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April 24

In 1942, on this day Richard Michael Daley was born in Bridgeport, an historically Irish-American neighborhood located south of the Chicago Loop. He was the fourth of seven children and eldest son of Richard J. and Eleanor Daley, the late Mayor and First Lady of America's Second City, Chicago.

Birth of Richard M. DaleyHe was elected fifty-fourth mayor at a moment in history when Chicago's Second City status was under pressure as never before. Of course many doom-cryers had predicted that such a decline was inevitable as far back as the 1945 World Series when the National League Chicago Cubs beat the American League Detroit Tigers [1]. However events conspired to transition the blue collar "City of Broad Shoulders" to the modern day white collar mecca "Chi-Town". Firstly, the earthquake of 1964 [2] held back the development of its rival city of Los Angeles. And secondly, his father invested all of his political capital in launching a long-term policy of suburban annexation [3] being forever associated with never-ending highway construction on I-94 through the Windy City and its suburbs [4].

Neverthless, by the late nineteen eighties Los Angeles was fast re-emerging, and Chicagoans began to look nervously at the relative decline of St. Louis. Of course Detroit had only been saved from haunting ruin by the action of local advocates who had lobbied the United Nations into basing their head-quarters on Belle-Isle. The issue was still unresolved when Daley left office and was succeeded by Barry Soetoro. He would govern a mega-city sprawling out into much of Cook County. And the appointment of an ex-Community Organizer was an intriguing development for a city where the term "Chicago Politician" was still being used to cynically describe connections to the Mob, a throwback to the bad old days of Al Capone [5].

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Readers Comment Mike McIlvain commented on 2013-04-24 04:27:54 ~ The aggressive tendencies of Chicago are a bit clearer here. This AH exaggerates the situation, but illuminates the competitive spirit that is sometimes quite visible. The Cubs are one thing, the city's intentions are another. Clearly, there are those in Chicago that want to be No. 1 -- and enjoy the benefits that go with it.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2013-04-24 05:20:24 ~ So you're saying LA's rise was aborted by an earthquake? Not impossible, but Chicago's also in the Snow Belt, and the rise of the Sun Belt would hurt it.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2013-04-24 08:53:50 ~ Huh? Can we try all that again?

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Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-24 12:46:45 ~ As a native Chicagoan again, I must remind you that we are also famous throughout the world for our gangsters, starting with Al Capone. In fact, to this day some of Obama's foes keep accusing him of being a "Chicago Politician"...meaning, cynical and corrupt and with our hands out to the Mafia. AND we're proud of it. I mean, we have to be first in SOMETHING.

Readers Comment Steven Fisher commented on 2013-04-24 13:39:03 ~ I support this timeline

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2013-04-24 14:08:22 ~ '64 earthquake? Would it be too rude a question to ask where that idea came from?

In 1861, the Republic of Texas formally recognised the Confederate States of America in a keynote speech delivered by President William B. Travis on this day in Austin; whilst offering critical diplomatic support to his fellow South Carolinians, Travis carefully avoiding any direct comparison between the sieges of Fort Sumter and the Alamo.

Line in the SandNo longer the hot-headed twenty-six year old Lieutenant Colonel of the Texian Army, Travis had learnt a number of valuable lessons about leadership since he wrote the famous "Victory or Death" Letter on March 3rd, 1836.

Because having drawn a line in the sand, only one of the defenders of the Alamo had refused to cross it - Moses Rose, a French born former soldier in Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée who insisted that he was not ready to die. And so during the late night hours of March 5th, Rose had snuck through enemy lines, broke into the Old Governor's Mansion and assassinated the Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna. Whereupon his successor, General Castrillon launched a disasterous strike on the east wall which was repelled by heavy cannon fire (that was in fact mostly shrapnel) but which caused the Mexican troops to despair and quit the siege.

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Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2010-04-24 02:39:51 ~ Taking out Santa Ana might not have been a good move---he was always the other side's secret weapon. Also, I do think that the tides of history were such that Texas would have joined the US before Ft. Sumter...the Republic of Texas was generally seen as an interim step IIRC.

Readers Comment Michael N. Ryan commented on 2010-04-24 15:55:17 ~ Considering that the Alamo was not a real fort but a church surrounded by thick indefensible walls with not enough Texans to defend it let alone hold it from the massive Mexican army attacking it , the place was a death trap that could not be held. No matter what General leads the Mexicans, the Alamo goes down. I don't see how this thing could go the way you are doing it here.

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2010-04-27 02:21:48 ~ Kill Santa Anna [unlikely but...] and the Mexican Army probably goes home to fight out who is the next President

In 1804, foiled in their dastardly plans to betray the founding principles of the American revolution, the disgraced Colonel Alexander Hamilton and his fellow Federalist plotters were transported to Hudson County, New Jersey where they were summarily executed on this day at the township of Weehawken.

Traitors to the American RevolutionPrima facie evidence had emerged from a vitriolic letter originally sent from Dr. Charles D. Cooper to Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father-in-law. Published in the Albany Register, the letter revealed the existence of a vast and insidious conspiracy of soldiers, bankers and lawyers who sought to implement an American version of British mercantilism. Shockingly, the plans for a "congressional-military-industrial complex" had begun almost as soon as the Revolution was over.

"States' rights must be crushed, in the eyes of Hamilton and his followers"Prior to the execution, a charge sheet was read by Colonel Aaron Burr, reminding citizens that the war of independence had removed an evil "system of statism which employed economic fallacy to build up a structure of imperial state power, as well as special subsidy and monopolistic privilege to individuals or groups favored by the state". In short, Hamilton, et all were traitors to the American Revolution, the worst kind of corrupt, power-seeking political scoundrels no better than King George III of England. Because these evil mercantilists sought to introduce numerous taxes and interferences with international trade that benefited American businesses and the Federal Government while treating the American citizens like tax serfs.

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Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2009-11-05 06:46:00 ~ Totally misses period mentalities. Short of a Jacobin US this wasn't going to happen. Indeed the US formed because signifigant parts of the US saw in Shay's Rebellion and similar outbreaks a chance of such here.

