Begin your timeline with the slave trade.
If we begin a timeline in the middle of the 20th century, the West was ranchers' territory; they were the only ones who cared about the land.
Once the action begins, the timeline hopscotches between Quang and Tong's individual evacuations from Vietnam, their meeting at the camp, and a road trip Quang embarks on, in the unlikely hope of eventually returning to Vietnam, where his wife and children remain.
And the infographic, which begins the timeline in 1994, does miss some of the more intricate details in Yahoo's history.
But the same could be said of a dusty shoebox full of photos or love letters, and it doesn't take a whole lot of work to remove the things you don't want to see from your Timeline (my fix for people who don't want to revisit their past at all: Facebook could offer an option to simply begin the timeline at a more recent date).
Rather than the timeline beginning with Zimmerman disobeying the 911 operators directives, now the timeline begins with the physical altercation.
The opposite wall offers a reverse timeline, beginning in the present and displaying excavated objects.
2. Create a Chernobyl timeline, beginning in April of 1986, and ending with the release of the new report.
The first was shown a historical timeline beginning with the Roman Empire, with little attention dedicated to the United States.
The Schomburg Center has published a related book, "The Black New Yorkers: 400 Years of African-American History," which reproduces many of the photos along with a timeline, beginning in 1815, that adds up to a roller-coaster social chronicle by turns heart-lifting and infuriating.
