AH Title and Description Game

[QuoProQuid]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

Woodrow Wilson's stroke has rendered him completely incapacitated. However, this is kept secret as First Lady Edith Wilson privately assumes Presidential responsibilities, all the while pretending that the hidden away Wilson is still in command. Mrs. Wilson goes on to have Woodrow run for a third term in 1920.

I'm not sure how plausible that timeline is, but it sounds like it would be a really interesting timeline.

How would that even work? How would she campaign without the public catching on?

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

I'm not sure how plausible that timeline is, but it sounds like it would be a really interesting timeline.

How would that even work? How would she campaign without the public catching on?

Harding campaigned from his front porch. Have Wilson campaign from his bedroom.

[Gosing]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

Woodrow Wilson's stroke has rendered him completely incapacitated. However, this is kept secret as First Lady Edith Wilson privately assumes Presidential responsibilities, all the while pretending that the hidden away Wilson is still in command. Mrs. Wilson goes on to have Woodrow run for a third term in 1920.

The Sons of God

EDIT: Darn you Ninjas!

Details the miraculous 2003 Cubs World Series victory, which included so many nigh-supernatural pieces of good luck for the boys in blue that that players on the '03 team were dubbed "The Sons of God".

Catch Me If You Can

[MaskedPickle]

Originally Posted by anon_user

A timeline detailing Niccolo Machiavelli's role in the defeat of the Medicis and the formation of the Republic of Italy in 1523.


A timeline where early Christianity takes up strong roots in Persia. While the title is something of an artifact - there ends up not being any sort of Orthodox/Catholic split, let alone an actual papacy - the general idea of Persia as a Christian heartland is still there.

Kelly Johnson Goes to Baltimore

Maryland becomes the main location for Lockheed Ltd. The TL focuses on a Soviet Secret Service undercover in the Baltimore factories.

Wish You Were Here

[Gosing]

Originally Posted by MaskedPickle

Maryland becomes the main location for Lockheed Ltd. The TL focuses on a Soviet Secret Service undercover in the Baltimore factories.

Wish You Were Here

To go with the obvious:

Syd Barrett remains sane and off his LSD. Pink Floyd never achieves the superstardom they had IOTL (and Roger Waters never becomes a real songwriter), but all of the group's members are far happier.

[QuoProQuid]

Originally Posted by Gosing

Catch Me If You Can

An even more drastic version of the Eighteenth Ammendment passes in Congress and is signed by the President. Mere moments after its implementation, several major robberies occur in government owned alcohol storage facilities. The strictness of the law leads to organized crime forming fast and with a vengence. Prohibition is an unmitigated disaster.

The Midwest becomes ruled by the Mafia. The leader of the Cleveland Mob is elected Governor of Ohio and sets his eyes against Michigan. Meanwhile, Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone join together and wreak havoc across the nation. The Bureau of Investigation is way out of its league and the situation only gets worse when the stock market collapses. The criminals cannot be caught.

Broken Bottles

[Cyclone]

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

Broken Bottles

A particularly nasty case of biological warfare targeted at the northeastern native Americans tribe in the 1760s kills not only over ten thousand native Americans, but also several hundred whites. The newspapers seize upon it, and a Christian backlash against treating natives as subhuman emerges, eventually resulting in a United States with a far better Indian policy and several states that are majority native.

All Done But The Revolution

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by Cyclone

All Done But The Revolution

The story of the failed August Revolution of 1920 in Paris, which failed due to corruption, indecisive and incompetent leadership, and factionalism in the Crimson Army (TTL's version of the Red Army). The Reds seized most of the country, but their regime fell apart after foreign intervention and the counterrevolutionary siege of Paris in 1922. (Germany won the Great War; Britain didn't enter due to no invasion of Belgium.)

The Magnificent Pie

[QuoProQuid]

Originally Posted by Marshal Duan

The Magnificent Pie

Monsieur Remontel is able to stop a group of Mexican officers from looting his pastry shop by offering them a slice of pie. The delicious desert causes them to have a change of heart and leave the baker alone.

The Pastry War ends of totally butterflied away as a consequence.


