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From the Doomstay Prophet "Big Josh" in New York, who caused much ruckus in New York City with his deranged rants at Times Square in May 2013. In truth, the Pope Francis, having been elected to the position mere two months before, met with dignitaries of the Mormon Faith in Paris on May 6th...

Doge Nicolo da Ponte (reign 1578 - 1585) to the assembled Collegio of Venice, after having the realization that monopolizing the trade in the eastern Mediterranean would not be enough to keep the Republic afloat in the long term, following the discovery of the Americas, and the increasing flow...

The plot that caused him to adopt the "Iron Man" persona involved him heading to Afghanistan to demonstrate a new weapons system Stark Industries developed to the US troops stationed there, before his convoy is ambushed by local insurrectionists, the Ten Rings, and he is taken hostage by them to...

Biographer of Hermann Göring, Johann Buchner, upon interviewing the former Reichsmarchall. Göring, despite the heavy charges, was only sentenced to life in prison, rather than death by hanging, during the Nuremberg Trials, and would live out his days in a cell near Bonn, and, once more despite...

Sure, but the expenses of the war, the financial losses due to the attacks, and the measures enacted in response to them, that all came as immediate consequences likely didn't help either. I'm not saying that 9/11 caused the Great Recession directly, I'm arguing that, without the attacks and its...

That would be quite difficult to say, since, without 9/11, there is a possibility of the Great Recession never happening in the first place, since the attacks had huge effects on the economy, even before you add in the costs of the War in Afghanistan, so the butterfly effect might come into play...

It's amazing that the show made an episode about 9/11, but kept said episode timeless and more universally applicable, by not making it about 9/11, and instead came up with a more local, much more digestible incident and how it affected the people around it. I mean, a building on fire...

The final scene of a comedic short parodying from 2004 Pirates of the Caribbean, notable for featuring Johnny Depp portraying the parody of his own character, Jack Sparrow, with the name of Jake Pigeon. The sketch itself is a musical parody, with the first sentence of the line, sung by a parody...

Quote from a comedic skit parodying the Treaty of Rio in 1964, where after the Empire of Brazil proposed the idea of a pan-South American economic and political alliance two years earlier, said alliance would finally come into action with 12 member nations, among them Argentinia, Uruguay...

Modern Military Shooters were already a thing, the only thing 9/11 really did in that regard was give the genre a shot in the arm and become as big as it is now. Without 9/11, MMS might not become as massive, but may still take up a good chunk of the genre, and we'd probably see a different...

Excerpt from a letter written by Emperor Justinian I. of the Byzantine Empire, shortly after the Nika Riots. Following the riots, Justinian had realized that the chariot racing teams and their followers, the Blues and the Greens, had grown too influential, and outlawed the use of colors for...

Excerpt from a London Post article. It describes the fateful meeting in 1961 of Prince Huisheng of China and Prince Akihito of Japan in a small Hong Kong book club that catered to foreign novels. Both, using false names, quickly became friends, bonding over their love for Tolkien's work that...

(Fellow Mikeburnfire watcher in the wild, that is an uncommon sight.) Failed transcription of "My Little Ostrich", a popular song in the United States in the 1930s and 40s, that somehow made it into the New York Post daily newspaper for 3rd of August 1944. The Transcriptor has mishear the final...

Line from the cartoon "King of the Hill", specifically the two-part episode "Returning Japanese". Although the series' A Plot was about Cotton Hill making amends with his past as an american soldier during the occupation of Japan, finding out he had a son with a local woman, the B Plot dealt...

Attributed to King Louis II of France, who, according to the records, had grown increasingly annoyed at foreign functionaries and monarchs referring to his capital as Paris, when its proper name was "Lutainne". The expression is part of the phenomenon called "Exonymism", where a name for a...