History Forum / General / What If / July 2005

This book is closer to one of the scholarly or semi-scholarly articles
on counterfactuals as a means of studying history such as Tetlock,
Philip E., Richard Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker (eds.). Unmaking the
West: Counterfactuals and Causation.

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/dec99/keith.htm
This is an interesting review from 1999 of  Keegan's The First World War and
Ferguson's The Pity of War, including a discussion on historical
determinism.

Okay, so if you want to have WWII start in 1938, the better way to go
about it is to have Hitler just force the war against Czechoslovakia to
start before Chamberlain asks for one last conference, than to have
Chamberlain or anyone in Britain deliberately decide to fight over the

Hey all,
I'm on google right now, and my posts seem to be disapearing.  I write
them and post and it says it posts and I see it there on google, but
then the next day some of them have disappeared into the internet

Greetings and salutations.
(Inspired by Charlie Stross's "The Hidden Family".)
Assuming we still get the scientific revolution, but the industrial
revolution is delayed by decades or generations (the Other Armada

The USN went fully 'Dry' in 1914
In the DoD TL, how did it work: NEN going Dry sooner, and USN
still 'Wet'?
**

While reading the last few DoD entries and discussions, I couldn't help but
start thinking of comparisons, similarities and dissimilarities between the
DoD USA and ancient Rome (class-based repressions, aggressive conquering of
and annexation of new territories, etc).

Greetings and salutations.
During the recent "was the US fated to enter WWII" or whatever it was
called thread, the question arose of what Roosevelt was aiming for in
his support of the UK. My impression was that he was hoping the

I believe there is an old Jewish saying, "Not even God can change the
past." Supposed the author of the saying was simply mistaken? Suppose
soon the means to change the past to some extent at least, are invented
or discovered, what would it be worth to TRY to change that which is

Computers have seen perhaps the fastest growth out of any technology
over the last two generations so, question:  In the last 50 years, what
has been the main drive to improve computers?  And how can we remove
that drive?  Any thoughts on any post-1945 PODs that would give us the

[google is acting up here, hence the name change]
Juan Valdez wrote:

By the early 19th century, Korean corruption had reached an intolerable
point. Hong Kyong-nae was one of many angry yangban from Pyongan
province. Here's an excellent link:
http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/Ket/C15/E1504.htm#011

The War of the Roses is one of those great festering historical sores
of English history. But like any child picking at a scab, I'm both
curious and foolish.
So...

"Robert Hansen" <rlhan...@zianet.com> wrote to alt.genealogy
on Fri, Jul 29 2005 10:40 am  

Tender readers,
At the height of the Depression on 3 May 1931 Robert Menzies, as he then
was, gave a speech entitled 'Politics and the Church'.  To minimise
damage to both BoP and BoR, let us reflect on but a single sentence of