Discovery

The state of TIAH

December 7th, 2006

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Alternate Historian's Note: Stephen Payne has more work as our Guest Historian, Guest Historian JD finishes off his Piltdown timeline today, and, of course, our NaNoWriMo novel continues. We hope you are enjoying this change in format – let us know how you feel about it in comments or by emailing us. This will be the format of TIAH throughout the holiday season, unless we receive a great outcry about it. Speaking of the Holiday Season, keep in mind those who need help year-round and keep yourselves safe and happy, as well. And, should you feel generous inclinations towards our guest historians, you can visit the sites of those who have separate ones from TIAH; generosity towards us here at the Academy is always appreciated, too, and you can find ways to help us out all over the site. Right now, we'd appreciate a lead on a good day job, but any good wishes you have towards us can be emailed here.

in 0, Mullah Elijah Rafsanjani reflects on the kidnap option in the town of Bayt La (Bethlehem). Would the removal of the family from the Middle-east prevent the ministry of Jesus? Or would it create a Dharmic religion headed by Jesus? He might return to a 2126 only to find an Arab holocaust at the hands of south-east Asians, not the European criminals of HIS pre-jihad era. -entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!-

in 1919, the World Crisis initiated by the greatest necromancer of the age, Grigory Rasputin, is over. The deadly strain of influenza known as Spanish Flu recedes across the traumatized continent of Europe as the reign of the four horsemen of the apocalypse ends. Let the roaring twenties begin! -entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!-

in 1953, The Minister for Health rushed into the staff offices, his face deathly pale. In stammering words, he explained that Piltdown...was awakening.
In seconds the surgical theatre was filled with frightened professionals, staring down at the body. It was whole and well-formed but hairless, pale and covered with thin, almost translucent skin. And it trembled and shook.
Not a word was spoken. Not a move was made.
The man raised his hands, as if to push away at his surgical drapings. And then...a deep groan, as if from the depths of the soul. And another.
The man's eyelids fluttered, and opened...revealing pupils of brilliant blue, visible for just a second as the man's eyes slammed shut again, his face screwed up in an expression of extreme pain
One hand slowly went to his forehead. It was clear the man was suffering, yet all were at a loss at how to proceed.
Finally, his lips slowly parted, and all unconsciously bent forward in keen anticipation
One deep breath, another halting one, and then a thin, belabored voice...


"....what did I DO last night?"


We have no record of the subsequent events. - entry by Guest Historian JD -

in 1990, a fleet of oil tankers enter the Persian Gulf from the coast of occupied Kuwait, destination Great Britain. Inside the tankers are the seaborne alien creatures who have allied themselves with Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majidida al-Tikrit. Meanwhile Mossad agents parachute into Osirak in a desperate attempt to find a weakness in the giant spider. They make two discoveries – the crater is full of automobile sized eggs. And after testing just about every possible substance on the eggs, they discover an intolerance to salt. -entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!-

Before(cont.)
“Huh.”
Sergeant Morris looked over at Kevin. “What?”
“Somebody just signed onto the network here.” Kevin checked the user log again. “I reactivated the wireless network when I turned everything back on. Maybe it's just somebody's computer connecting automatically.” He scrolled through the activity log. “Or not. Are we the only team here?”
“Far as I know.”
“Then we're not alone.”
Sergeant Morris stood and drew his gun. “Can you tell where they are?”
“No, but the wireless isn't that strong. They have to be near the building.” He tried to see what the user was connecting to, but it was encrypted. “”They're good. I can't tell what they were lookin' at.”
“We need to search the building.”
“OK.” Kevin stood up and walked over to the door. “Should we split up? Cuz if we do, I ain't got a gun, and I don't know if my computer skills are really gonna impress somebody who might be hostile.”
Morris paused, then nodded. “OK, I guess we stick together. Let's start at the ground floor and work our way up.”

