Rosetta Stone Shattered

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July 19th, 2006

in 1799, French Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard, directing the removal of a large slab from the town of Rosetta, Egypt, is horrified when the crew he has employed drops and shatters the basalt wall. Since the stone had writings in Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphics and the Egyptian Demotic script, he had thought it might be valuable to the study of Egyptian culture, and possibly earn him the favor of an important person or two back at the Parisian court. Unfortunately, the breakage made it nigh-impossible to read, and he was reduced to scooping up the pieces and sending them along to France. After decades of painstaking work, French archaeologists were finally able to reassemble the stone. Although major gaps still existed in it, they were able to use the Greek side to decipher much of the Egyptian sides. The languages were not fully deciphered until the 1920's, when more stones of a similar nature were found around ancient Egyptian sites. This caused a huge resurgence in Egyptology, including many fanciful adaptations in modern dress and architecture – even President Coolidge was seen sporting a Pharaonic Hat now and then on the streets of Washington, DC.

in 1848, the dream of Philadelphian Lucretia Mott and New Yorker Elizabeth Cady Stanton to hold a convention for women's rights comes to fruition as 200 women gather in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the role of women in American society. Stanton read a Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances which was reminiscent of the Declaration of Independence, and the gathered body of women took up the issue of what rights women should be guaranteed by America. The most contentious right, and the only one voted down by the assembly, was the right of women to vote. Although Stanton and noted former slave Frederick Douglass both argued that this right was essential in securing all others, the cautious group felt that might be going too far. Without a call for the right to vote, the convention still drafted a petition which urged the women of America to fight for the 11 rights that the convention had agreed on. Although some of these rights, such as the right to own property in their own name and right to equal protection from the law, were granted by progressive states such as New York and the Dakotas, they were soon rescinded because women could not elect representatives to maintain them. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, now seen as a Cassandra for the women's movement, started campaigning for universal suffrage, but was a lone voice in the organization she had helped found. It wasn't until the 20th century that women's rights organizations even took up the cause of the right to vote, making America one of the last countries to grant universal suffrage when the Voting Rights Act of 1951 was finally passed.

in 1947, a fire breaks out at the office of Dr. Powell of Roswell, New Mexico. He is fairly certain the fire was a warning from the dark-suited men who had warned him off of his pursuit of the strange wreckage that was found on the Brazel ranch north of town. Fortunately, the notes he had stored in his fire-proof safe are completely unharmed. He makes several copies of them and mails them to friends he trusts across the country. Along with the notes, he encloses a personal aside saying, “I don't know how much further I'm going to be able to take this – I have to rebuild after the fire. But it is my firmest conviction that this matter should be pursued further.” All but one of these packages is intercepted and destroyed; the lone package that makes it to its intended destination arrives at the home of Martha Emmanuel of Dallas, Texas four days later.

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Birth In Heaven; Songs Of The Popol Vuh

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January 11th, 2006

in 1000 Post-Creation, the daughter of the rebel angel Derdekea is born while the battle for Heaven rages. The young half-human has no wings, but is beautiful beyond measure. When Derdekea feels the labor beginning, she is escorted from the battle by Emmanuel, Gabriel's son, who assists with the birth of young Achazia; when the girl's cries are heard, battle halts in Heaven, and Yahweh Himself goes to see the child.

in 902, the Christian zealot Lebuin burns the village of Wark ab Artur, claiming that it was harboring witches and wizards. Meanwhile, Atticus, wizard of lightning, reaches the coastal fortress of Rhonwen, mistress of the sea, to warn her of the approach of the Christians and include her in the strategy he has been planning to save the wizards of Wales.

in 1519, Spanish explorer Cortes saw the strange fruit known as momochitl among the Aztecs and tasted it. A kind of heated maize, the momochitl lacked the flavor and sweetness of the maize, and Cortes could understand why the Aztecs mainly used it as decoration. After European control of the Americas was secured, momochitl was never cultivated again, and its small white kernels no longer decorated the heads of Aztec women.

in 1787, the first expedition to reach Uranus’ moons Titania and Oberon was led by William Herschel. Although colonization was still decades away, the information gathered during Herschel’s Mlosh-led expedition across the outer reaches of the solar system expanded human knowledge exponentially.

