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How did we win the ARW is the real question. Improbable. I for one remain in denial.

Europe of course being completely native. Discounting-Gauls, Romans, Celts, Angle, Saxon, Norman, Frank, Vandals, Viking, Jew, Irish, etc. The link was hogwash, the sentiment afterwards was stupid. All nations grow through immigration. Good and bad.

The entire idea that modern presidential decisions actually mean that they effect only their own terms is very cute and naive. Jimmy Carter did away with extensive backround checks for credit history and enabled the signature away plan used by most companies to screw you into bad credit these...

I like Bill Bryson, though he writes non-fiction. Actually, everything I've read of late is non-fiction save for 'Gettysburg' by Newt. Which was excellent right to the very end, where it became a bit muddled for a bit, but turned right around for a strong finish. On the note of good...

But again, were the next two books in the ACW series as good as Gettysburg? I hope so. It's been a long time since I've been this excited about a trilogy. I'm as giddy as a schoolboy. Feels like the days pre-Star Wars infamy and the death rattle from the Indiana Jones epic.

I just heard of the WWII series and would probably read it after I finish the ACW series.

This very topic may be elsewhere or archived but I would like to mention how delighted I am with 'Gettysburg'. I was reluctant to purchase it when first I heard of it, as I harbour a burning resentment towards Newt for helping weaken the GOP. The only luck he had was that people became rather...

I think that 'major' settlement sites can still be located with a little research, but that would be true mainly for Eastern and Southwestern Native Americans. Plains Natives were rather nomadic and never really stayed together for any extended period of time. However, any navigable rivers...

Good series, fun to read. Got a little confusing when the unmaker became a mojor antagonist, but good all the same.

Toledo...? (In Ohio. Thats right Buckeyes, we haven't forgotten) My knowledge of Western history far surpasses my knowledge of Eastern, but I'd go with a city that was in that geo political hemisphere. Possibly Jerusalem or Baghdad?

I'm glad that I cancelled all my credit cards. Please post a warning next time for those of us that are addicted to all things chart/map like. I almost raided the girls wallet...

Haven't biblical scholars found that most of those "gospels" were written a couple of centuries after the big 4?

Just allowing the Gnostics to survive would fling the whole thing out of control.

Yes. I'm also going with Canada. Tough as nails, hamstrung by horrid living conditions influencing population increase. Canada, in a fair POD, would rule the world... By living conditions I mean, it's colder n' the lowest ring of hell. If its snowing outside my window on April 6th, it's a...

"This is Virginia!!!" and Robert E. Lee kicks the leader of the New England Communes' delegation into a well...

I think the offer of the crown to G.W. is more or less apocryphal, and would never be tolerated by the likes of Franklin, Adams, or any of the other New England or Northern firebrands. The southerners might be a little more open to it but your smack dap in the middle of another conflict. If...

True to all, and I by no means wished to sound as if WWII was just a resounding victory bell for capatilism, not at all, just one of the quirky positives that came from such an evil evil thing. As far as Japan, didn't they essentially have the same windfall as far as economy is concerned, just...

I know this is left field, but to hell with it. Wasn't WWII good for at least one thing? A brand spanking new economy for USA? Lend-Lease, prep for enterance themselves, rebound from depression etc, etc... Don't have to like war, unless thats your livelihood...

Yes, but at least it worked out to be funnier.