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  1. DBWI What if Washington had been burned?

    Ok, I'll probably get banned for once again revisiting The Greatest Victory in American History but.... I've been re-reading about the fabled battle of Washington in August 1814 and struck by what a close run thing it was. Yes, yes. I know the British were out-numbered by the Americans, that...

  2. DBWI: What if Thomas Jefferson had survived the Revolution?

    So, as we all learned in school, it took the death of Thomas Jefferson to finally win the American Revolution in 1781. Surprised by British raiders at his estate in Virginia on a hot June day, what happened next has been endlessly debated since then. Was his death accidental? A deliberate...

  3. The Vice-President of the United States has an Official Uniform

    So I've been reading Empire of Liberty, by Gordon S. Wood, about the early days of the American republic. In it, he write about the confusion in the Senate over procedures and in particular, about John Adams's dilemma over how to act when he preceded over it. To that end, he came up with a...

  4. No London Building Act of 1894

    After all the events that everyone knows about (the Great Fire of 1666, the Blitz, building the twin embankments, etc,) this has to be one of the biggest things that affected how London grew. No buildings higher than 80 feet were allowed to be built and until 1962, St. Paul's Cathedral was the...

  5. John Keats moves to America with his brother

    To be honest, I know little about John Keats or his poetry. But I just read The Keats Brothers, by Denise Gigante, and was curious to hear what other people more knowledgeable about the subject might think about my question. In 1818, George Keats, the younger brother of the poet, and his wife...

  6. Will William Thompson win a second term as NYC Mayor?

    Sorry if this is a DB but does anyone here think that William Thompson will squeak through this year against - presumed Republican challenger - Ray Kelly? Sure, no one thought he'd win last time (one poll on election day had him losing by 50,000 votes!) but the goodwill he generated by...
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