in 1885, Alice Paul, founder of the National Women’s Party, was born in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Her bright version of a world where the voice of women would be the equal, if not the superior, of men’s, propelled the National Women’s Party to their control of the House in 1920, the Senate in 1926, and the Presidency in the 1928 elections.

in 1928, Leon Trotsky, having gained the upper hand in the struggle for power in Russia, has his arch-rival Joseph Stalin executed. Stalin's death brings many crocodile tears of sympathy from governments that would have opposed him if they felt that he had the slightest chance of taking Trotsky's place.

in 1929, President Eugene Debs, as he prepares to leave office, announces that he will travel to Russia to assist with the nascent socialist and labor movements there. It is after returning from organizing the Russian soviets that he popularizes the term in America and leads to its common adoption here.

in 1945, Greek resistance to the German Reich was unified when the National Liberation Front, the Democratic National Army and the few survivors of the Greater Zionist Resistance signed a peace treaty promising equal rights of governance for all after victory against the Germans. The Greeks held out for a few years, mainly because the Germans felt no need to take over the small nation.

in 1946, singer Diana Judd was born in Ashland, Kentucky. Sterile after a childhood illness, Judd devoted herself and her music to love for all of humanity, and she became a beloved figure in the light country/easy listening genre. She never married, but was rumored to have had affairs with several leading men of the music scene, including Kenny Rogers and George Jones. Her beauty will sadly fade with her and not be carried on in any children.

in 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry, after several meetings with tobacco company executives, released his report stating that there was inconclusive evidence to prove that cigarettes were harmful to one’s health. Terry’s daughter, who had strangely enough not been seen in public for several weeks prior to that, appeared with him at the announcement.

in 12-18-4-9-17, the African writer Manda Buthelezi won the Emperor’s Staff for her powerful work Songs of the Popul Vuh. It was a massive tome detailing the difficulties of African immigrants in the Oueztecan Empire, and was widely read across the civilized world.

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Dostoevsky Sentenced To Death; Bhutto Elected Prime Minister

November 16th, 2005

in 711 AUC, Roman emperor Tiberius is born in the great city. At the end of his reign, religious fanatics of many different faiths were plaguing the empire, and he ordered them all suppressed. Although condemned at the time, the move has been hailed as saving the empire from religious civil war.

in 1849, Russian author Fyodor Dostoeksky is sentenced to death for his ties to anti-Tsarist radicals. His only two novels, Poor People and The Double, stand as a testament of what he might have written had his sentence been lighter.

in 1890, word reaches Colonel Beauregard T. Jackson that rebel Mormon Charles Brigman is to be sent to Washington, D.C. under armed guard. Although he disagrees with this order, Colonel Jackson puts Brigman into a wagon with a company of seasoned men and sends them east. “If anyone tries to rescue him,” Colonel Jackson tells the soldiers, “shoot him before you shoot any of them.”

in 1894, 6000 Mlosh are killed in Kurdistan by the Kurdish Army; the first official act of state repression against the alien race in the 19th century. Kurdistan is placed under sanction by the Congress of Nations, and Mlosh are advised to leave the nation. Thousands of Mlosh, some of whom have ancestral ties to the small middle eastern nation dating back to the landing in 1720, refuse. Kurdistan is plunged into civil war, and speciesist groups from across the solar system send volunteers to fight on behalf of the Kurds.

in 1908, World War II hero Oliver Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Meredith flew several missions in the European theater of combat, and won a posthumous Medal of Honor for completing his last bombing run and safely landing his plane back at base while bleeding profusely from shrapnel in his chest and legs.

in 1945, Yeshiva University opens its doors in New York City. The small college is established by educators from the Semitic-African Resistance in the hopes of changing American minds towards them. It closes its doors during the ascendance of the American Bund in the 1970’s.

in 1946, the Presence manifests in the mountains of northwestern America. Their comings and goings are detected the next year by pilot Ken Arnold and misinterpreted as alien spacecraft, rather than aliens themselves. The Presence uses this mistake to create a new mythology that is almost a match for the ancient ones they have made on this planet.

in 1981, in one of the most-watched daytime drama episodes in history, the wedding of Luke and Laura took place on General Hospital. In a twist worthy of any popular soap opera, Laura jilted Luke at the altar and ran off with Luke’s cousin (also played by actor Anthony Geary).

