French Invasion; Death

The state of TIAH

April 30th, 2007

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in 1891, General Anthony Franklin begins his long journey back east to face his coming court-martial. In the aftermath of the massacre in western Missouri, Kansas City falls to the Kansans, and Missouri's Governor Silas Trent faces some similar rumblings which threaten to topple him if he continues supplying troops to the federals. He embarks on a statewide trip to apologize and shore up support for at least a defensive force on the Kansas border. He asks Lt. Colonel Theodore Monteith to move his base of operations out of Missouri, and Colonel Monteith sends a telegram to Major Mark Wainwright in Nebraska, telling him that the Kansas siege is about to be commanded from that state.

in 1999, Sir Lance du Lac spearheads the invasion of the northern French shores at the head of a combined force of British, Australian, North American and South African troops. The Central European Imperial resistance is minimal for some reason, and du Lac easily takes and fortifies the coast. The formerly French knight sends word to his old labor allies in the country to rise up and join with him to liberate France from the CEE. A hastily assembled meeting of the Illuminati's upper echelons in Switzerland is concerned, but Emperor Pierre assures them, “This is not unexpected, and we have contingencies in place to handle this. Worry not. France will be ours again, as will the United Kingdom, and then - the world.”

In 1989, the author Jon Varley prepared for the movie release of Millennium. Based loosely around a book created from the airline crash experience at Oakland, California, Varley was worried about the quality of the movie. Kris Kristoferson had been caste as Investigator in Charge of a National Transportation Safety Board Go-Team, Bill Smith; Cheryl Ladd as Louise Baltimore, Chief of Snatch Operations. Both were a decade older than the principal characters, and gave the movie a frumpy TV dinner feeling. He need not have worried, during the premier, the real Louise Baltimore arrived back in 1983, snatched the twonky mission report, preventing both the book Millennium and the movie ever being produced.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 2000, astronauts sent to explore the "Stone" discovered a hollowed-out, man-made central axis - the "Way". Inside were seven chambers containing abandoned cities from the distant future. The so-called "Thistledown" civilization was built by survivors of the "Death" who had quit the Earth. Political leaders soon realised that the secrets inside the "Stone" made the "Death" inevitable, unless a remarkable woman could somehow save the world.

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Tony Benn	In 1972, prominent trade unionists and socialist politicians were arrested throughout Britain in the night of terror. The former Labour cabinet and members of the Trades Union Congress entered police custody. Absent was 2nd Viscount Stansgate Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn. Until the enactment of the Peerage Act 1963 Benn ..
.. had been unable to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP) and also hold his ancestral title. Shortly after 6 p.m. on July 31, 1963 the enactment was completed and at 6.22pm Benn was able to stand as an MP again. A committed socialist, a pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and landed gentry he was untouchable. But herein lied the problem for the military government, Benn was a very determined individual who would almost single-handedly reverse the actions of the previous five years and return Britain to civilian democracy on socialist terms. There was absolutely no stopping 'Wedgy' as he was popularly known. You cannot keep a good man down.
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In 1983, on this day Hugh Trevor-Roper published the final of three shocking articles in Die Zeitung (The Times) newspaper. Here was the bombshell. Around 1938 Hitler's doctor Doctor Felix Kersten had become self-aware of his Jewish ancestry. He had begun to introduce increasing quantities of powered silver into the Fuehrer's ..	Bormann
.. diet, effectively poisoning him. To conceal this, the silver did not seriously take effect until 1941. It was at this point that the Fuehrer's arm began to shake uncontrollably, and the quality of his decisions deteriorated rapidly. If it was not for Doctor Felix Kersten, Hitler would still be in the Chancery this very day! In simple terms, the Fuehrer's lycanthropy had saved the world from Nazi enslavement.
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George Washingt..	In 1789, on this day from the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington took the oath of office to become the first American Governor General of the United States. Just about everyone in the thirteen colonies were satisfied with a peaceful end to the troubles, as King George III paid tribute ..
.. at Federal Hall. The notable absence was the turncoat Colonel Benedict Arnold. He was cooling his heels in Yorktown, considering his very limited options.
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In 1993, the World Wide Web was born at CERN. Finally, after 501 years of development, Western Civilization had a counter-weapon to strike back at the Mesh, that irresistible group consciousness between First Nations linking the Turtle Island (America) to the Dreamtime (48,000 year old Aboriginal civilization).	World Wide Web
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A Horrible Mistake

