Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: history

• 466 - American history; Maine
• 552 - René Descartes; "Congito ergo sum"; Cartesian coordinates
• 636 - US President; Oval Office; Allosaurus
• 673 - The Minotaur; Greek mythology; Knossos; Crete
• 805 - Viaducts; aqueducts
• 826 - Howard Carter; Tutankhamun
• 869 - Ancient Rome; Vespasian; Colosseum
• 882 - Euclid; kebabs
• 916 - Saint Sophia Cathedral; Mariyinsky Palace
• 1000 - Four humours; bile
• 1083 - 1930s European history; Stalin; communism; Animal Farm
• 1155 - The Reichstag Fire
• 1240 - Mercury poisoning; mad hatters
• 1264 - Mercury poisoning; Minamata disease; learning history
• 1397 - King George III of England; alleged madness thereof
• 1409 - Palladium of Troy; Heinrich Schliemann
• 1428 - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Arthur Sullivan; Richard Storrs Willis
• 1441 - Coup d'état; political history of Nepal
• 1475 - The Lateran Treaty; Via della Conciliazione; Vatican history
• 1490 - The Last Supper; conspiracy theories; The Da Vinci Code
• 1515 - Sir Edmund Hillary
• 1524 - Mars; canals; Giovanni Schiaparelli; Percival Lowell
• 1534 - Roman architecture; Nazi architecture; theory of ruin value
• 1559 - Snow leopards; troy weight; Trojan War
• 1566 - The Sistine Chapel
• 1652 - The Rubicon; alea iacta est; Rubik's cube
• 1677 - Grass; biogeography; simulating prehistory
• 1735 - Greatest common divisors; Euclid's algorithm; Vichy France; 1930s European politics
• 1821 - Dynamite; nitroglycerin; Alfred Nobel; Nobel prizes
• 2020 - The Elgin Marbles
• 2085 - The 1980s; the Cold War
• 2122 - Dehumanising hate speech
• 2125 - Edgar Degas; Jackson Pollock
• 2148 - Burlesque
• 2213 - Isaac Newton
• 2247 - Lead into gold; Antoine Lavoisier; Henri Becquerel; J. J. Thomson
• 2257 - Inverse square law; Robert Hooke; dipoles
• 2281 - Edmond Halley; Halley's comet; transits of Venus
• 2295 - Newton's First Law of Motion
• 2298 - Numbers stations
• 2315 - Ben Jonson
• 2324 - Newton's First Law of Motion, part 2
• 2326 - Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
• 2354 - Alessandro Volta; batteries
• 2387 - The Rosetta Stone
• 2393 - Coin shaving
• 2404 - Robert Hooke; Isaac Newton; the inverse square law
• 2421 - The Galilean Satellites; heliocentric cosmology
• 2448 - Charles Darwin
• 2459 - Newton's Third Law of Motion
• 2486 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• 2487 - The Munich Agreement
• 2509 - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; Operation Barbarossa
• 2513 - Renaissance music
• 2520 - The Basilica Cistern
• 2580 - Human occupation of Easter Island
• 2633 - Hagia Sophia
• 2667 - The Red Castle of Tripoli
• 2684 - Religious views of Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton
• 2698 - US Patent number 1
• 2720 - Nicolaus Copernicus
• 2743 - Kepler's Laws
• 2759 - Christiaan Huygens
• 2763 - U-boat boarding actions
• 2779 - British airship programme
• 2809 - Archimedes' Principle; zeppelin lift
• 2810 - Antoine Lavoisier; conservation of mass
• 2847 - James Hutton; uniformitarianism
• 2868 - The British Crown Jewels
• 2887 - Burials in Westminster Abbey
• 2923 - Viking helmets
• 3006 - 'O Sole Mio; contribution to modern music
• 3047 - Wagner; leitmotif
• 3050 - Kennings
• 3062 - Flammarion engraving
• 3114 - Harry Houdini
• 3173 - Development of jet engines
• 3222 - Historical turning points; Cuban Missile Crisis
• 3271 - Machu Picchu
• 3293 - History as a strange place
• 3299 - Succession of Edward III of England
• 3341 - Clocks
