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The BBC website contains very good educational content, besides excellent news.

The British History section, for example, features an interactive
British Empire history timeline. You can scroll in time, zoom in to see
more details of a period, see main events as information tooltips etc.

You can

Explore all of British history, from the Neolithic to the present day,
with this easy-to-use interactive timeline. Browse hundreds of key
events and discover how the past has shaped the world we live in today.

[Found via information aesthetics.]

If you like comics and ever played with the idea to write one someday, here it is an excellent “tool”: Comic Strip Artist’s Kit (Redux).

There are 7 pages explaining (the comics way) how to write your own comics. They were originally created by Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many Disney Comic Books and created the famous “Comic Strip Artist’s Kit”.

Mark Kennedy found the original creator and receive the permission to publish them online:

Carson Van Osten, a famous Disney artist who did many Disney Comic
Books and created the famous “Comic Strip Artist’s Kit”. It was created
to help beginning comic artists deal with perspective problems and
other drawing difficulties. I scanned my old xeroxes a while ago. It’s
probably the best thing I’ve ever seen about practical staging and
drawing for storyboards or comic books.

…

Anyway Carson saw it on my blog and read what nice things people had
said about it and it really meant a lot to him. And he offered to send
me an original copy of the handout, which is 11 x 17.

So go grab’em and have some fun