The state of TIAH

April 29th, 2007

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in 1891, scouts from both sides report that a large number of troops are descending on Kansas City, and the citizens of the hapless town begin to flee in panic. Most of them flee to the east, which causes one of the worst disasters of the war. General Anthony Franklin thought the refugee column was Kansans on the move against him, and ordered his men to fire on them. It was only after women and children were seen among the people fleeing that orders to hold fire were given down. General Franklin came to the front, enraged that his orders were being countermanded, and was stunned to see the bodies of hundreds of dead civilians instead of the hardened rebels he had been expecting. He turned command of his troops over to Lt. Colonel Theodore Monteith and collapsed in his command tent, weeping at the senseless murder he had just ordered. Several telegrams soon reached Washington with details of the massacre, and an outraged Congress was demanding that General Franklin be removed from command and court-martialed.

in 1999, Lady Gwen Rivers Pendrake, Queen of all the Britons, visits her husband, King Arthur II, in the war room at Buckingham Palace, where he and his chief aides are discussing the war against the Central European Empire. “My King,” she says to him, “you have not slept well these past few days. Let those who have made it their life's work take control of the war for a little, and I will give you some respite from the pressure.” Prime Minister Merl Myrddin advises Arthur, “The beginning of a war is no time to take a break – we need you, my King.” But, Arthur is tired, and says to Myrddin, “I am not so important that one day could make a difference with our struggle, old friend. I shall take my rest with my queen.” Arthur and Gwen spend the rest of the day making merry, and since the war continues to go well for his side, King Arthur considers Myrddin's concern somewhat overwrought, and resolves to take regular breaks with his love from now on.

In 1983 the author John Varley arrived at the crash site in Oakland California. Varley's advice had been sought by the Investigator in Charge of a National Transportation Safety Board Go-Team, Bill Smith. Frankly, his friend Smith could not fathom the mission report written by Louise Baltimore, Chief of Snatch Operations. It had been written 500 centuries in the future, and was now an anachronistic object left behind during a snatch – a twonky.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 2000 emerging from a supernova, a 300 kilometre asteroid entered the solar system and into eratic orbit around the Earth. Scientists made a mysterious discovery - the "Stone" had exactly the same external dimensions of an orbital of Jupiter, yet had infinite internal mass. Worshipers of all faiths hoped that the arrival could prevent the near future apocalypse termed the "Death".

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Harold Wilson	In 1972 former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made an unofficial and unauthorised statement to the British nation from the independent transmission of Radio Caroline. It was not true that the national decline was due to the retreat from empire, he said. It was a half-truth that the war had bankrupted ..
.. Britain. The truth was that the ruling class had failed to maintain investment in the British Economy, sufficient to build the industries needed to export modern products to settle the balance of payments deficit. The arch-conservatives now in power were the root of the problem, and they would crush the working class under their heel when they should form a partnership. Did the military government not see that the reason for victory in the Great Wars was our team spirit across classes? Socialism was on the march. The real go-forward plan was ... and then the transmission was interrupted. It did not return.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1983 on this day Hugh Trevor-Roper published the second of three shocking articles in Die Zeitung (The Times) newspaper. The verification that Hitler was a lycanthrope was almost forgotten by these fresh and even more shocking revelations. On the evening of the April 25 press conference, Trevor-Roper had turned the ignition ..	Bormann
.. on his vehicle only to hear a quiet voice say drive, historian. It was Martin Bormann, now 83 years of age but still looking no older than thirty. As they drove around the city Bormann explained that the diaries were actually written by Konrad Kujau, a notorious Stuttgart forger of Hitler's works. Kujau had extorted money from the Bormann family and discovered the truth. However, here was the bombshell..
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