in 1988, the first woman to lead a Muslim nation, Benazir Bhutto, is elected the prime minister of Pakistan. During her time in office, women's rights finally came to equal those of men in Pakistan, and she led the way for other nations in Islam to recognize women's rights for the first time. She counted as her greatest triumph the Saudi Arabian elections of 1996, when women were allowed to cast ballots for local city councils, and dozens of women across the traditionally conservative nation were elected to office.

in 2002, the small creature that had befriended Air Force Captain Trent Laughlin is no longer so small, nor quite so friendly. Laughlin's screams bring Professor Thomas running to the room they have turned into their quarters; he finds a man-sized beast about to make mincemeat of Captain Laughlin. Using a stunner he has been keeping in his pocket for just such an eventuality, Professor Thomas drives the beast away and tends to Captain Laughlin's numerous wounds.

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Women's Rights Convention

July 26th, 2005

in 1802, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia is named Minister of Diplomacy for the North American Confederation. He is such a successful figure in this post that he is retained by the next 3 First Chancellors. Franklin is cited by most historians as the single most important figure in the early formation of the N.A.C.

in 1848, the first Women’s Rights Convention is convened in Seneca Falls, New York. They create such passion that women across the country begin agitating for full political franchise, and have achieved it by 1870. In the next presidential election, Victoria Woodhull is catapulted into the White House with almost all of the women’s vote.

in 1875, Dr. Carl Jung was born in Switzerland. His theories of dream therapy and analytical psychology were dismissed as hogwash in the 20’s, and he became something of a cult figure, building a following that believed in mysticism, UFOs and the power of dreams. The Jungian cult faded in popularity with his death in the 50’s, but at its peak had several thousand followers.

in 4599, Dao-Ming, son of Emperor Chengzu, is born in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Dao-Ming will be the last of the hereditary emperors.

in 1908, Salvador Allende was born in Chile. The comrade was a great ally of the Soviet States of America as he led his people forward to the ways of socialism beginning in 1970 when the people of Chile rose up and elected the comrade to their presidency.

in 1958, the translators of Lalande 25372 succeed in translating the signals from the Beautiful Parent star system. They seem to be just daily broadcasts for entertainment and informational purposes, and in several different languages; no mention is made of the Elders’ galactic civilization. Still, because of their fear of being discovered by the Elders, the Lalandians elect to continue monitoring the Beautiful Parents rather than respond immediately.

in 1984, Ed Gein, mayor of Plainfield, Wisconsin, died of a heart attack in his office. A reclusive man in his private life, Gein had no living relatives, so his secretary went to his farm house to set his things in order. When she entered his house, she found a chamber of horrors; furniture made from human bone, leather made from human skin, meat in the refrigerator that was obviously human. Apparently, the mayor had kept this side of his life secret for 40 years.

in 1996, in the early morning, the dejected members of the Courtney expedition in Zimbabwe see strange flashes of light up ahead on the road. Curious as to what the lights might mean, they attempt to start their vehicles and find that they work perfectly now. They drive up the road to find the soldiers who had stolen their object strewn about like rag dolls; the object is gone.

in 2000, Mikhail von Heflin and Velma Porter are wed at a small chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. When they check into the hotel next door, the Baron notices that the men who had been watching them on the plane are now in the lobby of the hotel. He doesn’t wish to alarm his new bride, but takes precautions against interruption for the evening.


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Debs Will Go To Russia

January 11th, 2005

in 1519, Spanish explorer Cortes saw the strange fruit known as momochitl among the Aztecs and tasted it. A kind of heated maize, the momochitl lacked the flavor and sweetness of the maize, and Cortes could understand why the Aztecs mainly used it as decoration. After European control of the Americas was secured, momochitl was never cultivated again, and its small white kernels no longer decorated the heads of Aztec women.

in 1787, the first expedition to reach Uranus’ moons Titania and Oberon was led by William Herschel. Although colonization was still decades away, the information gathered during Herschel’s Mlosh-led expedition across the outer reaches of the solar system expanded human knowledge exponentially.

in 1885, Alice Paul, founder of the National Women’s Party, was born in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Her bright version of a world where the voice of women would be the equal, if not the superior, of men’s, propelled the National Women’s Party to their control of the House in 1920, the Senate in 1926, and the Presidency in the 1928 elections.

