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The Tragedy at Wuhan - Guest Post from Today in Alternate History 27 Aug 2013 | 06:13 pm
In 1966 on July 16, on this heart-breaking day of national tragedy and sorrow, Chairman Mao Zedong expired from a heart attack in Wuhan. He had participated earlier in a great Crossing-the-Yangzi even...
April 11, 1689 – Mary Follows William of Orange in Death 24 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 After contracting an illness that historians believe to be smallpox, Mary Stuart, wife of the previously deceased Dut...
October 14, 1066 - Welsh Forces Overwhelm Normans at Hastings 23 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
In 1055, the King of Wales Gruffydd ap Llywelyn and King of England Edward the Confessor reached agreement that would ensure peace between their two nations. Gruffydd had worked for his entire life p...
Guest Post from Today in Alternate History: What if Ivan the Terrible's son Dmitry didn't die? 30 Jul 2013 | 08:14 pm
In 1591,on May 15 in the courtyard of the Uglich Fortress, Maria Nagaya frustrated a brutal assassination attempt by Boris Godunov's agents to kill her ten year son Dmitry Ivanovich, the Tsarevich of ...
Guest Post from Today in Alternate History: Voynich Manuscript Decoded 26 Jul 2013 | 06:29 pm
In 1941, quite by chance Her Majesty's Government discovered that the secret collection of occult artifacts of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II had fallen into the hands of the Nazis. Using techniques de...
April 10, 1815 - Mount Tambora Merely Burps 25 Jul 2013 | 09:13 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Over the course of the 1810s, a string of volcanic eruptions spewed layer upon layer of debris into the atmosphere. I...
Guest Post by Matt Mitrovich: Arab Union 25 Jun 2013 | 06:22 pm
The Arab Union celebrated its 97th anniversary this month, its birthday being the day the Arab Revolt (1916-1918) began against the Ottoman Empire. Initiated by the Sherif Hussein bin Ali, patriarch o...
April 7, 1541 - Francis Xavier Vows an Eternal Portuguese Empire 24 May 2013 | 02:59 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On April 7, 1506, Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was born in the Kingdom of Navarre at the Castle of Xavier, from w...
April 6, 1917 - World War Expands to US, Mexico, and Sweden 22 May 2013 | 09:56 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As the Great War rolled into its second year, it became obvious that Germany was caught in an unwinnable two-front wa...
April 19, 1916 - Neiu Nederlanders back Americans 19 Apr 2013 | 12:00 am
In response to unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans, American President Woodrow Wilson delivered on April 18, 1916, an ultimatum that continued attack on American ships would provoke war. Th...
