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        The Fourth of July is observed in the Confederate States but not celebrated, for while
        G Washington, T Jefferson, E Rutledge et al were Southerners, and without them there would
        have been no American Revolution, yet it was England, who had tried twice to extinguish
        those damned rebels and their upstart “United States,” who came to the South's aid in the
        birth throes of that new nation and who have been a friendly power and trading partner ever
        since.  [Conversely and not coincidentally, Independence Day is celebrated
        religiously in the USA - and early in the 20th century was the occasion for anti-South
        rhetoric as well.]  The accomplishments of the Founding Fathers are given a respectful
        nod, but more than that would be tactless.

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[For my friend bobby1933, who remembers when the lamps were smashed out all over Europe.]




        …  It is no good using hard words among friends about the past, and
        reproaching one another for what cannot be recalled.  It is the future, not
        the past, that demands our earnest and anxious thought.  We must recognize
        that the Parliamentary democracies and liberal, peaceful forces have
        everywhere sustained a defeat which leaves them weaker, morally and
        physically, to cope with dangers which have vastly grown.  But the cause of
        freedom has in it a recuperative power and virtue which can draw from
        misfortune new hope and new strength…


        - W Churchill, 1874 - 1955

 


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                “We have nothing to hide, and have many achievements we wish to share with
                you…

                “The war ended a long time ago.  We're asking that you give us the chance
                to show you how sincere we are, in wanting to bring the Cold War to a close
                too.  The Führer wants only peace, and friendship.

                “Isn't that what everyone wants?”




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        Tolling for the nameless, nailed up on the crooked cross
        An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing…

        - B Dylan




* Sigrid & Marina are both married.  Ask me how I know that:  Their dirndl skirts are tied at the left side.  Were they tied at the center, they'd be schoolgirls; at the right, single and potentially available.  [Tied at the back, they're waitresses.]

https://www.youtube.com/user/Alter…


AlternateHistoryHub is an entire channel dedicated to 'alternate history'
and the 'what if'. Theorizing using historical evidence and facts, about
how things could have changed, had an event been different.


It's interesting enough; some imaginative scenarios.

- He mentions Operation Unthinkable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oper…

but not Dropshot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oper…

Without a doubt, one of the single most influential men of the 20th century - for better or worse, mostly worse - was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin.  Arguably the Muhammad of modern times, what he started reshaped most of the world in one way or another, and killed millions along the way…  Yet his effect was itself extremely improbable.  Had he been arrested instead of his brother - had he died of want in Zurich - had the Germans not found him useful, or had he not proved so - he would be entirely forgotten.

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This community has been dormant of late - part of Livejournal's slow decline - but this is a real stem-winder of a question and well worth turning the lights back on for!

A sequence from Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940) - it was animated, scored, finished - then cut, and never seen…

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A marvelous little mood piece that fits its music perfectly - of course.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

What if they never left?


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Barry Malzberg wrote a very weird, atmospheric little story about an Apollo astronaut who has completely whacked out; it turns out that he'd fired the CSM main engines and launched back to Earth - leaving the other two on the Lunar surface, screaming and cursing…

My paleontologist friend John says,


“As a fan of all things dinosaur-related, one of the things that has always intrigued me is why nobody has made a movie of Xenozoic Tales by Mark Schultz… .[It] definitely deserves to be a live-action movie in one form or another…”



So, let us summon our chronosynclastic infundibulum and send it spinning like a time tornado among the various worlds of If. Ah, here we are…

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So - what did moviegoers see, there in what Forrest J Ackerman called, “The Realm of Unwrought Things,” the world where films got made that in our reality never did, or never got far?

The best way - the only way, really - to show what might have been, is to show what was: What Joe Johnston and Bill Campbell (and James Horner) did with the title that WAS picked, the film that WAS made…


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Bad marketing (and bad timing) sank this at the box office, though it has picked up a cult following since and there are even rumors that Disney will try again with yet another “reboot” project.

But I'd like to see Touchstone Pictures' Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (1991), just to see how it turned out.