That fateful meeting took place elsewhere.
That fateful conflagration took place less than thirty days after Hitler became Chancellor.
John Kadlec, a consulting engineer on the original construction, has testified that he raised concerns at the time about sloppy workmanship and inadequate construction materials at the site, including structural columns that were already crooked, steel beams that were already rusting despite being new, and the ultimately fateful decision to place the complex's parking area on the roof.
When that fateful vote took place in October 2002 what was largely missed in the councils of government and in the corporate media was that before voting to give the president the "option" of taking the nation to war any responsible representative must first take into account exactly who that president is and what he or she stands for.
The Moncada barracks today are a children's school and a museum, but the thick, yellow-painted walls have been left pockmarked from the bullets fired during the fateful attack that took place sixty-three yeago ago.
For just two weeks every few years, the voices of the people who are getting hit first and worst get a little bit of space to be heard at the place where fateful decisions are made.
A petition was circulated, arguing: This undoubtedly is the most unique historic VISTA in our nation because it captures in time and place that fateful day when the future of our young nation hung in the balance.
Before George RR Martin breathed, Robinson Jeffers wrote about Antrim as "the pitiless north"; a place of fateful legend where, "We have felt the blades meet in the flesh in a hundred ambushes/ And the groaning blood bubble in the throat;/ In a hundred battles the heavy axes bite the deep bone".
The climactic voodoo event, also vividly described, does take place, with fateful and unexpected implications for Michael and Lara, and with equally unexpected implications, I think, for the interpretation of Stone's inner text or leitmotif in this book and its predecessors.
The fateful call has been placed, too late as usual in all likelihood, to purchase tickets to a weekend performance of "The Nutcracker".
