History Forum / General / What If / August 2006

http://www.gamersreports.com/news/3667/
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It seems alternate timeline FPS games are all the rage these days. Now
Codemasters has jumped on the bandwagon and announced Fall OF Liberty.

On several occasions I have come across the idea -- so contrary
to the spirit of this age -- that the International Copyright Act
of 1891 (sometimes known as the Chace Act), by granting foreign
authors royalty rights in the United States, help spur the market

Just ran across this page:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/b_three_sections_with_teasers/essays.htm
There are over a hundred short essays here by the Senate's historian.
They're well written, and most of them seem pretty interesting.  For

Joseph Chamberlain had the unusual distinction in British political
history of splitting *both* of the parties to which he belonged:  the
Liberals (by his opposition to Gladstone's proposals for Home Rule) and
the Unionists (by his conversion to protectionism--"Imperial ...

As the title says.
In the bad old days of our Nazi flood, which was worse than this
current Christianist deluge, I proposed two 18th century German WI's.
The first was to make Fritz heterosexual, and the second was to make

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POD: The Trinity A-bomb test fails.
         It's three days before anyone dares approach the bomb, to find
out why it didn't detonate.  As the days go by, fears subside, and more
and more of the core geniuses become involved, with late-night bull

That header may require a _bit_ of background.
I am something of a cycling enthusiast.
Sometime around 94-95 I was on my mountain bike returning to work after
a dental appointment. I had locked up my bike in the multi-level

Presume that sometime in the mid or late 19th century we have some
nutcase come up with the idea that the 'inferior' are self selecting
themselves out of the gene pool with homosexualtiy and therefore
homosexuals need to tolerated in mainstream society in order for them

WI the gunmen who fatally shot NYC mobster Joseph Colombo at
an Italian Unity Day rally in 1971 had also shot Rabbi Meir Kahane,
then head of the JDL who had not yet moved to Israel and founded
the Kach Party?

I think this has been raised once or twice in threads, but never given
its own independent one, so, here we go.
Suppose the American Revolution fails; not abortively, Saratoga-style,
but in 1778. Gates replaces Washington as Commander-in-Chief and loses

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By 1488, Rennyo's Ikko-Ikki were a deadly dangerous challenge to the
status quo. They took the province of Kaga, which would be like angry
monks leading peasants into a revolt to take over a region the size of
Belgium. They went on to take over Nagashima and Ishiyama Honganji. ...