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Assad Day For World Peace

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The Bugle Wall of Fame

Voluntary subscribers on the Wall of Fame have developed computer simulations to find out what would happen if people and things from history did things that they didn't actually do. Drew Bonning ran a computer simulation on large statues and discovered that if they came to life, the Colossus of Roads would ask the Statue of Liberty out on a date. Derek Mead found that William Shakespeare had he been around in the 1950s would have written a mixture of film dramas about polar expeditions and Queen Victoria advertising jingles for domestic goods. Sam Bergman found that if Taylor Swift had been Jonathan Swift and vice versa, 18th century music would have been considerably livelier. Rob Abraham concluded that the internet would have

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