Minor alternate history!

What if Denver taxpayers had voted for paying for improvements to host the Winter Olympics in 1976, so that the IOC didn't have to make an emergency switch to Innsbruck.
 
-the english language retains the suffix "-eth," the pronoun "thee" and the possessive prononuns "thy" and "thine"

-The state of Kentucky is called Jefferson

-Alexander the Great doesn't marry Roxana
 
Touche....

If anyone can actually tell me that I would be really greatful, it may become useful in a TL one day.

Comes from the Greek Kyklos, or circle/wheel (compared to Cycle, Cyclops, etc.). A "Circle Clan" or "Circle of Brothers", is the intended meaning of the name, since they were/are a fraternal secret society.
 
Mini-changes

1) Key West is an independent nation (call it what you like)
2) John Wilkes Booth aims amiss when trying to kill Lincoln. The bullet hits his right ear. Lincoln dies anyway a couple months later due to infection after surgery.
3) Erik the Red reaches Cape Hatteras, then turns back to Greenland.
4) A man named Heinrich, born in Germany in 1895, dies in 1898 at age 3.
5) Chevy Chase doesn't have a drinking problem.
 
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