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A Tale of Two Len(non/in)s​

A classic Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman switch-a-roo
"Soldier, I need you to bring me this man."
"Got it." [...] "Found him, Sir."
"Wha- who- No, not Lennon, Lenin! The Russian communist- WHAT?! Why would I need a Beatle?! Lenin: the Russian communist; he was exiled to Switzerland! You know what, I'll just do it myself."
An apocryphal exchange between a German general and a German soldier.


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John Winston Lennon FBA (9 October 1940 - 14 June 1997) was a British-American Marxist philosopher, author, sociologist, psychologist, and political and peace activist. His most influential works include The Worker & You, a psychoanalysis of the common worker in Anglo-American spheres, and Revolutionary Society & the Common Man, an analysis and comparison of capitalistic and communistic societies and the place of the worker in said societies. Ideologically, Lennon aligned himself with Marxist-Luxemburg thought, but many believe Lennon was an ideologue of libertarian or utopian socialism.

Born in Liverpool, Lennon developed an early interest and ambition in socialist thought when he received a set of philosophical books for his birthday in 1957 from his mother, Julia. He initially had an affinity for music, having borrowed a guitar from his friend, but later stated in a biography that "Music wasn't for me [...] I couldn't play the guitar for the life of me." Lennon campaigned for the Labour Party in the elections of 1964 and 1966, being an early supporter of Harold Wilson, but later became critical of his soft left policies. He studied at the University of Liverpool, majoring in sociology and psychology. He later attended Oxford University, but later transferred overseas to Princeton University, where he earned his doctorate in 1968. He married his close friend, Cynthia Powell, in 1962, but divorced her in 1968.

Lennon became an outspoken critic and opponent of American imperialism, especially during the Vietnam War in the 1970s, resulting in a long-winded attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him which ended in failure. He rose to national stardom for his anti-war essay "Give Peace a Chance" (1971), which featured his acerbic and caustic wit in his works. During the 1972 election, Lennon endorsed Democratic candidate George McGovern; in 1976, he supported independent candidate Eugene McCarthy. He often switched residences between Liverpool and New York City, eventually establishing a permanent residence in Manhattan in 1979. He sharply criticized the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979. Lennon was closely associated with the American New Left, and was arrested multiple times for his activism and earned a spot on Nixon's master list of opponents. Under the Jackson administration in 1980, Lennon received American citizenship. In 1986, Lennon became a professor of sociology at Harvard University, stepping down after seven years in 1993.

He published his first book, The Worker & You, in 1982. The book was a psychoanalysis of the American worker and their place and evolution in American society, and was compiled after seven years of research and travel across the United States. His next major work, Nations & Nationalism, was published in 1989. In 1994, Lennon published his final major work before his death, Revolutionary Society & the Common Man, realizing a utopic, socialist world and the roles of people in said society. Revolutionary Society & the Common Man is often cited as Lennon's most famous and best work.

Lennon committed suicide with a revolver on the morning of June 14, 1997 at his home in New York City. Prior to his death, Lennon had been working on another book, titled The Vices of Capitalism, which was published posthumously and unfinished in 2004 by his roommate, Walter Bachman. He remained a staunch critic of American imperialism and neoliberalism and a strong supporter of racial and social equality until his death.

Lennon is considered to be one of the most significant and influential figures of the American New Left, and was subject to a personality cult which peaked at the turn of the 21st centuries. However, reassessment about his legacy has occurred, with newfound allegations of misogyny and abuse by his various partners, among other controversial actions. Despite this, Lennon remains widely popular as a socialist figure in the United States.
















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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 3 July 1913), better known by his alias Vladimir Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ленин), was a Russian composer and pianist of the Classical period. Lenin was influenced by such composers as Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart, and Rimsky-Korsakov, as evident in his early works.

Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin developed an affinity for the piano after watching a pianist's performance in Tsaritsyn. He graduated from the Imperial Kazan University in 1892, and subsequently enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating from it in 1897. His first few works were notable enough to garner him a reputation, and after the publication of his most famous work, Piano Concerto in C minor (1899), Lenin gained national stardom. However, the failure of his later pieces, especially that of Symphony No. 2 in F minor (1902), caused him to enter a three year long melancholy that was ended when he was invited to play for Tsar Nicholas II at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Lenin went on a national tour in 1909 and later performed for several high-profile individuals, such as monarchs Wilhelm II and Edward VII, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, and former President Theodore Roosevelt. He never returned to Russia after 1910, residing in several hotels in many European cities and in fellow composers' homes at times. On 3 July 1913, Lenin was assassinated by Ulrich Bischof in his hotel room at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, Germany.

Lenin's legacy is widely seen as positive, with many composers seeing Lenin as an early champion of a series of Russian composers. However, he was largely overshadowed by his fellow contemporaries, such as Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Prokoviev, with his biographer Max Adler writing, "No one was more famous during their lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after death."
 
Soldier, I need you to bring me this man."
"Got it." [...] "Found him, Sir."
"Wha- who- No, not Lennon, Lenin! The Russian communist- WHAT?! Why would I need a Beatle?! Lenin: the Russian communist; he was exiled to Switzerland! You know what, I'll just do it myself."
Oversimplified........your a good man!
 

A Tale of Two Len(non/in)s​

A classic Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman switch-a-roo
"Soldier, I need you to bring me this man."
"Got it." [...] "Found him, Sir."
"Wha- who- No, not Lennon, Lenin! The Russian communist- WHAT?! Why would I need a Beatle?! Lenin: the Russian communist; he was exiled to Switzerland! You know what, I'll just do it myself."
An apocryphal exchange between a German general and a German soldier.


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John Winston Lennon FBA (9 October 1940 - 14 June 1997) was a British-American Marxist philosopher, author, sociologist, psychologist, and political and peace activist. His most influential works include The Worker & You, a psychoanalysis of the common worker in Anglo-American spheres, and Revolutionary Society & the Common Man, an analysis and comparison of capitalistic and communistic societies and the place of the worker in said societies. Ideologically, Lennon aligned himself with Marxist-Luxemburg thought, but many believe Lennon was an ideologue of libertarian or utopian socialism.

Born in Liverpool, Lennon developed an early interest and ambition in socialist thought when he received a set of philosophical books for his birthday in 1957 from his mother, Julia. He initially had an affinity for music, having borrowed a guitar from his friend, but later stated in a biography that "Music wasn't for me [...] I couldn't play the guitar for the life of me." Lennon campaigned for the Labour Party in the elections of 1964 and 1966, being an early supporter of Harold Wilson, but later became critical of his soft left policies. He studied at the University of Liverpool, majoring in sociology and psychology. He later attended Oxford University, but later transferred overseas to Princeton University, where he earned his doctorate in 1968. He married his close friend, Cynthia Powell, in 1962, but divorced her in 1968.

Lennon became an outspoken critic and opponent of American imperialism, especially during the Vietnam War in the 1970s, resulting in a long-winded attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him which ended in failure. He rose to national stardom for his anti-war essay "Give Peace a Chance" (1971), which featured his acerbic and caustic wit in his works. During the 1972 election, Lennon endorsed Democratic candidate George McGovern; in 1976, he supported independent candidate Eugene McCarthy. He often switched residences between Liverpool and New York City, eventually establishing a permanent residence in Manhattan in 1979. He sharply criticized the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979. Lennon was closely associated with the American New Left, and was arrested multiple times for his activism and earned a spot on Nixon's master list of opponents. Under the Jackson administration in 1980, Lennon received American citizenship. In 1986, Lennon became a professor of sociology at Harvard University, stepping down after seven years in 1993.

He published his first book, The Worker & You, in 1982. The book was a psychoanalysis of the American worker and their place and evolution in American society, and was compiled after seven years of research and travel across the United States. His next major work, Nations & Nationalism, was published in 1989. In 1994, Lennon published his final major work before his death, Revolutionary Society & the Common Man, realizing a utopic, socialist world and the roles of people in said society. Revolutionary Society & the Common Man is often cited as Lennon's most famous and best work.

Lennon committed suicide with a revolver on the morning of June 14, 1997 at his home in New York City. Prior to his death, Lennon had been working on another book, titled The Vices of Capitalism, which was published posthumously and unfinished in 2004 by his roommate, Walter Bachman. He remained a staunch critic of American imperialism and neoliberalism and a strong supporter of racial and social equality until his death.

Lennon is considered to be one of the most significant and influential figures of the American New Left, and was subject to a personality cult which peaked at the turn of the 21st centuries. However, reassessment about his legacy has occurred, with newfound allegations of misogyny and abuse by his various partners, among other controversial actions. Despite this, Lennon remains widely popular as a socialist figure in the United States.
















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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 3 July 1913), better known by his alias Vladimir Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ленин), was a Russian composer and pianist of the Classical period. Lenin was influenced by such composers as Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart, and Rimsky-Korsakov, as evident in his early works.

Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin developed an affinity for the piano after watching a pianist's performance in Tsaritsyn. He graduated from the Imperial Kazan University in 1892, and subsequently enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating from it in 1897. His first few works were notable enough to garner him a reputation, and after the publication of his most famous work, Piano Concerto in C minor (1899), Lenin gained national stardom. However, the failure of his later pieces, especially that of Symphony No. 2 in F minor (1902), caused him to enter a three year long melancholy that was ended when he was invited to play for Tsar Nicholas II at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Lenin went on a national tour in 1909 and later performed for several high-profile individuals, such as monarchs Wilhelm II and Edward VII, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, and former President Theodore Roosevelt. He never returned to Russia after 1910, residing in several hotels in many European cities and in fellow composers' homes at times. On 3 July 1913, Lenin was assassinated by Ulrich Bischof in his hotel room at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, Germany.

Lenin's legacy is widely seen as positive, with many composers seeing Lenin as an early champion of a series of Russian composers. However, he was largely overshadowed by his fellow contemporaries, such as Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Prokoviev, with his biographer Max Adler writing, "No one was more famous during their lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after death."
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That's seriously illegal (especially before the 25th amendment). At the very least Wallace is acting POTUS until the end of his legal term and at this point there is no system to appoint a new VP and have him succeed. And Wallace is unlikely to go quietly without an impeachment. Guess that author didn't let rules get in the way if a story?
Possibly. As it's a french book from 1992 the author was probably simply not aware of these details that I reflect in infoboxe.
 
