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since soem people are bitching about my spamfest(tom mazanec eat your heart out! Your spamfests are weak compared to mine) so heres a grab bag
Raleigh the explorer never picks up a dirty health-damaging
Amerindian mouth habit, and thus tobacco smoking and the tobacco
industry never start.
Heroin and cocaine are legalized. (Likely result: a high death
rate for a time, perhaps a century or few, while natural selection
makes gradually more and more of the population resistant to the
worst of the effects. (This likely happened OTL with alcohol in
ancient times, in areas where alcohol has been known since ancient
times.)
The Green movement as we know it today never occurs.
An influenza epidemic (on the scale of the so-called Spanish Flu
epidemic which took place in 1918) takes place during the time of the
Second World War. (Of course anyone who responds to this message is welcome to place the epidemic at the time of a different war (such as Vietnam) or an event such as a political convention (such as the tumultous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago) or the fall of the Warsaw pact in
the late 1980s.)
In the early 1960's a case comes before the US supreme court vis a
vis the Legality of private possession on firearms .
The Supreme court hold that as stated in the second amendment , "the
right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed " ,but
only only the Proviso that they belong to "a well regulated militia"
, that being the national guard or other state or federal defence or
law enforcement units or reserves . For those that do not qualify
ownership is no longer a right but a privellage and stictly
liscenced . Results ?
Potatoes are Native to Europe.
No Santa Claus myth. What is Christmas like, especially for kids around
the world?
Frederick the Great, or someone of his exact stature (no smarter, no
dumber), is the king of Prussia from 1793-1821, during the period of the
Fr. Rev. and Nap. Wars.
The Soviet union, and The West allow Germany to reunite, in say 1950.
however it is to remain neutral and disarmed...
What if the biblical principle of Jubilee had been adopted at the
very earliest stages of colonial development? The OTL principal of
chattel slavery is replaced by a system whereby ALL slaves are freed
every 50 years. I am not saying that the form of jubilee would be
identical to the biblical model but that the biblical model is used
as a framework. The key being liberation every 50 years.
Internet never invented.
no african slave trade to america.
The USA goes metric in the 70's
NASA run as a military not civilian space program
Isrela doesn't win against the arabs in 1948
Equal rights amendment passed
Germany rearms and gets agressive after reunification in the 80's
zoarastairansim survies as a major faith
SARS mutates into a superflu
Ebola breaks out of africa
Raleigh the explorer never picks up a dirty health-damaging
Amerindian mouth habit, and thus tobacco smoking and the tobacco
industry never start.
Heroin and cocaine are legalized. (Likely result: a high death
rate for a time, perhaps a century or few, while natural selection
makes gradually more and more of the population resistant to the
worst of the effects. (This likely happened OTL with alcohol in
ancient times, in areas where alcohol has been known since ancient
times.)
The Green movement as we know it today never occurs.
An influenza epidemic (on the scale of the so-called Spanish Flu
epidemic which took place in 1918) takes place during the time of the
Second World War. (Of course anyone who responds to this message is welcome to place the epidemic at the time of a different war (such as Vietnam) or an event such as a political convention (such as the tumultous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago) or the fall of the Warsaw pact in
the late 1980s.)
In the early 1960's a case comes before the US supreme court vis a
vis the Legality of private possession on firearms .
The Supreme court hold that as stated in the second amendment , "the
right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed " ,but
only only the Proviso that they belong to "a well regulated militia"
, that being the national guard or other state or federal defence or
law enforcement units or reserves . For those that do not qualify
ownership is no longer a right but a privellage and stictly
liscenced . Results ?
Potatoes are Native to Europe.
No Santa Claus myth. What is Christmas like, especially for kids around
the world?
Frederick the Great, or someone of his exact stature (no smarter, no
dumber), is the king of Prussia from 1793-1821, during the period of the
Fr. Rev. and Nap. Wars.
The Soviet union, and The West allow Germany to reunite, in say 1950.
however it is to remain neutral and disarmed...
What if the biblical principle of Jubilee had been adopted at the
very earliest stages of colonial development? The OTL principal of
chattel slavery is replaced by a system whereby ALL slaves are freed
every 50 years. I am not saying that the form of jubilee would be
identical to the biblical model but that the biblical model is used
as a framework. The key being liberation every 50 years.
Internet never invented.
no african slave trade to america.
The USA goes metric in the 70's
NASA run as a military not civilian space program
Isrela doesn't win against the arabs in 1948
Equal rights amendment passed
Germany rearms and gets agressive after reunification in the 80's
zoarastairansim survies as a major faith
SARS mutates into a superflu
Ebola breaks out of africa
