History Forum / General / What If / September 2004

If the Romans conquered India would India have become "Romanized" or would
Indian ideas and religions have resulted in a different Europe?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/28/asteriod.fly/index.html
On September 29 Toutatis is set to pass "close" (Ie a million miles)
to the Earth.  It's 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide.
POD:  It's corse is a little off and all predictions indicate that it

According to  http://www.aboutairships.com/  mammoth dirigibles (in excess of
1000 feet long) might be able with little if any advancement in technology have
practical commercial applications. Suppose Bill Gates in 1994 had wanted to
build and use mammoth dirigibles ASAP for such ...

suppose FDR had been president from 44 to 48.
1. how would he have dealt with stalin? tougher or more lenient than truman?
2. would he have dropped the bomb on japan?  sooner or later?
3. would he have allowed china to fall under communism?

As has ocassionally come up on this newsgroup, Yellowstone is mostly a
Caldera, or Supervolcano, 55 by 72 km. It goes boom irregularly, and
the last serious eruption was ~640,000 years ago. The date was picked
first to have the US involvement in WW1 aborted, and then I dragged it

See my brother's article at
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=52auotka1fh0851rxy32szr2o77i7x4q (it
will be there only for a few days) pointing out that William McKinley "was
the last president shorter than the average man."

This is more an attempt at exploring the long term effects of holding
Crete to Greece than anything else. The exact way of German failure is
relatively irrevelant. The battle of Crete was a very closely run thing
in OTL and there is any number of PODs before the the battle to ...

POD:  In mid-1928 Joe Bloe, a big time investor in Company X, decides
that it's peaked and he wants to dump all his stock, so he does so.
Investor Y notices this and dumps his stock too, while Investor Z
thinks that the similarly related stock in Company V is overrated so

Phil Edwards wrote on Jul 21, 1:22 am:

Violet? >  > [quote] > At a press conference in 1977, Massimo d'Alema,
then secretary of the > Communist youth organisation Federazione

Google cannot find an earlier attempt at this quite obvious idea, so I
will give it a try:
The assembly of Belgian notables either votes for Archduke Charles as
the first Belgian King or, after some diplomacy, the great powers

                       GLOBAL EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH!
            The human race is being physically exterminated by
malevolent human looking beings living amongst them and controlling all
aspects of society. They control society through phony government

The POD: Richard III triumphed at Bosworth Field by placing Stanley in
the far front, rather than on a flank, and separating him from his
men.  When Stanley tried to turn his coat, he was quickley killed.  He
then threatened to expose the spuriousness of the articles of his

If OJ admits he killed Nicole and Ron and goes on Oprah to apologize (and sell
his book) would America forgive him?  Definitely. The Juice we once loved would
be back. (BTW shouldn't this ng have a question mark in it's address?)

Empty America: Part 22 - So, If You've a Date In Constantinople (Three) ...
(Northern Europe, February-March, 1250)
Sútari, the old Vinlandic campaigner, had been riding for what seems like
forever when he pushes his way through the door of the little inn and sinks

What if the Japanese Navy had used the German idea of Wolf Pack tactics with
its submarines in World War II ?
Also what if they had also used the Allies system of convoy tactics with
both its merchant fleet and troop transports ?