Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on December 10 across the 3 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
is one of the foundational global cultural-political institutions — the renowned annual prize was established through the 1895 will of Swedish chemist-industrialist Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite, who established the wider Nobel Prize program through his foundational…
was founded on December 10, 1932 in Dehradun as the significant first independent Indian officer-training academy under the Indian Army Indianization policy that began transferring officer commissions from British to Indian personnel ahead of eventual independence.
Kaohsiung's name comes from the Japanese transliteration of the original Hokkien-Taiwanese name Takau / Takow — the Japanese read it as Takao and wrote it with the characters 高雄, which the post-1945 Chinese reading is Gāoxióng (Kaohsiung in Wade-Giles, Gaoxiong in pinyin).
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →