Thursday, August 31, 2017

261 BC - Ashoka Unmoved

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"Amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history, their majesties and graciousnesses and serenitie...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Super Space Animals

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What if the premise of the Fantastic Four comic book was reality? On July 22, 1951, the Soviet Union launched two dogs, Tsygan ("G...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

Five Canals

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 In 1699, the Company of Scotland stumbled through its first colony in a blind stroke of luck. It had seemed to be a doomed ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Guest Post from Chris Oakley: "Is Moscow Burning?" Pt 6

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Summary: In the first five parts of this series, we reviewed the course of Allied and Axis rocket development in the Second World War from t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Guest Post: Dutch-Japanese War of 1905 by Allen McDonnell

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This post first appeared on Today in Alternate History . The Japanese being a proud people with an industrialized country had always re...
Friday, March 24, 2017

March 25, 1791 – Jefferson Confirms Isaacks’s Purification of Seawater

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While touring the United States in 1790, President George Washington was presented with a bottle of desalinated seawater by inventor Ja...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

February 22, 1917 – One Parliament to Rule Entire British Empire

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After years of efforts by societies like the Imperial Federation League, the war-pressed government in London announced that a single I...
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