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But Steve McQueen will not wear a baseball glove.

So does an "unjust" arbitration that results in two 25/75 minorities produce a more peaceful outcome than a "just" 50/50 one that caused a bloodbath in the Punjab ?

Dunaburg yes. I pondered the older name, and then I found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Daugavpils_population_1772-2008.png. Rather sobering.

Sure -- How about Fritz and Clara Haber in domestic bliss now free to perfect how to extract gold from seawater ?

I have this vision of a vast expanse of water with a stricken ship of the dead floating and two little figures in a rowboat desperately trying to row faster while a silent cloud slowly deploys towards them.

I was shooting for John Buchan to give us Der Schwarze Mantel but ok -- A Confidence Man in Africa: Karl May and the German Colonial Enterprise

We must introduce a Negro hero via pulp fiction into popular culture. Something like Winnetou, Sandokan, Tarzan, and the Tiger of Eschnapur combined. Let's see: aggrieved by the abduction of his betrothed Usambara, paragon of maidenly virtue, during the Russian East African incursion, Prince...

"Satellite" was in use long before Gagarin. Franz Neumann uses it in Behemoth for the Axis Minors. It occurs already in the Federalist Papers.

The USS Maine afloat -- I cannot remember, did the Spanish American War happen ? Who owns those colonies ?

Quite. We shall keep an eye on the Denmark Strait though.

A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot. :D

I am beginning to agree with Tucholsky: Rathenau is just too clever by half. If Wilhelm makes him president of a Jewish state that the Ottomans establish around Musa Dagh, it serves him right.