Diary of Howard Carter 144–45
Diary of Samuel Pepys, The 72–73
Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson) 80–81
Dina, Yossi 184
DNA notes 178–79
Dorsey, Jack 206–7
Doubleday, Abner 116
Drexler, Anton 143
Duyvis, Frits Donker 13
Eck, Johann 54, 55
Eckhardt, Heinrich von 135
Edict of Worms 12, 54–55
Edison, Thomas 12, 124–25
Edward VIII, King 148–49
Eichenwald, Kurt 203
Eichmann, Adolf 160
Elcano, Juan Sebastián 56
Ellsworth, Annie 107
Ellsworth, Henry 107
Emancipation Proclamation 12, 118–19, 187
Empire State Building plans 146–47
Engels, Friedrich 108–9
English Bill of Rights 78–79
Epstein, Brian 184
Execution warrant of King Charles I 70–71
Farley, Henry S. 116
Ferdinand II, King 47
Fermi, Enrico 159
First Folio (Shakespeare) 66–67
Fort Sumter Telegram 116–17
Fourteen Points (Wilson) 136–37, 140
Frank, Anne 13, 162–63
Franklin, Benjamin 60
Fraser, Eric 150
Freud, Sigmund 12, 126–27
Fu-Hsi, Emperor 15
Galbraith, John Kenneth 183
Galilei, Galileo 68
Gandharan Buddhist Texts 30–31
Gates, Bill 44
Geneva Convention 174–75
George VI, King 148
Gernsheim, Helmut 100
Giáp, Võ Nguyên 20
Gladwell, Malcolm 207
Glass, Noah 207
Goldwater, Barry 191
Göring, Hermann 160
Gracie, Archibald 128
Gregorian calendar 60–61
Gregory IX, Pope 36
Gregory XIII, Pope 60
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 190–91, 204
Gutenberg, Johannes 43
Gutenberg Bible 11, 42–43
Hall, Reginald ‘Blinker’ 135
Hammurabi, King 16
Hancock, John 83
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A (Petrucci) 51
Harrison, George 184
Heminges, John 67
Hereford Mappa Mundi 40–41
Heydrich, Reinhard 160
Hibbert, Susan 164
Hitler, Adolf 142–43, 152, 155, 160
Hitler–Stalin Non-Aggression Pact 154–55
Homer 18–19
Humphrey, John Peters 172
I Ching 13, 14–15
‘I Have a Dream’ speech (King) 186–87
Iliad, The (Homer) 18–19
Inaugural Address (Kennedy) 182–83
Innocent IV, Pope 36
Instrument of Abdication of Edward VIII 148–49
Instrument of Surrender 164–65
Internet Protocol (Postel) 196–97
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud) 126–27
Iraq War Resolution 204–5
Isabella I, Queen 47
Jackson, Mahalia 187
Jackson, William 87
Jaggard, Isaac 67
James I, King 63
James II, King 72, 79
Jefferson, Thomas 83, 88, 92, 95
Jikji 43
Jobs, Steve 194–95
Jodl, Alfred 164, 165
John, King 35
Johnson, Lyndon B. 191, 204
Johnson, Samuel 12, 80–81
Jones, Clarence 187
Journal of Magellan’s First Voyage around the World (Magellan) 56–57
Kahn, David 135
Kahn, Robert 196
Kama Sutra 26–27
Kennedy, John F. 182–83, 192
Kharosthi manuscript collection 30–31
A page of mathematical calculations from one of Isaac Newton’s notebooks. Newton left behind an enormous stack of writings that run to almost ten million words (see here).
