How this works

• Drag the time-bar to slide through history. The globe shows stories in the window.
• + / − widen or narrow the window (10–1000 years).
• Click a pin on a country to see that country's biography in stories.
• Hover a pin to see causal connections to other stories.
• ✨ Surprise me when you don't know what to read.
• End of a story? Pick what's next without leaving the reader.
• ESC always takes you one step back.

Bright clusters are your obsessions. Dark zones are your blind spots. Read more — fill the map.

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