in 1929, President Eugene Debs, as he prepares to leave office, announces that he will travel to Russia to assist with the nascent socialist and labor movements there. It is after returning from organizing the Russian soviets that he popularizes the term in America and leads to its common adoption here.

in 1945, Greek resistance to the German Reich was unified when the National Liberation Front, the Democratic National Army and the few survivors of the Greater Zionist Resistance signed a peace treaty promising equal rights of governance for all after victory against the Germans. The Greeks held out for a few years, mainly because the Germans felt no need to take over the small nation.

in 1946, singer Diana Judd was born in Ashland, Kentucky. Sterile after a childhood illness, Judd devoted herself and her music to love for all of humanity, and she became a beloved figure in the light country/easy listening genre. She never married, but was rumored to have had affairs with several leading men of the music scene, including Kenny Rogers and George Jones. Her beauty will sadly fade with her and not be carried on in any children.

in 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry, after several meetings with tobacco company executives, released his report stating that there was inconclusive evidence to prove that cigarettes were harmful to one’s health. Terry’s daughter, who had strangely enough not been seen in public for several weeks prior to that, appeared with him at the announcement.

in 12-18-4-9-17, the African writer Manda Buthelezi won the Emperor’s Staff for her powerful work Songs of the Popul Vuh. It was a massive tome detailing the difficulties of African immigrants in the Oueztecan Empire, and was widely read across the civilized world.


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October 15th, 2004

in 683 AUC, the poet Publius Vergilius Maro was born in Mantua. His epic stories of the founding of Rome are the glue that holds the Republic together, and are taught in all corners of the great country, even today.

in 1860, 11-year old Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Walt Whitman, telling him that he would look better without his beard, and that would help him get elected. When Whitman appeared in Westfield 5 days later, he was clean-shaven, and, to young Grace’s delight, called her out of the crowd to stand beside him on the stage. The charming gesture won over many voters in the town.

in 1905, former President Grover Cleveland wrote an article for Ladies Home Journal about the issue of women’s suffrage. Cleveland had originally intended to speak out against allowing women to vote; however, his young wife convinced him that he was in the wrong on this issue. So he wrote, “while some sensible and responsible women do not wish to vote, the voice of half of our population should not remain silent simply because society deems it inappropriate at the moment.”

in 1916, Carla Lambert shocked the world by filming a nude scene (a brief flash of a breast) in Daughter of the Gods, a fantasy about Greek myths from Dynamic Pictures. Thomas Edison was reportedly so displeased that he ordered all copies of the film destroyed; only begging from Lambert and the director, Niles Holstrom, kept him from carrying out his threat.

in 1919, Dutch dancer Mata Hari was executed as a spy by the Greater Zionist Resistance. Neo-Nazi time traveler Astrid Pflaume, leader of the G.Z.R., had kept her people from killing Hari as long as she could, but the famed spy finally made mistakes that couldn’t be overlooked.

in 1951, the comedy I Love Lucy premiered on CBS, starring Lucille Ball. Based on the radio series My Favorite Husband in which Ball had starred for many years, with Barry Nelson playing her long-suffering musician husband. Ball had fought for her own husband, Desi Arnez, to play the role, but the network felt that America was not ready for an interracial marriage on television. The show ran for 6 years and is still seen in syndication.

in 1955, rock and roll music lost its momentum as youth in America tuned in to a new TV show from Nashville, Tennessee, The Grand Ole Opry. The country and western music that were the mainstay of music in the south became the most popular music across the nation, and many southern rock and rollers such as Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley embraced its soulful rhythms and forgot the music they had started with.

in 2003, the midday hustle of London was silenced by another clear trumpet sound. Estellians begin to preach in the street that the day of judgement is coming and that the Holy British Empire must repent and cast off the false Pope. Templars arrest hundreds.

