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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 12, 2022 2:44:47 GMT
Steve, 1.) They can, as the numbers would be limited and many would be involved in cooking anyhow. The Army eats very well indeed. 2.) You are certainly right on both counts. The number of years in production is very similar to the Boeing 707 in @ (1956-1978), but the numbers reflect a much larger market for jet airliners. The Comet is one of Britain's postwar success stories, both in broad economic terms as an export and as leading edge technology, possibly only being pipped by the Fairey Rotodyne and Land Rover. It has been followed by the Vickers VC7 and the VC10 jumbo jet as well as the H-S Concord, but now there is competition from the USA and France. 3.) China broke the duck, as it were, and someone was bound to follow. Atmospheric testing will recommence at some point, with all the associated issues. 4.) Something from over the seas... 5.) I thought that might begat such reaction. The Grauniad writers are being a bit silly in a certain way, as they are referring to the Italian wheat farmers of the Po, but trying to drum up extra anti-Italian sentiment with allusions to spaghetti trees. Have I mentioned that this Manchester Guardian makes the @ Daily Mail look like a peacenik liberal student rag?  Their owner also has issues with Italian competition in other areas of his business interests... 6.) For every thing that goes negatively, there are a few positives, as least insofar as environmental developments go. 7.) I am an unabashed Heyerdahl fan, even as his theories have been proved on Earth to be pseudoscience/history. There is a romance and innocence to his efforts and their era, back when the frontiers of history, science and knowledge seemed less drab and boringly mundane; this is also found in the Leonard Nimoy hosted series 'In Search Of'. Having Heyerdahl's theories turn out to be correct is a small thing in the overall world, but a bit of romance all the same. 8.) Welcome to the second reference to the Bielefeld conspiracy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy) Here, it actually has some small kernel of truth to it, as the presence of sensitive facilities in Bielefeld lead to a misdirection enchantment being place on them as a protective measure. The spell went awry and now people have issues regarding the city. Somewhere out there, far beyond the doors of perception, a German is laughing. 9.) Argentina has a very good economy, with some growing unemployment, so it won't be a body blow. It is building towards something. 10.) 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. 11.) Yes, they are trying out some craft that can go across planar boundaries, albeit only in the immediate vicinity of the DE Prime Material. Very, very early stages of experiments, but also a bit of a hat tip/indicator from the aliens of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. 12.) A USN that never went dry has some distinct differences. 13.) It is an arrangement of convenience more than a lasting peace. 14.) Yes, where he was replaced by a slightly less reactionary son. Here, the son is a bit more reactionary than @. 15.) This is a large development, encompassing a number of areas, so will be interesting to see/hear perspectives. 16.) Now the benefits of knowledge start to be felt. It isn't an absolute panacea for Britain, as other nations will copy them and have lower labour costs (Japan, Taiwan and Korea), but an advantage is an advantage. 17.) He never really got the chance. Portugal remains a monarchy, so he couldn't exercise absolute power prior to WW2, then with the Spanish fascist coup and invasion of Portugal, he suddenly found himself in with the Allies. With the preponderance of British and American personnel, equipment and facilities, it was difficult to really try and push any particularly rightist policies, lest he be deposed for someone more publicly acceptable. Postwar, the experience of fighting burnt him out and he retired on his own terms. 18.) Seemingly another case of a technology superseded in @ making a comeback. Here, the much lighter materials created in the 1950s and 1960s come to the fore, along with some other advances, giving us a lightweight 90mm/25pdr gun that operates in the same force as ATGMs and recoilless rifles. 19.) That was the case in @. Here, there is something more of a legitimate concern over Communist subversion, what with Trotsky living in Brazil until the mid 1960s... |
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 12, 2022 8:31:33 GMT
I am gratified that comments have returned. February, March, April, May and June are still sitting there awaiting any such consideration.
