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  1. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 155, Chapter 2823

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Three 22nd May 1980 Tempelhof, Berlin Quarles Kneipe, the name of the place being a reference to Edgar Allen Poe somehow, wasn’t well known outside of students from the Humboldt Campus of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin. Built just...
  2. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 155, Chapter 2822

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Two 21st May 1980 Neuquén, Argentina Attendance to today’s presentation was mandatory for all members of the faculty as Neuquén’s General Hospital. It was stretching things a bit to say that Kiki was actually employed by the hospital, they had...
  3. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    "Sparky " Pryor
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    No, this is a different Easter Egg from a popular TV series in 1980.
  5. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    It depends. The State National Guard units in Washington and Oregon would be activated, that would be the State Governors making the call. The US Army Corps of Engineers was a large part of the response. Considering how active they are in the Columbia River Basin, it would be a surprise if they...
  6. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    It was 57 in OTL which was a surprise considering the severity. Probably a similar number in TTL. It was considered a stroke of luck that the blast went in a direction that was largely unpopulated.
  7. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 155, Chapter 2821

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-One 18th May 1980 Fort Lewis, Washington State The smell of disinfectant and bleach filled the air as Mario made his way through the bathroom towards the small common room with the sleeping bays on either side. Normally, Mario would have spent...
  8. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Perhaps. Miranda de Ebro is a small town in Northern Spain and exactly the sort of place where traditional festivities would be a key part of the culture, it could easily be different in the major cities. The other consideration is that in this TL you don't have memories of the cozy...
  9. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 155, Chapter 2820

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty 5th April 1980 Miranda de Ebro, Spain The annual Spring Exercises of European Defense Pact nations was being hosted by Spain this year and the forces involved had their headquarters in the small town of Miranda de Ebro. Beyond seeing that the...
  10. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 155, Chapter 2819

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen 28th March 1980 Dublin, Ireland The evening news featured shots of a smoking crater that had opened up on the side of a mountain in America as the lead story. According to the expert they were interviewing this was a minor eruption and because...
  11. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 155, Chapter 2818

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen 8th February 1980 Tempelhof, Berlin New year, new decade, same old problems. For the life of her, Sophie had no idea why the press always sought out the opinion of her mother whenever she was mentioned. This time it was the story about the...
  12. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 154, Chapter 2817

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen 4th February 1980 Fort Meade, Maryland “All right everyone” Ritchie said as the Special Forces team he was instructing today entered the room and saw what was spread out on the table. “This is the actual gear that you might encounter in the...
  13. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 154, Chapter 2816

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixteen 2nd February 1980 Tempelhof, Berlin It was one of those rare winter days when it was so clear that everything seemed to be in incredibly sharp focus. For Kat it was the last thing she wanted to see. It was a day like this one that had...
  14. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    One of the details of this timeline is that you have people like Mathilda who are a product of their lives up until this point. For the first decade or so of her life, Mathilda lived and breathed the German and Nordic traditions that she is poking fun at, all while not being aware that she was...
  15. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 154, Chapter 2815

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifteen 28th January 1980 Tzschocha Castle It was the sort of winter afternoon where little was going on. A real howler of a storm had blown in and all Gretchen could see were snowflakes spiraling in the wind every time she looked out a window. The...
  16. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Actually, it is called Escuadrón Acrobático Cruz del Sur (Southern Cross Acrobatic Squadron) the demonstration team of the Argentine Air Force, it was formed in the early 60's and at this point in TTL they would be flying a locally produced, early version of a Mirage 2000. Michael would be happy...
  17. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    That isn't what they are actually doing, just what Kiki is randomly guessing. It isn't very far from it though.
  18. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 154, Chapter 2814

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred Fourteen 26th January 1980 London, England Having tea with the Queen of England was a minefield. That was doubly so when she was offering you anything because it was seldom out of the goodness of her heart. There was always an angle that had to be...
  19. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    More like trying to anticipate a world that will radically change over the next generation.
  20. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 154, Chapter 2813

    Chapter Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen 18th January 1980 Mitte, Berlin Leni was nervous about this visit even if it wasn’t exactly relevant to her personally as she paced in the Library’s entry. There had been visits by prominent people in the past, but nothing quite like this. The...
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