History Forum / General / What If / June 2006

About 'Intense Joy of Beautiful Hate' Living in Criminal Minds
                                                       29 June 2006
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Greetings and salutations.
Assume for some reason (The local Maharaja is a Muslim rather than a
Hindu, british policy re partition is more sophisticated than "stick
fingers in ears and run away", Ghandi lives, whatever) that the

  You just read his biography.
  And obituary.
  Next...
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When then-Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower returned to the U.S.
Eisenhower took a cross-country trek in 1919 -- . Eisenhower took a
military convoy of 81 vehicles  from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco
to assess the conditions and the ability to deploy troops. It took 62

Would that mean edo period japan would be far in advance of the west?
IT seems to me the historical record is, war is very good for a
culture's health.  Japan made a far greater demographic leap in warring
states period than in edo period.

Part 2  January 1959 through June 1961
(The manned race--unmanned civilian and military satelites as well as
booster development to follow in Part 2a)
"Triumph and Tragedy"

The actual "war" bit from threads.  I've been looking for a copy of the
whole thing for years....
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/little+britain/video/126091

POD: FDR is assassinated in 1933, and Garner doesn't have his vision,
chutzpah, or personality. Things continue to get worse-MUCH worse; by
October unemployment is approaching 75%. The nation is starving and
desperate. Riots start in San Francisco and rapidly spread to the whole

Discussions of the alternatives to the boundaries agreed on in the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo tend to focus on the US taking more Mexican
territory--ranging from a few states (e.g., Nuevo Leon, Coahuilla, and
Chihuahua) to all Mexico.

I think this is ASB-ish, but what if the NATO armored regatta
intervened early in the Bosnian conflict, would it have been effective
in halting the ethnic violence and mass refugee movement?
It is tempting to think that NATO intervention could have preempted

                               Y A O H Ú S H U A
                       FACTS SHOCKING BUT TRUE!
 1. The real, original and genuine Name of our Creator in the
 original Hebrew Holy Scriptures is 'YAO-HOO' and that of the

The USSR wouldn't have broken up and the cold war would still be going
on.  Brezhnev was instrumental in bringing about the end of the cold
war and the breakup of the USSR.  He ushered in the era of corruption
in Russia.  More importantly, he repealed the 9 year time limit on

How do you do it?

    The time of departure is 2000. Each state/region has strong
secessionist movements fueled by various issues.

Lets say that Prussia refuses to go to war to salve Austrian pride.
Wilhelm decides to sit tight, because after all, his fleet is not ready
to challenge the British.
Assuming that demographic and economic trends continue, if a general