History Forum / General / What If / April 2007

Dear  friends,
I'm a humble disciple of Gurudev Shri Sudarshan Nathji and Gurumata
Dr. Sadhana Singhji and our Sadgurudev is Paramhans Swami
Nikhileshwaraanand, the great yogi of the divine land of Siddhashram,

    POD: The Philippines is still to be spun off into its own
nation but for some reason the Act fails to reclassify Filippinos
as aliens. In addition, the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935 is
never passed.

OK - now for something a little different...
POD July 1947
In 1947, the US Army Air Force (and then Air Force) started Project
Mogul.  Project Mogul consisted of a series of high altitude balloons

POD:  Around 75 million years ago if this article is correct (http://
www.livescience.com/animalworld/051117_old_grass.html) the plant that
in OTL developed into grass (hereby defined as monocotyledonous green
plants in the family Poaceae) is eaten and grass as we know never

In OTL, the USA of course began with Thirteen States.
Then Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and
Ohio came in by 1812, leaving 18 states, 9 free and 9
slave.  According to Wiki (ObFWIW)

When reading about people's predictions of WWII I see wild mood
swings.
Majority opinion saying before 1940 that France would not fall.
Majority opinion after 1941 saying the UK and USSR would fall.

WI: Some primates make it to Australia ten+ million years ago.
What are the effects on the Australian ecosystem?
I have been trying to figure out how to make this one work and
it really isn't easy.  Australia is long ways away from, well,

Looks like the truth about Nixon's Watergate Burglars is finally very
clear.
http://surftofind.com/nixon

Some of us remember Robert Heinlein's "Rocketship Galileo" and the
movie "Destination Moon" that came from it. A great piece of art,
science fiction and accomplishment.
In the RS Galileo story the intrepid adventurer buys a commercial

The History Channel tells me that Hatshepsut's army was the largest
army in the world at the time of her reign.  (I wonder how they can
compare it for instance with the Shang Dynasty's army).
However her empire didn't stretch as Khartum.  Let's suppose that the

Hey, last week I was walking down the road using my old battered grey
metal walking stick when i saw this lady with a real cool stick, all
patterned and really neat. I looked for a similar one and found what I
was looking for - its got a handle that is shaped to fit the palm of

I've seen several threads concerning a surviving Norse Greenland, but
what if trade still stops and some manage to survive to adopting Inuit
ways? The reason it didn't happen, as far as I know, was mutual
distrust and xenophobia.

Let us imagine that all copyright laws are rendered ineffective, on
the grounds that everything has been said and done before, so there is
no use fighting about it anymore. Effects?

One of the questions on this quarter's alternate history competition
will be the consequences of a unified Germany in the 19th and 20th
Centuries. The essay should cover the possibility of the Prussian
monarchy being the unifying element in Germany and its possible role

1825: A deranged Tennessean[1] creeps up on President John Quincy
Adams and Secretary of State Henry Clay during a White House ball and
assasinates them with smuggled pistols. At his trial, the assasin
proclaims that he murdered Adams and Clay in revenge for the "Corrupt