Evan Lorenzen, an artist and graduate of the quirky Marlboro College, made a miniature book that condenses all of history into a few pages. It doesn't go into detail, but it will give you a thumbnail sketch of the past few billion years. You can find more pages from the book on his Tumblr blog.
Er, wait. Has this last one happened yet?
-via Colossal
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Geez. Way to ruin it for those of us who haven't read the entire book yet. Spolier!!!
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There are people alive today whose birth predated the invention of sliced bread.
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I'm not sure I can take any greatest events book seriously if it doesn't include "sliced bread".
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I used to work with a guy whose father coined the term 'close encounters' [of the various enumerated kinds]
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