• 3345 - Flying; history of flight
• 3350 - Ruins
• 3360 - The Quarrymen
• 3361 - Glass; glass art
• 3369 - Pyramids of Egypt; Meso-American pyramids; pyramids
• 3401 - Coffee; coffee houses of London
• 3416 - The Enigma machine; Alan Turing
• 3421 - Mesopotamia
• 3428 - Atlantis; the Greek stadion
• 3438 - Le Morte d'Arthur; the Domesday Book; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Tintagel Castle
• 3448 - Atlas (the titan); atlases
• 3450 - Historical maps; the British Library
• 3467 - History of billiards
• 3546 - Pole arms
• 3569 - The history of zinc
• 3570 - Saint Columba and the Loch Ness Monster
• 3575 - Aristotelian elements; aether
• 3576 - History of long distance telephony
• 3613 - Indian food in England; origin of chicken tikka masala
• 3619 - Primogeniture; succession of the British throne
• 3638 - Norse settlement in the Americas; L'Anse aux Meadows
• 3647 - Beer making with hops and gruit
• 3648 - King Arthur's Round Table
• 3650 - History of Urquhart Castle
• 3750 - History of British railways
• 3790 - The Rite of Spring premiere
• 3812 - The North Cornwall Railway; Great Western Railway; British railway history
• 3838 - Mercury usage in hatmaking
• 3843 - Wilhelm Röntgen Museum
• 3870 - The Knife of Llawfronedd; the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain
• 3908 - Tarot cards; tarock card games; fortune telling
• 3936 - Abydos; the Great Osiris Temple
• 3953 - History of taxes; the Rosetta Stone
• 3984 - Egyptian mummies; mummy brown pigment
• 3998 - Natron; preserving mummies
• 4006 - Everyday Life and Fatal Hazard in Sixteenth-Century England
• 4008 - The Intolerable Acts and the American Revolution
• 4010 - Cockcroft-Walton electrostatic generator
• 4018 - Cheops/Khufu and the Pyramids
• 4038 - Herodotus and his Histories; construction of the Pyramids; the Herodotus Machine
• 4048 - Al-Aziz; attempted destruction of the Pyramids
• 4083 - Tapioca; history of tapioca pudding
• 4092 - The Antikythera mechanism; rulers of Sparta
• 4094 - Etymology and pronunciation of "lich"; usage in fantasy literature
• 4121 - Shakespeare's birthplace
• 4123 - Jemaa el-Fnaa
• 4139 - History of demons in Dungeons & Dragons
• 4143 - Working conditions in Industrial Revolution England
• 4154 - English Dukes of the 17th century
• 4165 - The Byzantine Empire
• 4167 - Battlements and their architectural terminology
• 4191 - Wages and price in 16th century England
• 4209 - European colonisation of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean
• 4219 - Toponymy of the islands of the Caribbean
• 4225 - UK Prime Ministers named Robert
• 4266 - Abydos of Mycia
• 4280 - History of the Captains Flat railway line
• 4285 - Reputation of Elizabethan actors
• 4294 - Buried pirate treasure; Treasure Island and influences
• 4307 - Etymology of Cuba; origin of Christopher Columbus
• 4328 - Stephenson's Rocket
• 4331 - Dinocrates of Rhodes; Hippodamus of Miletus
• 4355 - Cuban sandwiches
• 4414 - The setting of Romeo and Juliet
• 4415 - Hagia Sophia, conversion from museum to mosque
• 4512 - The Treaty of Tordesillas
• 4530 - Henri Coandă and the Coandă-1910 aeroplane
• 4533 - Montserrat
• 4534 - Turnspit dogs
• 4553 - Bran Castle
• 4589 - White ensigns
• 4607 - Seven Wonders of the World
• 4690 - Rum and sugarcane
• 4736 - Edward Wollstonecraft
• 4748 - Acts of Henry VIII's Parliament; successors of Henry VIII
• 4759 - Succession of Elizabeth I; establishment of House of Stuart
• 4816 - Greek chorus

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