Readers Comment Todayinah Ed. commented on 2009-11-05 11:10:53 ~ Sir er point is to change all the period mentalties which is why we describe simply an event leaving the reader to guess at the possible historic changes. I know thats not traditional cause/effect, but the point is to examine the characters themselves and their drivers from a different perspective in this case, using revisionist logic that is described in the source article.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2009-11-05 12:51:35 ~ In our history, of course, it was Burr who was charged with being a "corrupt, power-seeking political scoundrel" for allegedly trying to create his own private empire out West.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2009-11-05 13:32:36 ~ Without Hamilton-the-martyr, future politics would be very different...and maybe Burr could extricate himself from the midden of politics and go for his proper role, that of educator.

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2009-11-05 14:54:16 ~ Didn't Mussolini start out as a schoolteacher?

Readers Comment Todayinah Ed. commented on 2009-11-05 15:26:31 ~ Yes also Robert Mugabe!

Comment on Facebook from Stan Brin: The founding fathers weren't murderers, so I take it you're being facetious.

Comment on Facebook from Charles Fee: It's alternate history. It's even stated to be FICTIONAL right at the top. Get a clue, Stan.

Comment on Facebook from Samuel Garcia: well technically they were u guys would just know if u read

Comment on Facebook from Charles Fee: Never said they weren't. Just that this piece is known to be and was intended to be fictional.

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In -70000, year by the pre-colony calendar, indigenous humanoid cousins of the Mlosh lost a battle with extinction, an extensive archeology study suggests. Indigenous humanoids wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says.The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in the central continent, apparently because of drought.
"Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, forced to the brink of extinction. Truly an epic tragedy, written in our cousin's scattered remains". says the report.

In 1804, the "Cooper letter" is published in the Albany Register newspaper.

The Cooper Letter by Eric LippsIn private correspondence, Dr. Charles D. Cooper to President Hamilton's father-in-law Philip Schuyler expresses a venomously hostile opinion of Burr, then seeking the governorship of New Jersey, and claims to describe "a still more despicable opinion which President Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr" at a political dinner. When Burr learns of the letter, he will immediately demand an explanation, stating that "political opposition can never absolve gentlemen from the necessity of a rigid adherence to the laws of honor and the rules of decorum".

Hamilton's response will not help matters. "How such a gentleman as Mr. Burr can complain of the private opinions of others, made known to him, when he has taken it upon himself to deliver first from the concealment of an alias and then openly attacks upon this Administration and upon its President assaults of the most inflamed character, I cannot comprehend". His next words will prove fateful: "As to his remarks on honor and decorum, one cannot discern from his record in the matter of the so-called Cicero letters, or indeed from any other source, by what right he is fit to question others".

Matters steadily worsen over the following weeks, with both Burr and Hamilton claiming that "honor must be satisfied" between them. Both men have a history of dueling, and Hamilton's friends and advisers, in particular, try desperately to prevent such a contest between the pair, arguing that for a president to duel would be "injurious to the dignity and indeed the security of the nation, regardless of the result".

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Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-02-15 15:01:05 ~ If Hamilton had been POTUS (I take it that "President" refers to this title, and not something else?) he might have calmed down on the subject of Burr---he was always terrified that Burr might one day waltz in and take the Federalist Party out away from him, which Burr could have done easily with his background and family ties.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-02-16 00:09:35 ~ Hope Burr does the courteous thing and misses, as Hamilton is said to have done. To kill the president would be a huge blow against the young Constitution.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2011-02-16 00:27:48 ~ Hamilton might have responded to those who said it was "injurious" to the nation's "dignity" for a president to duel by suggesting they'd say the same of an ex-president, and that to let what he believed to be a slander pass would itself be harmful. Where it went from there would depend on his temper, which was not always even.

	In 2015, on this day fearing for his life if he returned to Britain, entertainer and former Beatle Paul McCartney, who'd been touring continental Europe when David Cameron resigned as prime minister, went to the U.S. embassy in Madrid and requested political asylum in America for himself and his family.

Paul McCartney

That McCartney had considered such drastic action, much less actually gone through with it, was one of the clearest signs yet just how bad things had gotten in the swiftly and inexorably disintegrating United Kingdom. Indeed, even as McCartney was filing his asylum request dozens of London's top police officers had resigned their commissions in disgust over the sky-high crime rate in the British capital.

On this day in 1983, Terry "Hulk" Hogan demolished "Psycho" Tommy Rich in less than nine minutes in the main event at the first Wrestlemania to win the WWF world heavyweight title; in the biggest match on the undercard, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and Adrian Adonis beat Pedro Morales and Rocky Johnson to win the WWF world tag team titles.

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In 2001, most of Miller, Wisconsin goes up in flames as desperate National Guardsmen blow up building after building in an attempt to halt zombie Hitler on his rampage through the small town. During the chaos, Colby Ross and Samantha Robinson locate the hidden basement where their grandfathers had hidden the means to dispel Hitler and complete the ritual, banishing the Nazi forever.

In 1996, mere days after rescuing Sally Ann Moore from kidnappers at Aggiecon, Bartholomew Thompson, Moore, and several of Thompson's friends are approached by the alien race known as the B'han and asked to accompany them to their homeworld, where Thompson's peculiar talents are needed. The group agrees, to the misfortune of most of them.

In 1992, the British withdraw their meager forces from Zaire in the face of the brutal South African onslaught. With Terreblanche winning victories across Africa and Constitutionalist President Ralph Shephard consolidating his hold on the western hemisphere, it looks dark for the anti-Fulcrum allies. Fortunately, a new ally is just about to join them and turn the tide.

In 1915, Admiral Esteban Rodriquez's ships reach the P'Karsai nebula and find a habitable planet, populated by the race known to them as the Kainku. Rodriquez sends out a greeting asking for a meeting with the ruling government of the planet; it is responded to quickly in the affirmative.

In 1833, Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent their soda fountain, a machine which makes sweet carbonated beverages. They almost lose their shop when a smooth-talking inventor tries to get them to start selling ice cream sodas, but recover after knocking the unpopular sweet off of their menu.

