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TRANSCRIPT FROM “The History Mysteries audioweblo” co-hosted by Joseph Vanderwelt and Paul Zhao JASON: So a few years ago Louis Robert got arrested for stealing the statue of Billy Penn that was on top of the Peacock Building. You remember that right? PAUL: Yeah, they didn’t put it right back...

“You could honestly just have three teams in the World Cup. Whoever wins Europe, Brazil, and the United States.” - Gary Lineker “There are two types of people in Washington. The football players, who will just ram and ram into the opposition and hope it breaks. And the soccer players, who dance...

"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs." - Andrew Johnson ■■■■■ Andrew Johnson was not a good man and he was not a good President. He was short tempered, vendicitive and often...

Our Blood we will give, for glory we only have An Alternate History of Portugal, Brazil, and the World ... "Here, oh Most Excellent King Are the sacred vows That the honoured Lusians Come freely, come freely proclaim Come freely proclaim For thee, for the Fatherland Our Blood we will give...

What is this? A TLPIAW. What the hell is that? A Timeline Posted In A Week. It’s like a TLIAW except instead of trying and failing to write it all in one week and dragging it out until it becomes more of a normal timeline I write it in my own sweet time then post it over the course of a...

Consider for a moment the Himalayas, the mighty mountains that divide Asia in two. To the south lies India, diverse and fertile. To the north lies the ancient land of China. Two great behemoths of potential and population home of great civilizations. Yet these two lands remain curiously...

The Sons of Inti Shall Not Perish An Alternate History of the Tawantinsuyu Book 1: In the Heart of the Andes Discussion Thread + The Chasqui bore ill news for the Empire. Wayna Qhapaq was dead, struck down by a strange illness. Preparations were to be made for the ascension Ninan Cuyochi. The...

“It is without any doubt that the Summer of the Moor remains the greatest favor given to so many, for so long by so few, and in such a short time.” – W.L. Spencer ****** Admittedly, this was not the way Masséna had been anticipating the year ending. The plan had been straightforward. For months...

Never Gave Anyone Hell "I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." - Harry Truman ***

Her Princes are Come Home Again “O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come...

An Unexpected Hour "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered" - Mathew 26.31 ••••• Chapter 1: Luke 8.21 •••••

••• Upon the Precipice ••• "They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men, who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead the followed the droppings of lechers and Communists and didn't realize...

What's This? A TLIAW. Why. Why. Why. Because I had an idea. A most glorious idea. Some may call it…a dream. Dear Lord, the Font. Yes. The font. You are going to get your ass sued off. I try not to think about it. So what's the gimmick? What gimmick? Its a TLIAPOT, there's a...

"CHAIR: By a margin of 122 to 144 the motion to reinstate the requirement that a candidate receive a two thirds majority to be nominated has been defeated. ASSORTED BOOS ASSORTED CHEERS" - Transcript from the 1844 Democratic Convention. --- Despite concerns over Martin Van Buren's...

To Kill a Kingfish The Continued Career of Huey Pierce Long ***

The "Classic" ASL logo was not adopted until the 1960s In 1921, 8 Soccer teams that were fully professional broke off from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League. The teams were frustrated with the bizarre mix of Professional, Semi-Professional and...

Chapter 1: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall And all the Count's Armies and all the Duke's Men Fought over who should put him together again" - English Nursery Rhyme1 ________________________________________________ From "A History of the World: 1492-1827" from...

The Sons of Inti Shall Not Perish An Alternate History of the Tawantinsuyu *** Book 1: The Heart of the Andes *** The Call of Peru Trust Exercises Gold and Gore A Long and Winding Road Decisions Further Occurences Rather Rambunctious Reactionary Rebels Make the Tawantinsuyu EVEN GREATER...

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her...

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. ~ Lyndon Johnson Jackasses in a Hailstorm or Fear, Loathing and a Surprising Amount of Actual Campaigning on the Campaign Trail in '64 (credit to SergeantHawk for the graphic)...