History Forum / General / What If / January 2008

According to his second book, Barack Obama did not grow up in a very
religious environment. Although he states that his mother was one of
the most spiritual people he ever knew, he was not really part of any
organized faith.  He seems to have genuinely questioned the nature of

Sophia wrote:

Lords, which had become politically unacceptable in the years after
WWI, <

The following comes from a recent issue of the _New Yorker_:
"In 1905, Harvard College adopted the College Entrance Examination
Board tests as the principal basis for admission, which meant that
virtually any academically gifted high--school senior who could afford

I missed this, but George McDonald Fraser passed away earlier this
month;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/04/db0401.xml
ObWI;  a sperm zigs instead of zags and George McDonald Fraser is

POD:  The Ptolemy dynasty branches differently from OTL and Ptolemy
XIII is in charge of Egypt when Pompey arrives after his disastrous
battle with Caesar.  Ptolemy XIII is in his mid 30's, decently smart
if awfully bull-headed and unimaginative, and is completely 100%

I tend to think (all spam aside) that for what-ifs, the biggest
strange attractor in this newsgroup is any manipulation of World War
Two that results in the Soviets getting less territory.  Particularly
recurrent is any kind of idea that allows the west and the Germans to

It could have happened... maybe.
The electoral vote was 277 D, 254 R.
Assume the following minor shifts in
the popular vote.

By the time of Okinawa suicide was well established in
Japanese conduct, both in waves of Divine Wind aircraft
and in officially-ordered mass civilian jumping off cliffs, etc.
Now space forward to the current situation in Iraq and

Hello again, my good people. I was going to post something on-topic
today, but then I noticed this mass of posts related to, well,
Holocaust denial. I didn't check the exact number, but there seemed to
be close to forty individual messages, possibly more; enough to clog

See background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996-97_protests_in_Serbia
I also remember reading about the "Together" movement protests at the
time in the major US & UK papers.
In OTL, Milosevic weathered this political storm.  What if is

"A German believed to have been the country's last World War I veteran
passed away this month.
Erich Kaestner died January 1 in a nursing home in Cologne at the age
of 107, his son told The Associated Press."

Are all Jews Semitic?
To that question the answer is "no".
In other words they are not by any means all descendants of the Hebrews.
Many are descendants of Jews by conversion in the many lands where they were

Please forgive us for any disturbance, but we have an important
subject
to address to you regarding FAITH, and we Don't intend to overload
your email with unnecessary messages...

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