Charts and Graphs

Ben Schott (of the trivia player's bible, Schott's Original Miscellany) providing an amazing snapshot of the last five years in the NYTimes on Thursday.

It’s been nearly five years since 9/11, but it seems like a lifetime. Certainly, a lifetime’s worth of events for America and the world — elections and insurgencies, hurricanes and tsunamis, attacks and threats of attack — have unfolded with such speed that it can be hard to sort through, or even recall, everything of consequence. The chart below is an attempt, admittedly selective and incomplete, to survey the first five years of our post-9/11 world — a world that is certainly new, though not always brave.

It's downloadable via PDF (1.1 MB).