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 12, 2022 16:24:28 GMT
March notes
- The vandalism of Marx’s grave is by some young apprentice wizards/former public schoolboys who are a bit caught up in the Vietnam victory
- Skeet surfing is a reference to the 1984 Val Kilmer movie Top Secret
- Shifts in Malayan basing creates a roughly equidistant chain of three ‘super bases’, backed up by the BCFESR at Singapore
- The key factor in the March 5 bit about Congolese nationalisation is the size of the ANC
- New Zealand going nuclear is a rather different occurrence, but comes from the driver of Red Indonesia
- A royal pregnancy means many things, including a new ‘spare’
- The South Atlantic USO will be heard from again
- France makes a play for Benelux ties, which will begat a British reaction
- Judge John Dredd is a bit of a different sort
- Sir Charles Ratcliffe entering Parliament will play out down the line
- The Baltic Balance needs an article of its own
- Tanganyikan peanut successes are a hat tip back to 1947
- Frank Worrell not only lives, but gets to WI PM
- The Junior Chieftain was inspired by East German mini tanks used by their Young Pioneers
- The RIAF is keeping ahead of the Arabs and showing it publicly
- Lennon and McCartney getting together is a precursor for further developments
- Stranger Things are to come for Hawkins…
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Post by stevep on Oct 13, 2022 13:24:03 GMT
Steve, 1.) They can, as the numbers would be limited and many would be involved in cooking anyhow. The Army eats very well indeed. 2.) You are certainly right on both counts. The number of years in production is very similar to the Boeing 707 in @ (1956-1978), but the numbers reflect a much larger market for jet airliners. The Comet is one of Britain's postwar success stories, both in broad economic terms as an export and as leading edge technology, possibly only being pipped by the Fairey Rotodyne and Land Rover. It has been followed by the Vickers VC7 and the VC10 jumbo jet as well as the H-S Concord, but now there is competition from the USA and France. 3.) China broke the duck, as it were, and someone was bound to follow. Atmospheric testing will recommence at some point, with all the associated issues. 4.) Something from over the seas... 5.) I thought that might begat such reaction. The Grauniad writers are being a bit silly in a certain way, as they are referring to the Italian wheat farmers of the Po, but trying to drum up extra anti-Italian sentiment with allusions to spaghetti trees. Have I mentioned that this Manchester Guardian makes the @ Daily Mail look like a peacenik liberal student rag? Their owner also has issues with Italian competition in other areas of his business interests... 6.) For every thing that goes negatively, there are a few positives, as least insofar as environmental developments go. 7.) I am an unabashed Heyerdahl fan, even as his theories have been proved on Earth to be pseudoscience/history. There is a romance and innocence to his efforts and their era, back when the frontiers of history, science and knowledge seemed less drab and boringly mundane; this is also found in the Leonard Nimoy hosted series 'In Search Of'. Having Heyerdahl's theories turn out to be correct is a small thing in the overall world, but a bit of romance all the same. 8.) Welcome to the second reference to the Bielefeld conspiracy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy) Here, it actually has some small kernel of truth to it, as the presence of sensitive facilities in Bielefeld lead to a misdirection enchantment being place on them as a protective measure. The spell went awry and now people have issues regarding the city. Somewhere out there, far beyond the doors of perception, a German is laughing. 9.) Argentina has a very good economy, with some growing unemployment, so it won't be a body blow. It is building towards something. 10.) 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. 11.) Yes, they are trying out some craft that can go across planar boundaries, albeit only in the immediate vicinity of the DE Prime Material. Very, very early stages of experiments, but also a bit of a hat tip/indicator from the aliens of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. 12.) A USN that never went dry has some distinct differences. 13.) It is an arrangement of convenience more than a lasting peace. 14.) Yes, where he was replaced by a slightly less reactionary son. Here, the son is a bit more reactionary than @. 15.) This is a large development, encompassing a number of areas, so will be interesting to see/hear perspectives. 16.) Now the benefits of knowledge start to be felt. It isn't an absolute panacea for Britain, as other nations will copy them and have lower labour costs (Japan, Taiwan and Korea), but an advantage is an advantage. 17.) He never really got the chance. Portugal remains a monarchy, so he couldn't exercise absolute power prior to WW2, then with the Spanish fascist coup and invasion of Portugal, he suddenly found himself in with the Allies. With the preponderance of British and American personnel, equipment and facilities, it was difficult to really try and push any particularly rightist policies, lest he be deposed for someone more publicly acceptable. Postwar, the experience of fighting burnt him out and he retired on his own terms. 18.) Seemingly another case of a technology superseded in @ making a comeback. Here, the much lighter materials created in the 1950s and 1960s come to the fore, along with some other advances, giving us a lightweight 90mm/25pdr gun that operates in the same force as ATGMs and recoilless rifles. 19.) That was the case in @. Here, there is something more of a legitimate concern over Communist subversion, what with Trotsky living in Brazil until the mid 1960s...