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"We can't stop the fire
It's always burning, even when the world stops turning
We can't stop the fire
We didn't light it, but we're done trying to fight it"
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We Can't Stop the Fire is a sequel to the 1989 list song We Didn't Start the Fire, it lists events that have happened since the release of the original song.

1989
  • George H.W. Bush becoming the 41st President of the United States
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990
  • McDonalds opens in Moscow
  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years
  • Germany reunites
  • Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1991
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Soviet Union is dissolved
  • Sugar Ray knocked out by Terry Norris
  • Highway of Death
  • Nicktoons (Doug, Ren & Stimpy, and Rugrats air)
  • Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS
1992
  • Cartoon Network launches
  • Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live
  • Bill Clinton defeats George H.W. Bush in the 1992 Presidential Election
  • CDs outsell Cassettes
  • Johnny Carson retires
  • Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
  • Silence of the Lambs
1993
  • Jurassic Park
  • Michael Jackson is interviewed by Oprah
  • IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date
  • Letterman moves from NBC to CBS
  • Mani pulite scandal
  • Audrey Hepburn dies
1994
  • Friends airs it's first episode
  • Rwandan genocide
  • O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco.
  • Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer's
  • Aerosmith becomes first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
  • Kurt Cobain commits suicide
  • America Online
1995
  • Oklahoma City Bombing
  • Mike Tyson released from prison
  • OJ is found not guilty of murder
  • Calvin and Hobbes ends.
  • Toy Story is released
  • Baseball strike ends
1996
  • Port Arthur massacre
  • Dolly the Sheep is cloned
  • Michael Jordan and Space Jam
  • Bob Dole is nominated as Republican candidate for President
  • The Cowboys win Superbowl XXX (what seems to be their last ever)
  • Operation Desert Strike
  • Tupac is shot and killed
1997
  • The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles
  • DVD is launched
  • Pokemon anime starts
  • The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
  • The first Harry Potter book is released
  • Dennis Rodman kicks a cameraman in the groin.
  • Princess Dianna dies in a car accident while trying to flee paparazzi
1998
  • Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
  • Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela
  • Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion and wins 11 Oscars.
  • Seinfeld ends
  • Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion
  • Frank Sinatra dies
  • Phil Hartman is killed by his wife
1999
  • Bill Gates becomes the wealthiest man in the world
  • Tony Soprano (The Soprano's start on HBO)
  • Napster debuts
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. dies
  • Columbine High School shooting
2000
  • Y2K bug fails to end the world
  • Microsoft sued (Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.)
  • 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
  • John Anthony Kaiser is murdered
  • Vladmir Putin becomes President of Russia
  • Yankees beat the Mets (4–2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1.)
  • Bush v. Gore (The United States Supreme Court rules that the recount of the 2000 presidential election in Florida should be halted and the original results be certified, thus making George W. Bush the winner of the U.S. presidential election.)
2001
  • Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
  • George Harrison dies
  • 9/11
  • Anthrax attacks
  • Office of Homeland Security established
  • Patriot Act
  • Ipod is released
2003
  • Dewey the deer is cloned
  • Berry Bonds steals second base against the LA Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career homers and 500 steals.
  • Johnny Cash dies
2004
  • Facebook is launched
  • Friends ends
  • American Idiot is released
  • Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
2005
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • YouTube is launched
2006
  • Saddam Hussein is killed
2008
  • Black Monday
  • Bloody Friday
  • Tsar Nicholas II found (remains found in 1991 are identified as Nicholas II using DNA analysis)
  • Barrack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States by beating John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election
2010
  • WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential"
2011
  • Osama Bin Ladden is killed by Seal Team 6
  • South Sudan joins the United Nations as the 193rd member
  • Minecraft is fully released
  • Steve Jobs dies
2012
  • Mayan prophecy (Many thought the Mayans had predicted the world would end in 2012 but it failed to do so)
  • Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.
  • Usain Bolt wins the 200m at the London Olympics in 19.32 to become first to win 100/200m double in back-to-back Olympics
  • Gangnam Style by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
  • Neil Armstrong dies
2014
  • Robin Williams dies
2015
  • Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the 2016 US Presidential election
  • Muppets Missy Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter
  • Leonard Nimoy dies
2016
  • Donald Trump wins the presidency against Hillary Clinton
  • The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest championship drought in American sports history
  • Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first oscar
  • Fidel Castro dies
  • United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 15 years.
  • Orlando Nightclub shooting
2017
  • Women's March
  • London Bridge Attack
  • Brexit
  • Las Vegas mass shooting
  • The Great American Eclipse
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Chuck Berry dies
2018
  • The US government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
  • Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.
  • LeBron James becomes the 7th and youngest (33 years 24 days) to reach the 30,000 NBA point milestone during 114-102 loss to San Antonio Spurs.
  • Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion".
  • The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court by a margin of 50–48, making it the closest successful confirmation vote of a Supreme Court nominee since 1881.
2019
  • Dorris Day dies
  • WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.
  • Hong Kong protests
  • Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed by U.S. Special Forces
2020
  • Kobe Bryant dies
  • Controversial 2020 US Presidential Election
  • George Floyd death and riots
  • COVID 19
2021
  • Late winter (Massive Snow storms)
  • Trump Aquitted

