"kujebak" <kujebak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>On Apr 5, 1:46 pm, Karel Kriz <ka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article
>> <f78f4877-13c1-496b-852f-1ad338338...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>
>> kujebak <kuje...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > This ain't just bad humor. This is like putting a turban
>> > bomb on Mohammed:
>>
>> >http://tinyurl.com/24f325
>>
>> > So much for Swedish booze in my martinis.
>>
>> De duktiga Svenskar! (Those clever Swedes!)
>> They are just a bit out of date, is all. That map was almost accurate
>> until gold was found east of Sutters Fort (now Sacramento) in 1848 and
>> California became a state.
>>
>> I am sure that someone will opine that nothing has really changed since
>> then, border or no border, but that would be incorrect...
>>
>> You really have a problem, though. With the vodka, I mean. Boycotting
>> Absolut because of a silly ad, boycotting Ketel One because it's Dutch,
>> Grey Goose may not be acceptable because it's, hmm, French. You are
>> missing out on the good stuff.
>>
>> K
>
>But, the discovery of gold in California certainly
>could not have had anything to do with the out-
>come of the Mexican American War, since it
>happened only a couple of weeks before the
>signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on
>Feb 2, 1848. I would like to point out to every-
>one here that on that day Mexico agreed to
>an unconditional surrender, by which it conti-
>nued to exist as a sovereign entity strictly at
>the benevolence of this great country. Another
>interesting factoid in connection to this peroid
>of American history is that had the Civil War
>happened 10 - 15 years earlier, Mexico would
>almost certainly not exist today, because the
>Southern states would not negotiate with the
>Mexicans, and Mexico's annexation by the
>Confederacy would almost surely have turned
>the tide in its favor. As a student of alternative
>history, I find that eventuality sort of interesting.
>Don't you?
Here is one alternative history for you. What if Columbus
got blown off course into deep Southern Atlantic, sailed
through Magellan Straits without ever sighting any land.
He would eventually land on some Pacific islands and then
after India he would complete the cir***navigation of Earth.
He would re****t back that the west passage to Indies is
significantly more stormy, dangerous, ardouous and much
longer than already know route around the Cape Horn.
In the following centuries nobody would bother to sail deep
into West Atlantic and the American Continents (now known
as Atlantis) would be noticed only recently on the satellite
photos and subsequently used by Asian and Middle Eastern
superpowers as test ground for hyperlarge nuclear bombs.
pjk
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