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* [1303.6614] [http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6614 On the Statistical Significance of the Bulk Flow Measured by the PLANCK Satellite]. arxiv.org
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* [[Terpander]]
* [[Instanton]]
* [[Cliodynamics]]
* [[List of emerging technologies]]
* [[Native Americans in the United States]]
* [[Kansas in the American Civil War]]
* [[Significant other]]
* [[Bison hunting]]
* [[Tipi]]

... ''and [[:Category:Stubs|other articles]], like [[:Category:History stubs|History stubs]], that [[:Category:Articles to be expanded|need to be expanded]]''.
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''I have improved these articles'' ...

* [[Universal history]]
* [[Historical powers]]
* [[History of electromagnetism]] 
* [[History of mathematical notation]]
* [[History of writing]]
* [[Atmospheric electricity]]
* [[Emerging technologies]]
* [[Invention of radio]]
* [[John Stone Stone]]
* [[Maritime history]]
* [[Pax Americana]]
* [[Necho II]]

... ''and quite a few other articles. I'm interested in these'' ...

* [[History]]
** [[Prehistory]]
** [[Ancient history]]
** [[Postclassical Era|Medieval history]]
** [[Early modern history]]
*** [[Renaissance]] 
** [[Modern history]] 
*** [[Contemporary history]]

... ''and many more (like the [[Kaw people]] and the [[Delaware Tribe of Indians|Delaware]])''.
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;[[Wikipedia:Service awards|Editor service award]]: [http://books.google.com/books?id=X5sRAAAAIAAJ Complete and Perfect Tutnum of the Encyclopedia]. 
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A collection of [[life, the universe, and everything]] ...  
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A [[website]] that you should check out ...  
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[http://showmenonstop.com/#Maritime_history Maritime history]<br />
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... so, go check it out. Maybe you will have fun or learn something interesting.
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Wanna listen to something? Check out these [[Internet radio|iStations]] ...  

* [http://www.radio-locator.com/ radio-locator.com]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/ bbc.co.uk/iplayer]
* [http://www.npr.org/ www.npr.org]
* [http://betterpropaganda.com/ betterpropaganda.com]

... maybe you will find some good sounds for your ears.
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I currently favor and am listening to ...

* [[The Iceberg/Freedom Of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!]]

... and it's good. You should check it out.
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Wanna watch something? Check out this [[entertainment]] ...  

* [[Moon (film)]]
* [[Once (film)]]
* [[Equilibrium (film)]]
* [[Heist (film)]]
* [[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]
* [[Blade Runner]]
* [[Paycheck (film)]]
* [[2001: A Space Odyssey]]
* [[The Matrix]]
* [[Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)]]
* [[The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford]]

... maybe you will find some good thoughts for your head.
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Alternative free energy, in a ''strict sense'', is energy directly transceived from the environment, and utilized without any artificial aid. In a ''technical sense'', free energy means an energy source supplied directly by the environment in unlimited quantity (and this can not be depleted). Free energy here is equated with renewable energy, which is energy from a source which is not subject to depletion and does not include energy sources which are dependent upon limited resources. For more, see these articles ...

* [[Sustainable energy|Sustainable]] [[Renewable energy|renewable]] and [[Alternative energy|alternative energy]]
* [[Soft energy technology]] and [[renewable energy commercialization]]
* [[Energy development]] and [[sustainable energy]]
* [[Distributed generation]] and [[energy development]]

"Free energy" generally means that the primary energy source is "free" (i.e. does not cost anything) for consumption. Thus, free energy is the energy with no or negligible [[feedstock]] costs, including [[solar power]] (sometimes referred to as "electro-radiant energy"), [[telluric power]], [[water power]], and [[wind power]]. Free energy is reported in [[perpetual motion machine]]s and the inquiries can be engaged in serious discussion of such machines in [[History of perpetual motion machines|Free energy and perpetual motion history]]. 
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: There manifests itself in the fully developed being - [[Man]] - a [[desire]] mysterious, inscrutable and irresistible: to imitate [[nature]], to create, to work himself the wonders he perceives. Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or [[dict:tenuous|tenuity]] beyond conception, filling all space, the [[Akasa (Pali)|Akasa]] or [[Transmission medium|luminiferous]] [[Aether theories|aether]], which is acted upon by the life giving [[Prana]] or [[creative force]], calling into [[existence]], in never ending cycles all [[dict:thing|thing]]s and [[phenomena]]. The [[primary substance]], thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the [[force]] subsiding, the [[motion]] ceases and [[matter]] disappears, reverting to the primary substance. 
<div style="text-align:right;">— [[Nikola Tesla]]<br />
<small>Man's Greatest Achievement</small><br />
<small>May 13, 1907</small></div>