(This took way too long)
 
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Fun Fact about this film: Sean Bateman (played by James Van Der Beek) is actually the younger of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. Christian Bale, who portrayed Patrick was asked by director Roger Avary to reprise his role but turned down the offer. So Avary asked Bret Easton Ellis himself to portray Bateman. Ellis refused, saying that he "thought it was such a terrible and gimmicky idea", and Avary eventually shot the scenes with Casper Van Dien (Who played Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers). The scenes, however, were cut from the final version of the film. One of these scenes, a phone call between Sean and Patrick can be found on YouTube.

I also added Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner and Andrzej Sekula from American Psycho.
 
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"We can't stop the fire
It's always burning, even when the world stops turning
We can't stop the fire
We didn't light it, but we're done trying to fight it"
vRhBJTS.png

We Can't Stop the Fire is a sequel to the 1989 list song We Didn't Start the Fire, it lists events that have happened since the release of the original song.

1989
  • George H.W. Bush becoming the 41st President of the United States
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990
  • McDonalds opens in Moscow
  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years
  • Germany reunites
  • Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1991
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Soviet Union is dissolved
  • Sugar Ray knocked out by Terry Norris
  • Highway of Death
  • Nicktoons (Doug, Ren & Stimpy, and Rugrats air)
  • Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS
1992
  • Cartoon Network launches
  • Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live
  • Bill Clinton defeats George H.W. Bush in the 1992 Presidential Election
  • CDs outsell Cassettes
  • Johnny Carson retires
  • Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
  • Silence of the Lambs
1993
  • Jurassic Park
  • Michael Jackson is interviewed by Oprah
  • IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date
  • Letterman moves from NBC to CBS
  • Mani pulite scandal
  • Audrey Hepburn dies
1994
  • Friends airs it's first episode
  • Rwandan genocide
  • O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco.
  • Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer's
  • Aerosmith becomes first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
  • Kurt Cobain commits suicide
  • America Online
1995
  • Oklahoma City Bombing
  • Mike Tyson released from prison
  • OJ is found not guilty of murder
  • Calvin and Hobbes ends.
  • Toy Story is released
  • Baseball strike ends
1996
  • Port Arthur massacre
  • Dolly the Sheep is cloned
  • Michael Jordan and Space Jam
  • Bob Dole is nominated as Republican candidate for President
  • The Cowboys win Superbowl XXX (what seems to be their last ever)
  • Operation Desert Strike
  • Tupac is shot and killed
1997
  • The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles
  • DVD is launched
  • Pokemon anime starts
  • The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
  • The first Harry Potter book is released
  • Dennis Rodman kicks a cameraman in the groin.
  • Princess Dianna dies in a car accident while trying to flee paparazzi
1998
  • Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
  • Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela
  • Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion and wins 11 Oscars.
  • Seinfeld ends
  • Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion
  • Frank Sinatra dies
  • Phil Hartman is killed by his wife
1999
  • Bill Gates becomes the wealthiest man in the world
  • Tony Soprano (The Soprano's start on HBO)
  • Napster debuts
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. dies
  • Columbine High School shooting
2000
  • Y2K bug fails to end the world
  • Microsoft sued (Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.)
  • 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
  • John Anthony Kaiser is murdered
  • Vladmir Putin becomes President of Russia
  • Yankees beat the Mets (4–2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1.)
  • Bush v. Gore (The United States Supreme Court rules that the recount of the 2000 presidential election in Florida should be halted and the original results be certified, thus making George W. Bush the winner of the U.S. presidential election.)
2001
  • Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
  • George Harrison dies
  • 9/11
  • Anthrax attacks
  • Office of Homeland Security established
  • Patriot Act
  • Ipod is released
2003
  • Dewey the deer is cloned
  • Berry Bonds steals second base against the LA Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career homers and 500 steals.
  • Johnny Cash dies
2004
  • Facebook is launched
  • Friends ends
  • American Idiot is released
  • Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
2005
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • YouTube is launched
2006
  • Saddam Hussein is killed
2008
  • Black Monday
  • Bloody Friday
  • Tsar Nicholas II found (remains found in 1991 are identified as Nicholas II using DNA analysis)
  • Barrack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States by beating John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election
2010
  • WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential"
2011
  • Osama Bin Ladden is killed by Seal Team 6
  • South Sudan joins the United Nations as the 193rd member
  • Minecraft is fully released
  • Steve Jobs dies
2012
  • Mayan prophecy (Many thought the Mayans had predicted the world would end in 2012 but it failed to do so)
  • Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.
  • Usain Bolt wins the 200m at the London Olympics in 19.32 to become first to win 100/200m double in back-to-back Olympics
  • Gangnam Style by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
  • Neil Armstrong dies
2014
  • Robin Williams dies
2015
  • Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the 2016 US Presidential election
  • Muppets Missy Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter
  • Leonard Nimoy dies
2016
  • Donald Trump wins the presidency against Hillary Clinton
  • The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest championship drought in American sports history
  • Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first oscar
  • Fidel Castro dies
  • United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 15 years.
  • Orlando Nightclub shooting
2017
  • Women's March
  • London Bridge Attack
  • Brexit
  • Las Vegas mass shooting
  • The Great American Eclipse
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Chuck Berry dies
2018
  • The US government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
  • Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.
  • LeBron James becomes the 7th and youngest (33 years 24 days) to reach the 30,000 NBA point milestone during 114-102 loss to San Antonio Spurs.
  • Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion".
  • The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court by a margin of 50–48, making it the closest successful confirmation vote of a Supreme Court nominee since 1881.
2019
  • Dorris Day dies
  • WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.
  • Hong Kong protests
  • Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed by U.S. Special Forces
2020
  • Kobe Bryant dies
  • Controversial 2020 US Presidential Election
  • George Floyd death and riots
  • COVID 19
2021
  • Late winter (Massive Snow storms)
  • Trump Aquitted