King Beating	In 1992 this day witnessed a peace march in the troubled City of Los Angeles . The march resulted from a mostly white jury passing a guilty verdict on the four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King. It was widely predicted that an acquittal would have generated violent race riots ..
.. across the City. Cynics suggested that extreme pressure was applied from Washington to prevent a re-occurrence of the disastrous Watts Riots of 1965 during George Bush's re-election year.
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In 1974 on this day US President Richard Nixon announced the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the - Watergate Scandal. It was quickly identified that references to the 'Bay of Pigs thing' were thinly veiled references to the Kennedy Assassination and it was noted that Nixon was in Dallas ..	Richard Nixon
.. on the day in question, allegedly at a board meeting of a carbonate drinks company. Disturbingly, his Vice President Gerald Ford was on the Warren Commission and this dotted line of connections was simply too much for the American public. In August, both resigned in favour of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
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Attacks

The state of TIAH

April 28th, 2007

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in 1891, General Anthony Franklin decides to take back Kansas City, at least the Missouri side, with the reinforcements he has gotten from back east and the help of the Missouri state militia. With almost 4000 men, he moves into the city and imposes martial law in order to stamp down the pandemonium that has been the norm in Kansas City since the fall of the legitimate Kansas government. 'Sockless' Jerry Simpson is informed of this troop movement by wireless, and immediately orders his volunteers on the border with Missouri to converge on Kansas City.

in 1999, King Arthur II of Great Britain orders a counter-attack against the Central European Empire, and his chief general, Sir Lance du Lac, has just the target. A squadron of British planes slips through the CEE defenses and bombs the capitol at Bern, killing hundreds and demolishing several buildings. Emperor Pierre, himself, is forced to flee the city to escape the British attack, and is enraged at the audacity the Brits have shown. He orders the activation of his sleeper agents in Arthur's government.

In 52503 Louise Baltimore, Chief of Snatch Operations received a message from the Big Computer You are in great danger. You will also die if you do not do exactly as I say. Moments later, Baltimore was summoned to the Operations Centre at the Gate Complex. "What's up?" said Baltimore to the Gnome at the control station. “We had an indication of a twonky developing," he said, with deplorable grammar. A twonky used to mean some anachronistic object left behind during a snatch, but lately people had begun using the word to refer to the paradox situation that object tended to generate. "Shortly after the twonky alarm, you left your mission report on the DC-10 and it is now in the hands of a very dangerous individual." Written 500 centuries in the future, the mission report was now an anachronistic object left behind in 1983. The cause of a paradox, the report was now threatening an end to the world as we know it.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

Lord Louis Moun..	In 1972 former Interim Prime Minister Lord Louis Mountbatten and his deputy Major General Ord Wingate, DSO relaxed in an Officers Club in the Strand. 'Well, Ord ' said Mountbatten ' our mission is completed. I feel all of my seventy years this evening'. 'But sir, ' replies Wingate ' we have handed over to a bunch of incorrigible ..
.. rotters, absolute nutters...'. Mountbatten takes a big shot of brandy, 'Quite.' he says with his commanding office voice, 'Hand of whist, Ord?' he added picking up some playing cards and closing the conversation..
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1983 the articles published by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in Die Zeitung (The Times) newspaper shocked the world. The murders checked out and he was certain that YES Adolf Hitler did indeed suffer from lycanthropy of that there was no doubt. Bormann had concealed that condition, had committed a form ..	Bormann
.. of euthanasia by shooting his master with a silver bullet, and then yes destruction of Hitler's ashes in the Reich Chancellery Gardens following the Fuehrer's death in Berlin in April 1945. Readers wondered, if the central charges of the Bormann Diaries were verifiable, why had Trevor-Roper declared them to be forgeries?
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

King Beating	In 1992 on this day the remaining jurists received some firm guidelines on the 'right' verdict on their upcoming decision. They are of course the mostly white jury sitting on the trial of four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King
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In 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Commander of NATO (SACEUR) in expectation of his forthcoming election as President of the United States. When he was beaten at the polls by Douglas MacArthur, the incumbent Harry S Truman was thrown into a fury. Not only was he handing over bacteriological, atomic and hydrogen ..	Eisenhower
.. weapons to a man he considered to be of a broken mind, he did not have the shock absorber of Ike as SACEUR to challenge Brass Hat's megalomaniac and warmongering.
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Succession Woes

