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Ah, it's totally random and almost ASB, but it's just too cool to give up. :D

So, I read somewhere that the Tunguska event occurred at about the same latitude as St Petersburg, and that if it had been delayed about 6 hours it would have hit St Petersburg. So, at about 7:14 AM on the morning of July 30, 1908, a comet airbursts over St Petersburg, at an altitude of about 8...

In response to Puget Sound's recent pictures, and just because it's cool, and includes some funky statistics about 30s N. America: War Plan Red Defense Scheme #1 (Sadly, not the complete text.)

Challenge: Make as many Norman kingdoms as you can. Crusader states, intermarriage, straight-out profiteering adventurism, whatever. Just as long as historians of the year 2000 will refer to them as "the Norman Kingdom of X".

So, I'm reading Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (a bit dated, but, as usual, very well written), and I came across an interesting fact. King Offa of Mercia (the one who built Offa's Dyke, for you Brits out there) minted very nice coinage. He wanted to have very good coinage...

I'm sure this has been on the forums before, but it's pretty funny: THE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER on AUGUST 13, 1908 in VIENNA, AUSTRIA