But here's the hockey news we really care about. The ECHL and CCHA have merged into the HPL for the 1907 season! Winnipeg will also get a new team named the Jets. The jet was invented recently by the Wright brothers and this will bring the jet into the mainstream.
...8-2
Portland Rosebuds 6-4
Tacoma Titans 5-5
Spokane Canaries 2-8
South Division
Reno Shamrocks 6-4
Los Angeles Kings 5-5
Fresno Falcons* 5-5
Oakland Vampires** 4-6
*= San Francisco Pirates (relocated due to 1906 San Francisco Earthquake)
**= Traveling team due to Earthquake
To be continued...
Also another hockey league? Indeed. The Tri-State league covers Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin
Teams
Duluth
Lansing
Grand Rapids
Green Bay
Madison
Saint Cloud
The Dodgers have sold Jack Fournier to the Denver Bears. Rumors are saying that it is due to the Dodgers struggles in attendance. The team however have no relocation plans. The Bears plan on spending everything they can to win a world series.(If Fournier wasn't sold they would have folded.)
How was Henry Tudor a usurper? Yes, his blood claim was inferior to that of Edward, earl of Warwick without a doubt and maybe EIV (who was attainted on devil's parliament and that attainder was never reversed) but he never paid allegiance to any York so he was free to use right of conquest and...
Ike probably never becoming president is a given, but I’m not sure if the Democrats could take down Dewey. The bench in 52 is rather small and the best they could do is Adlai Stevenson.
Something I wonder is what would happen to the image of communism and monarchy after a crushing russian defeat on this war.
If the empire loses then communism would regain some credibility as people would claim that the empire would have been crushed by the Nazis just as the USSR did assuming...
At one point I calculated the mean center of Russia's population to be at Izhevsk, though I can't recall where I left the file I used to determine that. I'm fairly certain it does into account curvature of the Earth, though.