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24 alternatives to Seven Ages of Paris
The intense history of Paris [condensed into 500 pages]
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Seven Ages of Paris launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Edmund White's travelogue of his time in Paris
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Surprisingly great read about the early history of Impressio
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Engaging survey of incredible stories from 1095 - 1453 CE
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Where the big ideas of the modern era came from
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The 1976 Paris tasting that revolutionized wine
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! In a recent "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread, I mentioned I was working on OCRing a large book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971614 The post generated some interest so I thought I would keep HN posted. The book is Saint-Simon’s Memoirs -- an invaluable historical account of the French court under Louis XIV, full of wit, sharp observations, and of incredible literary value. I'm OCRing the edition of reference made between 1879-1930, that contains a lot of comments and footnotes: 45 volumes, ~27,000 pages. Here's a link to a blog post that describes…
2024 · blog.medusis.com · its alternatives →
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Studies.Show▲206140 character summaries of interesting research papers.
2015 · studiesshow.app · its alternatives →
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A fascinating look at the oldest and biggest questions huma…
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Globe of History▲189I built Globe of History — an interactive 3D visualization of 6,000 years of human events, mapped onto the Earth’s surface. It includes 5,000+ data points covering wars, inventions, assassinations, natural disasters, and philosophers — spanning 4000 BCE → 2025 CE. The main goal was to build a visual entry point into history — not a database, but a way to instantly sense density and continuity over time. Stack / Process Python for scraping structured event data from Wikipedia/Wikidata Gemini 2.0 Flash for AI-based enrichment and multi-stage verification Mapbox GL JS + React (Vite)…
Nov 2025 · globeofhistory.com · its alternatives →
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Investigates the myriad board games around the world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A meditation on exploring time, travel, and technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Panorama of life in Europe before the First World War
2015 · books.google.com.sg · its alternatives →
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A magnificent history of the gene
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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