1) Well it was meant as a joke in reference to their requirements for 5-6 full meals a day. 
3) Still a bad decision for everybody.
4) I feel your thinking of somewhere beyond the Med?
5) Not good for Britain if so much of the press is that extreme. The OTL Daily Fail is crap enough as it is with its hate rants and corruption.
9) That doesn't sound good for its neighbours.
11) Could be interesting. Excuse me just need to check who that is at the door. 
14) Not good for Oman. 
16) The traditional red queen's race. Its still better to keep running than to give up.
17) Good for Portugal.
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 13, 2022 14:10:02 GMT
August
August 1: An Imperial Durbar is held at Delhi in front of a crowd of over two millions to mark the state tour of India of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. A special motion picture is made of the grand event.
August 2: Western intelligence sources indicate the increased presence of Soviet forces in Africa, including elements those drawn from the Black Russian minority and trained Africans. Evidence is also presented of the issuing of new Soviet small arms, including their new assault rifle and general purpose machine gun.
August 3: A scientific expedition to the Amazon announces the discovery of an entire new species of subterranean mammals after returning from a year in the depths of the vast jungle.
August 4: The largest oil field in North Sea found to date is discovered in what is considered to be the British sector.
August 5: Indonesian leader Sukarno releases a new book of socialist political philosophy. Amid the usual denunciations of colonialism and rapacious capitalist imperialism, foreign readers begin to find a rather Indonesian adaption of scientific socialism that has distinct differences from the Soviet line without being so radical as to directly seem so.
August 6: Release of The Mahabharata, the most expensive picture yet produced by the Indian film industry
August 7: Further victory parades are held in Chicago, Detroit and Boston to welcome home returning National Guard units returning from South Vietnam.
August 8: The African Liberation Front issues a statement calling for the true independence of former European colonies, decrying their present governments as illegitimate.
August 9: The Ottoman Turkish lira is devalued by 19% in the latest effort to revitalise the Turkish economy.
August 10: The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by voters in Sylvania and Sequoyah, taking it over the necessary threshold of states to be formally ratified.
August 11: Opening of the first branch of the Olde England restaurant in London, offering fast and cheap roast meats, traditional meals and sandwiches; it is later to expand to a chain stretching across Britain, the Commonwealth and the wider world, becoming one of the ‘Big 5’ of the British variation of ‘fast-food’ the Berni Inn steakhouse, Jolly Roger’s Fish and Chips, Lyons Tea Shops sandwiches and Miggins pieshops. American attempts at entering the British casual dining and short order food market, such as McDonald’s ham-burgers and Kentucky Fried Chicken, remain limited at this time.
August 12: Discovery of several dozen dead and desiccated bodies in a small Egyptian fishing village in the Nile Delta along with an abandoned Albanian tramp steamer.
August 13: Donald Campbell breaks the world land speed record on Lake Burke in South Australia, with the attempt being the last such possible before the endoheric salt lake is permanently flooded in the latest works of the Bradfield Scheme.
August 14: US inflation increases by 2.4% in the second quarter of the year and unemployment rises by 0.6% as the the national economy continues to readjust in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
August 15: The Lancet runs a feature on the medical advances of the 1970s, describing the uses, theories and possible impact of developments including autosutures, blood cleaning, arcanely assisted organ regeneration and handheld diagnostic scanning devices.
August 16: The British Army formally reestablishes two cavalry brigades.
August 17: A range of artificial sweeteners are banned for human consumption in the United States after a report on their deleterious health effects.
August 18: Jeremy Newton and Riduc Carter are hanged outside Newgate Prison for murder in front of a crowd of thousands.
August 19: A wave of seven car bombs are exploded across the Middle East, with no terrorist groups claiming immediate responsibility.
August 20: Two French submarines collide with each other near Toulon.
August 21: A British astronomer claims to have discovered an exoplanet with strange characteristics in the Alpha Centauri system.
August 22: An article in The News of the World estimates that the coloured population of Britain will reach 200,000 by 1975.
