Milan from 1940 to today
Statistics updated monthly, going back to 1940.
How many nights above twenty degrees there were in the 1960s, and how many there are now. Look at the charts and the averages, year by year.
Interactive
Interactive pages
Four interactive pages on climate, human evolution, dinosaurs and the Normandy landings. Every figure carries its source, and limits are written beside the charts.
Twenty-six human species in seven million years
Drag the date: the page shows who was alive, and with which tools
For most of its history, Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species. Find out which, and when.
The age of dinosaurs, from the Triassic to Chicxulub
A timeline, a family tree and moving plates, with a source behind every date
Dinosaurs never died out. You probably saw one on a power line this morning.
Normandy 1944, from the landings to the liberation of Paris
Drag the timeline: the map follows the front from 6 June to 25 August.
The five beaches of 6 June, the advance day by day and the casualty figures, explained one by one.