History Forum / General / What If / December 2006

In the aftermath of WWI, France gained a relatively pleasant slice of
the Ottoman Empire as a reward for her efforts. Her historic interests
in the affairs of Levantine Christians was rewarded with the annexation
of what is now Lebanon, while Syria was tossed in, just for funnsies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061229/ap_on_re_eu/ireland_kennedy
questions? comments?

What if Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki went to work for Disney and
left a legacy that continued to the present day, influencing the
American cartoon industy for years to come? Imagine Mickey Mouse as
Japanese Anime, a rodent version of the alien Goku, but more like the

Let's vaguely assume some sort of conservation. Not only is the current
North Korea moved backwards a thousand years or whatever, but the people
and land (down to agricultural effects, anyway) from back then appear
in the same territory in the present. Now what?

Decades of Darkness #156: Matters of Orient-ation
Credit for part of this post goes to Nasei, who wrote the first draft
of the Lisbon section.
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Vaguely inspired by the recurring 'WI: Society Abandoned
Technology....' thread: The United States today has roughly 370,000
Mennonites and 198,000 Old Order Amish, adding up to a large but not
overly significant number of 568,000 people. What if they made up a

Just to close out a cheerful year, here's a little story of where the
Great Hegemon's in recent times have ended. (Note: In the attacks
mentioned, you may disagree about who started the attack, but the
result would not have changed.)

EveryWholiday FamilyCommunity New(Light)YearReunionsz From All to All
Love the Wholly Young Sister Shes and Brother Hes and All,
Knowing All Are Born Young, and UniversAlly Conceived for Love
Power!!!!

Reading Wikipedia on Neandertals (not NeandertHals), I noticed that blonde
is used for females while blond is for males
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
Do you esteemed linguists support that notion of gender'ous adjectives in

I posted this on another group but nobody joinrd in.
The What-if is if Julia daughter of Caesar and wife of Pompey did not
die young. In which case would Pompey have gone against Julius. I don't
think so. In which case the conservative Senators of Rome would not

Non-USA posters should realize that in 1979 the cable-industry
financed, non-profit network for televising sessions of the U.S.
Congress, called C-SPAN (Cable=Satellite Public Affairs Network) went
on the cable networks that had room for it. . It receives no funding

Okay, it's 476 AD, a hundred years since the Goths were annihilated at
Adrianople. The Germanic tribes were cowed into submission as a result,
the Huns were defeated in 451 on schedule, and the Eastern Roman Empire
had the resources to assist the West when the Franks tried crossing ...

What does the post world war II world look like if the UK deals and
then is drawn back into World War II latter on, followed eventually by
the US. A rough sketch of the war is below, followed by post-war
thoughts.

I am by no means expert on naval history, but I thought this might be
of interest.
If I recall, the original German plan leading up to the Battle of
Jutland was to use a sortie by Hipper's battlecruisers to lure out

Having been released by the regicides in 1652, Henry Stuart was
subsequently expelled from Paris for embarrassing his mother and
brother, James II, with his stuanch and pious Protestantism and "too
English" politics. Henrietta could not stomach another son who was not