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| Karl Marx RIP 1830 | 21 Nov 2008 08:23 GMT | 16 |
Karl Marx catched the Influenze after the New Years celebration and dies the second week of January 1830. He dies as a child and never has any writings to encourage his later worldview's know OTL as Marxism.
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| What if the US had laxer attitudes towards alcohol? | 21 Nov 2008 07:09 GMT | 4 |
In celebration of the fact that I have reached the age at which I'm able to drink legally under the US's nigh-islamic alcohol laws(I'm pretty sure some Islamic nations have lower drinking ages than 21) here's this thread! What POD or set of PODs could lead to an America
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| A fourth Abrahamic tradition? | 21 Nov 2008 05:47 GMT | 17 |
What could have led to a fourth great Abrahamic religion after Islam? I know the Baha'i could be considered one, but numerically they don't really compare, and apparently they started as a reform movement in Persian Shia.
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| Interstellar Portals part 3 - Profile of World 000002 | 21 Nov 2008 04:57 GMT | 12 |
Profile on World 000002 (World 000001 being Earth) Names Latin or Scientific designation: Alpha Centauri A IV Common name in most commonly used Language: Centauri
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| A portal between Venus and Mars | 21 Nov 2008 01:51 GMT | 23 |
What if someone, whether alien space bats, mad scientists or anyone else were to open a portal/wormhole between Venus and Mars, such that both mouths are at the respective zero heights as defined by astronomers?
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| Empty America - Part 41 | 21 Nov 2008 01:10 GMT | 19 |
Empty America - Part 41 Summer, 1404 [Kastaliborg, Kingdom of Man, Vinland Empire] [OTLs Castletown, Isle of Man] The sheet lightning flashes, and the harbor suddenly flickers bright as day,
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| In Hoc Signo Perdes | 20 Nov 2008 17:24 GMT | 39 |
Today being the 1696th anniversary of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, which ended the Tetrarchy and resulted in Constantine being sole ruler of the Roman Empire, I thought I'd do a WI to commemorate this - a TL in which Maxentius wins the battle
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| Inchon is a failure | 19 Nov 2008 23:33 GMT | 13 |
By September 15, 1050 the North Koreans had driven the South Korean Army and its American allies into a small perimeter around the port of Pusan. In a classic end run and turning movement General MacArthur ordered a landing of 70,000 troops at Inchon. This led to a complete
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| WI Little Boy type weapon ready in July 1944? | 19 Nov 2008 22:44 GMT | 281 |
WI the Uranium enrichment program were more successful than it was OTL and the Little Boy type (Hiroshima) bombs were ready to deploy in July 1944 at a rate of one every ten days? What would be the first target and how long before the targeted country
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| WI Harold Wilson steps down as Labour Leader after 1970 defeat? | 19 Nov 2008 02:39 GMT | 6 |
http://tinyurl.com/5jldz7 "Harold Wilson may have been suffering the early stages of Alzheimer's disease when he stunned Britain by resigning as Prime Minister, new research suggests.
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| What IF: Japan had also attacked the Panama Canal on Dec.7'41 ? | 19 Nov 2008 02:27 GMT | 56 |
Gents, I'm trying to research the above noted ATL but am having trouble in finding detailed information wrt the military resources available to the US defenders there.
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| WI: No Communist Witch Hunts in the 1950's in the U.S. | 18 Nov 2008 22:44 GMT | 28 |
The general assumption of most historians and politicians regarding Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist Witch Hunts and the activities of the House Committee on Un-American activities in the 1950's is that it was a paranoid aberration and overreaction to the Soviet Union
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| WI: Bush died July 2002 | 18 Nov 2008 21:51 GMT | 20 |
My wife (a committed independent) was commenting that the best way for Bush to have been viewed favorably is if he had died just after 9/11. My response was that at that time he really hadn't done much to receive personal approval other than a general approval of the
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