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:
“Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)