History Forum / General / What If / June 2009

Hello, everyone. One of my articles was just published in
"Scandinavian Journal of History". The contents of the text just might
be on-topic also for this forum:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a912678703

Extra help for the allies? Or Does the taxi serve stop in Paris?

It doesn't happen very often these days that respected ex-contributors return
to this newsgroup, so we should not let it pass unnoticed...

Suppose that England, Wales, Ireland and possibly Scotland have a
larger-than-OTL holdout of pre-Christian paganism into the 17th
Century.  Every time Church persecution seems to be working, a bunch
of of apparently good Christians get caught in the hills lighting a

"Martin Holler (Humboldt U, Berlin). Towards a `Socialist Gypsy State': Plans
for an Autonomous Region for Romanies in the Early Soviet Union. After the
October Revolution, Soviet Romanies experienced the whole ambivalence of the
Bolshevik nationalities program. Affirmative ...

I have not yet had a chance to read Ella Mell, *Casting Might-Have-Beens: A
Film-by-Film Directory of Actors Considered For Roles Given To Others* (2005)
but it looks like an interesting book for film allohistorians.
A review notes:

Here's the front page on Google:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.history.future/topics?gvc=2
As you can see, it's pretty dead: only two new  non-spam posts in the
last 60 days, and there hasn't been an actual thread in nearly three

Any idea for a POD that would make the the Peoples Republic of Vietnam
attempt to create nuclear weapons the way that the People Republic of
Korea has?
Are there any other Communist states that are reasonable candidates

After the South African acquisition of Namibia from the Germans they
decide to give the northern 100km or so to Portugal. This should cut
the black population of Namibia in half, and take none of the mineral
wealth.

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The Biggest Taboo, the Only *Non-mentally-ill* Response to the
Vivisection Swindle, June 1990:
http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/27/12.html

"The slavery of the Negroes began in iniquity; a curse has attended it,
and a curse will follow it. National vices will be punished with national
calamities."
           --David Rice to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, 1792

Just after midnight Moscow time the USSR missile launch detection system
reports a launch from central North America.  A second, third, fourth and
fifth launch are soon detected in sequence.  The computer system
automatically prepares to launch a massive counter battery attack.  ...

OTL, the nation of Senegal is largely the creation of one man: Louis
Faidherbe, colonial governor in the 1850s.  When he took office, there
was no Senegal -- there were just a couple of offshore forts, some
coastal trading posts, and an interior consisting of various ethnic

instead of washington?

What would have been the consequence to day's world if Mary Stuart had
survived Elizabeth and united the English/Scottish and French nations
and become queen of France married to French King, Queen of Scotland
and Queen of England