PART 1 - KING GEORGE’S REVENGE
1800 Treaty of Ildefonso - Spain cedes Louisiana to France in return for Napoleon Bonaparte creating a small kingdom for the son-in-law of Charles IV in central Italy
1803 Spain finally hands Louisiana back to France. Twenty days later France sells the whole territory to the United States for $15,000,000
1807-1812 Anger [...]

The world is Earth, but one where, fifteen thousand years ago, the ice age did not end. Because of this the world remains in ice age which, if anything, has deepened with time. The seas are shallower by more than one hundred metres, with may land bridges where in the real world there is sea. [...]

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass met on New Year’s Eve 1935, at a union fund-raising party. Ethel looked nervous when Julius first spotted her in a corner of the rented hall. He approached to ask her why. Ethel explained that she had promised organizers that she would sing for the party-goers, but as the time [...]

Day after day, for more than two weeks, the 76-year-old man sat trapped and alone in his attic, sipping from a dwindling supply of water until it ran out. No food. No way out of a house ringed by foul floodwaters.

Without ever leaving home, Gerald Martin lived out one of the most remarkable survival stories [...]

It was nightfall, and no one would see the men and boys adrift in the gulf. Worse, no one was even looking.
Ben Pollock, his cousin Frank Doolin and their boys lazed on the deck of his 20-foot fishing boat. It had been one of the finest fishing days in memory — a fresh spring day [...]