In 1781, former American general Benedict Arnold, now fighting for the Canadians, clashes with British General William Phillips at the Battle of Hudson Bay. Phillips had wanted to establish a fort that he could begin moving troops from to strike at any point in Canada, but Arnold saved Canadian independence by defeating him soundly and driving his forces back to sea.

In 1999, Queen Elizabeth's Prime Minister-in-exile Oliver Pembroke begins shuttling about the Commonwealth in a desperate effort to keep them from recognizing the government of Arthur the usurper. He has the full diplomatic support of the Central European Empire, but is ultimately unsuccessful. He returns home to Amsterdam with nothing to show for his efforts but a further lessening of the Windsor's influence. His counterpart, Prime Minister Merl Myrddin, has much greater success - the entire Commonwealth recognizes King Arthur's government as the legitimate rulers of Great Britain.

In 1891, Congress authorizes a huge expenditure for an expeditionary force against Kansas. President Harrison's call for men to preserve the Union brings in thousands of volunteers, swelling the ranks of the army. 'Sockless' Simpson continues to drill his men in Kansas, hardening the border against the storm he sees coming. In Missouri, General Anthony Franklin and Major Mark Wainwright finally find a small town with a telegraph office. 'At last,' Franklin says, then orders Wainwright to report back to Washington and give their superiors his location. 'Now, we begin our counter-attack.'

US President	In 1980, after reviewing intelligence reports on the emerging anti-Soviet mujaheddin resistance in Afghanistan, President Kennedy decides to direct U.S. aid primarily to secular Afghan factions. This decision is sharply criticized by CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who points out that the most strongly anti-Communist groups are composed of militant Islamic fundamentalists. 'If we can get along with Khomeini,' Turner insists, 'we can deal with these guys--and we know they hate Moscow more than anything.' The President responds: 'And once they kick out the Soviets, if they do, what then? We manage to get along with Tehran, but isn't one Iran enough?'

Ted Kennedy


Turner reluctantly gives in. However, he communicates his dissatisfaction to others. From there, word of Kennedy's decision, and of his remarks, reaches Afghanistan, where Islamic fighters are enraged at what they see as EMK's 'betrayal.' Among those angered is a wealthy Saudi extremist named Osama bin Laden who has devoted himself to the Afghan struggle out of religious zeal.

In the seventy-first year of the colony, the great Mlosh poet Klekt't'kel was born in Ireland. Writer of the epic poem, This Empty World, she is widely considered the greatest author of the first Mlosh century. She effectively communicated their profound sense of disappointment at the discovery that the colony's emerging sentient life had been destroyed by an extinction event. Klekt't'kel's sorrowful prose described the Chi'cxu'lu'b Event in which the planet had been struck by the devil's tail.

In 1961, with U.S. troops ashore in Cuba following the mass landings at Bahia de Cochinos on the 17th, anti-American riots have erupted throughout the Caribbean and in Mexico. In Mexico City, the U.S. embassy is under siege, with angry crowds being kept at bay by U.S. Marines and Mexican federales.

In 1980, President Reagan sent a small team of Marines into Iran to attempt a rescue of the 50 American hostages being held in Tehran. Unfortunately, desert storms knocked the choppers out of commission, killing 8 of the Marines. President Reagan took full responsibility for the mission's failure, and this more than anything was why Senator Kennedy beat him in the presidential elections that year.

In 1942, David O. Selznick refuses to let Ingrid Bergman out of her contract and appear in Warner Brother's Casablanca. The producers use Olivia de Haviland instead, and her marvelous performance as Ilsa opposite Humphrey Bogart earns her an Oscar as best actress.

In 3881, the brilliant tactician Minamoto Yoshitsune finally meets his match at the Battle of Dan no ura as the Taira clan overpowers his forces in spite of his numerical advantage. This infighting is the reason that China was able to conquer the Nipponese with relative ease in the coming decades.

In 1061, a monk named Robert DeBerge at the Abbey of Bath saw a comet in the sky. He prayed the night through over this, and the following day told all of England that God was sending this errant star to destroy the nation. He was proven correct when the comet smashed into the earth, killing most life in northern Europe.

In 1980, Operation Eagle Claw (or Operation Evening Light) the United States military operation to rescue the 53 hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was a stunning success. Privately, many Washington insiders believed the credit was due to Yonathan Netanyahu, who had been on secondment from Israel Defense Forces elite Sayeret Matkal unit. The experience and valour he had demonstrated at the Raid on Entebbe had made him a must-have member of the Eagle Claw team for Jimmy Carter, a former serviceman himself.

April 23

It is 1923, and two American boys are enjoying a European tour with a stop in Germany. Their trip was especially enjoyable because it had been so hard to get their wealthy Jewish parents to pay for their journey, especially since they were venturing into anti-Semitic territory.

The All-American BoysEven back in Chicago, though, they had enjoyed themselves by fantasizing about committing the perfect murder. Hearing about the viciously anti-Semitic political party organizer named Adolf Hitler, they decided he was the perfect target for making their fantasies come true.

Since they also knew that he was an aspiring artist, they called on him saying that they wanted to buy his paintings. He agreed to meet them in a hotel room, where they had registered in disguise .. after swearing him to total secrecy, by saying that having two Jews buy his artwork would embarrass them all. When they showed up they strangled him and hid his body beneath the mattress.

Their biggest challenge, of course, was getting out of Germany alive. Driving hell-for-leather to the airport, they managed their escape, hours before the corpse was found. One of them had left his glasses on the bed .. but fortunately for them, the other had spotted them just before they left the scene.

Hitler's death was blamed on everyone from the Communists to Kaiser Wilhelm, but it was only years later that the two boys decided to tell their stories.

It was true, they conceded, that Hitler had only been replaced by another Nazi leader named General Erich von Ludendorff, who was just as hateful as Hitler had been. He persecuted Jews and Christians alike, but had to stop short of killing them all, since there were so many Christians around, and they were naturally making common cause with the Jews. Still, the killers felt sure that the world was well rid of their original target .. and that all the world should admire the heroic deed of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in real life - Leopold and Loeb are notorious to this day for killing a little neighbor boy named Bobby Franks in 1924, partly to commit that perfect murder .. and also partly to raise the ransom money for their European trip. Since they had left Leopold's glasses at the scene, they were quickly captured. Saved from execution by the great lawyer Clarence Darrow, they were soon sentenced to life in prison, where Loeb was killed.