August 23: Three USN CVLs and two RN CVEs take part in Exercise Burgundy, a joint anti submarine warfare training exercise in the Caribbean Sea in conjunction with West Indian, Newfoundland and New Avalon escort ships. The new carriers collectively deploy over 150 helicopters and rotodynes in addition to new ASW planes and Harrier jump jet fighters, giving their task force a very powerful capacity against submarine threats.
August 24: Export data published by the Board of Trade shows an increase in British electrical goods exports by 7% in the first quarter of 1970.
August 25: 7 year old Hong Kong boy Tang Kwok-hin survives a fall from the ninth storey of a building, bouncing off awnings in a miraculous display of luck.
August 26: Introduction of the Fairey Rotodyne Avenger, a new heavy attack variant carrying a large armament of rockets, guided missiles, cannon and bombs.
August 27: A planned IRA attack on the Vatican City is foiled by a raid by Swiss Guards acting on a CIA tip off. Six terrorists are apprehended, swiftly tried in camera and sentenced to death by burning at the stake; this is commuted to death by mazzatello and quartering as an act of mercy.
August 28: Introduction of the USN’s new submarine launched ballistic missile, the UGM-98 Triton, which provides a considerably greater range of 4800nm compared with the first generation Polaris and a much greater throw weight of up to ten MIRVed 100kt warheads.
29: Kaiser Wilhelm is taken ill with a mysterious ailment that leaves him greatly pale and weakened.
August 30: A group of British adventurers claim to have discovered the lost Inca treasure commonly known as ‘Atalhualpa’s Gold’ on a mountain trail high in the Andes.
August 31: France conducts an underground hydrogen bomb test at Muroroa, concluding its latest round of testing.
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 13, 2022 14:37:47 GMT
Steve, 1.) They can, as the numbers would be limited and many would be involved in cooking anyhow. The Army eats very well indeed. 2.) You are certainly right on both counts. The number of years in production is very similar to the Boeing 707 in @ (1956-1978), but the numbers reflect a much larger market for jet airliners. The Comet is one of Britain's postwar success stories, both in broad economic terms as an export and as leading edge technology, possibly only being pipped by the Fairey Rotodyne and Land Rover. It has been followed by the Vickers VC7 and the VC10 jumbo jet as well as the H-S Concord, but now there is competition from the USA and France. 3.) China broke the duck, as it were, and someone was bound to follow. Atmospheric testing will recommence at some point, with all the associated issues. 4.) Something from over the seas... 5.) I thought that might begat such reaction. The Grauniad writers are being a bit silly in a certain way, as they are referring to the Italian wheat farmers of the Po, but trying to drum up extra anti-Italian sentiment with allusions to spaghetti trees. Have I mentioned that this Manchester Guardian makes the @ Daily Mail look like a peacenik liberal student rag? Their owner also has issues with Italian competition in other areas of his business interests... 6.) For every thing that goes negatively, there are a few positives, as least insofar as environmental developments go. 7.) I am an unabashed Heyerdahl fan, even as his theories have been proved on Earth to be pseudoscience/history. There is a romance and innocence to his efforts and their era, back when the frontiers of history, science and knowledge seemed less drab and boringly mundane; this is also found in the Leonard Nimoy hosted series 'In Search Of'. Having Heyerdahl's theories turn out to be correct is a small thing in the overall world, but a bit of romance all the same. 8.) Welcome to the second reference to the Bielefeld conspiracy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy) Here, it actually has some small kernel of truth to it, as the presence of sensitive facilities in Bielefeld lead to a misdirection enchantment being place on them as a protective measure. The spell went awry and now people have issues regarding the city. Somewhere out there, far beyond the doors of perception, a German is laughing. 9.) Argentina has a very good economy, with some growing unemployment, so it won't be a body blow. It is building towards something. 10.) 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. 11.) Yes, they are trying out some craft that can go across planar boundaries, albeit only in the immediate vicinity of the DE Prime Material. Very, very early stages of experiments, but also a bit of a hat tip/indicator from the aliens of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. 12.) A USN that never went dry has some distinct differences. 13.) It is an arrangement of convenience more than a lasting peace. 14.) Yes, where he was replaced by a slightly less reactionary son. Here, the son is a bit more reactionary than @. 15.) This is a large development, encompassing a number of areas, so will be interesting to see/hear perspectives. 16.) Now the benefits of knowledge start to be felt. It isn't an absolute panacea for Britain, as other nations will copy them and have lower labour costs (Japan, Taiwan and Korea), but an advantage is an advantage. 17.) He never really got the chance. Portugal remains a monarchy, so he couldn't exercise absolute power prior to WW2, then with the Spanish fascist coup and invasion of Portugal, he suddenly found himself in with the Allies. With the preponderance of British and American personnel, equipment and facilities, it was difficult to really try and push any particularly rightist policies, lest he be deposed for someone more publicly acceptable. Postwar, the experience of fighting burnt him out and he retired on his own terms. 18.) Seemingly another case of a technology superseded in @ making a comeback. Here, the much lighter materials created in the 1950s and 1960s come to the fore, along with some other advances, giving us a lightweight 90mm/25pdr gun that operates in the same force as ATGMs and recoilless rifles. 19.) That was the case in @. Here, there is something more of a legitimate concern over Communist subversion, what with Trotsky living in Brazil until the mid 1960s...
