R for Rurikid Diarchy

R for Rurikid Diarchy

My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges. R for Rurikid Diarchy 1933 (2017) Time for another shift in world history. And all because I couldn’t stop constructing my Kanata alternative history. The initial trigger, Leif Eriksson’s permanent colonisation of Vinland, inspired me to rewrite … Continue reading

Q for Quisling

Q for Quisling

My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges. Q for Quisling (2014)  A word we often see, maybe use. But do you know how it originated? Shakespeare perhaps? Or??? In fact, it was a word originating in World War II and appropriate in many contexts. … Continue reading

P for Plague

P for Plague

My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges. P for Plague 1350 (2017) When I re-read this old post, I was reluctant to re-blog it. Is it topical or frightening when there’s a pandemic creating havoc? But my better half advised me that I couldn’t … Continue reading

O for Ontario

O for Ontario

My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges. O for Ontario (2015) Lake Ontario was a distant vista when I spent a year at college in Toronto. But it proved a crucial area in the War of 1812 for Gregory Wendell. The author of the … Continue reading