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 [![Packagist](https://img.shields.io/packagist/l/doctrine/orm.svg)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ka215/jquery.timeline/master/LICENSE)
 
+This is a fork of the library "jQuery.Timeline". 
+You can find the original library here: https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/in19ezej/jquery-timeline
+This library is able to use dates before Christ and scales up to billions of years, e.g. to the big bang.
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 jQuery.Timeline
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