History Forum / General / What If / January 2007

More accurately, "one vote, 1/60,000 of a man" or some similar
proportion....
    WI the US Constitution provided for apportionment in the House of
Representatives to be based on the *total number of votes cast* rather

I recommend this collection of counterfactual essays edited by Duncan
Brack and published by Politico's, the British publisher specializing
in politics and politicians. The ISBNs of this book  are
ISBN10:  1 84275 172 7

We now continue the SHWI tradition of royal deaths at the most awkward
times.
On June 6, 1867, Tsar Alexander II rode in a parade in Paris with
Emperor

Turkish democracy, like Japanese democracy, is a strange fish.
Sometimes it's a rabbit, sometimes it's a duck; military government has
been a staple of the Turkish Republic more than any other NATO Ally.
The republic had a taste for a high tariff wall and as much internal

Now for a WI on something I know far too little about.
What if Victor Hugo becomes a Very Dead Intellectual early -- drowned
as
a baby, surfeit of eels, you name it? Without him, the anti-Napoleon

In 1902, the first device which was a close ancestor to modern day air
conditioners was invented. By. Ok so what happen if due to an inventer
getting lucky the clock is turned forwards 20 years so AC comes online
in 1882 and we see the technology having effects in 1894. Basically ...

Strangely enough given all of the times that we have had US State
Governors killed as alternate results of a presidential
assassinations, it seems sort of odd to me that there has been only
one governor assassinated in OTL while in office. That Governor was

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI_of_France#The_Bal_des_Ardents
"In January 1393, Queen Isabeau de Bavière organised a party to
celebrate the marriage of one of her ladies-in-waiting. The King and
five other lords dressed up as wild men and danced about chained to

If Bowie had never got injured after his junior year at UK, could he
have lead the Wildcats to the NCAA title and would he have taken over
Ralph Sampson's place as the best player in the college game?

There aren't enough Bulgarian WIs.
1965: A group of officers in the Bulgarian Army attempts a coup against
Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov.
This actually happened.  The Army had always been deeply nationalistic,

From a seminar paper by Sergey Radchenko,  "Splitting Asia: Beijing and
Moscow in Search of Allies (1964-66)":
"This pro-Soviet attitude was challenged from within the Mongolian
political establishment. Tsedenbal's authority was openly contested at the

What if the Highlanders had won at Culloden? What would have happened
if regional devolution had happened in the United Kingdom? Would there
now be a united Catholic Republic of Ireland? How would that impact
England and the rest of the world? Would there be no Irish-Americans?

_Russian Amerika_ by Stoney Compton is coming out in April from
Baen Books. It is 1987 and Russia still owns Alaska (and is still
ruled by a Czar). This is a fragmented North America timeline; in
the 2nd chapter, the following countries are named: United States,

Greetings and salutations.
Inspired by Stirling's rather armwavy TL in his new pulp-homage semi-
AH.
Supposedly, all major powers in that TL use nuclear power on  a level