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in 1891, Kansan resistance crumbles before the combined onslaught of Union soldiers and state militias crossing the border to attack them. The southern region of the state, led by former Farmers Councilor Thaddeus Elridge, defects to the Union side in exchange for a promise to leave their homes intact. Elridge's betrayal opens the way for a huge combined force to target Topeka, where 'Sockless' Jerry Simpson is desperately gathering as many troops of his own as he can.

in 1999, Queen Gwen announces that Prime Minister Sir Kay Ector is taking a brief holiday in the Mediterranean, and that she will personally handle the affairs of state while he is recouping his strength. “As the women of Britain know, the men of our kingdom often depend upon us to be the pillars that they may lean upon when their own abilities flag. We stand ready to be the pillar for the United Kingdom, and we shall lend our strength to all those who weaken, and all may lean upon us and know that we shall hold them up.”

In 1995, from the Envoy Captain Michael Brant M.S., Cmdr D.F. Reserve radioed a message back to the Earth - We will land at 1200 tomorrow GST just south of Lacus Soli. No further message was received. A further manned expedition would have been mounted, but the Second Gulf War intervened causing war and delay. Thirteen years passed.

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

In 1983 following delays Hitsville 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was broadcast on NBC as a television special. Produced by Suzanne de Passe, the program commemorated twenty-fifth year of Hitsville U.S.A.'s existence.	Michael Jackson
Ironically many of the performances featured hits from other labels. Among the show's highlights were a Temptations/Four Tops "battle of the bands", Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of "What's Going On", a Jackson 5 reunion, Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean", and an abbreviated reunion of Diana Ross & the Supremes, who performed their final #1 hit, "Someday We'll Be Together" from 1969. Michael Jackson's dancing performance received significant applause from the audience, especially when Jackson executed his trademark moonwalk for the first time. However, Otis Redding stole the show with a powerful rendition of I've Been Loving You Too Long. A transmutation of gospel, rhythm & blues and funk, Big O compressed twenty five years of music into a classic piece of climaxing anticipation that was all waiting.
~ story by Co-Historian Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1945, in the devastated city of Tokyo an apparition of the Virgin Mary accompanied by a Japanese child appeared again. Turning away, a mirage of the nuclear mushroom cloud drew the blessed pair plus a hundred thousand shrieking souls from the blasted ground.

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

Margaret Thatcher	I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation. ~ Margaret Thatcher talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987
UK Prime Minister

Five years before Margaret Thatcher's fourth election victory in 1992 which removed any vestige of self-restraint in dismantling the British Welfare State.

~ quotation presented by Steve Payne

Phoenix Chromos..	In 2387, at a cost of 184 trillion new guineas, the Caucasoid question (CQ) was finally answered by scientists in New London. Perhaps twelve people in the resettled world fully understood the conclusion in its entirety. We shall simplify CQ thus, and let us label these twelve people CQ12 in order to reduce a 286 pica ..
.. byte project of five thousand man years into one paragraph. Some ethnic groups have higher rates of certain diseases or respond less well to certain medicines. If two people of any ethnic group are selected at random, only between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 1,500 of their DNA will differ. Chromosome, the basic units of DNA are generally shared between populations, but their frequency can differ widely. The CQ Scientists found the Phoenix Chromosome Frequency Reaction (PCFR), so-called because it enabled the Caucasian to rise up from the ashes of a depopulated Europe. CQ12 might well of provided a working Joe explanation over a beer. If they got out that often, which they did not. Basically, PCFR kicked the Yersinia pestis enterobacteria in the butt.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1940, Adolf Hitler received a covert communique from Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Hitler was being asked to approve entry into Canada for medical attention to be given to the former British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain who was dying of cancer in South Africa. Chamberlain had famously mistaken ..	Chamberlain
.. Hitler for a butler, and passed the Fuehrer his coat on arrival for the Munich Conference in 1936. The Fuehrer blazed with anger at the thought of this humiliation. He constructed a non-ambiguous reply to King. Acquiescence to the request would be considered an act of war by Nazi Germany and would invite immediate action from the Kriegsmarine currently moored off the east coast of Canada.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

Liverpool St	In 1994, London Underground train number AEJX53B pulled smoothly into Liverpool Street Station at 10 a.m. The doors open and the returning passengers of the London Underground train number AEJX57B burst out onto a quiet platform. Having taken a world tour of the fallen Western Civilization that had emerged out of the post-Jihad ..
.. epoch, they have an incredible tale to tell. But will anyone believe it? Mullah Elijah Rafsanjani certainly believes so, he also hopes the revelations will force a change of attitude towards Islam that will avert the War on Terror.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