:The [[scientist|scientific man]] does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced [[idea]]s will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter for the future. His [[duty]] is to lay the foundation of those who are to come and point the way.
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==''[[Netizen]]''==
'''Real [[Name]]''': J. D. [[Redding]]<br>
'''[[Nickname]]''': Reddi ([[Slang]]: ready)<br>
'''[[Location]]''': '''[[United States of America|USA]] - [[North America|NA]] - [[earth|Terra]] - [[Solar System|Sol]]<br>
'''[[Website]]''': [https://sites.google.com/site/reddingproject/ The Redding Project] <br>
'''[[Sex|Gender]]''': Male<br>
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... own, use, have read, or use for the rainy days will be listed below. Though this is a listing of books I had owned, not everything I had and read will I list here. The books I ... 

=====''recommend ...''=====
* McWilliams, P. (1994). Life 101: Everything we wish we had learned about life in school — but didn't. Los Angeles, Calif: Prelude Press. 
* Trefil, J. S. (1992). 1001 things everyone should know about science. New York: Doubleday.
* Sindermann, C. J. (1982). [http://books.google.com/books?id=b_qRxkAgYQYC Winning the games scientists play]. New York: Plenum Press.
* Hovenden, F. (1905). [http://books.google.com/books?id=7AUCAAAAYAAJ On false education]. London: Watts.
* [[Aldous Huxley|Huxley, A]]. (1921) [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1999 Crome Yellow]. (1932) [[Brave New World]]. (1958) [[Brave New World Revisited]].
* Huxley, A. (1945). [[The Perennial Philosophy]]. Harper & Brothers.
* [[Thomas Dekker (writer)|Dekker, T.]], [[‎William Henry Oliphant Smeaton|Smeaton, W. H. O.]] (1620). [http://books.google.com/books?id=R84YAAAAYAAJ The Pleasant Comedy of Old Fortunatus].

=====''read and find interesting ...''=====
* Heckscher, M., & Rogalski, M. (2006). Use this book!: The only book you'll ever need. Philadelphia: Quirk Books.
* Pheby, J. A. (1995). What's that: The Oxford [[visual dictionary]] of nearly everything. New York: Tess Press. 
* Bothamley, J. (1993). [[List of theories|Dictionary of theories]]. London: Gale Research International. 
* Reader's Digest Association. (1986). How to do just about anything. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association
* Kuper, A., & Kuper, J. (1985). The [[Social science]] encyclopedia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 
* Ryan, M. G. (1979). The complete encyclopedia of [[stitchery]]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, & Jay, F. (1977). IEEE standard dictionary of [[Index of electronics articles|electrical and electronics terms]]. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  
* Graf, R. F. (1974). Radio Shack dictionary of electronics. Fort Worth, Tex: Radio Shack.
* Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc. (1957). Encyclopedia Britannica 1957. Chicago, Ill: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
* [[Charles Singer|Singer, C. J.]], & Williams, T. I. (1954). A [[History of Technology]]. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Volume 1 to 5)
* McClane, A. J. (1951). The Wise fishermen's encyclopedia: An encyclopedic handbook for fishermen covering the game fish of the world and how to catch them. New York: Wm. H. Wise &. 
* The Lincoln library of essential information; An up-to date manual for daily reference, for self-instruction, and for general culture. (1924). Buffalo: The Frontier Press. 
* Chisholm, H. (1922). [[The Encyclopædia britannica]]; the [[History of the Encyclopædia Britannica|new volumes, constituting, in combination with the twenty-nine volumes of the eleventh edition, the twelfth edition of that work, and also supplying a new, distinctive, and independent library of reference dealing with events and developments of the period 1910 to 1921 inclusive]]. London: Encyclopædia Britannica, Co. (Volume 1 to 3)
* [[Hawkins electrical guide]] ... Questions, answers & illustrations; a progressive course of study for [[electrical engineer|engineer]]s, [[electrician]]s, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of [[electricity]] and its applications; a practical treatise. (1917). New York: T. Audel &. Volume 1 - 10.

