The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner. My Man Godfrey (1936)
No places left to mine alluvial gold any longer, except maybe in Alaska.
Siberia.
The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner. My Man Godfrey (1936)
But there are 10 million illegal Chinese over there who might not like a Yankee amongst them.
I'll call Vlad and let him know.
Wait, what? Yankee? They have them in Russia too?
Damn that Lincoln dude!
The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner. My Man Godfrey (1936)
The British were considering entering the war on the side of the South.
Old Abe had a good Ambassador in Russia during the Civil War. He convinced Czar Alexander II to send the Russian Navy to New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay.
When the British saw that, they changed their minds about entering the war. ;)