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in 1972, Professor Karl Ainsworth and Officer Xavier Hely reach the forbidden chamber in the Lascaux Cave just after the stroke of midnight, barely in time to see a small group of cultists struggling to impale Doctor Roman Pelliot back into the roof. Officer Hely fires into the group, and shouts for them to drop the doctor and move away. Instead, they begin chanting a guttural song, in a language that is most certainly not French. The scraping sound begins at the back of the cave, only this time it is far louder than either Ainsworth or Hely had ever heard it. Hely, in a panic, shoots the nearest cultist and runs for Dr. Pelliot. Ainsworth aims his flashlight at the back of the cave, and uses his rifle to cover Hely as he tries to pull Pelliot away from the cultists. They continue their unnerving chant, and Ainsworth sees something quite large moving at the back of the cave. He fires at it, but it doesn't slow down. He decides that a different course of action is called for, then, and picks off the two cultists holding Pelliot, allowing Officer Hely to drag the archaeologist toward the passageway's opening. The remaining cultists throw themselves at Hely with no regard for their personal safety, and they are shot mercilessly by the policeman and Professor Ainsworth. The thing at the back of the cave keeps moving forward, though, and Ainsworth grabs Pelliot's free arm and shouts at Hely, “For the love of God, man, run!” Carrying Pelliot between them, they hurtle out of the passageway and pelt towards the cave's opening. They hear the sound of pursuit behind, both the cultists and the disconcerting scraping sound of the summoned creature. Just as the moonlight from the outside world is visible in front of them, Pelliot is pulled from their grasp, and they whirl to face a huge maw with flashing teeth. They fire at it in a panic, but hit nothing. They hear a horrible rending noise, and know that Dr. Pelliot is dead. Rather than join him, they both dash for the cave's opening and jump into Professor Ainsworth's car. They see a few cultists run out of the cave in pursuit of them, but they are able to easily outrun them in the car. Ainsworth asks the officer, “Where can we go that would be safe?” Hely says, “The police department. We should be all right there.” He holds up his gun and says, “And we can reload, if nothing else.”

in 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial returns a guilty verdict, shocking the defense attorneys and Simpson. Attorney Johnny Cochran, especially, had felt that this case was in the bag. When they were interviewed afterward, the jurors said that the tipping point had been Simpson's exaggerated efforts to make it seem that the bloody gloves found at the crime scene didn't fit him; Cochran's rhyming reminder that “if the gloves don't fit, you must acquit,” unfortunately for the lawyer, reminded them that the gloves seemed more than large enough for even Simpson's sizable mitts, and that they were being manipulated to think otherwise. Simpson appealed, but the case was upheld by the superior courts, and O.J. Simpson began serving his life sentence in 1999.

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Alternate Historian's Note: We are working on a new project – a collection in book format of several timelines with more-or-less complete stories inside them – The Fall, the Tolman timeline, the Mormon War, the Lascaux Cave story, and more – that will have our NaNoWriMo novel, After, included with it. Once they're edited together, we'll put the lot up for sale on Lulu. If you would be interested in this, or would like to suggest something for inclusion in the collection, please email me and let me know. And, speaking of side projects, Guest Historian Stephen Payne has one, Crimson Kiss, available for free on Lulu. Check it out and put up a review!

in 2007, after watching the full review of his life, from the initial deal with Satan at birth making him the Anti-Christ to his final surrendering of his soul to Jesus, former European Union President Morris Appleby calmly turns to G_d and says, “So, you see, my Lord, I am fully part of the Christian community, and have repented of all my sins. I look forward to spending eternity in a room in your fine mansion.” G_d looks over at his right hand, where Emmanuel shrugs and says, “Hey, we let in Jack Chick.” G_d says, “Very well. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” And so, that is how Morris Appleby, once the Anti-Christ and king of all the wicked and sinful world, entered into the Kingdom of Heaven as a faithful child of G_d, and made his father very, very jealous.

Yasser Arafat	In 1969 Yasser Arafat took over as chairman of the Palestine Defence Organization, an army within an army pledged to defend national sovereignty against the terrorist threat posed by Zionism. Arafat would bitterly oppose the two states solution facilitated at Camp David in 1982 by US President ..
.. James Earl Carter, subsequently ordering the assassination of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his treachery.
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In 1976 octogenarian Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber opened the XII Olympic Winter Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.	Adolf
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

O.J. Simpson	In 1997 Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found to be civilly liable for the death of O.J. Simpson.
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In 1947 the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku as the great City of Sapporo falls to the Soviet Union. Shortly after the Hokkaidō Prefecture would be proclaimed the Democratic People's Republic of Japan, antagonising the United States into the bitterest of the proxy conflicts that traumatised ..	Horibe Yahei an..
.. South-east Asia during the Cold War.
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Asian	In 1968, ninety-six Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrived in Britain on this day, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing from laws which prevent them making a living. The party included nine children under two, and all flew in on cut-price one-way tickets costing about £60 - less than half the normal single fare. An airline official in Nairobi estimated that the charter flights had taken between 1,200 and 1,500 Kenyan Asians in to Britain.
Refugees