=====''have read ...''=====
* Ikenson, B.  (2004).  Patents : Ingenious Inventions, How They Work and How They Came to Be. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. 288 pages. 
* United States. (2003). Soldier's manual of common tasks: Skill level 1. Field manual. Washington (d.c.): Department of the Army; Headquarters. 
* Iannini, R. E. (2003). Electronic gadgets for the evil genius: 21 build-it-yourself projects. TAB electronics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
* Valone, T. (2002). Harnessing the wheelwork of nature: Tesla's science of energy. Kempton, Ill: Adventure Unlimited Press.
* Tesla, N., & Childress, D. H. (2000). The Tesla papers. Kempton, Ill: Adventures Unlimited.
* Seifer, M. J. (1998). Wizard: The life and times of Nikola Tesla : biography of a genius. New York: Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing.
* Tesla, N., & Childress, D. H. (1993). The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla. The Lost science series. Stelle, Ill: Adventures Unlimited. 
* Wright, R. (1992). Stolen continents: The Americas through Indian eyes since 1492. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
* Hart, M. H. (1992). [[The 100: A ranking of the most influential persons in history]]. Secausus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group. 
* Laubin, R., Laubin, G., & Vestal, S. (1989). The [[tipi|Indian tipi]]: Its history, construction, and use. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press. 
* Fletcher, C., & Fletcher, C. (1984). The complete walker III: The joys and techniques of hiking and backpacking. New York: Knopf. 
* Cheney, M. (1981). "Tesla: Man Out of Time". New York, Barnes & Noble Books.
* Grant, M. (1978). History of Rome. New York: Scribner's.'
* Burke, J. (1978). Connections. Boston: Little, Brown.
* Cain, A. H. (1970). Young people and revolution. New York: John Day.
* Andrews, E. B. (1914). History of the United States, Illustrated. Volume 6. Scribner's.

=====''recommend for a rainy day'' ...=====
*Adams, D. (1993). [[Mostly harmless]]. Hitchiker series ; 05. New York: Ballantine Books. 
*McWilliams, P. (1990). Life 101: Everything we wish we had learned about life in school--but didn't. Los Angeles, Calif: Prelude Press. 
*Adams, D., Adams, D., Adams, D., Adams, D., & Adams, D. (1991). [[The complete hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy]]. Voyager expanded book. Santa Monica, CA: Voyager. 
* Tolkien, J. R. R. (1977). The Silmarillion. New York: Ballantine Books. 
* Tolkien, J. R. R. (1973). The fellowship of the ring: Being the first part of The lord of the rings. The Lord of the rings, Pt. 1. New York: Ballantine Books. 
* Tolkien, J. R. R. (1973). The two towers: Being the second part of The lord of the rings. The lord of the rings, Pt. 2. New York: Ballantine Books.
*Tolkien, J. R. R. (1973). The return of the king: Being the third part of The lord of the rings. The lord of the rings, Pt. 3. New York: Ballantine Books. 
* Tolkien, J. R. R., & Tolkien, C. (1984). The book of lost tales: Part I. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

=====''read for fun'' ...=====
* Lacroix, N., & Lacroix, N. (2004). The better sex guide: How to enjoy and maintain a healthy sex life in a loving relationship : the book for modern lovers everywhere. London: Hermes House. 
* Lebowitz, F. (1978). Metropolitan life. New York: Dutton.
* Hallmark Cards, Inc. (1960). Poetry for pleasure; The Hallmark book of poetry. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

=====''wish I had ...''=====
* Tesla, N., & Marinčić, A. (1978). Colorado Springs notes, 1899-1900. Beograd: Nolit.
* Tolkien, J. R. R. (1966). The hobbit, or, There and back again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
* Martin, T. C., & Tesla, N. (1894). The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla: With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting. New York: The Electrical Engineer.

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... use and consult will be listed below. Though this is a listing of websites I like, not everything I have bookmarked and consult will I list here; but I will add the sites that I have in my collection as time time goes on that I like. The sites I ...

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* [[wikiHow]] : [http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page How-to Manual]
* Wiki2 : [https://wiki2.org Front End]; See the [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wiki-2-wikipedia-republis/dbnfdljglikamcdljmffmhfionigapkf Chrome Extension]

====''consult and use ...''====
* [[Internet Archive]] : [http://www.archive.org/ i.Archive]
* [[Internet Sacred Text Archive|Sacred Archive]] : [http://www.sacred-texts.com/ i.Sacred Text]
* [[Google]] ([[List of Google products|Google products]])
** [[Google Search|G.Search]] : [http://www.google.com/ Google Search] : web engine 
** [[Google Book Search|G.Books]] : [http://books.google.com/ Google Book Search] : book text 
** [[Google Scholar|G.Scholar]] : [http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar] : scholarly literature 
* [[Internet History Sourcebooks Project]]
** [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html Modern Sourcebook] : Modern sources
** [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Medieval Sourcebook] : Medieval sources
** [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html Ancient Sourcebook] : Ancient sources
* [[MIT OpenCourseWare]] : [http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html educational materials] 

====''check for current events...''====
''[[News|News publications]]''
* [[Google News]] : [http://news.google.com news.google.com]
* [[C-SPAN]] : [http://www.c-span.org/ c-span.org]
* [[NewsHour with Jim Lehrer]] : [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ pbs.org/newshour]
* [[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline]] : [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ pbs.org/frontline]
* [[BBC News]] : [http://news.bbc.co.uk/ news.bbc.co.uk]
* [[Current TV]] : [http://current.com/ current.com]

