packages to look into:

• picnic.py -- https://github.com/Zulko/picnic.py
• chronic -- https://github.com/davidcrawford/chronic
• dataset -- https://github.com/pudo/dataset
• arrow -- date stuff

list o links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_celebrities
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_politicians_by_nationality
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_politicians
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_non-inflated_historical_figures
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_figures
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_scientists
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Great_Paintings
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_painters_by_name
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PulitzerPrizes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buildings_and_structures
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings_in_the_world
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_the_world

vis examples:

• http://bl.ocks.org/bunkat/2338034
• http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
• http://bl.ocks.org/rengel-de/5603464
• http://bl.ocks.org/tnightingale/4718717
• http://bl.ocks.org/bunkat/1962173
• http://timeline.knightlab.com/
• http://conflictstudy.asiafoundation.org/
• https://github.com/jiahuang/d3-timeline
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/papers/index.html

TODO:

• add the reason for the nobel laureates
• add more things to parse
• clean up some of the names / titles
• single point items -- paintings, independence dates
• add a USER.txt -- specific items added manually