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[azander12]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

The Sons of God

James, the brother of Jesus, also claims to be the son of God after Jesus' death, and therefore the true leader of the Christians. This splinters the young Christian Church, with James and his followers, the Dualists, fleeing Roman Judaea for Persia, and the remaining Rejectionists staying as a persecuted minority in Jerusalem. This leads to a much-weakened and splintered Christianity, and centuries later a young man named Mohammed claiming his "Earthly Throne" as the son of God.

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

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Aum Shinrikyo manages to get their hands on a nuclear weapon, and chaos ensues.



Until I Ask For More, My Child

[QuoProQuid]

Originally Posted by azander12

James, the brother of Jesus, also claims to be the son of God after Jesus' death, and therefore the true leader of the Christians. This splinters the young Christian Church, with James and his followers, the Dualists, fleeing Roman Judaea for Persia, and the remaining Rejectionists staying as a persecuted minority in Jerusalem. This leads to a much-weakened and splintered Christianity, and centuries later a young man named Mohammed claiming his "Earthly Throne" as the son of God.




Until I Ask For More, My Child

You are about an hour late for the party, sir.

[azander12]

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

You are about an hour late for the party, sir.

I see, I left with the TL written for a while, then hit post when I got back. I answered the next one, so it shouldn't be an issue...

[Asnys]

Originally Posted by azander12

Until I Ask For More, My Child

Even worse corruption in the Catholic Church leads to Martin Luther including a strong social justice message in his teachings and allying with the peasants against the nobility.

Before the Killing Starts

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by Asnys

Even worse corruption in the Catholic Church leads to Martin Luther including a strong social justice message in his teachings and allying with the peasants against the nobility.

Before the Killing Starts

A TL detailing the ethnic strife in Austria-Hungary (particularly in Bosnia and Northern Servia) in the 1920s in a world where WWI ended in a bloody stalemate.

God Hates the Tsar!

[azander12]

Originally Posted by Asnys

Before the Killing Starts

Bill Clinton avoids intervening as strongly in Somalia, thus leading to a stronger UN mandate for Rwanda.

Originally Posted by Marshal Duan

God Hates the Tsar!

Republicanism in Russia takes on a more religious tone after the sexual improprieties of the Tzar are discover in the late 19th century.



Put Up Your Fists If All You Want Is Freedom

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by azander12

Bill Clinton avoids intervening as strongly in Somalia, thus leading to a stronger UN mandate for Rwanda.




Put Up Your Fists If All You Want Is Freedom

The story of the Asian Autumn, when popular revolts lead to the fall of the PRC and the indepence of Xinjiang and Tibet as secular republics.

God Hates The Tsar!

[QuoProQuid]

Originally Posted by Marshal Duan

A TL detailing the ethnic strife in Austria-Hungary (particularly in Bosnia and Northern Servia) in the 1920s in a world where WWI ended in a bloody stalemate.

God Hates the Tsar!

Ratsputin survives his various assassination attempts and later becomes leader of a theocratic movement during the Russian Civil War.

St. Brendan's Tragedy

[anon_user]

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

St. Brendan's Tragedy

Eoin O'Duffy stages a March on Dublin, despite President de Valera banning it, and despite the opposition of left-wing radicals like the IRA. This sparks a civil war, the second in Ireland's young history, along with further political violence in the future.

The Assassination of William Proxmire

[Asnys]

Originally Posted by anon_user

The Assassination of William Proxmire

William Proxmire is murdered by a mentally-unbalanced Star Trek fan. Public upset leads to further cuts in the NASA budget, including the end of the space shuttle in favor of slimmed-down Apollo capsules, which have nothing to visit except for Mir.

A Place to Stand

[Tsao]

Originally Posted by anon_user

Eoin O'Duffy stages a March on Dublin, despite President de Valera banning it, and despite the opposition of left-wing radicals like the IRA. This sparks a civil war, the second in Ireland's young history, along with further political violence in the future.

The Assassination of William Proxmire

After William Proxmire's assassination in 1970, things in Wisconsin take a turn to the left. OOC: Don't know much more about him than what I got off the wiki)

From the Catskills to the Appalachians!