The state of TIAH

April 27th, 2007

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in 1891, a skirmish between a poorly-prepared Nebraskan militia unit and a trigger-happy group of Kansas farmers ends badly for the Nebraskans. They are forced to retreat when a much larger body of Kansas volunteers moves up to reinforce the farmers. They send a report off to General Anthony Franklin in Missouri, who is coordinating the attack on Kansas. He is highly displeased with the militia's effectiveness, and sends Major Mark Wainwright to Nebraska to take command of the siege there. Wainwright is happy just to get away from Franklin, whom he has grown to despise heartily.

in 1999, King Arthur II of Great Britain places his security chief, Sir Lance du Lac, at the head of the Royal Military, and du Lac hastily mobilizes defenses in the British Isles just in time to beat back the Central European Imperial troops crossing the English Channel. The Royal Air Force, recently upgraded by technology Prime Minister Merl Myrddin had bargained mightily for, fights off the CEE's war planes as they attempt to make bombing runs against the English and Welsh countryside. Commonwealth troops, on the move to Europe from around the world to aid the Mother Country in its struggle, meet opposition from the CE Imperial Navy, almost as if the CEE had known they were coming. Prime Minister Myrddin begins tapping the resources he still has as a former Illuminati to find where his security leaks are coming from.

In 1983 just before one o'clock the phone rang in the house of Bill Smith. As the Investigator in Charge of a National Transportation Safety Board Go-Team, he was informed of a collision between a DC-10 and a 747 over Oakland, California. There were no survivors. Paradoxically, nobody had died and this was one of the many reasons why this airline disaster threatened an end to the world as we know it.

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Toronto	In 1813 during the War of 1812 United States troops captured the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, State of Ontario). The long retreat from North America was almost over for Britain. The unnecessary war enabled the United States to assimilate Canadian territory at a point when barriers to cross-border union were not yet insurmountable.
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In 1983 at a press conference on this day historians Hugh Trevor-Roper declared the diaries of Martin Bormann, known as the  Bormann Diaries  to be forgeries. The Journalist Gerd Heidemann was a liar, and Heidemann claims to have received the diaries from East Germany, smuggled out by a Dr. Fischer were falsehoods. ..	Bormann
.. Whilst Trevor-Roper understood his rapid retraction of his authentication process would of course damage his credibility, this time he was sure. And he would explain in detail articles to be published in Die Zeitung (The Times) newspaper over the next three days.
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King Beating	In 1992 having briefly watched the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King by four police officers, George Bush fully understood the profound consequences for his continuance in office. Bush could not allow this episode to derail his thirty year program to rebuild American power using extraterrestrial technology ..
.. buried in Iraq and Panama. Accordingly, he issued some firm guidelines on the 'right' verdict for the trial. A number of white jurists would be informed of the guidelines ahead of their upcoming decision. Regrettably, this was not 1963, he could not assassinate the principals to get the right verdict. He had changed with the times, very much so.
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In 1911 following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise was reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. The president pro tempore of the United States Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the Senate and the highest-ranking senator. The Vice President ..	William Frye
.. of the United States is the President of the Senate ex officio, and thus is the highest-ranking member of the Senate; during his absence, the President pro tempore presides over the Senate. The role was envisaged briefly when both President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson were assassinated on the same day by the Lincoln Conspiracy in 1865. However the function envisaged by the role was not actually required until 1963 when both President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson were shot at Dallas by a Sicilian assassination team acting on the orders of the mob.
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We're Back - Hopefully

The state of TIAH

April 25th-26th Combo

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Alternate Historian's Note: Well, I'm typing this in the dark, with an extension cord running off to the part of the house that has power plugged into the computer. The modem is still acting up, so I can only hope that I'll be able to upload this before it goes out again. We got hit by a tornado yesterday morning – it ripped off a small part of our roof and threw a couple of trees through a couple of our fences, but no big damage and nobody hurt. It did inconvenience me by killing all the electrical power in one part of our house – the part with the computers in it, naturally. We have all kinds of adjusters and repair people supposed to come out, but there are people with worse damage, so we're kind of low on the list. Hopefully, things will improve and we'll be able to keep up the posts. We'll do our best!

