History Forum / General / What If / March 2006

"George Lazenby's first serious acting role was as James Bond in the film
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Lazenby is the second official
actor to portray the British secret agent. It was rumoured that Lazenby
had been "difficult to work with" in this project. According to ...

This is a continuation of my Portuguese South Africa timeline but
before the details of this let me give you a slight introduction to
this period in ATL South Africa history known as British Occupation.
Along the coastal tip of the continent the British found an established

For those of you not familiar with the man, from Wikipedia:
Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 - July 29, 1981) was the master
builder of 20th century New York City and its suburbs. As the shaper of
a modern city, one of his few peers is Baron Haussmann of Second Empire

Switzerland is entitled to rule the lands of the Habsburgs, even in the
Americas:
See:  http://switzerland10.tripod.com/habsburg.html

The Westphalian Peace, signed here in Münster, was the first
all-European peace after the first all-European war. It has shaped our
thinking about the structure of the international system, and thus
about war and peace, perhaps more than any other single event in the

Please forgive the ISOT, sometimes one simply
cannot resist.
The other day I came across a really nifty map
of the Roman Empire at its height superimposed

    What are the chances of China overtaking the US as the world's dominant
superpower?

Finis Finlandiae 11 - The active option
What if Finland had fallen quickly in 1939?
This part eleven of timeline deals with Swedish position and plans for
1941 and campaign in the Balkans (albeit swiftly).

So, I notice that the earliest patents for transistor-type-devices
were in 1928 and 1934, both in Germany.
Let's say the 1934 actually winds up getting successfully built
instead of just created on paper, in about 1936 or so (someone might

Saturday April 1, 2006.  Science Fiction League, South Minneapolis
Chapter.  Topic:  Alternate history.  Moderator:  Reverend Lawrence Van
Cott Niven.  Time:  5 PM.  Location: 2943 Nicollet Avenue South, home
of Bernard Rhodenbarr.

Baron von Schellendorf is famous for being one of the few people to have had
a stable of domesticated Zebra's back in the days of German East Africa.
The Belgian gouvernement believed that the zebra would be ideally suited as
man's new best friend to help colonize the Congo since ...

WI Guy Fawkes had succeeded. How would history have unfolded?
By the way, I -loved- "V for Vendetta". When Parliement was blown to
smithereens I whislted and stamped my feet. I had the same reaction when
watching "Independence Day". The destruction of the White House was so

Got this from the anonymizer just now:
Dear Carlos
I am sorry to say our correspondence must end
temporarily. I will be availing myself of an

HARRY WILLIAM MAZAL
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SAN ANTONIO, TX 78232
HARRY W MAZAL IS THE FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE HOLOCAUST HISTORY PROJECT

On August 18, 1943 the British bombed the German missile facility at
Pennemunde, by accident a large number of the bombs fell in the
residential area and killed or wounded many of the people necessary to
the V-2 program.