Lucky Strike

June 29th, 2007

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The Announcement

in 1999, Sir Lance du Lac meets with a small team of his Round Table Corps in London. “Much like myself,” he tells them, “the king has become bewitched by Queen Gwen's charms. He freed me; I aim to do the same for him.” The three knights he has brought together to aid him murmur about treason – Sir Lance cuts through this sharply. “It is not treason to rescue our beloved King Arthur from the clutches of the woman who sent him into a coma. Indeed, it is the highest form of patriotism. The king needs our help. Which of you will stand ready for him?” Slowly, all three of the other knights raise their hands. Satisfied, Sir Lance tells them, “We shall move tomorrow night.”

In 1999, the networks ran installment three of TSEotTC. American pilots on the Lucky Strike sabotaged the "Bomb", defiantly releasing a thousand doves of peace over the city of Hiroshima. The serpent was being chased out of the Garden as Man reconnected with the Old Testament God of Moses.

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

In 1924, the author Edward Morgan Forster published A Passage to Cuba, later selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 great works of English literature. Set against the backdrop of the Cuban independence movement, Forster's genius was to foreshadow the end of British control in this increasingly isolated anglophone pocket of América.

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

In 1962, the New York Police Department interviewed the sixteen-piece band which had played five shows a day until the recent murder of lead singer James Brown. In the three years since his first opening gig at the Apollo in 1959, Brown had turned his band into one of the tightest groups in all of R&B. One reason was that the band played more than 300 shows a year.	James Brown
Another was the harsh fines Brown imposed on band members for everything from flubbed notes and missed dance steps to scuffed shoes. The Apollo gig in October was fast approaching, and the pressure was really climbing. Recently, though, the fines were especially harsh. "You made a mistake one night," says Bobby Byrd, "the fine would move from five or ten dollars to fifty or a hundred dollars." Police suspected that the pressure had provoked one member of the band into killing James Brown, but were forced to drop charges due to lack of evidence.
~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate both of the author's genius.

Red Grape	In 1761, the seven European stowaways came ashore at the Iberian peninsula. Their four-point plan was simple and effective. To keep moving until they found a red grape vineyard. To settle there to deliver the child. To consume massive doses of the grape juice to ward off the Red Plague. And pray for deliverance from the plague ..
.. known as the Red Death.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1974, Emperor Napoleon V Airport was belatedly opened by the Mayor of Paris, André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The event was almost marred by an assassination attempt on the Mayor. The assassin known as the Jackal, disguised as a war veteran, made his way to a building which faced the runway where de Gaulle presented veterans ..	Emperor Napoleo..
.. with medals. However, the Jackal failed to take into account the Gallic custom of kissing on both cheeks, expecting instead that de Gaulle would shake hands with the medal recipient. As the Jackal fired, de Gaulle simultaneously moved forward to kiss the recipient on the cheeks, causing the bullet to miss.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Docking	In 1995, the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the drifting Alien space station known as the Avatar for the first time. US President George Bush immediately recognized the Alien character set which is broadcast to earth. It is quite identical to the codes found on the extra-terrestrial technology recovered from Panama and ..
.. Iraq. The technology was used to devastating effect by driving strategic models from the predictions of the thousand-year old Lenape soothsayer.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1644, Charles I of England defeated a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. The rebellion was starting to quell, and the House of Stuart was about to enjoy the golden era of their quad centennial rule that ended with the velvet revolution of 1989.	Charles Stuart
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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