April 26, 7378 BCE — Bilbo Baggins is recruited by Thorin Oakenshield as a thief
It was a most Unexpected Party. Bilbo had no idea that he was going to be throwing it, for one...
November 10, 2023
Loki
October 28, 4004 BCE — God creates Adam
Diary of God, Day Six: So tired today. Spent the whole day working on one thing, after another, animals. All...
August 21, 2023
circa 3400 BCE — The Sahara Desert assumes its modern form
It wasn’t always a desert. The Saharan plain was once open grassland with occasional forests. As late as the time...
August 1, 2023
November 30, 2349 BCE — Noah begins building an ark
So one day, God, in his infinite wisdom and mercy, got pissed off at basically everyone. I mean everyone. Except...
July 7, 2023
December 18, 2348 BCE — Noah’s ark makes landfall
So God, in all his moodswingy glory, had decided to wipe out the entire human race. Except for this one...
July 2, 2023
April 16, 1174 BCE — Odysseus reclaims the throne of Ithaca
Tradition holds that this is the day that the Odyssey ended: that Ulysses returned to Ithaca, recruited his son and...
January 24, 2023
1117 BCE — Delilah cuts Samson’s hair
Samson is one of the great heroes of Judges era of the Israelites. A judge and priest, he was also...
January 19, 2023
469 BCE — Socrates is born
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
December 14, 2022
May 26, 428 BCE — Plato is born
Oddly, not the Platonic Ideal of the philosopher (although in fairness, he would have been the first to point that...
December 9, 2022
April 16, 384 BCE — Aristotle is born
The third of the three great Ancient Greek philosophers was the student of Plato (who, in his turn, had been...
December 4, 2022
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