Monday, February 12, 2007

Release Of Prisoners

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February 12th, 2007

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Alternate Historian's Note: Post 1001 – be sure to check out #1000 yesterday. The Junior Historian decided that last night was a good night to stay up, so we're going to just hand things over to our Guest Historian, Stephen Payne. Give him the same courtesy you would us – and be sure to check out his collection, Crimson Kiss, available for free on Lulu, and put up a review!

Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber
Chancellor Adol..
In 1934 the Austrian Civil War began. Order is restored by Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber who found a new role for the nation as it climbed out of the ashes of defeat from World War I and the dissolution of the Hapsburg Empire.

~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!


In 1951 Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari married the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at the age of 17. Thirty years later their first born son His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah II would re-establish the House of Pahlavi, leading the nation out of the chaos wrought by Ayatollah Khomeini.Soraya Esfandiary
Soraya Esfandia..

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!


John Murtha
John Murtha
In 1973 the Viet Cong released the first United States prisoners of war including the future President John Murtha. Under no illusions of the US role as a global policeman, Murtha would untangle American commitments around the world and later resign the US seat on the Security Council.

~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!


In 1942 Chairman of the Israeli Liberation Organisation (ILO) Ehud Barak was born. Barak was in charge of the Siege of Beirut that took place in the summer of 1982 as a result of the breakdown of the Arab-Israeli cease-fire effected by the League of Nations. It ended with the ILO evacuating .. Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak
.. Beirut by sea in humiliating fashion and thus being forced out of Lebanon by the Palestinian Defense Force.

~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!



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