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While watching CBS' lamentable "adaptation" of Under the Dome, it struck me that The Nantucket Series, The Island in the Sea of Time et al, would work just as well, if not better. Its jerk characters are less inhuman (at first, anyway) then some of the characters from the book. It doesn't have...

Originally baseball players wore no numbers in their jerseys. Around 1890 or so baseball positions were numbered. The pitcher was #1, the catcher #2, and so on. That numbering system is still used today for keeping score. The old 6-4-3 double play is shorthand for the shortstop throwing to the...

In OTL, when the Italians took Rome from the Pope, they offered to let the Pope keep an area around St. Peter's for himself as his own sovereign state. They area they offered was the Leonine City, an area much larger and somewhat more populated than the current Vatican City is today. If memory...

Growing up, I took a dim view on the idea that the United States was such a bastion of democracy that we pretty much invented the thing after the rest of the world ignored it for 2000 years after the end of the Classical Era. I have since taught myself to know better. But one of the things...