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
- Eureka, the codename for the Tehran Conference, the first of several World War II meetings between Franklin Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
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Famous quotes containing the word historical:
“Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than that something has occurred.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“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)