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Without a WWI, what becomes of Asia? The Qing had already fallen (and bully to that), and Japan already had Korea and Manchuria. Would the Japanese still have expanded their sphere of influence? Would there still have been a Chinese civil war, and if so, would the outcome have been an different...

Of three ancient thinkers with great impact on history, Kong Fuzi (Confucius), Jesus of Nazareth, and Socrates, we only know them by their disciples. In the case of Confucius, we know him through the Analects compiled by his direct disciples, and through Mencius, who elaborated and explained...

My apologies. I'm new here, and haven't quite found my way around yet. Just hoping the same tag doesn't appear under *my* name...

...good luck with that. Let me know how that works out.

Dune: (SF-1973) Alexandro Jodorowski's ten-hour epic (with two intermissions) big-screen version of Frank Herbert's literary classic. Featuring Salvador Dali as the Emperor and Orson Welles as Duke Leto Atreides, the film has become a rite of passage for American teenagers because of the...

- Kerouac goes to an upstate New York university instead of to NYC, the East Coast beats never move West. - Allen Ginsburg is run over by a Chinatown taxi on his way to the Six Gallery in October, 1955. HOWL is never debuted, or published, or subject to trial, Kerouac's nonfiction is never...

Anne Bonny as an early women's rights activist (a la Abigail Adams). 'Mark' Read as a naval officer.

I was up late the other night, blown out of my mind on caffeine and sugar, and reading a history of early Texas and the Navajo uprisings against the Spanish. Somehow, this alchemized into "Lawrence of Arizona," sent by the Union boys to encourage the Navajo/Pueblo revolt against the Texans so...

When President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel's second president, but he declined, stating that he had "neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings."' Suppose the good Dr. Einstein had accepted the invitation? As a German-born Jew...

Albert Einstein. "Basically the entire modern world was invented by a Swiss patent clerk in 1912."

Paul McCartney has said that if he didn't become a songwriter, he wanted to be a teacher. Headmaster McCartney? On the same note: Gilliam, Idle, Chapman, Cleese, Jones, Palin and Lennon. John Lennon becomes the "grand old man" of Monty Python instead of rhythm guitar for the Beatles.