The Agony Of King...

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May 7th, 2007

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in 1891, Major Mark Wainwright returns to the Nebraska headquarters of the troubled Kansas siege with the bad news that the new governor of Missouri intends to provide no support to them. Lt. Colonel Theodore Monteith tells him that there are similar rumblings from Nebraska's leadership. “It's not looking good, Mark,” Monteith says. “We need some kind of concrete victory against Simpson, something that will wipe out the stain of the Missouri massacre. I've got something in mind – but it means you're going back into Kansas. I won't order you to do it, but I'd like you to volunteer.” Wainwright, weary as he was of this war, nodded.

in 1999, Sir Lance du Lac sends word to King Arthur II in Wales that more assistance is needed to penetrate the Swiss defenses. His planes, although effective at bombing, are unable to transport enough troops across Switzerland's mountains to maintain more than a toehold in the Central European Empire's capital. He needs Arthur to obtain more transport aircraft from the Commonwealth allies, who have been reluctant to provide them to du Lac without assurance from Great Britain's monarch that they will be paid for the use. Unfortunately, the message to King Arthur is intercepted by Queen Gwen, who destroys it. When a servant sees her burning the paper, she says, “The King is here to rest, not to tend to the whims of those who serve him.”

In 1997, at the movie premier author Neal Stephenson is passed a business card which reads SNOW CRASH tear this card in half to release your free sample. “Neal”, says Director Marco Brambilla, “I can't believe you took a hypercard from a stranger”. Stephenson laughs. “This is not the movie, my friend. I've got so much pragmatism that nothing could get through. This is a prank”

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

In 1999, the author Stephen King kept moving into the trees on the south of the road, he managed perhaps fifteen feet. Mr Gray was coming fast. Not death but worse than death.

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

Eisenhower	In 1947, the Tydings Committee got under way with the interview of General Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, effectively in overall charge of the Allied forces in Western Europe on 1 May 1944 known as D Day. The General was in control of himself and quite calm. He had suffered ..
.. the agony of the tragic death in childhood from scarlet fever of his first son Doud Dwight Eisenhower. More recently he had an affair with his English driver, Kay Summersby. It was Eisenhower's superior General George Marshall who quashed a plan to divorce his wife Mamie and marry Summersby. General Marshall threatened to bust Eisenhower out of the military while fighting in Europe, if he was to go ahead. The bottom line was that Eisenhower had been through the ringer, and he was not scared of the Tail gunner. But there was plenty of time for fear to develop until it gripped Eisenhower like a knife.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1989, the British Royal household awoke to find more unpleasant images in their morning report. One photograph showed a police car upside down. The Goddess of Democracy had been in Hyde Park for seventy-two hours now. Enough was enough.	Looters legacy
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Dien Bien Phu	In 1954, on this day in the Indochina War, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended in a Viet Minh defeat. Since the successful execution of the Weygand Plan and the consequent defeat of Nazi Germany, the Federal Union of Anglo-France had achieved back to back military victories. They were on a roll, and no on in Algeria, India, ..
.. Suez or Indochina was going to get in the way of their destiny to re-establish European hegemony throughout the globe.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1945, General Alfred Jodl signed unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the third Franco-Prussian War. The document would take effect the next day with a parade through the Brandenburg Gate by victorious French General, Charles de Gaulle.	Admiral Jodl
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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