In 1940, you could safely say that history had taken an unexpected turn. Britain had emerged from World War I as the military victor. Yet this victory had disguised an accelerated national decline, throwing the British ruling class into a state of denial. General Strikes, Financial Crises, Depressions inter alia were the ..	Chequers
.. traumas of the post-war era. By 1936, British Prime Minister Oswald Mosley and King Edward VIII held the positions of British Heads of State and Government. The sense of national crisis was acute, and they were determined to reverse it with a new imperialism. The trouble was this. By forcing the abdication and execution of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918-9, the British had transformed what would otherwise have been a sympathetic Germany monarchy into a rabid Fascist power. And now Nazi troops were massing in Northern France, as plans for the D-Day Landings on the South Coast of England further advanced.
~ entry by Steve Payne from Counter History in Context - You're the Judge!

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Benjamin Franklin, Minister Of Diplomacy; Nanovirus Developed In Martian War

July 26th, 2004

in 1802, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia is named Minister of Diplomacy for the North American Confederation. He is such a successful figure in this post that he is retained by the next 3 First Chancellors. Franklin is cited by most historians as the single most important figure in the early formation of the N.A.C.

in 1848, the first Women’s Rights Convention is convened in Seneca Falls, New York. They create such passion that women across the country begin agitating for full political franchise, and have achieved it by 1870. In the next presidential election, Victoria Woodhull is catapulted into the White House with almost all of the women’s vote.

in 1875, Dr. Carl Jung was born in Switzerland. His theories of dream therapy and analytical psychology were dismissed as hogwash in the 20’s, and he became something of a cult figure, building a following that believed in mysticism, UFOs and the power of dreams. The Jungian cult faded in popularity with his death in the 50’s, but at its peak had several thousand followers.

in 4599, Dao-Ming, son of Emperor Chengzu, is born in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Dao-Ming will be the last of the hereditary emperors.

in 1908, Salvador Allende was born in Chile. The comrade was a great ally of the Soviet States of America as he led his people forward to the ways of socialism beginning in 1970 when the people of Chile rose up and elected the comrade to their presidency.

in 1984, Ed Gein, mayor of Plainfield, Wisconsin, died of a heart attack in his office. A reclusive man in his private life, Gein had no living relatives, so his secretary went to his farm house to set his things in order. When she entered his house, she found a chamber of horrors; furniture made from human bone, leather made from human skin, meat in the refrigerator that was obviously human. Apparently, the mayor had kept this side of his life secret for 40 years.

in 1999, the 17 people who were institutionalized following their discoveries under the sea near Mt. Didicas, Philippines, break out of the hospitals they have been held in and begin traveling back to Mt. Didicas.

in 2003, Australian scientist Jacob Sheridan has developed a new weapon based on the Martian nanobots, but feels that it is almost too dangerous to use. It is virus-like in nature, and if he has programmed them wrong, it might jump from Martian to human and kill all of us, as well. The military orders him to prepare a large quantity of it, but will hold it in reserve until it looks like the only weapon they have left.

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	In another place, we again meet Parkhill, the overly proud owner of a hotdog stand. Under the long suffering eye of his wife, he murders a Martian and leads them on a crazy chase across the red plains, only to have them deed him all of the surrounding land, and mysteriously tell him “Tonight is the night.” Parkhill believes he will witness the masses traveling back to Earth; instead he looks up in time to witness the destruction of his home planet. ~ Abridged version of The Off Season (January 2008).
Planet Mars

In 2008, astronomers watched a football pitch-sized lump of rock hurtle through space at a speed of 45000 km/h. The fragment, which had been christened WD-5, was on a collision course with Mars. The impact on 30th January would subsequently be known as the Martian Armageddon. During the period December 2001-November 2005 humans from Earth had colonized the deserted planet, occasionally having contact with the few surviving Martians, but for the most part preoccupied with making Mars a second Earth. WD-5 changed all that, and only a few die-hard optimists such as Parkhill stayed after the December 2007 exodus.

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In 1928, Leon Trotsky, having gained the upper hand in the struggle for power in Russia, has his arch-rival Joseph Stalin executed. Stalin's death brings many crocodile tears of sympathy from governments that would have opposed him if they felt that he had the slightest chance of taking Trotsky's place.