The refugees are certain to face expulsion under the terms of the controversial 1968 Commonwealth Immigration Act. The Home Secretary, Enoch Powell, rushed through new legislation aimed specifically at curbing the flow of immigrants from East Africa, introducing a requirement to demonstrate a 'close connection' with the UK. Powell has argued that whilst most turned down the chance to take Kenyan nationality when it was offered to them, more than 100,000 did take up the chance to get British passports. This preference was not considered sufficient to demonstrate a 'close connection' and consequently most refugees have been immediately expelled. There were deep cabinet splits over the legislation: cabinet papers have since quoted the then Commonwealth Secretary, George Thomson, saying that 'to pass such legislation would be wrong in principle, clearly discrimination on the grounds of colour, and contrary to everything we stand for.' Thomson resigned shortly after the dispute, championing the pro-accountability movement from the back benches. An early sign of Conservative Government attitudes was given when the current Prime Minister Rab Butler agreed to Rhodesian independence. Black African Nations had been enraged by the decision taken at the dissolution of the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federation, in which Great Britain abrogated the principle of No Independence Before Majority African Rule. Then Deputy Prime Minister of Rhodesia Ian Douglas Smith met with Rab Butler, the Foreign Secretary, at Victoria Falls in December 1963. Butler grandly declared that Britain was 'very happy to agree' to independence for Southern Rhodesia, at least at the same time as Zambia and Malawi. Already, the tens of thousands of Asians, who have until now dominated commerce, industry and most key jobs in the country, are finding their lives made impossible. Immigration laws in Kenya are becoming increasingly draconian. Foreigners can only hold a job until a Kenyan national can be found to replace them: and more and more cities, including Nairobi, are demanding that the government bans non-Kenyans from owning a shop or trading in municipal markets. Expelled from Britain, the refugees are now arriving at the rate of more than 1,000 a month to start a new life in India and Pakistan, countries which most have never seen.

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In 1997, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found to be civilly liable for the death of O.J. Simpson.

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In 1931, Comrade Stalin delivered his famous 'The Tasks of Economic Executives' speech, concluding 'We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.' They didn't make it.

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In 1947, the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku as the great City of Sapporo falls to the Soviet Union. Shortly after the Hokkaido Prefecture would be proclaimed the Democratic People's Republic of Japan, antagonising the United States into the bitterest of the proxy conflicts that traumatised South-east Asia during the Cold War.

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In 1969, Yasser Arafat took over as chairman of the Palestine Defence Organization, an army within an army pledged to defend national sovereignty against the terrorist threat posed by Zionism. Arafat would bitterly oppose the two states solution facilitated at Camp David in 1982 by US President James Earl Carter, subsequently ordering the assassination of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his treachery.

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In 1976, octogenarian Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber opened the XII Olympic Winter Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.

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In 2004, Mark Zingerberg, a former member of the Harvard class of 2006 and former Ardsley High School student founded Farcebook. Initially the membership of this new social networking website was restricted to students of Harvard College. Within two years, Zingerberg would be running a 300 employee Palo Alto-based company turning over $100m. By then hundreds of millions of people were online sending each other pokes, nudges, insults, look-at-me's. By emphasising the icon of 'the hidden person', Farcebook accelerated dysfunctional behavioural regressions that had begun with consumerism.

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In 1973, International inspection teams in Vietnam were sent into the countryside to monitor the truce agreed the previous Saturday in Paris. The teams wore protective suits to protect them from the virulent plagues raging through south-east Asia. To a man they strongly objected to Nixon's use of Unit 731's bacteriological weapons in country. Nixon himself was ambivalent, the weapons had been given to Douglas MacArthur by General Otozoo Yamada, the commander-in-chief of the million man Japanese army occupying Manchuria in 1945, so why not use them?

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In 1968, another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrived in Britain, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing discrimination. There were currently about 70,000 Indians in Kenya - about 0.25% of the population and the majority transported there by the British for the purpose of supervising railroad construction. Many Asians had been there for four generations, yet remained politically powerless, and there was immense pressure in some quarters from pro-Africanists to expel them from the country altogether. By now the retreat from Empire was becoming a humanitarian disaster. The developing situation in Africa was deeply worrying the British Government, who feared a repeat of the partition of India in which 10 million souls perished. They were right to worry.

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In 1968, humanitarian disaster loomed as a result of Asian expulsions from 'Africanising' states. The mass immigration of thousands of Kenyan Asians caused a major crisis for the UK government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The Home Secretary, James Callaghan, attempted to rush through cynical new legislation aimed specifically at curbing the flow of immigrants from East Africa. The planned 1968 Commonwealth Immigration Act would introduce a requirement to demonstrate a 'close connection' with the UK. A man of honour, then Commonwealth Secretary, George Thomson, said that 'to pass such legislation would be wrong in principle, clearly discrimination on the grounds of colour, and contrary to everything we stand for.' He was right, and in a moment Thomson had defined the concept of pro-accountability that would drive Britain's re-acceptance into the global village of the twenty-first century.

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In 2003, in the Oval Office the President prepared to receive the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plans for Gulf War 2 required his signature. History was repeating itself but with a subtle difference. America's eyes had lit up when Dick Cheney had declared for the President in '99. And lowered after he agreed to do a favour for his friend George Bush. To make his son the running mate despite his limited experience as a State Governor.

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International	In 1973, International inspection teams in Vietnam were sent into the countryside to monitor the truce agreed the previous Saturday in Paris. The International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS) was created at the Paris Peace Accords - signed by the US, the Vietcong, North Vietnam and South Vietnam - on 27 January and includes delegates from Hungary, Poland, Canada and Indonesia. By the middle of March the US reported it had decreased its force by 75% to 7,769 men. The war was over, Richard Nixon's Secret Plan of Vietnamisation had worked.
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