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as of 1980
Washington, D.C.BrazilGermanyIndiaSouth AfricaTimbuktu, Mali

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And when: the century these places share

The rulings and federal acts the route series traces, on one axis. Two tracks: what a court ruled, and what a legislature or agency did.

  • ruling
  • policy
  • claim
  • evidence
  1. 1917ruling

    Buchanan v. Warley bars explicit racial zoning ordinances

  2. 1926ruling

    Euclid v. Ambler upholds zoning as a valid police power

  3. 1948ruling

    Shelley v. Kraemer: courts may not enforce racial covenants

  4. 1949policy

    The Housing Act funds slum clearance nationally

  5. 1954ruling

    Berman v. Parker upholds taking a whole area for renewal

  6. 1956policy

    The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets the federal share at 90 percent

  7. 1964policy

    The Civil Rights Act ends legal segregation in public accommodations

  8. 1968policy

    The Fair Housing Act bars discrimination in housing

  9. 1974ruling

    Milliken v. Bradley limits desegregation across district lines

  10. 1984ruling

    Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff broadens the public-use doctrine

  11. 2005ruling

    Kelo v. New London allows taking for economic development

  12. 77claim

    Pliny compiles descriptions of peoples at the edge of the world

  13. c. 1300claim

    The Hereford Mappa Mundi draws Pliny's peoples in its margins

  14. 1375evidence

    The Catalan Atlas draws Mali's ruler from Saharan trade testimony

  15. 1539claim

    The Carta Marina prints excellent coastlines covered in sea monsters

  16. 1705evidence

    Giant bones surface at Claverack, New York, and are read as biblical

  17. 1811evidence

    Mary Anning begins finding the fossils that others will publish

  18. 1815evidence

    William Smith's map shows strata as a picture for the first time

  19. 1828claim

    Irving invents the Salamanca scene, and the flat-earth myth with it

  20. 1869claim

    The Cardiff Giant is buried, dug up, and sold by the ticket

  21. 1912claim

    Wegener proposes drifting continents and is dismissed for decades

  22. 1966evidence

    Seafloor magnetic striping settles it, from instruments built for other work

  23. 1969evidence

    Deinonychus overturns the sluggish, tail-dragging picture of dinosaurs

  24. 1980claim

    Alvarez proposes an asteroid, on an iridium layer nobody wanted

  25. 1991evidence

    The Chicxulub crater is identified, and parts of the debate stay open