1) Well it was meant as a joke in reference to their requirements for 5-6 full meals a day.
3) Still a bad decision for everybody.
4) I feel your thinking of somewhere beyond the Med?
5) Not good for Britain if so much of the press is that extreme. The OTL Daily Fail is crap enough as it is with its hate rants and corruption.
9) That doesn't sound good for its neighbours.
11) Could be interesting. Excuse me just need to check who that is at the door.
14) Not good for Oman.
16) The traditional red queen's race. Its still better to keep running than to give up.
17) Good for Portugal.
1.) Those numbers are not far off what is fed to ordinary National Servicemen in the Army: breakfast from 0630, a mid morning lighter meal, lunch, tea, dinner and supper, all of which are designed by the Catering Corps’ food scientists and halfling cooks to provide the best combination of nutrition, taste, energy and ease of preparation. 3.) It absolutely is, but not everything can go right when the capricious free will of man is concerned. 4.) Somewhere beyond the Pillars of Hercules, no less. 5.) Not so much extreme as having its very niche ‘style’. Here, the Humphrey Appleby quote on newspapers would be a bit different. This Guardian is a middle to highbrow broadsheet paper with a strong ‘gung ho’ approach to the military and foreign affairs, as well as being quite punctilious about detail of military systems and terminology. As said, the owner has a bee in his bonnet over Italians (a bit of the inverse to the current situation at The Economist) and that filters down. 9.) Not really, no. Chile is about to go with Allende, Brazil is in a different position and Prydain is like a slightly larger New Zealand of 6 million next door to 76 million Argentines. It’s only consolation is that it is a Commonwealth member, so has rather good back up. I have left out one neighbour… 11.) Please look into this little device. 14.) It has some better neighbours than @ and as the Arabians go, so does the rest of the peninsula. 16.) Absolutely. I’ve said before that there will not be a policy of deindustrialisation or shifting manufacturing offshore 17.) They are more stable, but that gives them more staying power in Africa. |
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Post by stevep on Oct 14, 2022 20:08:33 GMT
1) Well it was meant as a joke in reference to their requirements for 5-6 full meals a day.
3) Still a bad decision for everybody.
4) I feel your thinking of somewhere beyond the Med?
5) Not good for Britain if so much of the press is that extreme. The OTL Daily Fail is crap enough as it is with its hate rants and corruption.
9) That doesn't sound good for its neighbours.
11) Could be interesting. Excuse me just need to check who that is at the door.
14) Not good for Oman.
16) The traditional red queen's race. Its still better to keep running than to give up.
17) Good for Portugal.
1.) Those numbers are not far off what is fed to ordinary National Servicemen in the Army: breakfast from 0630, a mid morning lighter meal, lunch, tea, dinner and supper, all of which are designed by the Catering Corps’ food scientists and halfling cooks to provide the best combination of nutrition, taste, energy and ease of preparation. 3.) It absolutely is, but not everything can go right when the capricious free will of man is concerned. 4.) Somewhere beyond the Pillars of Hercules, no less. 5.) Not so much extreme as having its very niche ‘style’. Here, the Humphrey Appleby quote on newspapers would be a bit different. This Guardian is a middle to highbrow broadsheet paper with a strong ‘gung ho’ approach to the military and foreign affairs, as well as being quite punctilious about detail of military systems and terminology. As said, the owner has a bee in his bonnet over Italians (a bit of the inverse to the current situation at The Economist) and that filters down. 9.) Not really, no. Chile is about to go with Allende, Brazil is in a different position and Prydain is like a slightly larger New Zealand of 6 million next door to 76 million Argentines. It’s only consolation is that it is a Commonwealth member, so has rather good back up. I have left out one neighbour… 11.) Please look into this little device. 14.) It has some better neighbours than @ and as the Arabians go, so does the rest of the peninsula. 16.) Absolutely. I’ve said before that there will not be a policy of deindustrialisation or shifting manufacturing offshore 17.) They are more stable, but that gives them more staying power in Africa.