(This took way too long)
Excellent work, Hulkster! :love:

It would be nice if Billy Joel would release a sequel to "We Didn't Start the Fire" to cover events from when he left off in '89 all the way to the present day. So many things to cover, like the things you listed in your post.
 
Anyone for an alternate classic Doctor Who Season 23?

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The twenty-third season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on the 4th January 1986, and ended on the 27th March 1986. It opened with the serial The Nightmare Fair, and ended with Expansion of the Autons. It was Colin Baker’s second full season as the Sixth Doctor, and as with his first, featured 45-minute episodes. It was also the only series to feature the version of the theme tune composed by Dominic Glynn.

The season featured one of the most infamously tumultuous production schedules behind the scenes. Controller of BBC1 Michael Grade ordered the series to be delayed for 18 months after Season 22 ended in March 1985, meaning the next series would not have come to the screen until 1987. With several newspapers, including the Sun and the Daily Star, accusing Grade of axing the show to get more money from the government, and a heavily reported protest by fans outside the House of Commons dressed as Daleks and Cybermen in April (allegedly even a Band Aid-style record was considered), Grade was forced to relent, and production of Season 23 was allowed to proceed during 1985, though with a reduction in the series’ already small budget to make way for more prestigious BBC productions in the works at the time like Edge of Darkness and The Singing Detective.

Regardless, the production team pressed on with producing the series during 1985, with orders from the BBC to incorporate less violence and more humour in the new season. Further complicating matters was the decision of Nichola Bryant, who played the Doctor’s companion Peri, to leave during the new season, which necessitated casting a new companion; despite the reservations of script editor Eric Saward, producer John Nathan-Turner cast former child actress Bonnie Langford in the role of Mel, allegedly having simply said the Doctor needed a red-headed companion.

In August of 1985, less than two months before filming was set to commence on the new series, a major row erupted between Nathan-Turner and Saward over the final script of the series, originally titled ‘Yellow Fever & How To Cure It’ and later retitled Expansion of the Autons. Nathan-Turner was adamant that the serial should have any cutbacks necessary made for it to be affordable to shoot on location in Singapore, while Saward asserted that Nathan-Turner was ruining a script by one of the writers he most admired, Robert Holmes, and should simply abandon the Singapore location filming. Ultimately, by the time filming had begun, Saward had quit the series, and Holmes (who by this point had come down with debilitating hepatitis that would claim his life in early 1986) agreed to rewrite the story as Nathan-Turner requested.

Serials

The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams (2 episodes, 4-11 January 1986)

After the TARDIS is drawn into the ‘nexus of the primeval cauldron of Space-Time’, the Doctor and Peri are brought to Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, where they are forced to face the Celestial Toymaker, a mysterious being who captures people to play mysterious games with, and who the Doctor faced back in his first incarnation.

The Ultimate Evil by Wally K Daly (2 episodes, 18-25 January 1986)
The Doctor and Peri visit the holiday planet Tranquela to visit the Doctor’s old friend Ravlos, but find that the dwarf Mordant has been using a space ray to turn its people into mindless killers. With Mordant trying to take control of the Doctor and have the people of Tranquela kill Peri, it becomes clear he may be too powerful for them to just destroy.

Mission to Magnus by Phillip Martin (2 episodes, 1-8 February 1986)
When the Doctor finds that the planet Magnus has been tilted out of its original orbit, he and Peri set out to find it, and discover that the Ice Warriors, in collaboration with the Mentors Sil and Kiv, are trying to make the planet better suit them. Meanwhile, Sil is partaking in a plan to transplant the dying Mentor Kiv’s brain into a new body; the Doctor sets about trying to stop the Ice Warriors while Peri challenges Sil, with disastrous consequences for Peri.

Paradise 5 by PJ Hammond (2 episodes, 15-22 February 1986)
Dejected after the loss of Peri, the Doctor goes to the planet Targos Delta to visit Professor Albrecht Thompson in the hopes he can bring her back. After learning he has departed to the holiday resort Paradise 5, he sneaks aboard a ship to the resort and meets Mel, a computer programmer from Earth who works there. But once they arrive at the resort, they find all is not as it seems, as the mute Cherubs who act as servants seek to warn the Doctor and Mel of dangerous times coming to the resort.

