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    "This World History Timeline (2016)",
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  "textContent": "This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here.\n\nThe chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769):\n\nPriestley is best known for his co-discovery of oxygen.\n\n**Tags:** infoviz · Joseph Priestley · maps · timelines",
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