Huh.  Wild.  I just finished Praying Medic's book on divine healing, and one aspect he discussed was raising the dead.  That it's much less frequent, but is still being done to this day (with, of course, references to other countries -- I love the idea but am not fully convinced, I suppose that's also why I still have these warts). Anyway, your comment gave me the thought that -- perhaps Nelson Mandela really did die in the 80s, and rather than "timelines splitting because CERN" -- just, someone raised him from the dead. Of course, I do still remember it "Interview With A Vampire" (not "with the"), it's "Sex In the City" (not "and the"), and the biggest one, I found the old books I read as a kid and they now say Berenstain, where I distinctly remember asking about pronunciation of Berenstein ("steen" or "stine"?), where "stain" would be unambiguous. Anyway, didn't mean to Mandela detour, just sparked a thought -- which is still unresolved, as I might be able to explain his reappearance; however, I can't explain away the other changes.