Readers Comment Mark Taylor commented on 2013-04-24 13:22:34 ~ Ludebndorff wouldn't have got that far.I just hope the boys would've been satisfied with this one murder.

Readers Comment Steven Fisher commented on 2013-04-24 13:40:43 ~ I still support the Red alert theory that even without Hitler, there would have been someone to launch the Second World War, whether he was German ,Russian, or even Polish

Readers Comment Kirk Edwards commented on 2013-04-24 14:05:31 ~ This is good.But,not for mankind.Nazi germany would have lasted longer w/o Adolf.

Readers Comment Mike Stone commented on 2013-04-24 14:32:29 ~ The Nazi party was Adolf plus a lot of nobodies. Without him Nazi Germany doesn't happen - though some other form of right-wing dictatorship may.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-24 14:33:20 ~ Answering Mark...If the boys had not been satisfied, they might have wound up going on secret government missions...like killing Castro and bin Laden. Looking at it from the other point of view...It was the Tsarnaev Brothers who reminded me of them, since the Tsarnaevs seemed to me to be rather like the Leopold and Loeb of our time.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2013-04-24 17:25:21 ~ Great TL. These guys could go evil quickly... what famous person would be next? Lindberg?

Readers Comment Brian Wall commented on 2013-04-24 18:05:11 ~ Didn't Hitchcock base one of his movies on these two?

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-24 19:16:59 ~ Yes indeed, Brian...the movie was called Rope. A later, much more successful movie was based on a novel about them, called Compulsion.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2013-04-24 19:54:19 ~ Weimar Germany wasn't more anti-Semitic than the rest of Western Europe. Poland was quite a bit more so, along with Eastern Europe.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-24 20:05:23 ~ True no doubt,Eric...but Americans would have been much less likely to visit Poland, and in Germany the Nazis were already making their mark, as witness the Beer Hall Putsch.

Readers Comment H. Torrance Griffin commented on 2013-04-24 23:50:24 ~ A Sane Rightist Authoritarian German Leader could have easily come to dominate Eastern Europe. An 'RAGL' with Issues about Jews could have done it easily. An 'RAGL' who looked down his nose at Slavs could have easily co-opted the Jews into their strongest supporters (Yiddish is not that far off from various dialekten aside from the orthography). Even Adolph could have died in bed if he knew how to quit doubling down.

In 1791, on this day the American statesman James Buchanan, Jr. was born to parents of Ulster Scots descent in a log cabin in Cove Gap, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. During an unstable period of vacillating national leaders, he stood out as as one of the few national politicians willing to take a principled stand on the integrity of the Union.

Birth of James BuchananAfter a successful career in local politics he was elected to the Senate and later became the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Offered a position on the Supreme Court, he declined and served as Secretary of State under President Polk despite objections from Buchanan's rival, Vice President George Dallas. During this term of office he helped negotiate the 1846 Oregon Treaty which establishing the 49th parallel as the northern boundary of the western U.S.

He then served as minister to the Court of St. James's helping to draft the Ostend Manifesto. This document proposed the purchase from Spain of Cuba, then in the midst of revolution and near bankruptcy, declaring the island "as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present .. family of states". Against his recommendation, the final draft of the Manifesto suggested that "wresting it from Spain" if Spain refused to sell would be justified "by every law, human and Divine". When this clause was acted upon by the Pierce administration he resigned and returned to retirement with his beloved wife Anne [1] at his home in the Wheatland. He died in 1868. Of course long before then he had been vindicated because the slave island of Cuba became central to the disputes between the States.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in authoring this article we have re-purposed content from both the Wikipedia and also Alternate History web sites. The Manifesto, generally considered a blunder overall, was never acted upon but weakened the Pierce administration and support for Manifest Destiny. The Democrats nominated Buchanan ("Old Public Functionary") in 1856, for president. [1] see comment from John B.

Readers Comment Mark Taylor commented on 2013-04-23 11:40:00 ~ If only....

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2013-04-23 11:49:14 ~ Before pining for an AH in which Cuba belonged to the USA and therefore Castro's revolution didn't happen, consider that (1) it would likely have become another slave state, possibly altering the outcome of the Civil War, and (2) it also might have remained a Mafia haven to the present day.

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2013-04-23 15:16:30 ~ Cuba a Civil War battleground? That would be interesting...

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2013-04-23 19:53:02 ~ My learned friend Mr. Lipps forgets that the _reason_ Cuba was a "Mafia haven" (i.e., offered entertainment that the puritanical US and state governments here forbade or frowned on) was precisely because it WASN'T part of the United States. That said, I am not at all sure that either the Cuban people or the Americans would have been happy about taking in so many Spanish-speakers.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2013-04-23 20:49:20 ~ Great POD! It'd be an early start to an American Empire.

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2013-04-23 21:34:37 ~ Actually Cuba almost passed into British hands at the end of the Seven Years War. The British occupation was quite well received by the local elites. The same elites were willing to entertain joining the US/Dixie every time they revolted against Spain. The quid pro quo for another slave state would have been Kansas as a free state.

In 1866, on this day Yankee soldiers arrested Mrs. Elizabeth Rutherford Ellis and other senior members of the Ladies Memorial Association in Columbus, Georgia.

The Arrests in ColumbusThe ladies had called for a Confederate Memorial Day on April 26th, scheduled to coincide with General Johnston's surrender at Bennett Place. The White House considered it a step too far. And to emphasize the point, a draconian ban was also put in place that outlawed the waving of the Confederate Flag, wearing of Dixie Uniforms or engaging in any form of re-enactment or commemoration whatsover.

The suppression of these freedoms would of course have long term effects upon the pursuit of liberty. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, President Michelle Obama would call for the banning of any form of foodstuff considered likely to lead to obesity. That announcement was made from the McDonald's store on Pennsylvania Avenue where the First Family indulged in a sugar free salad without dressing.

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Readers Comment Kirk Edwards commented on 2013-04-21 23:49:31 ~ Irony noted.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2013-04-21 23:54:03 ~ Oh, for heavens' sake...