''Technology publications''
* [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] : [http://www.wired.com/ wired.com]
* [[Popular Mechanics]] : [http://www.popularmechanics.com/ popularmechanics.com]

''Science publications''
* [[Popular Science]] : [http://www.popsci.com/ popsci.com]
* [[Scientific American]] : [http://www.scientificamerican.com/ scientificamerican.com]
* [[New Scientist]] : [http://www.newscientist.com/ newscientist.com]
* [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] : [http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html nature.com]

''Government''
* [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office]] : [http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/ whitehouse.gov/]
* [[United States House of Representatives|Representatives]] : [http://www.house.gov/ house.gov] 
* [[United States Senate|Senate]] : [http://www.senate.gov/ senate.gov/]

====''visit for fun ...''====
* [[Colbert Nation]] : [http://www.colbertnation.com/home colbertnation.com]
* [[Robot Chicken]] : [http://www.adultswim.com/shows/robotchicken/index.html adultswim.com/robotchicken]

===History Timelines===
{{main|History|Big History|Chronozone}}
====Universe Timeline====
''<small>[[Astronomical year numbering]]</small>''
::{{Main|Cosmogony|Universe|Chronology of the universe|Creation myth|Mythology}}
::{{details|Big Bang|Lambda-CDM model|topic=[[Standard Model]] [[Approximation]]}}

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:::''Dates are approximate, consult particular article for details''

::{{see|History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses}}
::{{seealso|Physical cosmology|Observational cosmology|Hydrogen line}}
:::''See also'': ''[[Vacuum expectation value|<math>\langle O\rangle</math>]]'', ''[[Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics)|<math>\hat{H}</math>]]'', [[Quaternion|<math>i^2=j^2=k^2=ijk=-1</math>]]'', ''[[Hamiltonian mechanics|<math>\mathcal{H} </math>]]''
::{{also|Dark energy|Dark matter|Dark fluid|Dark flow}}
::{{also|String theory|M-theory|String field theory|Theory of everything}}
::{{also|Physical law|Grand Unified Theory|Grand unification energy|}}
::{{also|List of unsolved problems in physics|Universal (metaphysics)}}
::{{also|Ekpyrotic universe|Plasma cosmology|Non-standard cosmology}}
::{{also|Religious cosmology|Hindu cosmology|Chaos (cosmogony)|Ex nihilo}}

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:''See also'': ''[[Sun#Life_phases|Sun phases]]''

====Terran Timeline====
{{main|Timeline of natural history}}
=====Geologic Earth history=====
{{main|History of the Earth|Plate tectonics|Supercontinent|Supercontinent cycle}}

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{{also|Paleontology|Geologist|International Commission on Stratigraphy}}
=====Lunar History=====
{{main|Lunar geologic timescale}}
{{also|Origin of the Moon|Giant impact hypothesis}}
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{{main|Geological history of Earth}}

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{{also|Evolutionary history of life|Evolution|Last universal ancestor}}
{{also|Primordial soup|Primordial sandwich}}
{{also|Anaerobic organism|Stromatolite}}
{{also|Abiogenesis|RNA world hypothesis|Iron–sulfur world theory}}
{{also|Cyanobacteria|Great Oxygenation Event|Atmosphere of Earth|Ozone layer}}
{{also|Origin of water on Earth}}
{{also|Oldest dated rocks|Vaalbara}}

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{{also|Rodinia|Plate reconstruction|Orogeny|Grenville orogeny}}
{{also|Multicellular organism|Eukaryote|Anabaena|Ediacara biota}}

=====Phanerozoic=====
''Late Earth''
{{main|Cambrian explosion|Evolutionary history of plants|Phylogeny of insects|Evolution of fish|Evolution of tetrapods}}
:''See also'': [[Ordovician extinction]], [[Age of Fish]], [[Mesozoic|Age of Reptiles]]
{{also|Animal|Chordate|Vertebrate|Tetrapod|Amniote}}
{{also|Mammal|Mammal evolution}}
{{also|Theria|Eutheria|Boreoeutheria}}
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{{also|Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event|Permian–Triassic extinction event}}
{{also|Paleoclimatology|Population biology|Adaptive radiation|Natural selection}}
{{also|Mississippian|Pennsylvanian}}
{{also|Arctic|Antarctic ice sheet}}

