Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids and Other Small Events that Changed History
This is just too cool not to share: 10 Small Events that Changed the Course of History.
I wonder what events occurred that brought AR here to the US and to fame and our pleasure; hence without that one occurrence may have never come to pass.
Have you, perhaps, experienced something which if it had not occurred, your life would have been quite different.
Here is an interesting point to this exercise. It's the back story, not necessarily a personal one on the part of the subject. Yes, we all could say: If I hadn't taken this road or hadn't gone with this person or hadn't done this or that...that's the personal side we all have in common.
The back story, what was happening at the time by others or events out of view that perhaps can't be realized within one's life time but by others looking at the bigger pictures behind the scenes of your life.
Some of you may have an inkling on your back story...mine?..haven't a clue...
I wonder what events occurred that brought AR here to the US and to fame and our pleasure; hence without that one occurrence may have never come to pass.
Have you, perhaps, experienced something which if it had not occurred, your life would have been quite different.
Here is an interesting point to this exercise. It's the back story, not necessarily a personal one on the part of the subject. Yes, we all could say: If I hadn't taken this road or hadn't gone with this person or hadn't done this or that...that's the personal side we all have in common.
The back story, what was happening at the time by others or events out of view that perhaps can't be realized within one's life time but by others looking at the bigger pictures behind the scenes of your life.
Some of you may have an inkling on your back story...mine?..haven't a clue...
As the article points out, seemingly minor events and decisions can make the difference as to whether major events happen or don’t happen. But we have no access to alternate histories that would let us know whether, for instance, a different set of past monsters and geniuses would have led to better or worse outcomes for humanity today.
As a child returning home during the first war, crossing the Baltic Sea (I think it was). The ship in front of hers in the convoy, and the ship behind, were both destroyed by mines.
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How about you...anything happen or didn't happen that brings you here to the present?
The hiring freeze ended two months later when The Montgomery Advertiser hired someone fresh out of college for far less money than promised to me.
That's when me dino saw the writing on the wall.
There were this --------------------many graduated journalists needing a job and this --------many jobs.
(I create spaces with my hands when demonstrating that vocally).
For a few months I earned more money than my diploma skill by making $6 an hour painting walls for a construction company during 1980.
Toward the end of my 21-year corrections career I was making $100 a day, more if I caught mandatory overtime which I hated for sleep deprivation.
One time I worked 16 hours three days straight. Talk about feeling wretched!
Recall rapping my baton on a sleeping cube officer's window who was supposed to be watching me in a day room with 96 inmates walking around.
It was about that time I learned I was part of a trust fund, bought four years of my required 25 years and got the hell out early.
I worked security guard jobs for lesser pay but with more sleep until the four years were up and I could start collecting on the 25-years served pension.
Some years later, a fellow H.S. classmate (who did get a job, there) was killed in a freak accident when the roof of a tank he was inspecting, collapsed (not my preferred way of dying).
I expected someone to say something like, my mechanic closed up shop, so I went to work with the car running bad when it just quit, A pretty lady gave me a ride and not soon after she became my bride...therefore...you would not exist if it wasn't for the closing of the business.
That close to a back story.
salta above gives a good back story on AR.