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There is supposedly a story about Churchill and Fleming. Fleming's father was a farmer and one day he discovered a young Churchill drowning in some mud, Fleming father saved him. Soon after Churchill father, Lord Randolph Churchill, arrived at the farm and offered to give Fleming a education and so Fleming became a doctor and discovered penicillin and Churchill went to to be Prime Minister during World War Two. Let's suppose this story is true, it is probably not true however. Nevertheless lets say that on that fateful day Churchill drowned in the mud, his body was never discovered and Churchill is added to the long list of people who went missing in history, and Fleming became a farmer like his father. How would history be different? Would penicillin ever be discovered or discovered later on or around the same time? How would the timing of the discovery affect history? How would World War Two turn out without Churchill as Prime Minister, was he necessary, would Britain surrender to the Germans after France fell without him? What would the cold war be like with the Third Reich as third superpower along with America and Russia? How influential was he for America, would they join the war without him, how would FDR's presidency turn out without Churchill? Would Britain and America have a special relationship? What do you think?
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