=====Cenozoic=====
{{Main|Oligocene|Pangaea|Gondwana}}
{{also|Euarchontoglires|Euarchonta}}
{{Also|Age of Mammals}}
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{{also|Primatomorpha|Primate|Haplorhini|Simian|Catarrhini|Ape}}
{{also|Hominidae|Homininae|Hominini|Hominina}}
{{also|Ardipithecus|Kenyanthropus|Orrorin|Sahelanthropus|Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor}}
{{also|Australopithecine|Australopithecus afarensis|Australopithecus africanus|Australopithecus anamensis|Australopithecus bahrelghazali|Australopithecus garhi|Australopithecus sediba}}
{{Also|Eocene–Oligocene extinction event|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event}}
{{also|Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum|Australia (continent)|Antarctica}}
{{also|Chicxulub crater|Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum}}
{{also|Azolla event|Geologic temperature record}}

=====Quaternary=====
{{main|Plate tectonics|Last glacial period|Quaternary glaciation|Quaternary extinction event}}
{{Also|Timeline of human evolution|Human evolution|Anatomically modern humans}}
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{{also|Paranthropus|Paranthropus aethiopicus|Paranthropus boisei|Paranthropus robustus}}
{{also|Denisova hominin|Homo antecessor|Homo heidelbergensis|Neanderthal}}

{{also|Quaternary science}}

====Human Species====
{{main|Prehistory|Proto-history|Pleistocene}}

{{also|Human|Cro-Magnon|Homo sapiens}}
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{{also|Aterian|Baradostian}}

=====Time of Humanity=====
{{Main|Archaic humans|Homo}}
{{also|Homo erectus|Meganthropus|}}
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::''See also'': [[Homo habilis]] (-2.33e+06 | -1.4e+06), [[Homo rudolfensis]] (-1.9e+06),
:: [[Homo gautengensis]] (-1.9e+06 | -0.6e+06), and [[Homo sapiens idaltu]] (-1.6e+06)
::''See also'': [[Java Man]] (-1.75e+06), [[Yuanmou Man]] (-1.75e+06 : -0.73e+06),<br />
:: [[Lantian Man]] (-1.7e+06), [[Nanjing Man]] (- 0.6e+06), [[Tautavel Man]] (- 0.5e+06),<br />
:: [[Peking Man]] (- 0.4e+06), [[Solo Man]] (- 0.4e+06), and  [[Peştera cu Oase]] (- 0.378e+05)

{{also|Timetable of major worldwide volcanic eruptions|Timeline of glaciation}}
{{also|Extinction event|Abrupt climate change|Climate oscillation}}

===== Humanity Transitions=====
{{also|Synoptic table of the principal old world prehistoric cultures}}
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{{also|Hamburg culture|Ahrensburg culture|Swiderian culture}}
{{also|Evolutionary origin of religions}}
:''See also:'' ''[[Wakan Tanka|Great Spirit]] and [[Theistic evolution]]''
{{also|Classical mythology|Greek mythology|Greek primordial deities|Roman mythology}}
{{also|Chinese mythology|Chinese creation myth|Japanese mythology|Japanese creation myth}}
{{also|Egyptian mythology|Ancient Egyptian creation myths}}
{{also|Sumerian creation myth|Turkic mythology}}
{{also|List of creation myths|Pantheon (gods)}}
{{Also|Genesis creation narrative|Table of Nations}}
{{also|Native American mythology}}

====Holocene====
{{main|Prehistory|Proto-history|Holocene}}
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{{also|Human evolutionary genetics|List of human evolution fossils|Origin of modern humans}}
{{also|Timeline of human evolution|Multiregional evolution|Recent African origin}}
{{also|Archaic human admixture with modern Homo sapiens}}
{{also|Homo rhodesiensis|Red Deer Cave people|Homo cepranensis|Homo floresiensis}}

{{also|Behavioral modernity}}
{{see also|Cultural universal}}

====Written History====
=====Ancient History=====
{{main|Ancient history|Proto-history|History}}
{{also|Cradle of civilization|Historic power}}
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{{also|Ancient Near East|Bronze Age India|Bronze Age Europe|Bronze Age China|Gojoseon}}
{{see also|Bronze Age collapse|Ancient Near East|Iron Age Europe|Nok culture}}
{{also|Iron Age India|Iron Age China|Iron Age Japan|Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea}}

