Easter Mass

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April 8th, 2007

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in 1891, having spent the night under lock and key in the governor's mansion in Topeka, Kansas, former president Grover Cleveland meets again with 'Sockless' Simpson. “Mr. President, I hope you understand that we Kansans didn't undertake rebellion lightly,” Simpson says to Cleveland. “But, after the travesty of your so-called loss in the last election, we had little hope of justice in matters dealing directly with us unless we took direct action to ensure that justice. I have heard from other leaders in the Progressive movement across the nation, and they are ready to take to the streets in each state. If a man of your stature were to join us, there is nothing we might not accomplish.” Cleveland stood and stared hard into the eyes of the rebel. “Sir, I fought in a war so that my nation would not be split by rebels seeking to undermine the lawful government of the people. I shall not lend my name to another endeavor to do the same, merely because it might benefit me somewhat.” Simpson sends the former president back to his room, and ponders what his next move might be.

in 1998, Arthur Pendrake plans a large Easter Mass in the old Catholic style. He has spread word that all who support him should flood Britain's Catholic churches on the 12th to show their support for his continued quest to rule the British Isles. The Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England, requests the presence of all Britons at the church of their choice – but especially at the C of E. Arthur's appeal to religion strikes the queen as an outrageous tactic, and she denounces him as, “Another in a long line of fanatics who shall be dealt with as surely as we dealt with Guy Fawkes.” The implied threat of Arthur's execution stirs up unintended support for the would-be king, and the nation braces for a stormy Easter.

First Nations	In 2058 officers of US and Canadian Homeland Security lose track of the First Nation indigenes who have entered the Bering Strait tunnel on their return to Asia, quitting the Turtle Island known as America after 12,000 years.
~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!

In 1983 Hugh Trevor-Roper presented the counter-evidence to his incredulous fellow historians Lawrence Stone and Christopher Hill. Hitler's given name Adolf was a translation of 'noble wolf' from the Old High German name Adalwolf, being derived from the phonetics 'Adel' (nobility) and wolf. Hitler's self-given nicknames ..	Martin Bormann
.. was Wolf or Herr Wolf — he began using this nickname in the early 1920s and was addressed by it only by intimates as 'Uncle Wolf' by the Wagners up until the fall of the Third Reich. The names of his headquarters Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Wolfsschlucht in France, Werwolf in Ukraine. And then there were the murders.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Philip Roth	In 1999 Philip Roth published his sequel to his masterpiece The Plot Against America. In The Plot Against Britain Roth explored a wholly imagined thesis and sees it through to the end: Oswald Mosley becomes British Prime Minister in 1938 as seen through the eyes of a Jewish family in the ..
.. East End of London. Some critics panned the ending in which a well-used literary device was used to project forward to the election of Enoch Powell in 1964 whereby some limited form of balance had been restored.
~ entry by Steve Payne from counter history in context - you're the judge!

In 1942 Tsarist forces in the Oblast of Great Britain opened a much-needed railway link to Londongrad. The siege would not be lifted for two years, but the Tsar's forces would eventually prevail over Nazi Germany.	Siege of London..
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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