April 25th, 2007

in 1891, troops begin heading west to reinforce General Anthony Franklin in Missouri, where he is planning a large-scale siege of Kansas. He sends messengers to the governors of the surrounding states for militia men to handle the main portion of the siege while he uses federal troops to penetrate into Kansas. “Once we take Topeka, the rest of these rebels should fall like dominoes,” he told the messengers to tell the governors. Major Mark Wainwright, who had been involved in the struggle longer than Franklin, said, “Sir, I fear that you're underestimating these men. They've proven themselves capable of fighting off trained military – more than once, as you know.” Franklin, stung by the memory of his own defeat at the hands of the Kansans, ordered Wainwright, “Be quiet, sir. Your defeatist attitude has no place in this campaign – which will be short and successful. Understood?” Wainwright nodded, saluted, and left to see to the few men who had survived the trip to Kansas with him.

In 2165 matters were unraveling fast in the real world. Michael Version7 Punk and Stanley 3XG Homeboy were no longer able to ignore this state of affairs when the words GAME OVER flashed up on their consoles just after noon Eastern Seaboard Time.

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

Margaret Thatch..	In 1972 Prime Minister Margaret Hilda Thatcher spoke to the nation from the BBC. The country had not come to terms with Britain's new position in the world, she wisely said, and the empire, and then the great wars had bankrupted the nation. Those were the facts, but they were here to  change the facts . We ..
.. won the war, but lost the peace, she added by way of explanation. Effective immediately, Britain would be speaking to her partners in the Commonwealth to establish a new economic union based on free trade and the pooling of British technology. The first such meeting would be the following week with President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda; a graduate of Cardiff University, “Dada” was a true friend to Britain.
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In 1983 at a press conference on this day, the  Bormann Diaries  were declared by historians Hugh Trevor-Roper, Eberhard Jäckel and Gerhard Weinberg experts to be  authentic . Even though they had not yet been properly examined by scientists, Trevor-Roper endorsed the diaries thus:  'I ..	Bormann
.. am now satisfied that the documents are authentic; that the history of their wanderings since 1945 is true; and that the standard accounts of Hitler's writing habits, of his personality and, even, perhaps, of some public events, may in consequence have to be revised'
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Elbe Day Celebr..	In 1945 on this day US President Charles Lindbergh declared Elbe Day. United States and Tsarist troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Weimar Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
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In 1982 as agreed in the Camp David Accords, Israel completed its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula. Anglo-French forces were also removed from the Suez Canal Zone in a synchronised troop withdrawal.	Camp David Acco..
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April 26th, 2007

in 1891, General Anthony Franklin receives replies from the governors of Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and the Oklahoma Territory. All pledge their support to his mission, and say that their states stand ready to preserve the Union. He sends them the plans he has drawn up to lay siege to the Kansans and tells them to be ready by May 1st, when he plans to have troops ready to make a run to Topeka. The first reinforcements from Washington have already reached him and are being drilled by Major Mark Wainwright, who has reluctantly become General Franklin's chief aide.

in 1999, now that the Commonwealth stands behind King Arthur, he issues a call for support of the kingdom to all loyal citizens. “We are about to embark upon the greatest struggle of our history,” King Arthur says in the televised address. “An enemy sits across the Channel from us; an implacable enemy who sees us as nothing but an impediment to their own plans, as tools in their overarching conspiracy to control our world. Today, we declare war against these Illuminati and their henchmen inside the Central European Empire. Today, we declare that we will live as free men and women in this world. Today, we declare that the United Kingdom of Great Britain shall fight to the death those that seek to extinguish the light of liberty from our land. We ask for your aid in this great conflict, and with God's help, we shall emerge victorious.” Hours after the address, Emperor Pierre of the Central European Empire declares war against Great Britain.

In 1983 a time travel team from the far distant future prepare to snatch passengers (“goats”) out of a DC-10 and a 747 just before they collide over Oakland, California. They will leave prefabricated smoking bodies (“wimps”) for the rescue team to find. The goats will be held in hibernation on a spaceship to be sent to the stars. This human re-population project is a desperate and final attempt to save humanity. The mission is headed by Louise Baltimore, Chief of Snatch Team Operations who is as yet unaware of a paradox being created by her mission in 1983. The airline disaster threatened an end to the world as we know it.

