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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 20:33:38 GMT -5
How might things have turned out had 'Charlie' won. While he was part of the Stuart line which ran dry, forcing the hire of the 'wee German lairdie', that religion thing would have been a problem. The highlanders were forbidden many things after Culloden - another chapter in the underlying animosity between them and the 'Sassenachs'. One, along with the Welsh, of England's historical neighbor problems.
There are many turning points in history and life.
When George Washington was 14 years old his older step brother, Lawrence Washington who was a British naval officer, got him an appointment as a midshipman in the British Navy.
On the day Washington was supposed to depart his uncle talked his mother into getting him to turn down the appointment.
One wonders what would have happened had George Washington become a British naval officer instead of the Father of our Country.
Noel
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Post by olderndirt on Jul 20, 2016 21:31:17 GMT -5
How's this for a turning point. I was an Air Traffic Controller at Anchorage Tracon, with fifteen years experience - joined the '81 PATCO strike and was fired by President Reagan.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 23:50:43 GMT -5
I remember that. A friend of mine became a controller after the Reagan firing. It was a turning point for him. He was working on getting his ATR and later became a pilot for Continental after their pilots went on strike in 1983.
Noel
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