History Forum / General / What If / November 2009

It’s the summer of 1947 and Princess Elizabeth – heir to the British
throne – is going out riding on the Balmoral Estate. Her horse looses
its footing and slips; Elizabeth comes off the horse and falls badly,
she breaks her neck and dies.

My PoD is that Kerensky recognizes the Leninists as a great threat,
much greater than the broken remnants of those loyal to the Czars.
Taking as ruthless approach to Lenin and his allies as Lenin took with
his enemies, Kerensky's security apparatus (of a kind he never

UBE instead of UK... All English Colonies still subject to
Parliment, with a representitive in both the House of Lords by large
expances, definately still a minority in the House of Commons.
Would it be the United British Commonwealth instead? ATL assumes the

and used his college football career at florida state to springboard
into a career in the nfl instead of hollywood?

As the Army of Northern Virginia begins its slow movement north towards
Pennsylvania,  General  Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is as well recovered
physically from his injury as he will ever be, His injury at
Chanscellorsville has left him with only one arm and he seems less

Specifically, if the 13 colonies lost their bid for independence, they
would
have remained part of Great Britain.  But for how long?
When Great Britain liberated Canada (was it in the 1860's?),

I saw a good movie recently on the subject of sports hooliganism, with
Charlie Hunnam,
Elijah Wood and Carlos Estevez, and it's got an interesting WI
spinning in my head.

Ben Franklin was against the Bold Eagle being picked as the
national bird of the United States because he thought that the bold
eagle had bad morals. He favored the turkey, which he thought was a
courageous bird even if it could be vain and silly at times. WI Ben

I have been thinking of ways to make various ex-presidents president again
after their retirement or defeat.  (In OTL this only happened with Grover
Cleveland.) In the case of John Quincy Adams, the closest thing to a
plausible way to do this that I can think of is as follows:

Three legions not slaughtered to the man? What effect does this have?

Wilhelm I, first Kaiser of the Second Empire, father of Friederich III
(99 day Second Kaiser) and grandfather of Wilhelm II (third and last
Kaiser) was during his lifetime the target of not less than four (count
them!) assassination attempts.

I guess you can imagine this idea with or without the moon.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/mental-health-break
-19.html

I happened to read part of an old Guardian Weekly (published
by the British newspaper, the Guardian).  Specifically, about
the partial revival of the chicle industry due to a market for
organic chicle.  Originally, all chewing gum was made from

I did a bit of reading on the start of WWI and skimmed
through some of the Hague and Geneva conventions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frontiers

I'm In the process of writing a timeline in which Nolan Bushnell somehow
finds venture capital through some way other than selling Atari Japan free
to become Namco and the rest of the company to Warner Brothers.  As a
result, Atari's game designers aren't treated like poop, so ...