The Irish Potato Famine - During the mid-Ninteenth Century, long before the years of Prohibition in the United States, the Italian Mafia undertook an extensive plan to starve their chief rivals, the Irish crime bosses out of their own home market. Unfortunately, the Italians failed to forsee the outcome of the famine, which resulted in an increased Irish presence in the Italian 'markets' of New York and Chicago eighty years later.

The Eiffel Tower - The product of a pro-German turned architect, the Eiffel Tower was part of a long term plot geared toward the eventual conquest of France. The Tower, built in the guise of a World's Fair centerpiece, was actually intended as a Zeppelin mooring mast. The placement of the tower in the middle of the capital city of France would allow troops to descend into the heart of Paris itself, thus ensuring a quick and easy takeover when the time arrived.

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