History Forum / General / What If / January 2005

Does anyone remember a time line posted here in which the government of
George III is overthrown by revolution, and a Republic of Great Britain is
established?

During the secession crisis the southern states called home senators
and representitives from the US Congress.
One effect of this was that even though the US congress did not
recongnize secession, they were able to vote in measures that would

While fiddling around with some material on the Venona decripts of
Soviet espionage traffic during and after WWII I got the WI idea: WI
Joseph McCarthy had access to the final readings of the Venona decrypts
that listed or suggested many Soviet agents were operating at high

I finally got the June and August 2004 issues of my Alternate History
newsletter on line last night.  Real life has been really cutting into
my writing and posting time lately, which explains the delay.  The
newsletters include a review of Steve Stirling's Dies the Fire, several

Before the wall was built, the state of Israel had already built a wall
between Israel and Palestinians, 20 feet of solid concrete was
installed to confirm the relationship between parties. The wall is only
the outward manifestation of an inner state of mind that had already

One of the great stereotypes of Americans is that most Americans
are anti-intellectual and un-cultured, at least in the group of states
refered to as the Red States. This is usually oppossed to a stereotype
that Europeans and the Japanese and Australians and New Zealanders are

Everybody knows about the brilliant victory that the British had over
the Italians in 1940--a victory that was ruined by the arrival of the
Afrika Korps, which extended the war in northern Africa for three more
years. What if the British had completed their victory before the

Grocery shopping is a problem best solved by theft; but if one wishes
to go and see Louis Armstrong perform in 1929, one must actually go!
As usual, the problems of attire and currency can most simply be solved
by cross-time theft. Doing so by honorable means is more interesting.

Let's say "Uncle Henry" Wallace dies of TB while a pastor in Rock
Island, Illinois just after the Civil War. The disease had hit the
family hard, killing most of Wallace's siblings when he was a young
man. No Henry C. Wallace, no Henry A. Wallace. No Wallace's Farmer in

Let's say he died in an accident before 1962.  (Or another possibility is
that he simply turns NBC down.  His previous prime-time show on CBS in 1955,
the "Johnny Carson Show" had not been a success, and "Carson was initially
gun-shy about going back to nighttime television. He ...

http://www.gayhistory.com/rev2/events/1889.htm
"Scandal on Cleveland Street
England, 1889.  London was rocked by scandal in September when the
North London Press first reported that a Lord of the Realm was a

SM Stirling wrote:
Turkey didn't use printing for essentially religious/ideological
reasons. The Ulema and the related scribal groups supressed it as
subversive of Islam.

The inspirations come both from within and from the WI No Johnny Carson
thread.
The basic premise: on the basis of his own career as a comedian and as
a writer for Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner develops the idea for a sitcom

I've been going through the archives dealing with Peshawar, and was
particularly intrigued with the possibilities of a Fall in 1900 or
1947. One thing they've all got in common is a large amount of death,
destruction, and a stagnant world that follows. Tunguska also comes to