Historical
- Eureka, Arizona, late 19th century ghost town 30 miles north of Yuma on the Colorado River
- Eureka (ferryboat), an 1890-built steam ferryboat now preserved in San Francisco
- Eureka Stockade, an 1854 goldminers' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Eureka Flag, a symbol of the Eureka Stockade
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Famous quotes containing the word historical:
“The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Reason, progress, unselfishness, a wide historical perspective, expansiveness, generosity, enlightened self-interest. I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair.”
—Katherine Tait (b. 1923)
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
—Owen Barfield (b. 1898)