King Jr., Martin Luther 12, 186–87
King James Bible 62–63
Kohl, Helmut 199
Koltsov, Nikolai 179
Lafayette, Marquis de 88
Lamb, William F. 147
las Casas, Bartolomé de 12, 59
Lawrence of Arabia 131
Le Barbier, Jean-Jacques-François 88
Lennon, John 184
Leo X, Pope 55
Lewis, Meriwether 94–95
Life of Samuel Johnson, The (Boswell) 80
Lilius, Aloysius 60
Lincoln, Abraham 12, 116, 119
Lippmann, Walter 136
Litchfeld, Leonard 76
‘Little Red Book, The’ (Mao) 188–89
Litvinov, Maksim 155
Livingston, Robert 92
London Gazette 76, 77
Louis XVI, King 88
Louisiana Purchase 92–93
Luther, Martin 12, 52, 54, 55
Madison, James 88
Magellan, Ferdinand 56
Magna Carta 12, 34–35
Mahabharata 13, 24–25
Making of Johnson’s Dictionary, 1746–1773, The (Reddick) 80
Malthus, Thomas 80, 104
Manhattan Project Notebook 158–59
Manning, Chelsea 208
Mao Tse-tung 188–89
Marbois, Barbé 92
Marshall, George 171
Marshall, John 92
Marshall Plan 170–71
Martin, George 184
Mary II, Queen 79
Marx, Karl 108–9
Massey, Stephen 67
Mayflower Compact 64–65
McCartney, Paul 184
Mein Kampf (Hitler) 143
Melzi, Francesco 44
Mitchell, Leslie 151
Molotov, Vyacheslav 155
Monroe, James 92
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis 88
&
nbsp; Morse, Samuel 106–7
Muhammad, Prophet 32
Munich Agreement 152–53, 155
Mussolini, Benito 152
Napoléonic Code 96–97, 172
Newspaper, first English 76–77
Newton, Isaac 12, 72, 74–75
Niépce, Joseph Nicéphore 100–101
1984 (Orwell) 168–69
Nineteenth Amendment 138–39
Ninety-Five Theses (Luther) 52–53
Notebooks (da Vinci) 44–45
Notebooks (Darwin) 104–5
Obama, Barack 206, 207
Odyssey, The (Homer) 18–19
Of Plimoth Plantation (Bradford) 64, 65
On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (Darwin) 104
Orwell, George 168–69
Oxford English Dictionary 80
Oxford Gazette 76
Pearson, Charles 114–15
Pepys, Samuel 72–73, 76
Petrucci, Ottaviano 51
Phillips, Jack 128
Phonograph 124–25
Photograph, first 100–101
Pigafetta, Antonio 56
Pius VII, Pope 37
Plato 13, 19, 28–29
Population Registration Act 176–77
Postel, Jon 196–97
Potsdam Agreement 199
Queneau, Raymond 19
Quran, The 12, 32–33
Radio Times, The 150–51
Rajan, Rajeswari Sundar 24
Rankin, Jeannette 156
Raveling, George 187
Reddick, Allen 80
Republic, The (Plato) 13, 28–29
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 155
Ricardo, David 84
Roget, Peter Mark 12, 110–11
Roget’s Thesaurus 110–11
Roosevelt, Eleanor 172
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 156, 167
Rosetta Stone 12, 98–99
Rothschild, Walter 132
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 88
Schwarzkopf, Norman 20
Sargent, Aaron A. 139
Seward, William 120
Shakespeare, William 66–67
Shallus, Jacob 87
Sharpe, Sam 103
Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, A (Las Casas) 58–59
Simpson, Wallis 148
Skyscrapers and the Men Who Build Them (Starrett) 147
Slavery Abolition Act 102–3
Smith, Adam 80, 84–85
Snow, John 112–13
Snowden, Edward 13, 212–13
Socrates 28
Soprano, Tony 20
Sorenson, Ted 183
Spencer, Herbert 104
Stalin, Josef 155
Starr, Ringo 184
A Penguin paperback edition of George Orwell’s dystopian novel that coined the terms ‘doublethink’, ‘newspeak’ and ‘Big Brother’ (see here).
Starrett, William A. 147
Stevenson II, Adlai 183
Stone, Biz 207
Sude, Barbara 203
Sukenik, Eliezer Lipa 23
Summa Theologica (Aquinas) 38–39
Sun Tzu 20
Sykes, Sir Mark 131
Sykes-Picot Agreement 12, 130–31
Telegram, first 106–7
Televison listings, first 12, 150–51
Thabit, Zayd ibn 32
Thatcher, Margaret 84
Titanic sinking 128–29
Tolstaya, Sophia 123
Tolstoy, Leo 122–23
Toombs, Robert 116
Treaty of Rome 180–81
Third-century AD papyrus fragments from Plato’s Republic—one of the most influential works of philosophy and moral/political theory ever written (see here).
Treaty of Versailles 12, 140–41, 143
Trugillo, Sebastian 59
Truman, Harry S. 167, 171
Tully, Grace 156
Tutankhamun’s tomb 144–45
Tweet, first 206–7
Twenty-Five-Point Program (Hitler) 142–43
Two Plus Four Treaty 198–99
2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) 210–11
Tyler, John 107
Underground Train System, first 114–15
United Nations Charter 166–67, 199
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 172–73
Urban VIII, Pope 68
Vail, Alfred 107
Vatsyayana 27
Vyasa, Rishi 24
Wannsee Protocol 160–61
War and Peace (Tolstoy) 122–23
Watson, James 179
Wayne, Ronald 194–95
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith) 84–85
Website, first 200–201
Weizmann, Chaim 132
Wên, King 15
WikiLeaks 13, 208–9
Wilberforce, William 102–3
William III, King 79
Williams, Evan 207
Williamson, Joseph 76
Wilson, Woodrow 135, 136–37, 139, 140
Wozniak, Steve 194–95
Yinqueshan Han Slips 20
Young, Thomas 99
Zimmermann, Arthur 135
Zimmermann Telegram 134–35
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