History Forum / General / What If / January 2004

    It is traditional to blame it all on Germany but it was only in 1906
that Britain and France joined for control of Europe. The German
objection to that recent event (in the lifetimes of the participants
in WWI and WWII) is certainly a private matter of European politics.

AH Challenge:US with a different geography/climate
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What would the settlement/development of the contiguous US (Native and
European) have been like if.

February 15, 1933
Bayfront Park, Miami
OTL:
Unemployed bricklayer Guiseppe Zangara opens fire on the speaker's platform

As it appears may exist to some extent in the United Kingdom.
http://www.redandproud.com/index.htm
Red and Proud is not as might be guessed, a website for out of the
closet lefties (though Lib-Dem Leader Charles Kennedy is their Man of

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46321-2003Dec31.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/international/middleeast/01CND-DOCU.html
The usual caveat--that nations make contingency plans for (and sometimes
issue warnings about) things they are unlikely to do--applies ...

One of the major reasons for the collapse of Yugoslavia is without a
doubt the failure of Tito to provide for a strong central authority that
would govern the country after his death; apparently he thought he could
continue to rule Yugoslavia forever as a ghost. What do you think? ...

What if the mission to the moon (not all..only the Armstrong mission)
was a hoax because the Americans wanted to show the World it had
beaten the Soviets to the moon.
1) Would we be skeptical about an admission of this being fake.

At Rome I heard lying
and the betrayal of two kings.
From that arose the greatest strife
that ever was or will be.-Walter Von Vogelweide, poet for Phillip of Swabia.

Compared to such momentous domestic issues as the Bank War, the
Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal--or for that matter Peggy Eaton's
morals or lack therof--US foreign relations during the Jackson
administration have received relatively little attention.  Yet one foreign

Empty America: Part 10a - Da Big Picture (Vinland)
The New World and Environs in the Year of Our Lord 1200
Kingdom of Vinland
Rough Location: OTL's Newfoundland, New Brunswick, eastern Quebec, Nova

    Late Summer 2000
    Say Cheney spontaneously combusts shortly after reading
_Bleak House_ [1]. This leaves the Republican Party in a bit
of a pickle, although not nearly as awkward as if Bush had

Say you were a Roman businessman. You have a pile of money, rights to a
fast flowing river which could be used to build a massive water mill and
you want to invest in a manufacturing business which will employ over
500 workers.

WI after the Marines are slaughtered, Reagan goes to Congress with a
proposal to invade? I doubt it would be wise to do so, but Congress
might support this. Thoughts?

There have been several threads recently about the problem one man
suddenly ISOTed may face. So what if the ASBS give You a EDGE, and a
PROBLEM.
You wake up tomorrow in a Luxury bed with silk sheets. As You are

Does Lincoln have to guts to invade the South first, without this incitement?