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Margaret Thatch..	In 1972 Prime Minister Margaret Hilda Thatcher announced a series of appointments to the new civilian government, all absolutely necessary to execute the go-forward plan for Britain. Messrs Enoch Powell, Keith Joseph and Norman Tebbitt were pleased to accept the great offices of state as the nation prepared for a return ..
.. to parliamentary democracy by 1976.
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In 1983, German news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the the  Bormann Diaries . The magazine had paid 10 million German marks for the sixty small books as well as two 'special issues' about Rudolf Hess' flight to the United Kingdom, covering the period from 1932 to 1945.	Bormann
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Chernobyl Disas..	In 1986 on this day an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant consisting of an explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the surrounding geographic area. A plume of radioactive fallout drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland ..
.. and eastern North America. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, western loans were conditioned about the dismantling of atomic energy which was completed by 1995.
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In 1925 on this day Paul von Hindenburg defeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident, the head of state of the Weimar Republic. He was succeeded by his nominee, the former German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, previously known as 'The ..	Red Baron
.. Red Baron'. This was considered a master-stroke as the appointment of another illustrious officer from the glorious past held the highest-level centrifugal forces together in the Weimar Republic in the absence of the deposed House of Hohenzollern. Gathering right-wing forces were unable to justify action to fill a vacuum of power that was of course ultimately averted.
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Power Problems

Alternate Historian's Note: Huge storms rolled through our area last night and this morning, and power is a momentary thing right now. We're probably going to have to have a double post tomorrow morning, because I don't have time to get everything together before the day job calls. Enjoy the archives till then!

Fighting In London

The state of TIAH

April 24th, 2007

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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.”

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 2165 a cyberspace game of basket ball was being played out in the Venice Beach “skin”. Michael Version7 Punk was not too troubled by his position as a distant second to Stanley 3XG Homeboy. The great advantages of cyberspace were presented to him, he reflected. Despite being a late middle aged man close to clinical death, Michael's avatar was a carefree teenager that could wear clothes that would make the real him look ridiculous. Best to focus on the game, and not get angry. Because he no longer had the physical capacity to externalise his anger through the sadism of his earlier years.

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

Lord Louis Moun..	In 1972 Interim Prime Minister Lord Louis Mountbatten spoke to the nation from the BBC. Plans to return the country to civilian government by 1976 had been accelerated, due to the oil embargo crisis, he explained. Actions were now urgently needed that required a mandate from the Country. With immediate effect, he would be ..
.. handing over power to a civilian Prime Minister to execute the go-forward plan for Britain; a broadcast from the new Prime Minister will follow the next evening.
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In 1983 the press conference at which the  Bormann Diaries  are to be show-cased is a mere twenty-four hours away. One individual has made a more difficult journey than most to get there. He has some information that will electrify the whole event. And by the way, he can answer Trevor-Roper's question, what ..	Bormann
.. is the impact of the  Bormann Diaries  on the 1947 publication  The Last Days of Hitler  which stated the orthodox wisdom of history. The impact was HUGE.
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Blair Peach	In 1979 Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach, a New Zealand-born teacher of special needs children at a school in London. An inquest jury in May 1980 later returned a verdict of second degree murder prompted by the ..
.. vigorous campaigning of Mr. Peach's girlfriend Celia Stubbs. Linton Kwesi Johnson's famous song 'Regga Fi Peach' chronicled the death of Blair Peach in the form of Dub Poetry, representing a position of defiance to the attitudes of the UK government at that time.
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In 1980 a dramatic end to the Iran hostage crisis occurred with Operation Eagle Claw, ..	Iran Hostage Crisis..
.. ordered by the Georgia Giant, US President James Earl Carter. To the amazement of the Ayatollah, Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and his running mate George Bush, Carter succeeds in bringing the year long crisis to a triumphant ending with the rescue of the 53 hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on April 24, 1980. After the long national nightmare of Watergate and Vietnam, many Americans say this was the moment when they started to feel good about the nation once again. Carter was re-elected in November in a landslide, with Reagan only winning California, the state in which he had served as Governor.
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April 23rd, 2007

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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 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 2165 the position of Michael Version7 Punk was a distant second in the cyberspace game of basket ball played out in the Venice Beach “skin”. Michael would describe himself as white. It was not the same definition that could be applied to a seventh century Welshman. White was a primary ethnicity that Michael was fanatical about. He spent a great deal of money on peroxide to sustain this fiction, over two trillion new dollars in the past six months.

