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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, I
Pickett’s Charge Robert Pickett was angry. His hands were firm at 10 and 2, his knuckles white, as he neared his destination: Washington, DC. A reporter on the radio read the day’s headlines: Governor George W. Bush, who conceded the presidential election yesterday, urged supporters to remain peaceful during tomorrow’s counting of the electoral votes…
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7 First Woman Presidents
Tuesday, July 28 marked the 10th anniversary of Hillary Clinton accepting the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. It was the first time a major political party chose a woman to lead its presidential ticket, and it came 32 years after the Democrats’ first put a woman on the national ticket at all.…
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On this day in alternate history: July 29, 1981
Today, King Charles III and Queen Amanda celebrate their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. The king and queen are second cousins who began their courtship in 1980, after the assassination of Lord Mountbatten – the king’s grand uncle and the queen’s grandfather – by the IRA. Though the queen rejected the king’s first proposal, they remained friendly…
Matters of Fact in Fiction 