Janice found Crawford.
She focused in more tightly. That had to be the small town; it was in the right direction. She hadn't seen any signs saying something like 'Welcome to Crawford', but it had the look. Now she widened her search a little to the outskirts of the town.
Raymond would have loved to be here. He would have told her he could locate the ranch in seconds by remote viewing. She would have let him, too, even though she didn't believe in remote viewing. At least it would have given her a break from scanning the horizon. She lowered the binoculars and stretched her neck. She was getting stiff all over, and her arms were sore from holding the binoculars up for so long. Her stomach was growling, too. She had skipped breakfast to get here, and it was heading towards lunchtime.
She dug into her backpack for the last of her energy bars and munched on it. Time was running out on her. She was going to have to leave in a couple of hours in order to get back to the motel where Miss Raintree was hopefully still waiting. She decided that she was going to have to find the ranch by 2 at the latest.
She finished off the bar and swallowed a little of her bottled water. She lay down on the roof and stretched out her back. The gravel on the roof was uncomfortable, but the stretch was good. She could fall asleep if she stayed like that much longer. It reminded her of that time in Baton Rouge, when she and Darla had camped out on that old roof watching for the ghosts that were supposed to be haunting the neighborhood. That had been a hard job; two days without sleep, and all to find some kid with a sick obsession at the root of it all.
She closed her eyes for just a second, just to rest. She was tired, and not as young as she used to be. It used to be that something like this would energize her, keep her engine running as long as she needed to be active. Now, she was just tired. Maybe it was the fact that this was so serious in comparison to some of the other cases she had investigated. Maybe she was just getting old.
Her eyes snapped open to the sight of two men in hazmat suits looking down at her. One was kneeling at her side, reaching his hand out towards her. The other was holding a gun.
“Miss,” the kneeling one was saying, “are you all right?”

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The state of TIAH

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.

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

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

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

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

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LeMay's Air Lifts

June 24th, 2007

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The Announcement

in 1999, King Arthur II was surprised to see how well Queen Gwen was conducting the war in his absence. He had expected to see retreat across all fronts – but Gwen had virtually eliminated the Illuminati as a threat, and the Central European Empire had all but ceased to exist. “Perhaps I was wrong about her,” he said to Sir Lance du Lac in the War Planning Room. The knight disagreed vehemently. “No, my liege, you were right. She was simply doing away with the competition – which included you.” King Arthur regarded his greatest knight for a moment. “You don't believe she should be granted leniency, then?” Sir Lance's eyes lost a little bit of their life and he shook his head. “I once defended her, my king, but no longer. She has committed treason against the royal person, and must be executed before she can do even more harm to our nation.” Arthur leaned back in his chair and considered how unpopular that decision would be, given the queen's high popularity. “I don't think that's possible right now, Lance. We have to come up with another solution.”

In 1949, the events of Jo Walton's Mark occurred eight years after Germany agreed to a Carthaginian peace with Fascist Britain, leaving Oswald Mosley in control of the European continent. A typical gathering at the country estate of East Prussia of the power elite who brokered the deal is thrown into turmoil when the main negotiator, Rudolph Hess, is murdered, with a yellow star pinned to his chest with a dagger.

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

In 721, following the Battle of Toulouse Umayyad control spread inexorably westward from Narbonne into Aquitaine. The Frankish Army led by Duke Odo of Aquitaine had been defeated on June 9th by an Umayyad army besieging the city, and the keys to south-west France were now in the hands of governor of Al-Andalus, Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani.

~ entry from Co-Historian Steve Payne

In 2316, or Change+300 in our new calendar the transition of the world of men is still only partially understood. Electricity and pressurized gases were rendered unusable. The underground nuclear test at the gateway of worlds had opened a small crack in the fabric of the space/time continuum, inviting something catastrophic in from a parallel Lovercraftian universe. The world of men suffered a heavy consequence from a single cause at an arterial point.