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Boeing 707	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.
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In 1983 the press conference at which the  Bormann Diaries  are to be show-cased is a mere forty-eight hours away. One individual is making a more difficult journey than most to get there.	Bormann
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Henry VIII	In 1533 the Church of England annulled the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII of England. A precedent had been set, and in this more enlightened times, adults have an average of 2.5 marriages according to the famous social satire on statistics.
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In 1661 King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was crowned in Westminster Abbey. The Stuart had been through a difficult time with Parliamentarians, but Charles II ushered in a new era such that nascent British Empire was given an appropriate governance structure. Effective and dynamic Stuart rule was of course ..	King Charles II
.. superior to an assembly of laypeople, a model which could not possibly work in the global superstate which survives to this day.
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April 22nd, 2007

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in 1891, President Benjamin Harrison orders a day of mourning for the death of former President Grover Cleveland and “the brave soldiers who died to keep us as one nation. Now, to honor their brave, lost lives, it falls upon us to do the work that they sacrificed for – bring our nation back together again.” Harrison's words are reported across the US, and even 'Sockless' Jerry Simpson reads them in the Topeka Standard. He replies, and has his words sent across the country via wireless: “When the Great Thief gives up his stolen office and our nation returns to the values that we all can recognize, then Kansas will gladly rejoin the fraternity of the states. But, until that day, we must stand aside, and say that we, as one people, will not stand for such dishonorable wretches staining the halls of our most sacred institutions.” His words also made the papers, and President Harrison was enraged. “Give General Franklin every last troop he needs,” he told his Secretary of War, “but, get this man.”

in 1998, the Central European Empire announces that it will not recognize “the illegitimate government of the British usurper, Arthur Pendrake. Emperor Pierre will now, and forevermore, only recognize the rightful rulers of Great Britain, the Windsors.” Although most of the Commonwealth follows the lead of the CEE, Australia swears its allegiance to King Arthur II, and sends troops across the world to aid him. Arthur's Prime Minister, Merl Myrddin, also begins to use his old contacts among the Illuminati to move certain levers of power in Arthur's way. In spite of European opposition, Arthur's crown becomes more steady as time goes on.

In 2165 Stanley 3XG Homeboy was comfortably winning a cyberspace game of basket ball played out in the Venice Beach “skin”. Based in a 20 feet by 25 feet lock-up in Whittaker, California, built as a double car garage by mid-century 20ths Stanley had other things on his mind. He was playing the game on a cyberspace console. Trouble was a mutating form of bio-leprosy had taken three of his fingers, and his future in the game was looking bleak. Stanley was seventeen years old. He had enjoyed a long and rewarding career in cyberspace basket ball by contemporary standards.

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Map showing Maluku Isla..	In 1529 the Treaty of Saragossa divided the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas. ..
.. The next problem was gaining access to the new territory, the melancholy of exclusion emanating from the group consciousness of First Nations rendered armed incursion impossible
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In 1983 in his own good time Hugh Trevor-Roper has authenticated the  Bormann Diaries . The murders check out and he is reasonably satisfied that Hitler was a lycanthrope. His participation in this authentication process dated back to 1947, when the British government had ordered him to investigate the circumstances ..	Bormann
.. of Adolf Hitler's death and to rebut the claims of the Soviet that Hitler was alive and living somewhere in the West. At the Press Conference schedule for April 25th, he will of course indicate that the result of these investigations, his masterpiece  The Last Days of Hitler  will require revision. But how much? A total rewrite perhaps? He was about to find out from a very unexpected source.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

A poison gas attack usi..	In 1915 the use of poison gas in World War I escalated when chlorine gas was released ..
.. as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres. By 1916, poison gas ended the attrition warfare of the trenches. Mother is the necessity of invention, and poison gas and the atomic bombs were the super-weapons that ended the stalemates of World War I and II. Unlike 1945, because both sides had the super-weapon, mutually assured destruction forced the combatants to the negotiating table in 1916.
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In 1500 Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral became the first European to sight Brazil. The melancholy of separation emanating from the Mesh of course prevented Cabral and his crew from approaching the coast.	Brazil
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