What Mr Cherry is saying is: WI something generally held to be untrue
> is actually true? This is not alternative history because the existence
> or otherwise of the Bermuda Triangle did not follow from a chain of
> historical acts by human beings.

No. What I was saying is: "what if this thing, generally held untrue, is not
only true, but intruded on a historical event, as described afterwards."

> OK, David. What's the PoD? What is the decision point where history
> could have gone one way or the other and some woman or man makes a
> decision and... the Bermuda Triangle comes into being?

The PoD is not the bermuda triangle, but its effect on Columbus' ships as they
returned; I used the bermuda triangle only as the vehicle for the PoD.

> : "Secret history" involves the revelation that something that we think
> : we know about the past is untrue. It is not alternate history: it
> : leaves history unchanged,

Note, history DID change. Hence not......

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