Above, from BibliOdyssey posts: A TIME TABLE from the book Mitchell’s New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of One Hundred and Forty-seven Maps and Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables..’ by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr, 1883, from [...]

The Wikipedia article traffic statistics site lets you enter a term, select a month and year (formatted with “200902″ representing February, 2009), and view a graph of daily wikipedia page views for that subject. I made the above animation using the page view statistics from January, 2008, through January, 2010, for the Wikipedia page on [...]