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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 3:24:49 AM

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I found I wasn't in the mood for plowing through "Dreadnought", so I took it back to the library. I need something lighter to enjoy while at the pool or sitting in the sun on the back deck. I've started Harry Turtledove's "How Few Remain", an alternative history story of the second war between the states. It starts a series of books that follow this alternative history timeline through WWI and then WWII. I've read this first one in the past and enjoyed it, but I'm gathering all of the books in the series to carry me through the summertime.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 3:25:18 AM

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New page.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 3:36:10 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 3:37:12 AM

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This page in history

Europe

St. Ursenstift is founded by the Burgundian Queen Bertha in Solothurn.
Wildeck Castle is built by King Henry I in Zschopau, Germany.

Births

Empress Xiao, empress and regent of the Liao (d. 1009)

Deaths

Qian Liu

In Fiction

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is based in 932.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:02:51 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

I liked Guns of the South. After that my interest fell off.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:03:57 AM

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Bed time..........

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:06:32 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

I have a list of the titles in the entire series in my notes from our PBEM game. Yes, I can be that anal.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:08:59 AM

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In Fiction
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is based in 932.

Wasn't that "93 squared" ?

Just watched the movie again with the family last week, but can't figure the right code to type a superscript.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:17:46 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

I liked Guns of the South. After that my interest fell off.

That one was good, but it's actually not part of this alternate history. This timeline starts with Confederate soldiers finding all of Lee's ANV disposition orders, not Union troops, before the historical battle of Antietam. Without "inside information", McClellan is paralyzed as normal, and Lee wins a large enough victory that Lincoln cannot issue the Emancipation, and England and France officially recognize the CSA.

That is the preface. The Second War Between the States takes place in 1881.

I'm a sucker for alternative history.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:19:08 AM

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Any of you ever read "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus", by Orsen Scott Card? Great book! I re-read it about every other year.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:45:50 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

I liked Guns of the South. After that my interest fell off.

That was the least appealing to me. Didn't really join to the series as the premise of the South's victory changed in the later books.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 4:47:03 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

I have a list of the titles in the entire series in my notes from our PBEM game. Yes, I can be that anal.

Ok..um..what does our PBEM have to do with Harry Turtledove?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 5:14:01 AM

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Morning Tithe...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 7:25:15 AM

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Morning everyone

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 8:27:20 AM

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Hi all,

Good morning!

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 11:31:13 AM

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Good morning - Tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 11:32:47 AM

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I like Harry's alternative series. You need to read the whole lot which runs from after the alternative CW which the south wins through WWII.

I have a list of the titles in the entire series in my notes from our PBEM game. Yes, I can be that anal.

Ok..um..what does our PBEM have to do with Harry Turtledove?

It's a convenient file on my laptop that I have open most days. I sure hope our PBEM doesn't get too "alternative", as I really want the Allies to win.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:13:48 PM

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Good afternoon chaps

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:14:56 PM

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It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:18:55 PM

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It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

NNNNOOOO, not twice !!

Don't take it as an habbit

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:24:02 PM

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Good morning tithe.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:25:31 PM

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There are a lot of alternative histories, and I like most of them (as I do SciFi). I particularly like Conroy. Turtledove is surley the most prolific.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:28:01 PM

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There are a lot of alternative histories, and I like most of them (as I do SciFi). I particularly like Conroy. Turtledove is surley the most prolific.

I should write a novell where Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) isn't burn't by french clergy according to the will of the english power of XVe century !! That would be a nice alternative history

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:31:48 PM

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There are a lot of alternative histories, and I like most of them (as I do SciFi). I particularly like Conroy. Turtledove is surley the most prolific.

I should write a novell where Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) isn't burn't by french clergy according to the will of the english power of XVe century !! That would be a nice alternative history

Would it? If you don't burn "the maid of Orleans", will France ever truly unify? Or will it continue as half French/half English?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:34:19 PM

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It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

NNNNOOOO, not twice !!
Don't take it as an habbit

It is becoming a bit of a hobby for us

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:37:41 PM

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It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

NNNNOOOO, not twice !!
Don't take it as an habbit

It is becoming a bit of a hobby for us

You lot need to be more Churchillian in your restraint. There were many jokes about DeGaulle fancying himself to be Joan reincarnated, and memebers of the joint chiefs who felt that Churchill needed to burn him at the stake "just in case".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:40:38 PM

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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

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It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

NNNNOOOO, not twice !!
Don't take it as an habbit

It is becoming a bit of a hobby for us

You lot need to be more Churchillian in your restraint. There were many jokes about DeGaulle fancying himself to be Joan reincarnated, and memebers of the joint chiefs who felt that Churchill needed to burn him at the stake "just in case".

De Gaulle was one of those people who just makes friends easily though

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 12:50:08 PM

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It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

NNNNOOOO, not twice !!
Don't take it as an habbit

It is becoming a bit of a hobby for us

You lot need to be more Churchillian in your restraint. There were many jokes about DeGaulle fancying himself to be Joan reincarnated, and memebers of the joint chiefs who felt that Churchill needed to burn him at the stake "just in case".

De Gaulle was one of those people who just makes friends easily though

He's he was brilliant, and made sure that he told everyone about it! Incessently!

Why is it that every army seems to have at least one brilliant blowhard?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 1:00:17 PM

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There are a lot of alternative histories, and I like most of them (as I do SciFi). I particularly like Conroy. Turtledove is surley the most prolific.

I should write a novell where Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) isn't burn't by french clergy according to the will of the english power of XVe century !! That would be a nice alternative history

Would it? If you don't burn "the maid of Orleans", will France ever truly unify? Or will it continue as half French/half English?

May be parted in three: english part; french part; burgundy part.
I would still leave in the french part....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 7/15/2009 1:01:19 PM

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: gladiatt

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

It seems that the French aren't too happy with England's role in Joan of Arc's demise

Here

NNNNOOOO, not twice !!
Don't take it as an habbit

It is becoming a bit of a hobby for us

You lot need to be more Churchillian in your restraint. There were many jokes about DeGaulle fancying himself to be Joan reincarnated, and memebers of the joint chiefs who felt that Churchill needed to burn him at the stake "just in case".

De Gaulle was one of those people who just makes friends easily though

Of course, if nobody admit it in public, he had to make it know by himself

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