History Forum / General / What If / March 2005

Hey there SHWI,
As some of you know, I often take book notes when I read various books.
I've posted a couple of them here to help out others with TL's. People
here seem to have found them useful so I decided I might as well share

In OTL it was being incrementally partitioned from the late 1700s on,
but I'm talking about a partition that leads to, at most, only the
Anatolian and Thracian core being left as a residual Turkey, you know,
what finally occurred at the end of WWI. Or maybe even that gets

The Discovery of Gold in California (1848) occurred after the USA had
got its hands on the territory but well before the US Civil War. What
happens if the Discovery of Gold in California occurs in either 1838
(while the Spanish still have it), 1858 close to the US Civil War or

Decades of Darkness #107: Everybody Wants To Rule The World
"Again, the devil taketh him [Jesus] up to an exceeding high mountain, and
sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith
unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down ...

Johnny Pez who we have missed ever so, wrote:

POD Flood:
As Doug Hoff wrote to deal with the Spammer: "META suggestion: "POD
Flood:"  Everyone with a POD suggestion just toss it out there, baked,
half-baked or stone cold.  Responses should keep in mind that the PODs

--Despite it being called the North German Union, the south German
states, unhappy at Prussian domination as well, flock to join the new
organization. (The North German Union is backed by British money; the
British do not want the status quo in Europe to change. Since this

trees and vines produced plentiful and mellow fruits, frequent brooks
irrigate rich soil, and milder parts of this they sow with grain, and
the rest they leave for pasture. Farther on a greater part of the same
land is occupied by sterile sands; indeed, when the winds blow they

Charles Darwin, with great trepidation, unleashes the theory of
evolution on the world. A young theologian (without a track record of
supporting Natural Theology) diverts the reaction of the religious
establishment when he decides that yes, we can all just get along...

i guess you all would need to find something else to bullshit about.
--
There's always one fuckhead like you trying to sh.t in the apple pie. Well
you just shat in the one apple pie that knows how to sh.t back.

I suppose the deniers will say this isn't happening....
     Nazi camp ashes to be buried
     5-foot-thick layer unearthed in memorial construction
     ORANIENBURG, Germany (AP) -- The ashes of thousands of victims of the

WI the Danish put up a more strenuous defense in 1864 and Moltke gets
his wish to invade Jutland.
Somehow [handwaves wildly] this shakes out with Prussia and Austria
jointly annexing Jutland at the conclusion of hostilities.

In January 1824, two years before the death of Tsar Alexander I and
the Decembrist Uprising in St. Petersburg, the leaders of the
so-called "Southern Society" of revolutionary Russian officers met
with the representatives of the Polish "Patriotic Society" in Kiev.

Cuba, November 1270
Ibn Ammar looked over the deck of the ship, at the land in front of
him. He thanked God that he had lived to see Al-Gharb [1].  He peered
at the natives, who were standing on the shoreline in awe of his ship,

This occured to me when I was watching a documentary where a
rabbit was being hunted by a bird of prey. The rabbit managed
to dodge the first attacking dive, but was eventually caught.
That made me think what alternate defenses could evolutoion