History Forum / General / What If / May 2008

Wikipedia tells me that "After banishing polyphony from the Liturgy in
1322, Pope John XXII spoke in his 1324 Bull Docta Sanctorum Patrum
warning against the unbecoming elements of this musical innovation.".
The AB Guide to Music Theory says that "what distinguishes Western music

Dear Fellow:
Here at Vineland, New Jersey, the Orson Welles Presidential Library will
have a special exhibition from July to August 2008 on Atlantic City, and
how it grew into the entertainment capitol of first the New York Metro,

Gerald Ford (appointed Vice President 1973, promoted to president 1974)
died on December 26,  2006 (aged 93). Upon his death, it was revealed by
multiple journalists and scholars that Ford had provided confidential
interviews during his life on condition that they only reach print ...

As we have discussed here a few times, President Wilson in November 1916
contemplated--in the event of what seemed a likely Hughes victory--
appointing Hughes as Secretary of State, then resigning and persuading
Vice President Marshall also to resign, thereby making Hughes ...

Your challenge is this: to make a 2008 where the united states of
America is a nation that's fully bilingual both in law and on a social
basis. However, the language used can't be spanish(as that'd make
things too easy).

What if the North had followed Horace Greeley's advice and allowed the
South to leave the Union without a struggle?  I think the USA would be
a much better and wealthier place today if the Civil War had not taken
place.  So many lives were lost and wealth destroyed by the Civil War.

Any Labour possibles in 1976?
How would they deal with Thatcher and the WOD?

THE INCEST TABOO revisited
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and its relevance to the only workable formula for long-term societal
healing

Here are two arguments that the significance of the vote has been
overrated.  (I put "draft extension" in quotes because the phrase may give the
misleading impression that the draft would have gone out of existence if
the bill hadn't passed.    As Thomas H. Elot notes below, this is ...

http://sitscape.com/topic/funny
Just keep hit the "Surprise" button there for amazing fun.
Click on "channel" will show you other topics, lots of fun!

How might the United States have become a unitary instead of a federal
state and what would the effects have been?

The Presidential campaign of 1968 began late that year, in the last
weekend of February. A Democratic volunteer named Charles Skeffy had
made a call to a casual contact at the White House about the large
number of young volunteers who were going door to door for Senator

11.
August 16 sees unpredictable weather, and therefore some rest for the
aircrews (not for the ground crews, though).
For August 17, Kesselring has issued orders to use the renewed British radar

From here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44210
This column is about three years old, but I remember it creating a lot
of controversy at the time. The following is an excerpt:
*** If Yalta was a betrayal of small nations as immoral as the Molotov-

Switch the Rockies with the Misspissippi and the Appalachians  with
the Sierra Nevadas .What is the new climate and resulting  history of
North America