The Hollows of Time by Christopher H. Bidmead (2 episodes, 29 February-6 March 1986)
Following a visit to the English village of Hollowdean, the Doctor and Mel find their memories seem to have vanished, and after returning to see Reverend Foxwell, they find that his experiments have been altering the nature of reality. Strange creatures the locals call ‘Tractators’ have been sighted in Hollowdean, and Foxwell and the locals are apparently working with a man known as ‘Professor Stream’.

Expansion of the Autons by Robert Holmes (3 episodes, 13-27 March 1986)
After the reveal that ‘Professor Stream’ was the Master, the Time Lord flees to Singapore, with the Doctor and Mel pursuing him there. Once in the country, they find that the Master is not working alone- he is in collaboration with the Rani, there are reports of shop window dummies and other plastic items coming to life, and the Doctor soon finds that his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is visiting the country on holiday.

Reception
The series was not well-regarded by senior figures at the BBC, who were resentful of the fan pressure requiring them to allow it to continue, and it was mostly quite poorly received by fans as well. Some elements of the series were praised- Peri’s death in Mission to Magnus was seen as a strong exit by many fans (and by Nichola Bryant), and Paradise 5 is often considered the strongest story Colin Baker had on television. However, the generally poor quality of the rest of the series turned fan opinion further against the status quo, and many fans disliked new companion Mel.

The ratings averaged around 6.4 million, significantly lower than any series of the show since 1980, and in mid-1986, after the series had finished, the BBC issued Nathan-Turner with an ultimatum: he was either to resign as Doctor Who’s producer (and allow the corporation to cancel the show for good), or to sack Colin Baker from the title role. Nathan-Turner ultimately chose the latter option, making Baker the only actor not to leave the role of their own volition (and after Paul McGann appeared in the special The Night of the Doctor in 2013, the only Doctor not to appear in their own regeneration scene).

Home video releases (Region 2)
The Nightmare Fair: VHS June 1994, DVD May 2008
The Ultimate Evil: VHS February 2001, DVD June 2011
Mission to Magnus: VHS August 1994, DVD February 2008
Paradise 5: VHS December 1993, DVD October 2005
The Hollows of Time: VHS February 1998, DVD November 2007
Expansion of the Autons: VHS January 1995, DVD December 2006
 
"We can't stop the fire
It's always burning, even when the world stops turning
We can't stop the fire
We didn't light it, but we're done trying to fight it"
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We Can't Stop the Fire is a sequel to the 1989 list song We Didn't Start the Fire, it lists events that have happened since the release of the original song.

1989
  • George H.W. Bush becoming the 41st President of the United States
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990
  • McDonalds opens in Moscow
  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years
  • Germany reunites
  • Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1991
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Soviet Union is dissolved
  • Sugar Ray knocked out by Terry Norris
  • Highway of Death
  • Nicktoons (Doug, Ren & Stimpy, and Rugrats air)
  • Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS
1992
  • Cartoon Network launches
  • Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live
  • Bill Clinton defeats George H.W. Bush in the 1992 Presidential Election
  • CDs outsell Cassettes
  • Johnny Carson retires
  • Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
  • Silence of the Lambs
1993
  • Jurassic Park
  • Michael Jackson is interviewed by Oprah
  • IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date
  • Letterman moves from NBC to CBS
  • Mani pulite scandal
  • Audrey Hepburn dies
1994
  • Friends airs it's first episode
  • Rwandan genocide
  • O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco.
  • Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer's
  • Aerosmith becomes first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
  • Kurt Cobain commits suicide
  • America Online
1995
  • Oklahoma City Bombing
  • Mike Tyson released from prison
  • OJ is found not guilty of murder
  • Calvin and Hobbes ends.
  • Toy Story is released
  • Baseball strike ends
1996
  • Port Arthur massacre
  • Dolly the Sheep is cloned
  • Michael Jordan and Space Jam
  • Bob Dole is nominated as Republican candidate for President
  • The Cowboys win Superbowl XXX (what seems to be their last ever)
  • Operation Desert Strike
  • Tupac is shot and killed
1997
  • The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles
  • DVD is launched
  • Pokemon anime starts
  • The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
  • The first Harry Potter book is released
  • Dennis Rodman kicks a cameraman in the groin.
  • Princess Dianna dies in a car accident while trying to flee paparazzi
1998
  • Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
  • Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela
  • Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion and wins 11 Oscars.
  • Seinfeld ends
  • Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion
  • Frank Sinatra dies
  • Phil Hartman is killed by his wife
1999
  • Bill Gates becomes the wealthiest man in the world
  • Tony Soprano (The Soprano's start on HBO)
  • Napster debuts
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. dies
  • Columbine High School shooting
2000
  • Y2K bug fails to end the world
  • Microsoft sued (Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.)
  • 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
  • John Anthony Kaiser is murdered
  • Vladmir Putin becomes President of Russia
  • Yankees beat the Mets (4–2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1.)
  • Bush v. Gore (The United States Supreme Court rules that the recount of the 2000 presidential election in Florida should be halted and the original results be certified, thus making George W. Bush the winner of the U.S. presidential election.)
2001
  • Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident
  • George Harrison dies
  • 9/11
  • Anthrax attacks
  • Office of Homeland Security established
  • Patriot Act
  • Ipod is released
2003
  • Dewey the deer is cloned
  • Berry Bonds steals second base against the LA Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career homers and 500 steals.
  • Johnny Cash dies
2004
  • Facebook is launched
  • Friends ends
  • American Idiot is released
  • Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
2005
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • YouTube is launched
2006
  • Saddam Hussein is killed
2008
  • Black Monday
  • Bloody Friday
  • Tsar Nicholas II found (remains found in 1991 are identified as Nicholas II using DNA analysis)
  • Barrack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States by beating John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election
2010
  • WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential"
2011
  • Osama Bin Ladden is killed by Seal Team 6
  • South Sudan joins the United Nations as the 193rd member
  • Minecraft is fully released
  • Steve Jobs dies
2012
  • Mayan prophecy (Many thought the Mayans had predicted the world would end in 2012 but it failed to do so)
  • Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.
  • Usain Bolt wins the 200m at the London Olympics in 19.32 to become first to win 100/200m double in back-to-back Olympics
  • Gangnam Style by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
  • Neil Armstrong dies
2014
  • Robin Williams dies
2015
  • Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the 2016 US Presidential election
  • Muppets Missy Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter
  • Leonard Nimoy dies
2016
  • Donald Trump wins the presidency against Hillary Clinton
  • The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest championship drought in American sports history
  • Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first oscar
  • Fidel Castro dies
  • United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 15 years.
  • Orlando Nightclub shooting
2017
  • Women's March
  • London Bridge Attack
  • Brexit
  • Las Vegas mass shooting
  • The Great American Eclipse
  • Hurricane Harvey
  • Chuck Berry dies
2018
  • The US government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
  • Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.
  • LeBron James becomes the 7th and youngest (33 years 24 days) to reach the 30,000 NBA point milestone during 114-102 loss to San Antonio Spurs.
  • Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion".
  • The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court by a margin of 50–48, making it the closest successful confirmation vote of a Supreme Court nominee since 1881.
2019
  • Dorris Day dies
  • WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.
  • Hong Kong protests
  • Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed by U.S. Special Forces
2020
  • Kobe Bryant dies
  • Controversial 2020 US Presidential Election
  • George Floyd death and riots
  • COVID 19
2021
  • Late winter (Massive Snow storms)
  • Trump Aquitted

