The 1950s
- Cold War
- U.S. CIA intervention in Iran, Guatemala, elsewhere
- Soviet intervention in Hungary, elsewhere
- The Korean War
- nuclear arms race
- decolonisation
- rock and roll
- early history of the People's Republic of China and of the State of Israel
- Sputnik
- Suez Crisis
Articles I'm interested in poring over lately
- History of the world
- Geologic timescale, Geological timescale, and related articles
Stubs that need help
Missing articles
- Barry Commoner I don't know how important this guy really is, I just noticed a blind link on his name somewhere.
Stubs I think I started
- Ancient Persia This is really just a portal to other articles, but I thought it was worth doing at the time. I think it was my first new stub on wikipedia.
- Margaret Fell
- Astronomical algorithms are the algorithms used to calculate ephemerides, calendars, and (when navigating by the heavens) position.
- Elias Hicks
My outline of history
- Quaternary
- Holocene
- contemporary (last millennium or so)
- Iron Age: 10th century BCE -- 5th century CE in Near East, starts later elsewhere
- Bronze Age
- Neolithic
- Mesolithic, a highly localized condition
- Pleistocene = Paleolithic = Ice Age
- Holocene
- Neogene
- Paleogene
- Cretaceous
- Jurassic
- Triassic
- Permian