History Forum / General / What If / July 2007

During the Siege of Syracuse in the Second Punic War, Marcellus doesn't
notice the weak spot and/or the Syracusan guards don't slack of on the
holidays and/or the Syracusans don't panic and drive off the Roman assault
that captured the city OTL. Whatever the details, the city is ...

Of the three assassinations that were to take place on the night of
April 14, only John Wilkes Booth was successful in slaying Lincoln, a
man he hated considerably. Lewis Powell, assigned to kill William
Seward only served to injure the Secretary of State and his sons,

I scan Uchronia occasionally to see what the new WI publications are.
Here is one about a month old but certainly within the parameters of
shwi and smn. How much "historian" and how much "journalist" Mr.
Roberts is is a subject for this discussion as well as the obvious

I recently heard of this, and surprisingly couldn't find much if
anything on shwi. What if Mary Tudor was married to her half brother
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond?

Antony Green gives us this:
"Would history have been different if John Howard had got just a few
hundred more votes, and a better flow of DLP preferences?
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/resources/nswelectionsanalysis/1968/Drummoyne.htm

A counterpoint to Doug's plea for new blood.
Given that soc.history.what-if is in its death spiral, why not let
it go? The people here interested in intelligent speculation all
know each other well enough to communicate by e-mail at this point,

Yeah, me and twelve million other people have an opinion about
this book. So sue me.
Spoilers ahoy...
*S* is for the spoilers that you gave me,

A little over three years ago, Virginia Representative Brenda Vick
astonished America and the world when she clinched the Democratic
nomination for the presidency, going on to narrowly defeat incumbent
John McCain that November to become both our first woman president and

Part 2: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
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Following a suitable period of mourning for the late George III,
HRH George IV had planned to enjoy a lavish coronation ceremony,

In December of 1948, Operation Crow, the second Dutch attempt to
recapture Indonesia, commenced.  During that offensive, the Indonesian
fighting forces were pretty much decimated, and Sukarno and Hatti (the
leader were captured.  According to wikipedia.com, Suharto's forces

Research sources:
http://www.thewaffenss.com

In May 1923 the first world war was almost over. Almost as the last of
the peace treaty conferences, that between the allies and Turkey, was
still being held in Lausanne and appeared to be heading for failure.
Already earlier in the year it had been brought to a temporary halt ...

Presume that for whatever reason LBJ changes his mind(presume that
instead of getting ideas that racial supermajority districts are the
way to go he pushes for fairness in district bounderies) and instead
of including in the voting rights act provisions which mandate

Circa 15,000 B.C. or so, a third species of chimpanzee evolves in the
forests of Central Africa. Physically they're nearly identical to bonobos,
but their big difference is the development of sign language.
Over the next few thousand years, they spread all throughout the tropical

I was looking through Theses in my Library for inspiration and I came
across an interesting one, "The South Carolina of Kentucky, How
Evangelical Religion caused Secessionist Sentiment in the Purchase
Area"