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Bar chart titled US WW2 Veteran Population showing living US World War 2 veterans by year from 939,322 in 2015 to 66,143 in 2024 and projected 5,182 in 2030, with a pie chart of alive, killed in WW2 and died since, and a text panel of totals

History

How Many WW2 Veterans Are Still Alive, US Figures 2015 to 2030

By TA-MajestyPalm on Reddit

This chart by Reddit user u/TA-MajestyPalm, using US Department of Veterans Affairs data, shows living American WW2 veterans falling from 939,322 in 2015 to…

Timeline and map of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, with coloured bars from 2584 BC to 2000 AD for the Great Pyramid, Hanging Gardens, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum, Colossus of Rhodes and Pharos lighthouse, a Philo of Byzantium line, a map of their locations and size silhouettes

History

7 Wonders of the Ancient World Timeline and Map

By CMG Lee, Wikimedia Commons

Only the pyramid still stands, and all seven existed together for less than 60 years.

Horizontal bar chart titled U.S. Presidents Age Comparison, showing a light blue lifespan bar for each president from George Washington to Joe Biden with a red section for the ages in office, coloured dots for assassinated, died in office, natural causes and still alive, and a data snapshot of 9 January 2025

Politics

US Presidents by Age, Lifespans and Years in Office Chart

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest to take office at 42, Joe Biden was 82 when it was made, and Jimmy Carter lived longest, to 100.

Vertical infographic titled Life in Space over a starfield, with coloured bars from 1970 to 2030 and beyond for Salyut 1 to 7, Skylab, Mir, the International Space Station, Tiangong and the planned Haven stations, plus crew size, habitable volume and a silhouette of each station

Science

Life in Space Timeline, Every Crewed Space Station Since 1971

By Vast

This Life in Space timeline charts every crewed space station from Salyut 1 in 1971 through Skylab, Mir, the International Space Station and China's…

Our World in Data range chart titled Antibiotics: time from discovery to introduction, with a bar for each of 38 antibiotic drug classes from salicylates to diarylquinolines between 1900 and 2020, a shaded Golden Age of Antibiotics band and notes on penicillins, tetracyclines and pleuromutilins

Health and Fitness

History of Antibiotics Timeline, 1902 to 2012

By Saloni Dattani, Our World in Data

Penicillin, found in 1928, took 15 years to reach patients, while several classes from the 1950s were in use within a year.

Visual Capitalist infographic titled Key Events That Shaped Generations, a timeline of five US generations from the Silent Generation to Gen Z with events from WWII to COVID-19, and a table of the top 10 historic events named by each generation

History

Generation Timeline Infographic of Key Events by Generation

By Visual Capitalist

It adds the top 10 historic events each generation named in a 2016 Pew Research Center survey.

South China Morning Post infographic City of anarchy, a detailed cutaway drawing of Kowloon Walled City towers with rooms, rooftops and street shops, an aerial view of the block, a map of the Kai Tak flight path, a population density chart and a timeline from 1898 to the park that replaced it

History

Kowloon Walled City History, From Fortress to Park

By Adolfo Arranz, South China Morning Post

It shows life inside the towers, the 14 floor height limit set by Kai Tak Airport, and the 1993 demolition that made way for a park.

Evolution and Branches of Humankind chart by u/Flashy-Vegetable-679, a human family tree from the human and chimpanzee common ancestor through Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and the Homo genus to Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens, with fossil photos and date ranges

Science

Evolution and Branches of Humankind, a Human Family Tree Chart

By Flashy-Vegetable-679 on Reddit

It lists more than 40 species and subspecies with fossil dates, from Sahelanthropus at about 7 million years ago to Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo…

George F. Cram's 1884 Diagram of the Principal High Buildings of the Old World, a hand coloured engraving of 78 numbered cathedrals, towers, pyramids and monuments drawn to one scale, with the Washington Monument tallest at the centre and a key of heights in feet below

Home and Architecture

Historical Buildings Chart of 1884, 78 High Buildings Compared

By George F. Cram

Cram's 1884 "Diagram of the Principal High Buildings of the Old World".

Visual Capitalist infographic titled Human Evolution, From Protocells to People, a descending staircase of illustrated organisms from Protocells (4.3 Ga) through Dickinsonia, Pikaia, Tiktaalik, Cynognathus, Plesiadapis and Australopithecus to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens (160 ka), with gains and losses of traits marked at each stage

Science

Human Evolution Timeline From Protocells to People

By Mark Belan, Visual Capitalist

This Visual Capitalist human evolution timeline traces 38 stages from protocells 4.3 billion years ago to Homo sapiens, with the body parts and functions…

History of the Universe timeline by Frédéric Durillon, a funnel that widens from the Big Bang on the left through inflation, the cosmic microwave background, the dark ages and the first stars and galaxies to today at 13.8 billion years, with time, temperature and energy labels

Science

Timeline of the Universe, Big Bang to 13.8 Billion Years

By Frédéric Durillon (Animea Studio)

In order came cosmic inflation in the first fraction of a second, the first protons and neutrons within a hundred-thousandth of a second, the first nuclei…

Genuine Impact timeline infographic titled A brief history of Artificial Intelligence, showing milestones from 1943 to 2023 along a winding road

Technology

History of Artificial Intelligence Timeline, 1943 to 2023

By Genuine Impact

This history of artificial intelligence timeline by Genuine Impact runs from a 1943 paper on artificial neurons to a 2023 lawsuit over AI image generators,…

Tableau chart titled Political parties in the U.S. presidential election history, a grid with one column for each presidential election from 1788 to 2024 and one row for each party, with coloured squares for the Independent, Federalist, Whig, Republican, Democratic-Republican and Democratic parties, grey squares for minor parties, darker squares for winners, party system bands across the top and a popular vote panel below

Politics

Timeline of US Political Parties in Presidential Elections

By Yury Ulasenka

It traces the Federalists, Democratic-Republicans and Whigs, the Democrats from 1828 and the Republicans from 1856, plus 32 rows of parties and factions in all.