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2013-04-22 00:27:56 ~ This would be seen as going too far, even for Radical Reconstructionists.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-22 00:32:53 ~ The Confederates were bitching about the suppression of their liberty? Quelle irony!

Readers Comment Mike McIlvain commented on 2013-04-22 08:16:38 ~ Extremes. I think most everyone knows that events happen through, or because of. extremes, but rarely are extremes a long-term settling force in any issue. Here, amid the ironies, are some in this AH. People would be looking for some sort of compromise be it in honouring Confederates, or eating contraband food.

Readers Comment Sailorbarsoom commented on 2013-04-22 15:45:01 ~ Don't forget that shining symbol of liberty, the incandescent light bulb![rolleyes]

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2013-04-22 18:47:51 ~ Taking away fried foods would be the last straw!

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-22 20:19:33 ~ That would be the last straw indeed, Jeff...since, from what I've heard, Southern fried chicken was invented by a slave woman who threatened her masters with mayhem if they dared to pour sauce over her creation.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2013-04-22 20:36:47 ~ Jackie -- I think you have that backwards. Fried chicken by itself is typically a southern white dish. Fried chicken with gravy is soul food. Both like gravy on mashed potatoes. While both sub-genres have their culinary advantages, I personally can't stand their heavy use of deep fat and salt.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-23 01:34:39 ~ Well, Stan, that is the version I heard. Of course, those white southerners could have learned to love sauce-free fried chicken from the slave cook in question.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2013-04-23 21:05:45 ~ Many years ago, Dick Gregory, a famous comedian and black racial agitator in the 1960s, went on a hunger strike. Soon after, he announced the contents of a letter in which a man taunted him by reciting the menu of his last dinner. It included a mention of "fried chicken with gravy." The comedian replied, "There's a black man out there who just haaaaates me! Because you know who likes fried chicken with gravy!"

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-24 00:13:46 ~ Well then, maybe the crotchety cook just wanted to deprive her masters of the pleasure of fried chicken with sauce. Revenge is sweet-and-sour!

Google+ Comments Comment from Len Smith on Google+ Essentially , every attempt possible has indeed been made to prevent any current Confederate celebrations. The south was destroyed at the hands of Northern soldiers to make sure she never did recover. The opposition to any Southern development was successful until much later when industries moved there for cheap labor. Banning confederate celebrations would only assure the South that the DC government was without a doubt a gang of thieves , Royalty and murderers. But the status quo would remain the same , the South has maintained a de facto independent government since the civil war , opposing the North whenever possible. It began to crumble when the civil rights movement decided to finish the job that was started in the civil war. This in essence was to drive out all old Southern ideology. A moot point because the South is now becoming a Mexican state and they in turn are driving out North America as a whole as much as is possible. Those whose families lost everything to the Northern delinquency and dictatorship , have turned to dust

Readers Comment Marko Bosscher commented on 2013-04-26 12:06:06 ~ There wasn't much the North needed to do after the war to "keep the South down", the Confederacy bankrupted itself in the war, and Sherman and Sheridan helped it along by torching much of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America#Devastation_by_1865?

Google+ Comments Comment from Len Smith on Google+ +Marko Bosscher It's true , since the Northerners destroyed every building and barn they could when they left .(..much the North needed to do ...) And yes the Southern bosses decided to wreck what might become Yankee home ground. There was a great fear that the Yankee upper crust would install themselves in the south and become the new South . It was as much a cultural war as a war of finance. There is a tendency for folks to become emotional and see the war as racial in nature , the great slave saving war. When in fact it was much an attempt to rearrange upper class ideologues , to establish one nation from Canada to Mexico. The women of the South ( where this tale begins ) are still carrying the war on in their parlors . They ceased be European and very French and were forced to be Yankee's. Not acceptable all in their eyes.

Todayinah Editor Editor says, what if a chance act at the Garden of Gethsemane had abrogated God's Plan? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

"Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the scabbard: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" ~ John 18:10-11

This story was published in the March 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.

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In AD 33, that agent of the random Simon Peter withdrew his sword and with holy fury attacked the Temple Guards that had arrested his Master in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Off ScriptThe tense, but otherwise peaceful confrontation escalated into a violent armed struggle in which Malchus was killed.

Unable to raise him from the dead, Jesus discovered that he had been stripped of his miraculous powers. Fearing the wrath of God, he was terrified by the prospect that he himself might be cast into the fiery lake. Summoning both the disciples and the Temple Guards, he assembled a mob to march into the city and declare that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand.
This post is a variant ending to The Last Temptation.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in the Gospels, Malchus has his ear cut off. But Jesus stops the fight with a miracle, by healing his severed ear.

Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-03-08 05:26:39 ~ Interesting take. :-) Some folks might think it's blasphemous, but I'm a devout Christian myself and I think it's fine. Nice out-of-the-box thinking.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2012-03-08 05:30:05 ~ If God's Plan can be derailed so easily, is He truly omnipotent?

Readers Comment Tom B commented on 2012-03-08 05:35:12 ~ It's fatuous not blaphemous.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2012-03-12 14:48:59 ~ Comments in the "What If..." collection are interesting in that the Romans liked Jesus' policy of "pay your taxes." Maybe he'd join up with Pontius Pilate and overthrow the Pharisees?

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-23 13:21:22 ~ Jeff, you are talking about a nice patriotic Jewish boy. Join up with Pontius Pilate? In this AH, he would have been much more likely to join up with the Sicarii!

In 1616, on this day the playwright William Shakespeare died of a heart attack after an uproarious night out drinking with the poet Ben Jonson.

Death of the Bard
By Ed, Eric Oppen and Jackie SpeelThe cause for this excessive celebration was the resolution of a long-running dispute with the King's Men. Twenty-five years before, he was the lead playwright of the first tetralogy comprising Richard III and Henry VI Parts 1-3. In the spirit of collaboration, other actors of the playing company had become involved. Soon members of the Elizabethan Court wanted to be part of the merriment, and even Good Queen Bless contributed a few lines of dialogue.

But the fun stopped abruptly when King James ascended the throne and became the company's patron. Some fast back tracking was required on the political satire in the new Stuart Court. Shakespeare lost control of his own material, and the new house playwright John Fletcher managed to force him out.

He returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to focus on his poetry. However he was recalled to London to participate in the translation of the King James Version of the Bible, and the successful publication of the KJVB in 1611 restored him to favour. Five years later, he finally recovered his rightful ownership his plays. But the Elizabethan age had long sice passed, and he was just too old to keep up with the quoffing.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in this article we re-visit ideas from Eric Oppen and Jackie Speel.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-12-16 00:27:07 ~ I'm not sure if playwrights in Shakespeare's time had control of their plays, or if they were always the property of the company, or what. Interesting idea, though...what would Shakespeare have done with the KJV of the Bible?

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-12-18 16:07:18 ~ What we call "intellectual property" today was pretty communal; even citation didn't matter very much. For example, Isaac Newton's famous "standing on the shoulders of giants" or Francis Bacon's "Knowledge is power" were , thus it's hard to get an exact attribution 'cause they didn't care who said it as long as it was insightful and true. Once the Enlightenment gets going and a lot of censorship gets discusses (John Milton's era), we'd see more specific ownership. P.S., Shakespeare's Bible would've been something very interesting to read. A lot more tongue-in-cheek jokes.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2011-12-18 22:52:03 ~ Shakespeare borrowed his stories from other sources without attribution. He would have no right to complain if another company produced them. By the way, I can imagine that a Shakespearean Song of Solomon would have been fascinating, but how creative and humorous can you be with Leviticus? On the other hand, "Uriah, I knew him well..." might be interesting. or a version of the 'Band of Brothers' speech before the Battle of Jericho. But I doubt if the bishops would have approved.

Readers Comment Richard Roper commented on 2012-01-08 12:01:51 ~ It may make no difference. Instead various unpublished manuscripts are "discovered" after Will Shakespeare of Strattford's death. This is because of the old literary debate to whicj i was usbjected at schol- who was the author of the plays, the nobleman for whom Will, the theatre impersario form Stratford fronted? But this would depend on how favoured such a person was with James I and VI.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2012-01-08 15:16:11 ~ Minor nitpick: I think it's supposed to be "Ben Jonson", not "Johnson". Fixed - thanks. Ed

In 1814, on this day Maria, the first of the Brontë children, was born at Clough House, High Town in Hereford.

Birth of Maria BrontëThe family later moved to Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the romantic setting for the sister's works of literary genius. Because during a relatively short period spanning 1845 to 1850, the Brontë sisters used male pseudonyms to publish a series of highly successful novels.

In each, the male protagonist was a Byronic hero of pure sexual magnetism who demonstrated barely disguised arrogance to women. However this misogyny was handled somewhat differently in Maria's own work. Because Shagwell Park was driven by a thinly disguised raciness that is conspicously absent from Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey.

In 1860, on this day the Democrat Party gathered at the South Carolina Institute Hall in Charleston for ten weeks of agonising soul-searching which concluded with the nomination of compromise candidate Jeff Davis who would triumph at the Presidential election in the fall.

Ten Weeks That Saved the UnionDavis was a smart choice being far more qualified than his opponent and fellow Kentuckian Abraham Lincoln and also able to hold together the Democrat Vote due to respect for his national status. A man surely of the stature of his fifteen predecessors perhaps even of the same leadership stock as the first five Presidents who guided the Union through equally troubled times.

Born in poverty with no education, Lincoln was given an axe at the age of twelve and entered into manual labour. He never adminstered anything bigger than a two-man law office. Deeply depressed, he was addicted to mercury, consuming more than nine thousand times the recommended daily dosage. As a result of his mercury-fueled short temper he was of course quite unsuitable for high office. During his single term as a Congressman his only achievement was to enrage his colleagues with "out of tune" opinions of the American-Mexican War, seemingly arguing against a sea-to-sea Union.

In contrast, Jeff Davis was a true nation-builder who would resign his seat in Congress to lead Mississipi troops to glory against superior Mexican Forces at the Battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista. And as Lincoln mismanaged his law office in Springfield, Illinois, Davis made a spectacular return to Washington that would result in his appointment to the Cabinet position of Secretary of War. As the professional head of the US Army, he would be considered one of the most successful holders of the post in the nation's history.

Lincoln might have continued to lose paperworks in his office (or his black stovepipe hat) but his political ambition was reignited by the Missouri Compromise. The Dredd Scot decision followed and the continuation of slavery moved to the very top of the national agenda. Despite his eloquence he lost his Senate Race against Stephen A. Lincoln. Then came the Harper's Ferry Raid.

During the campaign the Democrats would make compelling reference to the last note written by the madman who organized the raid "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with the blood".. Because only Jeff Davis would defend the continuation of constitutional liberty in a manner that would prevent white people from killing each other in a States War. Garbed in black outfit Lincoln was easily characterised as the nation's undertaker and axeman.

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Readers Comment Matthew Dattilo commented on 2011-02-09 03:04:51 ~ Here's a question: would the election of Davis to the White House have prevented a war and brought those states that had already seceded back into the fold? I don't know that anything could have stopped that. He may have ended up fighting the same war, or letting the South go; THAT's an interesting alternative to ponder. The problem, as I see it, is that difficult knot of slavery had been with this country from the beginning and the first fifteen Presidents had done little but kick the knot further down the road. Some argue the institution would have died out on its own, and perhaps that's true. But I believe some sort of conflict over the issue (and the ever-changing argument over states' rights) was almost inevitable from the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. I had assumed the states only seceded during the transition as a result of Lincolns victory and therefore assumed a Davis election would not have triggered secession..? Actually, you're correct, Steve. I was thinking that South Carolina and Mississippi were already gone, but they did not secede until after election (I just looked). I stand corrected on that.

Readers Comment David Atwell commented on 2011-02-09 03:14:15 ~ Well spoken Matthew Dattilo! Yes sooner or later the issue of slavery was bound to spark something off - certainly a political crisis if not indeed secession at some point in time. Don't forget, going back to the Founding Fathers, it was a very sensitive issue & their compromise pretty much set-up events taking place some 80 years later.

