History Forum / General / What If / February 2006

     This is actually inspired by a chapter on Noh in a cultural
history of Kyoto I'm reading.
    A few years ago Jonathan Edelstein noted that in antiquity several
Jews tried writing plays on the Hellenistic model with Jewish themes.

All those who fit into the above category please come and give your
views as i have created a separate alternate history group  for
India-centred subjects.
http://groups.google.com/group/alternate-history-for-india

From sfwa_pressbook LiveJournal link:
12:24 pm - Allan Cole and Nick Perumov: Lords of Terror
http://sfwa.org/pressbook/2006/0227b-Cole-Lords.html
What if a demonic cabal altered history to feed off a hatred that could

Dollar/Foreign Policy Failing Massively Under Bush!
Dear Members,
Recently from the Final Call Newspaper [vol.25 no.16] an article
appeared which spurred some thoughts about how the dollar was heading

What if the US government stayed headquartered in New York.  Stanley
Elkins makes a convincing argument (IMO) that in terms of population
and accesability New York was more "central" than the Potomac so what
if the Southerners can't pull of a switch (and lets say that the Union

Hello everyone. My name's Llywelyn Jones, and I'm a big Althist fan.
I don't mean to make a fuss, but the maps on the Decades of Darkness
website aren't synchronised with the timeline:
* Nice and Savoy as part of France when they should be part of Italy

The attack on Indian Parliament on13th December 2001 causes more damage
than in OTL.
Nearly 50Members of Parliment and 100s of Staff are dead.
The Indian Goverment calls for an Urgent Meeting of all political

Haven't posted over here in quite some time, but I've been keeping up,
and activity seems to be perking up a bit; aside from the usual flames
and trolls, a couple good discussions here and there.  I'll try to
contribute and maybe it'll interest you all.

We all mourn the destruction of al-Askariyyah.
So, a WI. The last Shi'a Imam was Hassan al-Askari, before the Imam
went into a state of occultation, to return in order to bring about
judgment day.

Laos, 1973.
The Nixon administration is facilitating negotiations between the Lao
government and the Communist Pathet Lao.
The Pathet Lao, with North Vietnamese help, now control much of Laos.

Here is a thought.  What would it take for the establishment of a
single Kingdom, or more likely Empire, holding sway over the bulk of
the Indian Subcontinent (_with_ a Monarch actually in residence mind
you) to last into the present day?

1) Quebec secedes from the US.  Offhand, I think the simplest way to
make it work would be to have New England settled mostly by Catholics,
thereby reducing religious tension.
2) Indian reservation in the sea of time, back to some time before

POD: The Puerto Rican nationalist who attempted to assassinate
Harry S. Truman on November 1, 1950(1), Oscar Collazo,
manages to get into Blair House while Truman
is meeting with Anthony Eden at 12:15 p.m.(2) Collazo shoots

FDR liked Harry Hopkins. Missy LeHand liked Harry Hopkins; he was
discussed as a VP candidate, briefly, before he developed stomach
cancer and remained terribly sick until his death in 1946.
So, no stomach cancer in the late 1930's. In 1940, when Roosevelt runs

A Friend Ever True, Part 1 - Thou Shalt Not Kill
[1624.  Nightfall.]
The day was over, the battle won.
Well it wasn't really a battle, more a sortie.  And the garrison hadn't