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    How did the pork taboo come about?

    As someone who lives downwind of a large hog operation, I can also imagine a high priest walking out on a warm summer day,taking a sniff and summarily declaring pigs , EVIL!
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    WI: Yippies lace Chicago's water supply with acid

    Maybe a lot of Chicagoans start seeing things that couldn't possibly exist, You know, like a Cubs World Series Victory...:D
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    Rifles shipped to Minnesota in 1860

    Well, the Dakota conflict would have been put down in short order , but since most of the Firearms would doubtlessly have been sent to Ft. Snelling it would have been very easy to ship them back down the Mississippi. This would have been of great assistance to the Federal Troops at Jefferson...
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    AHC: St. Louis doesn't split from St. Louis County in 1876

    A St. Charles Expat weighs in. Howdy, A more "expansive" St. Louis in the Guilded age is going to spread out the Cultural sites (Museuems, Zoo, Parks) instead of concentrating them around the Forest Park Area. I also doubt that Lambert Field would end up being the site of the Main...
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    WI: "Halo" in the 60's?

    On the other hand , a 1960's Halo might come across more like Joe Halderman's "Forever War" , a Vietnam inspired creation that if it were made into a Game would have quite a bit a combat , but the overall theme is about Dysfunctional-ness of the Society and in the end a "this war was All a...
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    Best losing Presidential candidate?

    "WIN" with Ford. I wonder what the Republican Party would look like today if Gerald Ford had managed to get elected in his own right in 1976?
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    DBWI: Who do you think was the best US president?

    William Jennings Bryan, 1896-1901, His monetary policy with adding Silver to back the currency as well as Gold helped the economy for the common man. His Assasination in at the Columbian Exposition cut short what promised to be an even better second term.
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    The Curse of the Black Cat: The St. Louis Cardinals Collapse After 1944

    westward expansion I could see the Brownies building a new "Sportsman's Park" (perhaps a McDonnell-Douglas Stadium) out in St. Louis County to take advantage of the Booming population there.
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    History Books

    Undaunted Courage "Undaunted Courage; Meriwether Lewis,Thomas Jefferson,and the Opening of the American West" by Stephen Ambrose.
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    Have any of you ever read The third World war august

    [ Though I didn't undersand the Iranian Revoulution not happening or Mobutu retiring. The book was written Pre-Iranian revolution and being mostly a Nato vs Warsaw pact senario , the author didn't really anticipate it. I read it back in High School (early 1980's) and being somewhat of...
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    WI gengis Khan used gunpowder

    Mongol Gunpowder I just finished reading Jack Weatherford's book, "Genghis Khan- and the making of the Modern World" and by his account, though Genghis Khan might not have significantly used gunpowder, his succesors certainly did. Indeed it was quite instrumental in conquering Baghdad.
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    Baja california in the U.S

    Baja spaceport IIRC, the more southern the latitude , the more cost effective and easier to launch to Orbit. Since the Baja extends down to the Tropic of Cancer, might the US have decided to put it's launch site there instead of Florida?
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    World War III starts in 1945

    Bombs away I'm not so sure that we would have used the Atomic Bombs on Japan in this Timeline. The US had used all it's refined Uranium and Plutonium to produce the 3 bombs we had in 1945(The Trinity test bomb, "Fatman" and "Little Boy"). It was going to be early 1946 before we had enough to...
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    Change in the US electoral system

    California Uber alles
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    regan dies from assasination, john lennon lives.

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    regan dies from assasination, john lennon lives.

    In this timeline, George Sr. (a former head of the CIA) would be president at the same time Yuri Andropov (a former head of the KGB) leads the Soviet Union. That would be an interesting Summit.
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    WI Neil Armstrong murdered Buzz Aldrin?

    WI Armstrong claims that some sort of "Lunar Insanity" overcame him and Aldrin once they landed on the Moon. He makes the claim it wasn't his fault by reason of "Lunacy" and that it's far to dangerous to send anyone back to the Moon again.
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