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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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