Now you don't have to choose

...between history and geography.

Arm chair and other travellers and all who like their history event-centred take note: a new wiki promises interactive global "points of interest" in which 'point' connotes time, space and incident.

So far, only a handful of POIs, but of those a high percentage are Canadian (read Great Lakes region.)

I couldn't discover the identities of the initiators, nor how the contributions are to be vetted, if at all, but the announcement came from a most respectable source, Professor Timothy Pearson of the History Department at McMaster.