Readers Comment Robbie Taylor commented on 2011-02-09 05:28:07 ~ Perhaps northern states would have seceded if yet another southerner had become president. That would also be an interesting departure point - the south invading the north to protect an oppressive system from having to admit its oppressiveness

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-02-09 06:10:33 ~ Davis was so rigid that he'd probably have been about as bad as POTUS as he was as POTCS. I'd trust him implicitly with my diamonds, daughters or liberty (had I any such things) but not as President.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2011-02-09 11:47:29 ~ A minor point: then as now, it was not formally called the "Democrat Party" and did not hold a "Democrat NationalConvention." The word is "Democratic," although right-wing Republicans like to use the other term becqause they choke on acknowledging even by inference that the D's are democratic.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-02-09 15:39:25 ~ It'd be a rocky term that might not accomplish much of political importance. He'd probably get a lot of progress toward an intercontinental railroad done, though.

Readers Comment Nahaht commented on 2011-02-09 15:39:25 ~ Sigh... If this group has an FAQ, this belongs here. From the Wikipedia article on the 1860 election. "The split in the Democratic Party was not a decisive factor in Lincoln's victory. Lincoln captured less than 40 percent of the popular vote, but almost all of his votes were concentrated in the free states, and he won every free state except for New Jersey. He won outright majorities in enough of the free states to have won the Presidency by an Electoral College vote of 169-134 even if the 60 percent of voters who opposed him nationally had united behind a single candidate." Other fun information on the 1860 election includes that according to the "How close were Presidential Elections?" page section for 1860, the fewest votes to change the election would have given Breckinridge (not Douglas!) the election. However in the minimum votes scenario, Minnesota would have had to go from roughly 2/3 Lincoln 1/3 Douglas and 2 percent for Breckinridge to a plurality for Breckinridge. :)

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	In 2008, on this day a defiant Robert Mugabe vowed to -- in his words -- "unleash the fires of hell" on US forces in the Mozambique Channel region..

On this day in 2019, the pilot episode of the CSI spinoff Forensics 101 aired on 204 TV stations across the United States.

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In 1974, on this day a Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 almost crashed into the side of Gunung Patas west of Singaraja (Bali). All 107 passengers on board Pan American flight PA-812 from Hong Kong to Sydney survived despite this near miss while the Boeing 707 was making a scheduled intermediate stop at Bali. The plane had almost struck a mountain in Bali's north-west when the pilots misread a malfunctioning Automatic Direction Finder (ADF). The reason for the malfunction became clear some short hours later when the plane set down in Sydney to be greeted by aboriginal airport officers dressed in the military uniform of the Dream time Republic.

In 1999, on the occasion of Shakespeare's birth and death, and just a few days after his first anniversary on the throne, King Arthur II declares a general amnesty for the Windsors if they will return to Great Britain. 'We are willing to forgo our righteous vengeance against the family of the false queen, Elizabeth Windsor, and grant them peace and safety within our borders,' he says in the statement at Stratford-on-Avon. 'This is no time for the British family to be split.' Although it seems like a totally magnanimous gesture, it does quell the minor pro-Windsor factions in the country, giving Arthur a united country as he prepares his Templars for war against the Central European Empire. His new queen, Lady Gwen, gives up one of her homes for the Windsors. The former royal family, unsurprisingly, does not take King Arthur up on his amnesty. Prime Minister Merl Myrddin uses the offer of amnesty to persuade the rest of the Commonwealth to recognize Arthur as King and increase the power that can be brought to bear against the CEE.

In 1891, the call goes out for volunteers to swell the Union Army's ranks and take back Kansas. Thousands of men answer the call and join up. In Kansas, "Sockless" Simpson's troops stand guard across the state's borders and drill themselves to readiness. Just across those borders, General Anthony Franklin keeps his men ready and tries to locate a telegraph office to report in his location. "There's one every block back east," he complained to Major Wainwright, "but the 'wild west' hides theirs so you can't find them".Major Wainwright was thoroughly sick of the general at this point, but was still unwilling to resign his commission. He also wanted revenge against Simpson, and that kept him going as they tromped through Missouri's wilderness.

In 2005, when Chelsea Perkins is untied to use the restroom, she climbs out of the window of her mother's apartment and runs for a few blocks. When she feels comfortably far from her mother, she activates the spell to return her to the Great Tree, where she dispels the illusion of herself that has been keeping Debra Morris, her teacher, company for a few days. Chelsea is stricken with the realization that she can't really go home again.

In 1994, the American Air Force began the Michelin Raids against Great Britain; President Ralph Shephard designated each site awarded stars in the famous Michelin Guides as a prime target. Although the devastation caused by the raids was disheartening, the British carried on against the Constitutionalists and their South African allies.

In 1975, Comrade President John Anderson says that the Chilean War is over for America. 'Today, Americans can regain the sense of pride that existed before Chile. But it cannot be achieved by re-fighting a war.' The North Chilean government was shocked by this admission, and an exodus of Communists to the Soviet States of America began. It was only halted by the South Chilean takeover of the country a few days later, when they closed off the borders of the country.Story Chunk 2

	On this day in 1984, Tom Brady made his Little League debut, pitching his Minors division team to a two-run shutout win.

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In 1014, pagan northmen, known as the Vikings, murder Archbishop Brian Boru of Ireland and attempt to carve the Emerald Isle out of the Holy British Empire. Pope Aethelred the Unready, who had been losing the Empire's continental possessions for years, was finally stirred into action, although he was unable to take back Ireland during the final two years of his papacy.

In 1985, the Coca-Cola Corporation changed its world-beating secret formula for the first time in a century with the marketing of New Coke. The bland, sugary new product turned customers away in such droves that the Coke Corporation collapsed and was acquired by its arch-rival, Pepsi.

In 1616, William Shakespeare, the actor who provided a front for Francis Bacon's early playwrighting career, died in poverty in London, England. After his falling out with Bacon at the turn of the century, he was never again able to make a decent living in the theater.

In 1616, William Shakespeare recovers from a heart attack and returns to the King's Men, where he pens 4 more plays before retiring for good in 1620; these are probably his most famous works, as well as his most controversial. The Archbishop of Canterbury almost brought him up on charges of heresy for Adam & Eve, for instance.