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=====Modern History=====
======Early Modern======
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  from: 1956 till: 2013 shift:(50,-15) text:[[Pakistan]]

  bar:Africa color:age
  from: 1825 till: 1860 shift:(30,5) text:[[European exploration of Africa|Exploration]]
  from: 1825 till: 1860 shift:(-5,-5) text:[[Atlantic slave trade|Slave trade]]
  from: 1860 till: 1950 shift:(-55,-5) text:[[Scramble for Africa]]
  from: 1860 till: 1950 shift:(0,5) text:[[Colonisation of Africa|Colonisation]]
  from: 1950 till: 1960 text:[[Decolonization of Africa|Decolonization]]
  from: 1960 till: 2013 text:[[Post-colonial Africa|Post-colonial]]

  bar:China color:age
  from:1825 till:1912 text: [[Qing Dynasty]]
  from:1912 till:1949 shift:(0,5) text: [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Chinese Republic]]
  from:1912 till:1949 shift:(0,-5) text: [[Nanjing decade|(Nanjing period)]]
  from:1912 till:1949 shift:(75,-5) text: [[Chinese Civil War|Civil War]]
  from:1949 till:2013 shift:(0,5) text: [[History of the People's Republic of China|People's Republic]]

  bar:Japan color:age
  from:1825 till:1868 text: [[Edo period|Edo]]
  from:1868 till:1912 text: [[Meiji period|Meiji]]
  from:1868 till:1945 shift:(0,8) text: [[Empire of Japan|Imperial Japan]]
  from:1928 till:1945 shift:(10,0) text: [[Shōwa period|Shōwa]]
  from:1912 till:1928 shift:(-10,-4) text: [[Taishō period|Taishō]]
  from:1945 till:2013 shift:(-40,0) text: [[Postwar Japan|Postwar]]
  from:1989 till:2013 text: [[Heisei]]

  bar:Russian color:age  
  from:1825 till:1917 shift:(-30,5) text:[[Russian Empire]]
  from:1825 till:1855 shift:(0,-5) text:[[History of Russia (1796–1855)|Tsarist]]
  from:1855 till:1892 shift:(0,-5) text:[[History of Russia (1855–1892)|Reactionaries]]
  from:1892 till:1917 shift:(0,-5) text:[[History of Russia (1892–1917)|Imperialism]]
  from:1917 till:1991 shift:(0,5) text:[[History of the Soviet Union|Soviets]]
  from:1917 till:1927 shift:(0,5) text:[[History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (1917–27)|Revolution]]
  from:1927 till:1953 shift:(0,-5) text:[[History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)|S]]
  from:1953 till:1964 shift:(0,-5) text:[[History of the Soviet Union (1953–1964)|K]]
  from:1964 till:1982 shift:(0,-5) text:[[History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)|B]]
  from:1982 till:1991 shift:(0,-8) text:[[History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991)|Dissolution]]
  from:1991 till:2013 shift:(0,3) text:[[History of Russia (1992–present)|Federation]]

  bar:U.S. color:age 
  from:1825 till:1860 text: [[Antebellum]]
  from:1860 till:1865 shift:(0,5) text: [[American Civil War|Civil War]]
  from:1865 till:1900 text: [[Gilded Age]]
  from:1900 till:1918 shift:(0,5) text: [[Progressive Era]]
  from:1918 till:1945 text: [[History of the United States (1918–45)|World Wars]]
  from:1945 till:1964 text: [[History of the United States (1945–64)|Post-War]]
  from:1964 till:1980  shift:(0,7) text: [[History of the United States (1964–80)|Cold War America]]
  from:1980 till:1991 text: [[History of the United States (1980–91)|Republicanism]]
  from:1991 till:2013  shift:(0,5) text: [[History of the United States (1991–present)|America]]

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:::''Dates are approximate range (based upon influence), consult particular article for details''

=====Contemporary=====
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  from:1900 till:1920 shift:(0,7) text:[[Modernity|Late modernity]]
  from:1970 till:2013 shift:(0,7) text:[[Postmodernity|Post-Modern]]
  from:1920 till:1930 text:[[Roaring Twenties|20s]]
  from:1930 till:1940 text:[[The Thirties|30s]]
  from:1940 till:1950 text:[[The Forties|40s]]
  from:1950 till:1960 text:[[The Fifties|50s]]
  from:1960 till:1970 text:[[The Sixties|60s]]
  from:1970 till:1980 text:[[The Seventies|70s]]
  from:1980 till:1990 text:[[The Eighties|80s]]
  from:1990 till:2000 text:[[The Nineties|90s]]
  from:2000 till:2010 text:[[The Noughties|00s]]
  from:2010 till:2013 text:
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  from:1900 till:1945 shift:(-25,-10) text:[[Machine Age]]
  from:1900 till:1940 shift:(-25,0) text:[[Second Industrial Revolution|2nd Industrial]]
  from:1970 till:2013 text:[[Information Age]]
  from:2010 till:2013 shift:(-10,-5) text:[[Big Data|Data]]
  bar:World.Wars color:era 
  from:1914 till:1918 text:[[World War I|WWI]]
  from:1918 till:1939 text:[[Interwar period|Interwar]]
  from:1939 till:1946 text:[[World War II|WWII]] 
  from:1946 till:1962 text:[[Post-war era|Post-war]]
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  from:1945 till:2013 text:[[Atomic Age]]
  bar:Cold.War color:era 
  from:1945 till:1991 text:[[Cold War]]
  bar:Space color:era 
  from:1957 till:2013 text:[[Space Age]]
  bar:US.Trends color:era 
  from:1900 till:1925 text:[[Progressive Era|Progressive]]
  from:1900 till:1940 shift:(0,-16) text:[[Social liberalism|Liberalism]]
  from:1920 till:1940 shift:(-20,5) text:[[Fascism]]
  from:1925 till:1940 shift:(0,-7) text:[[New Deal]]
  from:1940 till:1960 text:[[Beat Generation|Beatniks]]
  from:1960 till:1973 shift:(0,3) text:[[Counterculture of the 1960s|Hippies]]
  from:1973 till:1985 shift:(5,0) text:[[New Right]]
  from:1973 till:1985 shift:(-25,-13) text:[[New Left]]
  from:1985 till:2013 shift:(5,0) text:[[Neoconservatism|Neocon]]
  from:1985 till:2013 shift:(-25,-13) text:[[Neoliberalism|Neolib]]
  bar:Oil color:era 
  from:1901 till:2013 text:[[Age of Oil]]
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====Future====