Timeline chart titled Lifespans of US Presidents, If each one lived to 100 years, with a bar for every president from George Washington to Joe Biden showing actual lifespan in grey, presidency in pink and the years to age 100 in cyan, on an axis from 1730 to 2070 with lines at 1776 and 2024

Politics

Average Lifespan of US Presidents, and If Each Lived to 100

By tycooperaow on Reddit (tycoo_aow)

Kennedy at 46 to Jimmy Carter at 100.

History of Life as we know it, circular geological timeline from the Hadean to the Quaternary with silhouettes of life in each period, red mass extinction markers, continental drift maps from Pangea to today and a to-scale Phanerozoic bar chart

Science

History of Life on Earth Timeline, Eras, Periods and Extinctions

By Pacific Rubiales Energy

It shows the four eras, 15 periods and eons, five mass extinctions and the drift of the continents from Pangea.

Encyclopaedia Britannica infographic titled Omaha Beach, Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944, with a facts and figures panel showing the US 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions, the German 352nd Infantry Division, landing time 0630 hours, width over 10 km, 34,000 troops landed and 2,400 casualties, followed by maps of the plan, the initial assault and final positions at midnight

History

Omaha Beach Facts, the D-Day Landing on 6 June 1944

By Encyclopaedia Britannica

The US 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions landed at 0630 against the German 352nd Infantry Division on a beach more than 10 km long.

Ray Troll hand drawn geologic time scale shown as a fossil filled rock cliff, with Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, periods from Cambrian to Holocene with dates in millions of years, T/K and T/P extinction markers, a pterosaur and fossil hunters with a blue pickup truck on top

Science

Geologic Time Scale Infographic, Ray Troll Fossil Cliff

By Ray Troll

It marks the Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, 17 periods and epochs with their start dates, and the two largest mass extinctions.

World of Engineering timeline titled Moments That Shaped the Internet, with 25 dated events from H.G. Wells World Brain in 1936 and ARPANET in 1969 to Instagram, Pokemon Go and influencer in 2019

Internet and Social Media

Internet History Timeline, 25 Moments From 1936 to 2019

By World of Engineering

The internet's history runs from ARPANET's first connection on 29 October 1969, through the switch to TCP/IP in 1983 and the World Wide Web in 1991, to the…

Illustrated grid of nine medieval jobs with descriptions, showing a herbalist, squire, court jester, blacksmith, rat catcher, herald, scribe, barber and spinster, each drawn at work on a green panel

History

Medieval Occupations, Common Jobs in the Middle Ages

By Rebekka Hearl (illustrations)

Most medieval people worked the land as peasants, many of them serfs tied to a lord's manor.

Map titled The World's Newest Countries Since 1990, colouring 31 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia by how they formed, with inset circles for the Balkans, East Timor and Palau, a timeline of flags from 1990 to 2011, and notes on the Soviet Union, South Sudan and Kosovo

Travel and Geography

Newest Countries in the World Since 1990

By Julie Peasley

Before it came Kosovo (2008, not a UN member), Montenegro and Serbia (2006) and East Timor (2002).

Poster Escutcheon Heraldry Guide by Zachariah Fleming, The Dyslexic Designer, with labelled shield diagrams for divisions of the shield, shield shapes, tinctures and furs, field divisions, line patterns, animal and object charges, marks of cadency and central and peripheral ordinaries

History

Heraldry Guide to Shields, Tinctures, Charges and Ordinaries

By Zachariah Fleming, The Dyslexic Designer

It began in the High Middle Ages, in England in the later 1100s.

Timeline poster titled The Big Map of Who Lived When showing lifespans of famous people as coloured bars from about 1150 to the present, from Genghis Khan and Leonardo da Vinci to Albert Einstein and Taylor Swift, with eras, event badges and arrows linking related people

History

Who Lived When, a Timeline of Famous People Since 1200

Line famous lives up and surprising overlaps appear: Shakespeare and Galileo were both born in 1564, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day in…

History

Combatant Deaths in Conventional Wars, 1800 to 2011

By Our World in Data

The ten deadliest wars account for 90% of the total, while most conventional wars killed a few thousand soldiers.

RubberBond infographic How Long Did Famous Structures Take to Build, showing 32 illustrated landmarks from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Taj Mahal to the Burj Khalifa and The Shard, each with location, total construction time, start year and architect

Home and Architecture

How Long Did It Take to Build Famous Structures

By RubberBond

The Leaning Tower of Pisa took 199 years and St Peter's Basilica 144, while the Eiffel Tower took about two years and the Empire State Building just 13 and…

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