Westchester County did not secede from the Bronx. Bronx County has existed since 1914; Westchester since colonial times. (To be more precise, the areas that are now the Bronx were annexed by New York City from Westchester County in two pieces, in 1874 and 1895; it just became part of New York...
Off the top of my head: the Democratic Party doesn't split in 1860, for starters. Since the main reason Douglas got the nomination was the feeling (his and others') that it was his turn, with him out of the picture, the party just nominates someone acceptable to the Southern hardliners. If...
Can we assume from the Lieutenant's experience (or more precisely from what we're told, since we don't know how much time passes between his losing consciousness and his body being charred), by which I mean there's no mention of any flash from other detonations, that the one that got his body...
Is no one from 1912 horrified that we've developed the technical capacity to destroy civilization and most of humanity?
I'm old enough (48) to remember actually envying people living in earlier times (not that they didn't have their sh*t to deal with) because they didn't have that hanging over...
A lot of those places are suburbs of other cities (like Broken Arrow is of Tulsa), so I'd think they'd count as part of the larger city. (Is Arlington, Va., really a separate target from Washington, for example?). On the other hand, that 87 million figure is city limits only, so it'd fall...
Re the ships: isn't Lake Erie usually frozen in late February?
(And - slight subject change - would that layer of ice protect from contamination the water underneath it?)
My first post on this forum in nearly a year (I was on the verge of getting into trouble in Chat), but as a 1986 graduate of Georgetown, I must protest: 1984 was NOT Villanova's championship year; it was ours. Ours, ours, ours. (And I was in Seattle for it.)
1985 is The Year We Don't...
To be a bit more precise, Christianity traditionally (because Jesus is rather clear on this in scripture) doesn't recognize divorce: a valid* marriage lasts until the first spouse dies. Mrs. Simpson's problem wasn't the divorce, but having two living ex-husbands: the church considered she was...
^^Nice work! I'm looking forward to more.
The roadgeek in me, however, feels compelled to point out that relatively little of the Interstate system was open yet at that point. I couldn't find anything about I-90 through Spokane....
That's my first thought about this too. In fact, "a few times a year" might be underestimating the difficulty of travel at the time. Didn't it take two or three months each way? The first American diplomats tended to just stay in Europe for a couple of years. (Written communications were...
Okay, a serious question:
Is soccer any more followed domestically in Australia and New Zealand than it is in the U.S.? With Aussie Rules, rugby and cricket - yes, New Zealanders, I am aware you're a separate country and have regrettably no idea whether you play Aussie - does soccer get any...