In 1564, William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Bard was a controversial Illuminated One, giving away many secrets within his plays and angering the other Chosen Ones. After the sorcerous incantations of MacBeth were performed, they decided he had gone too far; he was killed secretly and replaced with a double.

In 1014, Brian Boruma mac Cennetig the High King of Ireland decisively defeated rebel forces at the Battle of Clontarf. The King of the province of Leinster along with the Norse king of Dublin and his viking mercenarie were killed along with most of the leaders of the province of Munster.

In 1056 AUC, Diocletian pardoned the Libyan hero Djiordjius, famed for slaying a crocodile in order to save the young daughter of a tribal chieftain. Djiordjius had become entangled with the cult of the Christos, but Emperor Diocletian felt that such a mighty warrior deserved to live his life in spite of his anti-Roman beliefs.

In 2001, as Hitler's resurrected corpse ravages the small town of Miller, Wisconsin, Colby Ross and Samantha Robinson desperately search for the spell to banish him again in the notes of their illustrious grandfathers, Dr. Elliot Ross and Jake Robinson. The tension of the dangerous situation gives rise to romantic feelings between them, and they just know they're going to have to sleep together before this is all done.

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In 1870, on this day Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, located approximately one thousand miles east of Moscow on the Volga River.

Birth of Comrade LeninFollowing the execution of his brother Sacha in 1887 he gained an interest in revolutionary leftist politics, later converting to Marxism as the fearsome revolutionary code named "Lenin". After many years and numerous false starts came the February Revolution. After the Tsar was finally overthrown and a provisional government took power he returned home.

He then took a senior role in orchestrating the October Revolution in 1917, which led to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government and the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. A workaholic he suffered very bad health in the early 1920s but managed to survive a leadership challenge from a potential rival, Comrade Stalin who advocated an alternative policy of "Communism in One Country". Instead Lenin pursued a broader agenda of World Revolution.

A second cycle of the revolutionary wheel occurred with the apparent collapse of the Imperialist Economies in 1929. Believing that this time around Germany would embrace Marxist doctrine, he sent massive aid to Ernst Thälmann and the German Communist Party (KPD) to support their 1932 putsch. But this move backfired spectacularly, because the KPD were overcome by an alliance of right wing forces led by the Nazi Party. With the tacit support of Anglo-France, the rise of Hitler saw the consolidation of a newly re-invigorated united anti-Communist Front. It would be a bitter legacy that he left to his chosen successor, Leon Trotsky.

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Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2013-04-22 14:08:50 ~ Hmmmmm....

Readers Comment Steven Fisher commented on 2013-04-22 15:11:03 ~ That does not sound good. Fortunately, Russia has men and winter. Lots of men. you may beat Russia, but you will never be able to finish them off

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2013-04-22 18:58:03 ~ 1932 the Polish army could have taken Berlin and put the red regime down.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2013-04-22 21:25:27 ~ Lenin was probably worse than Stalin in some ways. If he'd lived longer, the later Commies couldn't shelter behind him when Stalin was discredited. How about one where Dora Kaplan(?) succeeds in assassinating him in 1918?

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2013-04-23 01:32:06 ~ Or alternatively, Eric...How about one where Lenin's brother is not executed.

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2013-04-23 05:35:48 ~ What Lenin and Trotsky both lacked was a willingness to demean themselves in the nuts and bolts bureaucracy and personnel administration that was needed to run the SU and CPSU.

Readers Comment Mark Taylor commented on 2013-04-23 12:34:00 ~ If only the bastard hadn't been born!

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2013-04-23 20:51:40 ~ I'd like to see Lenin's writings go up against Goebbels' propaganda.

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2013-04-23 21:11:18 ~ @Jeff - Lenin was a near unique case of right place, right time. In 1917 he was able to cut through miles of theoretical BS to a simple core program - bread, land, peace. Each part was an easy sell. He was also lucky to have inept opponents.

Todayinah Editor Editor says, what if the World was covered in water? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, "Let the waters under the heaven cover the surface of the Earth": and it was so.

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In 5500 BC, the lesser creator god Nebro was overwhelmed by the perfect reflection of his face upon the waters. This fierce joy developed into a great reluctance to break the glory of this mirror image by forming dry land. Instead, he disobeyed the instructions of the Great Spirit El, and in the overbearing pride of his rebellion, deceived himself that his work was complete.

The Face of the WatersWell almost, because first he dived into the deeps to create a watery garden of Eden where he breathed life into the Adam, the first merman. To ensure that the Earth would sustain life without dry land, the demiurge made an adjustment to produce oxygen.

Enraged by the disobedience of the demiurge, El silently forced himself through the boundaries of the flawed little world. But rage made way for surprise and then joy when he discovered that the Earth was teeming with a raptuous harmony of life that he had never imagined. He then quietly withdrew, and in so doing, he committed the final act of the creation: the formation of free will.

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Editor says, in various monotheistic philosophies, there is a lesser creator God (nebro), sometimes malevolent, who is subordinate to the One. In this post we imagine he shapes the creation entirely for his own pleasure.

Michael McNeil commented on Facebook: How does that follow? There's an exceedingly large amount of photosynthesizing "plant" (including cyanobacteria, aka "blue-green algae") life in the oceans. It's cyanobacteria that converted Earth's formerly reducing atmosphere into an oxidizing atmosphere in the first place. Thanks - Fixed. Ed
John Allen Hough commented on Facebook: there would be very little oxygen since plant life makes the atmosphere stable and make O2!! Thanks - Fixed. Ed
Phillip Middleton comments on Facebook ..huh The left field suggestion is that creating dry land was a mistake in so far as a water world might better mirror the creator, and man could get up to less mischief if submerged! The serenity of the first verses of Genesis is the main point, as soon as dry land is created it goes south!
Eric Oppen commented on 2012-04-22 21:11:16 ~ Without dry land, you wouldn't have civilization---it's real hard to work with molten metals underwater.
Jeff Provine commented on 2012-04-23 18:54:18 ~ I concur with Mr. Oppen. No fire, no way to contain readily solvent chemicals... but who knows what the spirit of mermen could develop?

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