Russia began supporting the Chinese socialist revolution in the 1920s. Millions died in the long Chinese Civil War, but the socialists could never drive the government out. After Japan killed 10 to 20 million Chinese in World War II, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I first met Julie and Alex in orchestra and marching band. Sorta. I played violin and guitar. They played the flute and trumpet. We didn’t really spend much time together. Plus that was back in my “girls are icky” stage.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everybody knew each other in the business of creating virtual worlds. They went to school together, worked together, and played each other’s games. They grew up together in a ragtag mess of dreams that most knew they were never get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The War hit us unprepared and unready, but we survived. We rebuilt. Third Fleet took us two years to assemble from the dribs and drabs of new construction, demothballed ships, or stray ships that got home. We launched from Earth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Socialist Germany destroyed and parceled up into Allied hands, Russia was the only remaining great nation where socialist principles held sway. But it was a broken nation and would take generations to rebuild into anything approaching the remaining power[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My parents enrolled me in every music class they could in school. Choir. Orchestra. Marching band. I learned how to play the violin for orchestra. I learned guitar for marching band, which was fun, and then got to march behind[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of you will be dressing up in costumes today. Cheerleaders. Long dead politicians. Brain dead zombies. Why do I keep repeating myself? I’m sure some of you will be sexy nurses or demigods with padded swords. Bug-eyed aliens, ghosts,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the aftermath of World War II, the Global War as the Europeans call it, they sought to divest themselves of their Colonial holdings in Africa and Asia. Many thought that if they granted the Colonies freedom newer and better[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My parents pushed me to start singing at church when I got old enough. Like three or something. Churches like to start the kids out early you know. So at first I was signing out of tune and cringing adults[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The creation of virtual worlds started as a small business with very little money in it. Those who worked in the field did it because they loved it. They went to the same parties, virtual or physical, and their children[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…