===''Advice''===
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====''The Poor Man's Road to Wealth''====
There are two ways to get rich — the right way and the wrong way; the easy way and the impossible way; the common way and the rare way. And of course the wrong and impossible way is the common way.

To be rich is to have all the money you want. And the common way of trying to get rich Is to try to get enough money for one's wants. The difficulty in this way is that the wants always grow faster than the money pile. You want to be rich enough to rent a vehicle; when you begin to rent, you want to own a vehicle; when you drive your own vehicle, you want to own a luxury vehicle; when you have a luxury vehicle, you want to own a vehicle for the children.

When a man buys railroads as other men buy vehicles, he may be in straitened circumstances, though he has fifty billions in U. S. bonds. The more money a man has, the poorer he is, if he has not learned to moderate his desires as well as to accumulate his supplies.

The only way to be rich is to keep one's desires within his Income. If one wants what five cents can buy, and he has ten cents, he is wealthy. A bright dime to a street Arab is greater wealth than a thousand dollars to a merchant prince.

The right way to be rich is never to want what you cannot buy, then you always have as much money as you want. This is the easy way. No man can regulate the contents of his purse; every man can regulate the quality of his desires. Capital is not within every man's attainment; contentment is. He is wealthy who has learned two arts; first, how to be contented with what he can get; second, how to use what he has.

It is always easy to have plenty of money : spend less than you earn. It is always easy to have all the money you want: want less than you have.

No easier way exists to better your circumstances, to become a rich man, than by joining a savings and loan association. It is the poor man's road to wealth.
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===''Top Secret ...''===

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====''Exceptionally grave damage to national security ...''====
(: ''... Watch out ...'' ;)<br>
The [[Government warehouse (non-fiction)|wikiwarehouse]] contents vary widely. The [[classified information]] is of a sensitive nature to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of persons. Classified articles (with [[Cover-up|cover story]] ;) include the following, categorized to origin:

====''United States items ...''====
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* The [[Ark of the Covenant]] ([[Biblical]]/film ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'')
* The [[Holy Grail]] 
* The [[Spear of Destiny]] ([[Biblical artifact]] &ndash; [[Spear of Longinus]] that pierced [[Christ]]'s side)
* [[Martian war machine]] ([[Fiction]] &ndash; [[Movie]]/[[Television series]] ''[[War of the Worlds (television)|War of the Worlds]]'')
* [[Test tube|Water vial]] (Fiction &ndash; labeled "''[[Fountain of Youth]]''")
* [[Kryptonite]] samples (Fiction &ndash; mineral from the "Superman" comic books)
* [[The Blob (movie)|The Blob]] (Fiction &ndash; film ''The Blob'')
* The [[Stargate (device)|Stargate]] (Fiction &ndash; film/TV ''[[Stargate]]'')
* [[Amelia Earhart]]'s plane (Fact &ndash; plane lost June 2, 1937)
* 300 MPG [[Carburetor]] (Conspiracy theory)
* [[Unidentified flying object|UFO]]s (see ''[[Project Bluebook]]'')
* [[Audio recording]]s and [[video|visual recording]] of [[Close Encounters of the Third Kind|''Close Encounters'']]' [[spacecraft|Mothership]]
* [[Black helicopter conspiracy theory|Black helicopter]]s (Conspiracy &ndash; see ''[[Men in Black|Men In Black]]'')
* [[HAL 9000]] [[prototype]] (Fiction &ndash; film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'')
* [[Avro Arrow]] [[Fighter plane]] [[prototype]]s (Sightings and theories abound &ndash; one of many top secret aircraft)
* [[Medicinal Brazilian rain forest plants]] 
* [[Hindenburg disaster|''Hindenburg'' failure analysis]] (Conspiracy, bomb aboard)
* [[Philadelphia Experiment]] equipment (Fiction/Conspiracy &ndash; film ''[[Philadelphia Experiment]]'' &ndash; supposed real event)
* [[N ray|N-ray]] [[detector]] (Conspiracy/[[Junk Science]] &ndash; "Discovered" by [[René Blondlot]] in 1903)
* [[Nazi nuclear weapons]] 
* [[Nazi Swiss gold]] (Two and a half (2 1/2) [[ton]]s) 
* [[Cryogenic]] [[suspension chamber]]s
* [[Nikola Tesla]]'s confiscated personal effects
* [[Wilhelm Reich]]'s confiscated personal effects
* Several [[species]] of [[Jackalope]]s (Fiction &ndash; Mythical Creature)
* [[Gary Gygax]]'s confiscated personal effects
* [[Steve Jackson Games]] Files (Real Event &ndash; office (Steve Jackson Games) raided March 1, 1990 by [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]])
* [[Captain America]]'s [[Shield]] (Fiction &ndash; comic book "Captain America")
* [[Marilyn Monroe]] [[Diary|Diar]]ies (Conspiracy &ndash; missing pages containing evidence of JFK assassination)
* [[United States|U.S.]] [[United States Navy|Navy]] map of [[Gilligan's Island]] (Fiction &ndash; television show)
* Collected [[John F. Kennedy assassination|JFK]] [[evidence]] from the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archive]] (Conspiracy &ndash; containing evidence of JFK assassination)
* John F. Kennedy's [[brain]] (Real &ndash; missing after autopsy)
* Bodies 
** [[Al Capone]]
** [[John F. Kennedy]] (the Ultimate Conspiracy)
** [[Elvis Presley]] (supposed "faked death")
** [[Jimmy Hoffa]] (Teamster that vanished on July 30, 1975)
** [[Walt Disney]] ([[Urban Legend]] &ndash; supposedly frozen)
** [[Bigfoot]] ([[Mythical Creature]])
** [[Alien|Extraterrestrial]]s

====''British items ...''====
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* [[James Bond]]'s gear (Ian Fleming's character)
* The [[Loch Ness Monster]] (Mythical creature)
* [[Marie Celeste]]'s ship [[logbook]] (Historic &ndash; The crew mysteriously vanished on November 7, 1872)
* A [[strategic reserve]] of railway [[train]]s
* ''[[Third_Age|Red Book of Westmarch]]'' (Fiction &ndash; J.R.R. Tolkien's original manuscript)
* [[life|Live]] [[Dodo]] [[bird]] (Extinct animal)
* Live [[Thylacine|Tasmanian tiger]]

====''Vatican items ...''====
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* [[Dante Alighieri]]'s diagram of [[Hell]] (Biblical/Fiction &ndash; book, "The Divine Comedy")
* [[King Solomon's Mines]] map(Fiction &ndash; book, "King Solomon's Mines")
* [[Shroud of Turin]] (Biblical Artifact that is very controversial)
* [[Jesus]]' cross (i.e., The [[True Cross]]) (many artifacts claiming to be the real pieces)
** The crucification nails
** The [[Crown of Thorns]]
** [[Veronica's Veil]]

====''Soviet items ...''====
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* [[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]] list (Fiction/Real &ndash; Hoax to blame secret Jewish Cabal)
* [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s last order
* [[Lockheed U-2]] spy plane (Real &ndash; shot down [[May 1]], [[1960]] over Soviet territory)
* The [[Amber Room]] (Real &ndash; dismantled by Soviet army in Berlin at the end of WWII)
* [[Hitler diary|Hitler's diary]] (Real/Fiction &ndash; many hoaxes, are any of them real?)
* Bodies 
** [[Adolf Hitler]]
** [[Eva Braun]]

====''Japanese items ...''====
* [[Tojo Hideki]]'s [[telegram]] copy to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] giving warning of the [[Pearl Harbor]] attack (Conspiracy theory)
* [[Godzilla]] (Fictional Monster)
* [[Ultraman]] (Fictional Hero)
* [[Goddess]] [[Amaterasu]]'s [[sword]] (given to the first [[Emperor]]) (Mythology)
* Bodies
** [[Emperor Jinmu of Japan|Emperor Jinmu]] (&#31070;&#27494;&#22825;&#30343;; Jinmu Tenn&#333;) (First Emperor)
** [[Tojo Hideki]] (&#26481;&#26781; &#33521;&#27231;) (WWII General)
** the fictional remains of [[Akira (film)|Akira]] (Fiction)
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