History Forum / General / What If / March 2007

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Just a half backed WI.
Post WW2 it looked for a while as if Albania might become part of
Yugoslavia. Since the time the Germans had been forced out of the
Balkans the Albanian communist party had been closely following the line

Roderick McLean, the last man to try and kill Queen Victoria, did so
on March 2, 1882. Angry at a rejection of poetry he'd sent in to the
Royal Family, the proto-Myspace user was one of the few Victorian
assasins to actually load his pistol when he tried to take down the

Moving off the continent for this one.
On May 15, 1800, one James Hadfield fired a pistol at King George III
at the Theatre Royal during the playing of the national anthem.
There's some question about how serious Hadfield was. Badly injured as

In OTL, Bloody Sunday leads to the 1905 Revolution and then the 1917
Revolution.  What if Alexi  falls on January 7(POD), and so the Czar
stays in St. Petersburg until January 10. At this point he cannot
leave due to a strike, and so on January 22 he is at home in the

If anyone hasn't seen the latest Hollywood production about Classical
warfare, don't waste your time. Yet another production about the
Plucky Heroes crushing the Wicked Barbarian Hordes; isn't Hollywood
supposed to be opposed to imperialistic adventures like the one our

KHOJALY GENOCIDE ONE OF MOST MONSTROUS CRIMES OF XX CENTURY
The night from February 25 to 26, 1992, went down the history of
Azerbaijani people as a black date. At that night, Armenian armed
groups supported by military personnel (predominantly consisting of

As a Christian American Father, I want to make sure that my son is
well informed about sex by age 14.  When my son turns 14, or possibly
even sooner, I intend to educate him about safe sex to avoid pregnancy
and disease.  This means educating him on the 10 most common STD's

What if rudolf hess succeeded in his peace mission with British?

Background:  The Vandals were not the vicious savages often
protrayed; in many ways they were no better or worse than any of the
other Germanic groups which washed over the Empire during its final
centuries.  That being said, they were hardly angels either and, if

Journalist Whittaker Chambers, most famous for his role as the man who
forced Alger Hiss out of the spy-closet, suffered most of his life
from a serious heart condition. (He'd grown up in extreme poverty and
was always in poor health for one reason or another; particularly in

first time post.
what if with a little more help from Germany the Orange Free States
and the Transvaal Republic won their independents in The Boer Wars?

Between the American Revolution and American Civil War, which had a
greater proportion on irregular forces, tactics, and atrocities? From
my PoV I don't really see Washington as a follower of guerrilla
tactics but of a Fabian, delaying approach stilll relying on

Who knows what role our childhood plays in our subsequent
personalities?  So, the POD is that Isaac Newton does not die a few
months before the birth of Isaac Newton (that's not a typo, the father
of the famous Isaac Newton was also named Isaac Newton).

Seeing as the Cricket World Cup is currently underway just off of our shores
in the West Indies, find a PoD that makes the sport of cricket as
proportionately popular in the USA as it is now in, let's say, Australia.