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:
“Yet the companions of the Muses
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff, we are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we not had enough of such experiments?”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)