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I like this one (not mine):
=> There was a 22 year window in which samurais could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
And still they didn't warn him
Historians refuse to debate the great Anti-Lincoln samurai fax conspiracy.
Ooooh that's a good one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_submarines
And they could've done it from french submarines.
Missed opportunity.
Was there a phone line network intact enough to send a fax from Japan to the United States........?
Wouldn't have been phone at that point, it'd be wired telegraph. Which I don't need to elaborate did not go from Japan to the United States but there were exiled Samurai kicking around in Spanish territory for a bit even into the 1800s so possibly one of them could've visited the US and sent Lincoln a Fax. Also I think the king of Siam tried to give the Union war elephants during the Civil War which is much weirder.