(This took way too long)
You could throw in something about Videogame Console Wars, 3-D movies, and stuff like that For years without a lot of stuff in them
 

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Another timeline I've thought about for awhile: Bush's DUI is revealed right before the Ames Straw Poll. Liddy Dole takes the Poll. Donors start to divide between her and Bush and Bush fumbles the fallout of the DUI. She goes on to capitalize on the moment - positioning herself as the clear challenger to Bush. She wins the Republican nomination.

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The 1984 Danubian Federation election took place on 14-17 June 1984. It was the seventh quinquennial parliamentary election to be held since the reformation of the Habsburg Empire into the Danubian Federation in 1953. Results showed parties of the centre-left and radical left and right profiting at the expense of the centre and centre-right. The Social Democratic Party, led by Fred Sinowatz consolidated their position as the biggest group in the House of Deputies. However, they were still many seats short of a majority and so agreed to continue the grand coalition with the People’s Party, with Ladislav Hejdanek agreeing to serve as Chancellor and Sinowatz as Vice Chancellor. The various far-right parties of the Federation's constituent nations formed a temporary grouping called Identity and Tradition, which would last until November 1984 before splitting. Overall turnout dropped to 61%.

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Including previous updates in this series and from my new TL The Empire Parnell Built.
 
Anyone for an alternate classic Doctor Who Season 23?

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The twenty-third season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on the 4th January 1986, and ended on the 27th March 1986. It opened with the serial The Nightmare Fair, and ended with Expansion of the Autons. It was Colin Baker’s second full season as the Sixth Doctor, and as with his first, featured 45-minute episodes. It was also the only series to feature the version of the theme tune composed by Dominic Glynn.

The season featured one of the most infamously tumultuous production schedules behind the scenes. Controller of BBC1 Michael Grade ordered the series to be delayed for 18 months after Season 22 ended in March 1985, meaning the next series would not have come to the screen until 1987. With several newspapers, including the Sun and the Daily Star, accusing Grade of axing the show to get more money from the government, and a heavily reported protest by fans outside the House of Commons dressed as Daleks and Cybermen in April (allegedly even a Band Aid-style record was considered), Grade was forced to relent, and production of Season 23 was allowed to proceed during 1985, though with a reduction in the series’ already small budget to make way for more prestigious BBC productions in the works at the time like Edge of Darkness and The Singing Detective.

Regardless, the production team pressed on with producing the series during 1985, with orders from the BBC to incorporate less violence and more humour in the new season. Further complicating matters was the decision of Nichola Bryant, who played the Doctor’s companion Peri, to leave during the new season, which necessitated casting a new companion; despite the reservations of script editor Eric Saward, producer John Nathan-Turner cast former child actress Bonnie Langford in the role of Mel, allegedly having simply said the Doctor needed a red-headed companion.

