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A day NOT in infamy
June 28, 1914 was a day that had an effect on the world, yet it's hardly ever mentioned. On this day, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, triggering World War I. (And which, in turn, led to WWII, and the Cold War, and so on.)
Once in a while, I find myself wondering what kind of world we'd have today if the archduke had lived to rule Austria-Hungary and instituted his social reforms as he had planned. (And I also wonder why more people think about this instead of strictly focusing on events in WWII.)
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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." --Ray Bradbury
That's a very interesting thought experiment. History would have played out very differently.
However it could be said that the war would have started anyway.
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"If you think I am a Condor, you may keep that opinion;
Though I am no Condor, my Skylines rusty enough."
Good point! Funny how we don't hear as much about WWI...
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I think I can say that the First World War is better known in Canada, where I grew up -probably because Canada was involved in it from the very beginning, because every schoolkid in Canada knows this poem,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields
and because the wearing of poppies around November 11 every year is a lot more common in Canada than in the U.S.
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