History Forum / General / What If / July 2004

October 22
With both parties now running what the Wall Street Journal calls "their second
string", it has suddenly become a wide open race.  The leadership of both
parties are frustrated to find their opponents running a weak ticket, but that

A question about the near future: WI the House of Saud is overthrown and
the entire Arab peninsula becomes embroiled in a revolution comparable
to the Russian in its destructiveness?
En el Nombre de DIOS Arriba Nosotros.

It is middle afternoon 3 July 1863 in the sleepy (but today certainly
noisy and bloody) Pennsylvania town of Getysburg.
Jousha Chamberlain and his troops have been having a real day of it
holding of COnfederate forces trying to flank the Union forces by

Apparently, Victoria was not originally intended to marry Albert.
Her uncles, and her mother, instead had in mind her *other* first cousins:
Princes George William Frederick Charles and George Fredrick Alexander Charles.
These were the issue of Cambridge and Cumberland, ...

    Are the Great Plains emptying out? If so, what will happen to the
existing cities (Lincoln, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa, Topeka, Kansas, etc.),
towns, roads, farms, freeways, etc.? And are there any plans for the Buffalo
Commons to be established? How can the region's large ...

This past February, I was musing on the possibilities of American
corporate anthems, as they have in Japan:
"Hm. Smaller Depression leads to stronger corporatism, and a
weaker musician's union -- David Tenner once brought up

what if there was no nazi rise to power..hence no ww11
what would the 40's have been like ecomonically?
in uk would a Labour government with major reform mandate have
been elected?

Will Austria become the new superpower with Adolf Hitler II. as their leader?

In Turtledove's alt. Civil War series, one feature is an ongoing antagonism
between the US and the UK, as well as several Anglo-American Wars.
The series sucks.
That aside, how would one go about creating enough animosity and enough drive

I have wondered what it would take to turn Rome into an enduring
empire.
I think it would be necessary to completely conquer all the
lands east of the Rhine and north of the Danube - and I truly mean

Inspired by the prospective changes in the British honour system, i wonder what
it would take to get the US a similar system to UKs OTL system.  Note this must
be  government sponsored (private halls of fame dont count) and must apply
across all fields of endeavour (not just medals ...

Greetings and salutations.
Moving from the often-mooted idea of an industrial revolution sans a
scientific revolution, how about a scientific revolution without an
industrial revolution? As a for instance, how about the middle east in

The following is Part 2 of "All that Bravery Could Do" an alternate
history following the failure of the June 6, 1944, invasion of
Normandy known as Operation Overlord.
Previous thread(s):

At this point, it's perhaps best to start an entirely new thread...
am05@hotmail.com (Alex) wrote in message news:<f8e58188.0407271355.59acc9a4@posting.google.com>...

From time to time, the fact that the Heer during WWII used a lot
of horseflesh for transport in place in trucks pops up in SHWI
There is interesting info from over in soc.history.war.world-war-ii
on that subject