4) Ah, that's what I was thinking as well. 
5) I suspect that Chile is going to end up being suppressed more brutally than OTL. In terms of neighbours I thought there were two, i.e. Paraguay and Uruguay? Unless one doesn't exist in OTL.
11) Good job I'm wearing those reflective sun-glasses.
14) Possibly but if your own leadership is crap then it makes progress difficult.
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 15, 2022 12:53:15 GMT
4.) It makes sense for Atlantean colonies to extend into the Eastern Med. More will play out eventually.
5.) We'll see. I didn't mention Paraguay, Aranguay or indeed Bolivia because I've had Uruguay on the brain lately in my South American machinations.
11.) That always helps.
14.) The general outlook for the Arabian peninsula is a very different one; to go further would be telling.
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 18, 2022 3:38:13 GMT
September
September 1: Assassins attempt to slay the King of Jordan as he travels to receive his daughter at the airport in Amman, being gunned down by his royal bodyguards.
September 2: Beginning of an intense series of British rocket launches from Woomera Spaceport, with 42 large Saunders-Roe Black Star IVs carrying equipment and parts for the British Commonwealth starship project on Luna being launched over the next 100 hours.
September 3: Reverend Elvis Presley and his indomitable posse captures Dr Gaylord Gristlethwaite in his underground lair in rural Paraguay and flies the miscreant back to the USA in Presley’s supersonic biplane. The mad scientist is responsible for the poisoning deaths of seven people in Little Rock that saw a local husband and wife proprietor of a sandwich shop sent to death row, with the Reverend’s investigative actions coming in the nick of time to save them.
September 4: Socialist candidate Salvador Allende is elected Premier of Chile.
September 5: A crazed killer goes on a murder spree in British Columbia, slaying eight before being captured by Mounties. He is swiftly tried, sentenced to death and hanged on December 3rd in Cranbrook.
September 6: Five passenger jet airliners are hijacked and flown to Jordan in a coordinated act of sky terrorism. The airfield at Dawson’s Field is surrounded by troops of the Royal Jordanian Army.
September 7: Japanese scientist Count Katsumata Takeshi unveils a sonic ray in his clifftop castle, claiming that it is capable of warding off future attacks by Godzilla.
September 8: Deployment of the first Hawker-Siddeley Hurricane squadron of RAF Germany, a move described as considerably increasing its capability and qualitative edge over the Soviet Air Force. It is regarded by the RAF as a superior fighter/interceptor than the Phantom, whilst being equally capable in the fighter-bomber, ground attack and atomic strike roles.
September 9: The 36th and 43rd Infantry Divisions begin arriving back in the United States, allowing for the demobilisation of Army Reserve divisions; the active strength of the Army is scheduled to fall below 4,000,000 by the end of 1970 and to its target active personnel level of 2.5 million by 1972.
September 10: Ford and General Motors unveil their latest full sized family cars, continuing the distinct divide between American vehicles and smaller Japanese and European imports.
September 11: A freak tornado in Venice kills 40 people, with several vaporettos blown into the air by the strange gale.
September 12: Formal initiation of the Sky Marshal Program in the United States in response to the recent increase in air piracy.
September 13: Congressmen query the inclusion of 2560 goats in the latest US Army appropriations, with the War Department stating that they are required for highly classified innovative research.
September 14: Jordanian commandos assisted by a force British SAS assault the captured jets at Dawson’s Field, freeing the 326 hostages and killing or capturing the 23 terrorists.
September 15: Two Royal Israeli Navy guided missile destroyers begin their first major operational deployment with STANAFORMED. Whilst Soviet naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea have increased in strength, Allied Forces Mediterranean have undergone their own modernisation with the replacement of warbuilt British, French and Italian ships.