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

In 2007, English-born Canadian Steve Payne failed in his bid to sue a well-known coffee shop in Mississauga for the costs of a new laptop computer. An accident prone geek, he had been attracted by the “wireless hot spot” advert in the window yet minutes later had foolishly spilt a demi-litre of French Vanilla cappuccino into his smouldering laptop. Legal authorities ruled that it was an accident waiting to happen, a view that Payne's wife heartily shared having witnessed the demise of many computing devices under similar circumstances. A frightening amount of TIAH content was recovered from the memory stick, representing many long hours of cut and paste work.

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

Wine Vessel	In 1761, on board the Arab Dhow the fallen woman made a startling discovery that would change the lives of the European stowaways forever. An Arab wine vessel.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1374, on this day a sudden outbreak of St John's Dance (known as Johannistanz or Johannestanz in Germany) commenced, causing people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed ..	Danse Macabre
.. from exhaustion. This outbreak of mass hysteria was one of the many signs of the fall of Western Civilization. The plague swept across Europe depopulating the continent.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Napoleon	In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée entered Ontario beginning his ill-fated invasion of Canada. The Little Corporal intended to expand New France at the expense of British territory in North American. He was defeated not by the British, but by the harsh Canadian winter. As the temperature dropped to -40, the Grande Armée were ..
.. decimated on the retreat from Yorktown.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1948, today saw the start of the Blockade of Vienna. The Soviet Union rendered overland travel between the West with West Vienna impossible. The blockade was lifted by a well planned program of air lifts organised by USAAF General Curtis “Candy Bars Away” LeMay. By now an expert in such operations, LeMay had put into operation ..	Viennese Airlif..
.. a plan he had conceived in 1946 for the resupply of the Japanese home population during Operation Downfall. Before his retirement, LeMay would repeat this operation in the southern hemisphere in a number of critical shortage situations including the Congo in 1960.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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Seeds

In 2013, the City of Mississauga reported a dramatic fall in vehicular mansalughter. Put simply, drivers were notorious for ignoring white lights permitting pedestrians to cross. Corners were taken very quickly after light changes in order to beat oncoming traffic. Also by “beating the lights” drivers chose not to decelerate if they did not see pedestrians actually crossing, even if they were approaching the kerbside. Both of these scenarios had caused a large number of accidents for immigrants who thought that the white light might it was safe for pedestrians to cross. The rising population of immigrations caused the Department of Transport to take action, and they turned to telegram technology as a draconian measure. Images of children were picted just after light changes. This huge rise in virtual deaths led to widespread traffic calming. And not a few fender benders, which insurance companies recovered from increased premiums.

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In 1905, the Japanese attack on Port Arthur is frustrated by the arrival of Russian reinforcements. At one stage it looked as if the Tsar would be humiliated by defeat, but after Port Arthur, the Russo-Japanese war drifted into a stalemate.

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In 1979, punk rocker Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of his girlfriend/manager, Nancy Spungen. Vicious attempts suicide several times during the trial process, until he is finally placed into custody and put under a suicide watch. He is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. He was paroled in 2002, a shell of his former self.

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In 1727, James Wolfe was born, a British general remembered mainly for his role in establishing British rule in Canada. By 1942, British rule only existed in Canada, with the British Government in Exile, headed by Lord Halifax unexpected guests of the Governor General at his residence in Rideau Hall, Ottawa.

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Stephen R. Donaldson	In 1968, Stephen Reeder Donaldson languished in Vietnam. By inclination a conscientious objector, he had been compelled to serve in the armed forces. Much later, and after dropping out of his Ph.D. program and moving to New Jersey in order to write fiction, Donaldson made his publishing debut with the first "Covenant" trilogy in 1977. That enabled him to move to a healthier climate. He now lives in New Mexico. Donaldson's two year compulsory military duty would be the deep undercurrent of his escapist fantasy writing. In “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever”, the protagonist was a leper struggled with disempowerment in a Land he did not really believe in.
Unbeliever

