History Forum / General / What If / December 2004

BART:   B:6
HOMER:    You sunk my Scrabbleship!!
LISA:    This game makes no sense
With Santa and his reindeer flying their way westwards I was thinking

WI a 9.0 underwater quake goes off near Santorini in the Mediterranian ?
Crete is likely to be devastated by the quake, so might be parts of Greece,
Turkey, Lybia and Cyprus.
Tusnamis hit the eastern Med with incredible force.  Areas like the Adriatic

Cactus Jake Garner of Texas becomes President of the United States at
age 73, the oldest President (at the time) in US history, and quite
possibly the least qualified. There's a war on in Europe and Garner's
interest in foreign affairs is limited (yes? no? I don't know enough

In OTL 1782 -1788 saw the British merchant shipping more than double,
along with a whole bunch of reforms that put the UK in a stronger
position for when the great war with France started.
How can we get these years to be crap fro Britain, and for her to be in

I've just finished reading "Mud, Blood and Poppycock" by Gordon
Corrigan which demolishes (or, at the very least, makes you view the
conventionally accepted "wisdom") about key issues regarding WW1 (well
worth reading, by the way ... I found that I had to examine some long

Since AHF is filled with many SHWIans, I figure that SHWI would be a
useful oak to be the tree when we have a discussion about what the
forest that is Usenet will look like 10 years from now.
Usenet is an interesting creature in that it almost seems quaint in its

Since this fine game (quite usable as a tool for some WI speculations)
is mentioned here occasionally:
As far as I can tell, no scenario editor is included - contrary to
some early reviews. Does anyone know of a downloadable editor

Have yourself a very little Christmas,
Let you heart be light

our troubles will be out of sight

Current Chinese and Indian development is the stuff of the front pages
of everything from daily newspapers to _The Economist_ to _Aviation
Leak_.
Brazil, at least if you look out of the windows of your Embraer

In terms of scientific and technological advances, how important is the
development of low-incomes countries? Do advanced third world nations
make much of an impact in comparison to non-advanced ones?
For example, lets say that [vigorous hand waving here] India

He could be throwing bombs through the chimney?

" The wimpish rolling over and playing dead behaviour of the US
President in "The Day After Tomorrow" simply isn't gonna happen."
"...the bulk of the US would not be affected,
and most of the important army bases are in the areas

WI a bomb went off at some place in history, wiping out a room full of
people.  Any thoughts for a place and time that would have a huge
impact on history, more than the death of any single one of the people
involved?

Apologies for starting this in a new thread - but my newsreader
expired the last one, and google is playing up :-(
Loki wrote
"Graham Truesdale" <graham.truesdale@virgin.nospam.net> wrote in message

Howdy
M.A.S.H, for most people, brings to popular the immensely popular
movie, and TV show, about US troops in the Korean War, who happen to
work at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.