"With the 8th pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, The Philadelphia 76ers select Dirk Nowitzki from Würzburg, Germany."
(Why not play it safe and pick something that would make you happy? You don't know the possible butterfly effects of stuff. Maybe if you save the Archduke it just gets delayed until...
More than that. Jay-Z released Blueprint - his finest album - on 9/11 and tied the two together forever in a lot of people's minds, especially in NYC. He talked about this on Blueprint 2:
also that Wu-Tang released Iron Flag in December 01 which opened with that song where Ghostface is yellin...
It would certainly be a little edgy for its time, but this is not In the Heat of the Night where the film was released in 1967 right after the Newark Race Riots and there were genuine fears that white audiences would go berserk if they saw Sidney Poitier slap a white man.
Billy Dee was already...
Last night I dreamed
That you were here with me
And we were in each others arms, it was oh so heavenly
You held me close to you and whispered in my ear
"Let's build a life together, share love beyond compare"
As we danced to the melody
We had so much to share (Then the music stopped)
In a flash...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)
Wow. Okay. Today I Learned something.
I am envious of the Swiss system. Why can't we have that? I can see The Swiss Plan being popular at the Second Constitutional Convention after a dictator tyrant President is overthrown.
Yeah I forgot the other thing - college students invented American Football and a school PE instructor invented Basketball. Its in the DNA.
butterfly the 1958 NFL Championship Game into a boring game and then butterfly away Pete Rozelle. He fixed their 1930s business model by introducing...
Yes, but IIRC they aren't the main second tier of the sport that provides a pipeline to the pros. Soccer clubs run their own academies and sign the most gifted prodigies when they're 10 to 14 years old - this absolutely blew my mind when I played soccer management sims back in the day.
That...
Interesting. *googles more information*
Before the end of their trial, a petition arrived at court containing around 110,000 signatures in blood, which had been signed by sympathizers around the country to plead for a lenient sentence. During the proceedings, the accused used the trial as a...
San Francisco was bigger, richer, and more important than Los Angeles in 1906.....
(Picard is up a ladder working on a gas lamp)
DOCTOR: Just what are you doing with those lamps?
PICARD: Replacing the burners. City ordinance. Makes it safer in case of earthquake.
DOCTOR: There hasn't been an...
Mahatma who?
"Non-violent resistance can work, it was used successfully in uhhhhh.....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....wait stop come back" - ITTL MLK Jr.
oh yeah lets see how see how much contention there is after a few Over The Top assaults in the Somme and Verdun
74,187 KIA indian...