She came out of the store just in time to see her young son playing on the sidewalk directly in the path of the gray, gaunt man who strode down the center of the walk like a mechanical derelict. For an instant, her heart quailed. Then she jumped forward, gripped her son by the arm, snatched him out of harm's way. The man went by without turning his head. As his back moved away from her, she hissed at it, "Go away! Get out of here! You ought to be ashamed!" Thomas Covenant's stride went on, as unfaltering as clockwork that had been wound to the hilt for just this purpose. But to himself he responded, Ashamed? Ashamed? His face contorted in a wild grimace. Beware! Outcase unclean! ~“Golden Boy”

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In 1727, James Wolfe was born on this day in Westerham, Kent, England, the eldest son of Colonel Edward Wolfe and the former Henrietta Thompson. Around 1738, the family moved to Greenwich, in London.

From his earliest years Wolfe was destined for a military career, entering his father's marine regiment at the age of 13. No other British Officer in North America was to achieve Wolfe's level of disreputation, following his decision on September 13th to destroy the city of Quebec after the winter threatened to overtake the besieging British red coats.

In Wolfe's own condemnatory words, he said “I propose to set the town on fire with shells, to destroy the harvest, houses and cattle, both above and below, to send off as many Canadians as possible to Europe and to leave famine and desolation behind me; but we must teach these scoundrels to make war in a more gentleman like manner."

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In 870, the infidel rulers Ferdinand and Isabella fall to the righteous forces of Caliph Boabdil. Allah saw fit to give the Moors control of Espagne, and from there, a foothold on the rest of Europe, so that His word might reach the poor northerners who had not heard Its beauty.

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In 1903, after appointing a black postmistress to the post office in Indianola, Mississippi, President Roosevelt sent reinforcements along with her to ensure that she would be able to do her job. Roosevelt’s commitment to the civil rights of the African-American population of America gave him a hitherto unmeasured degree of support in the south. His Civil Rights Act of 1904, ensuring the voting rights of blacks across America, is credited with landing him his unprecedented 3rd term of office in the election of 1908.

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In 1960, Senator Joe Kennedy, Jr. threw his hat in the ring for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Kennedy’s inspiring tale of recovery from injuries suffered in a horrific plane crash during World War II made him a natural choice, and he won the nomination handily. He had a little more difficulty defeating Vice President Nixon in the general election, but squeaked by with a margin of half a million votes.

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In 1920, Исаак Озимов was born on this day in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR. Isaac Asimov as he is more commonly known in the West is generally considered by many as the father of Psychohistory. During the 1940s, Asimov's research determined that the House of Romanov was in terminal decline. Without intervention, the Tsarist Empire would soon fall giving way to a barbaric interregnum of one hundred years before a Second Empire would arise. He concluded that it was too late to prevent the fall of the House of the Romanov. Secretly, Asimov put in place the Asimov Plan to reduce this interregnum to as little as a decade, by setting up Foundations within continental Russia.

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StrawBerry	In early 1999, Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) released the first StrawBerry, using the same hardware as the Inter@ctive pager 950, and running on the Mobitex network. Today the device supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. RIM settled on the name "StrawBerry" only after weeks of work by Lexicon Branding Inc., the Sausalito, California-based firm that named Intel Corp.'s Pentium microprocessor and Apple's PowerBook. One of the naming experts at Lexicon thought the miniature buttons on RIM's product looked "like the tiny seeds in a strawberry," Lexicon founder David Placek says. "A linguist at the firm thought straw was too slow sounding. Someone else suggested blackberry. RIM went for strawberry."
Revolution

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In 1958, the following notice was published ~ with due respect to sworn testimony of God-fearing citizens, -
Mr Paul Adolph Volcker is found guilty as charged of usury,-
by magistrates of this good parish of Cape May, New Jersey, -
persuant to Holy Scripture, Mark 8:36 refers, -
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?,-
on this day of our Lord, 1958. Not the potter, but the potter's clay. Amen.

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