The September issue of Animalia Magazine had a lot of surprising facts, but there were enough funny things on facts that kept it from being "dreary-bleary".
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The cover starred none other than Daniel Richardson, partly because of the article on what happened on 9/11/2001, and partly because he was featured in an interview about what he had witnessed in Nazi Germany during WWII. There was also talk about what happened in Charlottesville, and many WWII veterans reactions/outrage over what had happened, and who was responsible for it.
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Another factual story was called "One powder keg leads to another". It talked about the events of World War I, the events that led up to it, and the events afterwards that would ultimately start World War II. Of particular note was both Germany and the Allied Powers refusing to back down from the western front, new weapons meeting old, outdated strategies/ways of thinking about warfare, President Wilson's refusal to negotiate with the senate over the Treaty of Versailles, and the majority of the Treaty of Versailles being made so the allies could punish Germany enough to send it into dire enough straits to allow Hitler to come to power, and the outdated thinking that enabled Hitler to conquer most of Europe. But Josef Stalin, who was initially caught off guard when the Nazis invaded, was able to turn Hitler's campaign and war strategy against him, and cost him the war.
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Fortunately, there were enough humorous stories in the magazine to keep it from being too grim. Two such stories were ten failed historical predictions and ten failed doomsday/apocalyptic prophecies. Each one was placed as amusingly as possible, such as Margret Thatcher predicting that there wouldn't be a woman prime minister in her lifetime before being elected to office in 1979, and saying that she was glad to be wrong.
One of the most amusing predictions was that the end of the Mayan long count calendar would mark the end of the world. It was put, most humorously, that many glass-half-empty thinkers thought that the world would end on December 21, 2012, not realizing that it meant that the long count calendar was starting over.
One of the most surprising predictions was that Kaiser Wilhelm II predicted that World War I would be over before autumn, and thereby adding to Hitler's belief that he and his fellow soldiers had been betrayed by corrupt, incompetent leaders, not knowing that the Allied soldiers thought the same thing.
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The other thing that the magazine showcased was a sneak peek of the Second Annual AHE, including the return to Spookyville. There was also a contact address on the Animalia Website that people could suggest new ideas for this year's AHE.
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One unexpected, but not wholly unwanted, effect from the release of the September issue of Animalia Magazine was a large number of WWII veterans becoming part of the ARP, as well as several members of "Neo-Nazi" groups who were "jumping ship" and starting anew.