the paths of history ( or strange facts you may not know)

dear readers

My other passion in life besides the paranormal is History, traveling with my grandparents and seeing the historic sights, i come to realize that history is fraught with courses that could divert from history as we know it giving rise to What If this haoppen or didn't happen, this pondering of What If became a inspiration for many novels and movies and even gave rise to a two books by historians that asked and answered, but here soem strange historical facts altered history as we know it.

pancake prolong the World war II

On Aug. 14, 1945,Thomas Jones, a 16-year-old messenger in Washington, D.C., was entrusted to deliver to the White House the cable announcing Japan's surrender to the United States to end World War II.

Unaware of his cargo's import, the boy, in cavalier teenage fashion, put work on hold to eat pancakes at a diner, hang out with his friends and flirt with waitresses.

Later, he left his pancakes to complete the job only to be pulled over en route to the White House by a police officer, who berated the boy for making an illegal U-turn.

Meanwhile, President Truman and his inner circle waited for the note that would change history. he got it and that how pancakes alter the course of history

the nutmeg grove and the Big Apple

most schoolchildren know about the dutch founding of New Amsterdam and the British seizure of it, but few know that the Dutch in a treaty with Great Britain surrdered the claim for the colony of New York for the Isle of Rum in the west indies and other rights an isle that included one of only nutmug groves at the time. it was then named for the king's brother the duke of York. so we got the Big Apple for a isle of nutmug, a fair trade you agree.

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and finally, for my friend Sarah, who is a big civil war fan, a civil war tale,

on september 16 1862, the Battle of Antietam occured but few know how the union avoided a ambush, a group of officers were going through a abandoed Confederate camp when they discovered three cigars wrapped,the officers realize that the cigars were wrapped in general Robert E Lee's order special order 191, the union use it to surprise the confederates, and that battle was a turning part in the Civil War cool, huh.

history is full of such intersing things and i will share somemore with you sometime

love and peace,

Alex My scars show my worthiness Stallwitz