In August of 1985, less than two months before filming was set to commence on the new series, a major row erupted between Nathan-Turner and Saward over the final script of the series, originally titled ‘Yellow Fever & How To Cure It’ and later retitled Expansion of the Autons. Nathan-Turner was adamant that the serial should have any cutbacks necessary made for it to be affordable to shoot on location in Singapore, while Saward asserted that Nathan-Turner was ruining a script by one of the writers he most admired, Robert Holmes, and should simply abandon the Singapore location filming. Ultimately, by the time filming had begun, Saward had quit the series, and Holmes (who by this point had come down with debilitating hepatitis that would claim his life in early 1986) agreed to rewrite the story as Nathan-Turner requested.

Serials

The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams (2 episodes, 4-11 January 1986)

After the TARDIS is drawn into the ‘nexus of the primeval cauldron of Space-Time’, the Doctor and Peri are brought to Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, where they are forced to face the Celestial Toymaker, a mysterious being who captures people to play mysterious games with, and who the Doctor faced back in his first incarnation.

The Ultimate Evil by Wally K Daly (2 episodes, 18-25 January 1986)
The Doctor and Peri visit the holiday planet Tranquela to visit the Doctor’s old friend Ravlos, but find that the dwarf Mordant has been using a space ray to turn its people into mindless killers. With Mordant trying to take control of the Doctor and have the people of Tranquela kill Peri, it becomes clear he may be too powerful for them to just destroy.

Mission to Magnus by Phillip Martin (2 episodes, 1-8 February 1986)
When the Doctor finds that the planet Magnus has been tilted out of its original orbit, he and Peri set out to find it, and discover that the Ice Warriors, in collaboration with the Mentors Sil and Kiv, are trying to make the planet better suit them. Meanwhile, Sil is partaking in a plan to transplant the dying Mentor Kiv’s brain into a new body; the Doctor sets about trying to stop the Ice Warriors while Peri challenges Sil, with disastrous consequences for Peri.

Paradise 5 by PJ Hammond (2 episodes, 15-22 February 1986)
Dejected after the loss of Peri, the Doctor goes to the planet Targos Delta to visit Professor Albrecht Thompson in the hopes he can bring her back. After learning he has departed to the holiday resort Paradise 5, he sneaks aboard a ship to the resort and meets Mel, a computer programmer from Earth who works there. But once they arrive at the resort, they find all is not as it seems, as the mute Cherubs who act as servants seek to warn the Doctor and Mel of dangerous times coming to the resort.

The Hollows of Time by Christopher H. Bidmead (2 episodes, 29 February-6 March 1986)
Following a visit to the English village of Hollowdean, the Doctor and Mel find their memories seem to have vanished, and after returning to see Reverend Foxwell, they find that his experiments have been altering the nature of reality. Strange creatures the locals call ‘Tractators’ have been sighted in Hollowdean, and Foxwell and the locals are apparently working with a man known as ‘Professor Stream’.

Expansion of the Autons by Robert Holmes (3 episodes, 13-27 March 1986)
After the reveal that ‘Professor Stream’ was the Master, the Time Lord flees to Singapore, with the Doctor and Mel pursuing him there. Once in the country, they find that the Master is not working alone- he is in collaboration with the Rani, there are reports of shop window dummies and other plastic items coming to life, and the Doctor soon finds that his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is visiting the country on holiday.

Reception
The series was not well-regarded by senior figures at the BBC, who were resentful of the fan pressure requiring them to allow it to continue, and it was mostly quite poorly received by fans as well. Some elements of the series were praised- Peri’s death in Mission to Magnus was seen as a strong exit by many fans (and by Nichola Bryant), and Paradise 5 is often considered the strongest story Colin Baker had on television. However, the generally poor quality of the rest of the series turned fan opinion further against the status quo, and many fans disliked new companion Mel.

The ratings averaged around 6.4 million, significantly lower than any series of the show since 1980, and in mid-1986, after the series had finished, the BBC issued Nathan-Turner with an ultimatum: he was either to resign as Doctor Who’s producer (and allow the corporation to cancel the show for good), or to sack Colin Baker from the title role. Nathan-Turner ultimately chose the latter option, making Baker the only actor not to leave the role of their own volition (and after Paul McGann appeared in the special The Night of the Doctor in 2013, the only Doctor not to appear in their own regeneration scene).

Home video releases (Region 2)
The Nightmare Fair: VHS June 1994, DVD May 2008
The Ultimate Evil: VHS February 2001, DVD June 2011
Mission to Magnus: VHS August 1994, DVD February 2008
Paradise 5: VHS December 1993, DVD October 2005
The Hollows of Time: VHS February 1998, DVD November 2007
Expansion of the Autons: VHS January 1995, DVD December 2006
Will there by any more info boxes like this in the future
 
"We can't stop the fire
It's always burning, even when the world stops turning
We can't stop the fire
We didn't light it, but we're done trying to fight it"
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I'm stunned that ol'Billy hasn't done this yet.

I feel like the Cold War seems less crazy than the world we've been living in.
 
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