460. The US Navy Task Force 38 adjusts its position off the Philippines in December 1944 in response to intelligence about Japanese activities. Unfortunately the course adjustment puts them even more directly in the path of Typhoon Cobra and the task force suffers even more casualties including a then lieutenant Gerald Ford, killed after he fell overboard into the raging sea. More ships are lost and it takes longer for the surviving ships to re-enter active service.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Isaac Asimov had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.
— Harlan Ellison (supposedly)
446. Julius Caesar takes bodyguards with him to the forum and the Ides of March conspirators decide not to move against Caesar. Caesar remains in control of Rome and continues the building of what will become the Empire period in Roman history.
445. Italy decides to remain neutral in the First World War and avoids the brutal fighting on its border with the Autro-Hungarian Empire and its economy doesn't suffer as much after the end of the war, but it also doesn't gain control over a number of territories from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He who plants a garden, plants peace (or happiness, in some versions) - Chinese proverb
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Merisiel to the Tengu and Harsk: "Looks like kobold's back on the menu boys!"
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"I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people." - J.R.R. Tolkien, responding to a potential German publisher for The Hobbit, as a Take That against the then in power Nazi regime
"Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to build a wall to keep our people in. . . John F Kennedy, about the Berlin Wall
353. During the First World War Irish regiments continue to fight for the British Empire and the Imperial Government agrees to allow some devolution of power. As a result the Irish remain part of the United Kingdom.
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