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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.

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

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.

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

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?

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,

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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