September 16: Two reinforced British airborne and infantry brigades are airlifted to Jordan is response to a request for military support from the Jordanian government, with a Royal Marine brigade landing at Aqaba and three fighter wings deploying directly from Britain.
September 17: The West African drought finally breaks after five months, providing much needed relief for millions.
September 18: The Ministry of External Affairs of Imperial China announces that long standing restrictions on the volume of foreign trade and business in Shanghai, in place since the Second World War, are to be abolished.
September 19: Entry into active USAF service of the McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter. Capable of a top speed of over Mach 3 and a combat radius of 1250 miles, over 2400 of the supercruising Eagles are projected as being ordered for Tactical Air Command, USAFE, Pacific Air Forces and Aerospace Defense Command.
September 20: The Social Democrat lead coalition wins the largest number of seats in the Swedish general election.
September 21: Imperial Mining exploratory geologists confirm the discovery of massive gold deposits in Uganda equal to those found in 1910.
September 22: A large wildfire begins in the Laguna Mountains near San Diego.
September 23: A gang of radical would-be revolutionists steal weapons from a National Guard armoury and rob a bank in Brighton, Massachusetts before being caught following a gunfight with police killing one officer. The three men and two women are captured, tried and sentenced to death, going to the electric chair in February 1971.
September 24: CIA assets report the operational testing of a new Soviet heavy strategic bomber over the Urals.
September 25: President Kennedy visits Dallas to tour new US Space Force production facilities, give a speech at the University of Texas on the nation’s economic future and plant a ceremonial tree on a grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza to mark the occasion. He uncharacteristically stumbles twice whilst planting the mallorn sapling before succeeding and joking self-deprecatingly with reporters “Somebody just shoot me!”.
September 26: Collingwood defeat Carlton in the VFL Grand Final by 1 point 125-124 thanks to a Peter McKenna goal after the siren after seemingly squandering a 44 point half time lead.
September 27: Air Force One briefly encounters a UFO whilst flying over Nevada en route to California, but none of its escorting USAF F-4 Phantoms are able to intercept it.
September 28: Broadcast of the first episode of Warship, a BBC military drama set on the fictional cruiser HMS Theseus.
September 28: A flock of starlings fly into the Empire State Building after its lights are turned off, resulting in a rain of dead birds onto the street below.
September 29: Filming begins on Richard Attenborough’a epic war picture on Operation Market Garden, the successful airborne and armoured offensive leading to the liberation of the Netherlands in 1944.
September 30: The Home Office rejects a paper calling for the liberalisation of gambling and lottery laws.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 18, 2022 3:39:53 GMT
September 2: Beginning of an intense series of British rocket launches from Woomera Spaceport, with 42 large Saunders-Roe Black Star IVs carrying equipment and parts for the British That had to be epic to be a witness of. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 18, 2022 3:56:59 GMT
Sort of. It is a lot of rockets being launched from a very large facility in bursts. Spectacular visually, but not epic in consequence.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 18, 2022 4:02:39 GMT
Sort of. It is a lot of rockets being launched from a very large facility in bursts. Spectacular visually, but not epic in consequence. Well mabey not in the Darkearth verse but here on our little OTL planet it would be. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 28, 2022 16:56:39 GMT
October
October 1: Release of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, an exciting prehistoric adventure produced by Hammer Studios, featuring special effects by the great Ray Harryhausen and real footage of dinosaurs from Africa and South America.
October 2: The International Union for the Conservation of Nature issues an official report on the apparent extinction of the megaladon, with over six thousand of the monsters exterminated over the 1960s.
October 3: The Premier of Bolivia resigns after a lengthy and highly charged confrontational meeting with Army commanders.
October 4: Jim Clark wins the Formula One World Driving Champion, equalling Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio's record of four titles.
October 5: Twelve experimental military reptiles escape from a secret research facility in Arizona, eating the well-intentioned radical scientist who clandestinely attempted to smuggle them out to freedom.
October 6: The first million dollar lottery prize in U.S history, the New York State Lottery, is won by George Ashton, who elects to receive $50,000 a year for 20 years, which amounts to $30,000 a year after taxes.