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In 1995, Richard M. Langworth combined fiction and fact in his publication “If Chamberlain had lost the Battle of Norway”. In this somewhat far fetched scenario, when Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, an expeditionary force was sent to counter them, but the campaign proved difficult, and the force had to be withdrawn. The naval aspect of the campaign in particular proved controversial and was to have repercussions in Westminster leading to Chamberlain's replacement by Lord Halifax, who immediately sued for a Carthaginian peace.

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	In 1977, Bruce M. Heezen and Marie Tharp mapped the Earth and World Ocean Floor, illustrating their recently-discovered ~65,000 kilometers (~40,000 miles) of midocean ridges (MOR) that almost completely encircle the planet. This compelling evidence that as recently as ~200 Ma the planet was only ~60% of its present diameter, and that today’s oceans, and the waters in them, did not exist on the planet came as a shock to most earth scientists.

The Expanding Earth Theory is now generally accepted by the scientific community, and the Kant-Laplace nebular hypothesis of the Solar System and Earth's rapid creation as molten bodies ~4.5 billion years ago discredited. The Earth is gradually increasing in size--one layer at a time--by constant accretion of mass from outer space--a process called accreation (creation by accretion).

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Nelson Mandela	“The moment has come” Samson Zola, “I'm carrying my cultural weapon. He has no fear of it, though, despite the fact that right in the middle of modern townships, Inkatha fighters stil kill their enemies with traditional Zulu spears.” Nelson finished his speech. He comes close to me. I try to plunge the spear into his chest. A hand of surprising strength siezes mine. I realise I have once again underestimated Nelson. ~ Samson Zola. In Laura Resnick's dystopia, years of civil war had torn apart the dream of a Rainbow nation. Samson Zola attempted to assassinate the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Even though he loved him like a father, he saw the need to return South Africa to its people.
Alternate Tyrant

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In 1979, following Donny Osmond's appearance on the Tonight Show with his two deaf brothers, a straw poll of voters said that the brothers should have been excluded from the Osmonds, 80% v 20%. Musically the rendition of Crazy Horses wasn't very good, there never could have been a place in the charts for the Osmonds Plus.

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In 12-18-4-9-17, the African writer Manda Buthelezi won the Emperor’s Staff for her powerful work Songs of the Popul Vuh. It was a massive tome detailing the difficulties of African immigrants in the Oueztecan Empire, and was widely read across the civilized world.

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In 2000, the World's computers were still down with the millennium bug. Realisation begins to dawn that this is no blip.

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In 1995, historian Richard M. Langworth described the early phases of World War III. Operation Overlord was modified to invade a very different Occuped Europe than that original envisaged. Halifax's carthaginian peace in May 1940 created a power vacuum, such that Stalin's conquest of Europe did not stop at Berlin. Consequently the Allies beach head was the first step on the long road to Moscow. “Without the logistical support of Stay Behind Organisations” said Langworth, "it is improbable that Overlord would have been a success". This reference to the Nazi Werwolf group run by Otto Skorzeny and Operation Glaudio in Italy is bound to create deep embarrassment in European Democracies. Complicity with defeated Fascist nations was hinted at in the banned movie Dr Strangelove: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Nazis, and was considered a no-no for many years.

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In 1972, the balkanization of former British colonies in the “Third World” continued apace as East Pakistan became the new state of Bangladesh. Bengalese representatives were rotating members of the first Security Council in the Reconstructed United Nations during 2093.

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In 2092, the United Nations Commission for the Survival of Life on Earth (UNCSLE) confirmed the extinction of avian species in the northern hemisphere.

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In 1885, Alice Paul, founder of the National Women’s Party, was born in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Her bright version of a world where the voice of women would be the equal, if not the superior, of men’s, propelled the National Women’s Party to their control of the House in 1920, the Senate in 1926, and the Presidency in the 1928 elections.

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In 1519, Spanish explorer Cortes saw the strange fruit known as momochitl among the Aztecs and tasted it. A kind of heated maize, the momochitl lacked the flavor and sweetness of the maize, and Cortes could understand why the Aztecs mainly used it as decoration. After European control of the Americas was secured, momochitl was never cultivated again, and its small white kernels no longer decorated the heads of Aztec women.