History Forum / General / What If / March 2008

February 17, 1974
As in OTL, PFC Robert K. Preston steals a United States Army
helicopter from Fort Meade and heads straight for Washington DC. He
hovers over the White House for several minutes, where unlike OTL

POD:  In the late 16th century England and the Netherlands become a
United Kingdom.  There are many repercussions of this of course, but
the one that we are going to look at is that the Anglo-Dutch Empire
manages to conquer all of the Caribbean, parts of Brazil, and

May 1915
With the recent repulse of the Allied offensive at Aubers Ridge and
the near-victory at Ypres, the Kaiser's government is feeling pretty
confident that the Entente forces are going to collapse any day now.

In "Judgment Days" Nick Kotz suggests that Martin Luther King needed
LBJ, and LBJ didn't need to risk the fate of his party (and its
minority for a generation) for MLK, but was more likely to, as a
Southerner--and would only have been able to do that, as a Southerner.

I've just come back from an afternoon viewing of _The Other Boleyn
Girl_ with Jerry. It was an enjoyable enough film, although it and the
very watchable _The Tudors_ do take care to edit 16th century England
to better suit 21st century broadcast standards, audience

Okay, the state of shwi is looking might sad in its sad spiral as it
gets dragged down by the death of Usenet.  As part of a general raging
against the dying of the light, I'll post something.
Really this is more of a musing than an ATL, since I need to get back

After the First Punic War, anti-Hamilcar factions in the Carthaginian
government opposed making the mercenary pay-offs that Hamilcar had
promised, thus leading the mercenaries to revolt. In OTL, they had a
perfectly good reason for not wanting to make the pay-offs, since

On 6 September 1147 AUC, two armies met at Frigidus, just west of
Aquileia, Italia. The leader of the eastern Empire's army,  Theodosius,
suffered execution in the immediate aftermath of his defeat, and General
Arbogast and his invincible Army was the strong right arm of the

The Pagan, The Druid, and The Wiccan say, "Unearth the Secrets!"
http://sarsen56.wordpress.com/solve-this/
http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/new/spring08/505155.htm
http://thamesandhudson.texterity.com/catalogue/2008spring/?pg=79

One thing that I did not realize (or had forgotten) until lately was how
narrowly Whig Congressman David (in his lifetime he was known as "David"
not "Davy") Crockett was defeated for re-election in 1835.  Congressional
Quarterly's Guide to US Elections, Volume II (fourth edition ...

The 1967 War broke old Labor and gave us Likud, Abu Nidal, the PLO,
and the Occupation of Lebanon.
So, for all the 1967 sound/fury/onanism among the Arabs, and whatever
one could call the Soviets' behavior, no war. And no war down the

hi, i'm an avid follower of this group and interested in history in
general. i came across this obscure blog post on palestine and israel
(http://techqi.blogspot.com/2008/03/palestine-vs-israeli-land-
occupation.html) that left me searching for thoughts. i don't really

I am surprised nobody wanted to follow the line of Trotsky
winning vs Stalin.  Maybe its too big a topic? Maybe too shallow?
Jerry

On one night, late 19th century, a certain Fotheringhay stopped the
rotation of Earth. He omitted to cause air, water, loose items and
other corotating bodies to follow suit.
Eventually, he knew no better than return everything to its previous

AH Challenge: The Garden of the Martyrs, If a Tree Could Wander
At the height of European hegemony, Isfahan was called 'the Florence
of the Orient' to Beirut's Paris. Historians say, 'Esfahan Nesf-e
Jahan' or 'Isfahan is half the world' and the locals still agree--