October 7: Soviet dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
October 8: Nazi hunters Simon Wiesenthal and Ezra Lieberman, assisted by track down and capture the notorious German war criminals Reiner Schwarzheim, Dr Christian Szell, the so-called ‘Weisse Engel’, and Eduard Roschmann, the Butcher of Riga, in a isolated Paraguayan villa.
October 9: The Colonial Office authorises a White Paper on the status of the Crown Colony of Kuwait.
October 10: Debut of the Canadian cooking variety programme The Galloping Gourmet on ITV, presented by the ebullient Graham Kerr, who cooks roast sirloin of beef. The acquisition of the successful programme from across the Atlantic sparks interest in furthering the arrangement for other nominally Canadian televisual material as a means of complying with Commonwealth content rules.
October 11: 20 French soldiers are killed in an ambush in Chad, sparking plans for immediate retaliation by French garrison command against rebel forces.
October 12: An outbreak of a particularly virulent strain of cholera is reported in Eastern Turkey.
October 13: Beginning of the largest Warsaw Pact military manuevers conducted to date, with over 490,000 troops involved across Poland, the GDR and Bukovina.
October 14: In what is considered to be an incredible coincidence, four nuclear tests are conducted on the same day by different countries, with the United States and Britain conducting underground tests of new ICBM warheads in Nevada and South Australia, whilst the Soviet Union tests a nine megation warhead beneath Novaya Zemlya and China conducting an atmospheric hydrogen bomb test in the Gobi Desert.
October 15: Four dozen schoolboys are killed in a crash between a school bus and train in the Korean capital of Seoul.
October 16: Indian Army intelligence officers report the presence of several new types of Soviet general purpose and heavy machine guns in the hands of dissident tribesment in Northern Afghanistan.
October 17: The President of Liberia declares that registration of foreign vessels under the Liberian flag as a matter of convenience will not be permitted, espousing his particular personal doctrine of national autonomy and dignity.
October 18: Death of renowned US Army General George S. Patton at 84, regarded as America's finest armoured general of the Second World War.
October 19: Production of the BGM-85 TOW (Tube Launched Optically Tracked Wire Guided) anti tank guided missile begins in the United States.
October 20: The North Tower of the new World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in New York City and the United States, overtaking the Empire State Building.
October 21: A US Army plane carrying two generals travelling in Northern Persia is blown off course by freak winds, landing by mistake across the border in Turkmenistan on a Soviet military airfield. They are detained by the Soviets and released on October 30.
October 22: The commanding general of the Chilean Army is assassinated by unknown assailants whilst driving through the streets of Santiago.
October 23: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrive in Hong Kong, becoming the first reigning monarch to visit the colony in a brief stopover en route to Philippines
October 24: British paratroopers and Royal Marines begin redeploying from Jordan by air as they are replaced by heavier troops of the 10th Infantry Division.
October 25: The Administrator of General Services certifies the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment in a ceremony at the White House.
October 26: Release of Waterloo, a multinational epic war film about the eponymous battle in 1815, directed by David Lean, produced by Dino de Laurentis and accompanied by a majestic score by John Barry. It features over 36,000 British, French and German troops filmed in action over a painstakingly accurate arcanely-augmented recreation of the battleground in Belgium and stars Rod Steiger as Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington.
October 27: Ceylon becomes the world’s leading exporter of tea due to a blight in China, with only India producing more overall. The small country’s economy is diversifying, as rubber and silk production, gold mining and farming of fruit and rice being increasingly important.
October 28: The West Indies defeat the United States in Boston in the First Test, lead by a double century by Gary Sobers, who scores 269.
October 29: Der Spiegel features a story on ‘The German Tourist’, an examination of the ever increasing affluence of postwar Germany and its influence on patterns of European tourism.
October 30: American, British and Canadian troops newly arrived from South Vietnam take part in Exercise Kangaroo 70, an Australian war game based on the defence of Darwin and Northern Australia against a foreign invader.
October 31: Tropical Storm Louise sees widespread flooding across both North and South Vietnam.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 28, 2022 16:57:48 GMT
OctoberOctober 1: Release of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, an exciting prehistoric adventure produced by Hammer Studios, featuring special effects by the great Ray Harryhausen and real footage of dinosaurs from Africa and South America. At least they do not need the special effects to make dinosaurs real. |
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