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[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by d32123

A Fortunote Turn of Events

A timeline where an independent Newfoundland which is going through hard economic times has a Communist Revolution. U.S. launches a Bay of Pigs style invasion to overthrow their government.

Not so new now, are ya?

In April of 1994, Kurt Cobain tried to kill himself. Little did he know that the firing pin of his shotgun was missing.

[John Fredrick Parker]

Originally Posted by d32123

A timeline where an independent Newfoundland which is going through hard economic times has a Communist Revolution. U.S. launches a Bay of Pigs style invasion to overthrow their government.

Placentia Bay Invasion

PoD, October 2009: Chicago wins the bid for the 2016 Olympics -- then butterflies lead Martha Coakley to win her special election, preserving the Dems' Senate Supermajority through 2010. TL covers the Obama Administration and US politics from the PoD through 2016's Olympics and elections.

EDIT ADD: Damn, ninja'd

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by John Fredrick Parker

Placentia Bay Invasion

PoD, October 2009: Chicago wins the bid for the 2016 Olympics -- then butterflies lead Martha Coakley to win her special election, preserving the Dems' Senate Supermajority through 2010. TL covers the Obama Administration and US politics from the PoD through 2016's Olympics and elections.

EDIT ADD: Damn, ninja'd

So try again, chief!

[Richter10]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Not so new now, are ya?

In April of 1994, Kurt Cobain tried to kill himself. Little did he know that the firing pin of his shotgun was missing.

A Harsh Decision Delayed

In October 1943, Hitler is informed about the upcoming escape of Danish Jews and orders German Navy to stop that route at all costs. The massacre is prevented by the heroic sacrifice of H.M.S. Thunder Child, when she prevents that three German battleship get close of Osesund Strait (and managing to sink one)
(this is the correct version of my earlier proposed TL - I have mixed the rescue of Danish Jews with Operatio Dynamo)

[John Fredrick Parker]

Thunder Child

TL ninja'd above

[Starseed]

Originally Posted by Richter10

A Harsh Decision Delayed

In October 1943, Hitler is informed about the upcoming escape of Danish Jews and orders German Navy to stop that route at all costs. The massacre is prevented by the heroic sacrifice of H.M.S. Thunder Child, when she prevents that three German battleship get close of Osesund Strait (and managing to sink one)

You missed 'em by a mile, Adolf! (Assuming the distance between the last stand of the HMS Thunderchild and the escape is nearly a mike.)

iOS fails hard when when Android is released due to a stricter agreement that forces people to keep to a visual standard. HTC bitches about this and is told to STFU. Android is successful and is the OS released on Google's new notebooks.

[Codae]

Originally Posted by Turquoise Blue

Lee Harvey Oswald, You're Sacked!

Puerto Rico votes for statehood in 2012. This TL shows how one more star, changed American society. The "Fifty-first state" phrase became the "Fifty-second state". All flags had to change. Using a 50-star flag meant that either you haven't changed it yet, or you didn't recognize PR as a state (mostly racists used this) Racism against Latin Americans decrease somewhat, because a state has Spanish as its first language. Luis Fortuno, riding on this popularity, runs as a Republican in 2016, and wins, becoming the United States' first Hispanic president.

Fortunate Four Years, Fortunate Fortuño

Ottokar II of Mohemia, in his capacity as an Imperial elector, ends up voting for Alfonso X of Castile in 1257 instead of Richard of Cornwall. With Alfonso taking the German throne, he spends less time in Spain; thus, his son Sancho (IV, OTL) as well as Ferdinand de la Cerda predecease him in the Reconquista. What follows is an orderly division of the Hispano-Burgundian possessions among Alfonso's grandsons, although upon Alfonso's death the next Emperor is a Plantagenet, followed by a Luxemburger who soon dies of measles. No dynasty ever gains a hold on the Imperial title, which becomes meaningless far sooner than IOTL.

Much of Central Europe comes under the rule of the PrsmlygisbIcan'tspellthisids: Bohemia, Austria, Styria, Brandenburg, Hungary, Poland, and Milan at their apex around 1400. Sitting as a counterweight in Europe is France, which manages to deal with those pesky Angevins much sooner than IOTL. Aragon, as well, is quite powerful, in the process of taking the lion's share of Spain. The Byzantine Empire is weaker than IOTL, but then again so are the Turks.

EDIT: That was a pretty amazing ninja swarm there. Well, here's a timeline to stand in for Starseed's missing one.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Codae

EDIT: That was a pretty amazing ninja swarm there. Well, here's a timeline to stand in for Starseed's missing one.

Wow... I wouldn't call that a ninja swarm seeing as how it took almost an hour.

I'm assuming you opened a new window, typed your title, and took a while to write your TL description?

[Codae]

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

Wow... I wouldn't call that a ninja swarm seeing as how it took almost an hour.

I'm assuming you opened a new window, typed your title, and took a while to write your TL description?

Apart from the "new window" part, yes.

BTW, we currently have three timelines outstanding.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Codae

Apart from the "new window" part, yes.

BTW, we currently have three timelines outstanding.

Well... pick one?

[Codae]

Originally Posted by John Fredrick Parker

Placentia Bay Invasion

PoD, October 2009: Chicago wins the bid for the 2016 Olympics -- then butterflies lead Martha Coakley to win her special election, preserving the Dems' Senate Supermajority through 2010. TL covers the Obama Administration and US politics from the PoD through 2016's Olympics and elections.

EDIT ADD: Damn, ninja'd

Six Rings Unbroken

[Starseed]

Originally Posted by Codae

Fortunate Four Years, Fortunate Fortuñ

EDIT: That was a pretty amazing ninja swarm there. Well, here's a timeline to stand in for Starseed's missing one.

I finally edited one in. You might want to look at it.

[CaliBoy1990]

Here's one: Jimmy Carter is shot and nearly killed by a crazed white supremacist gunman named Samuel Todd Francis(yes, he's a real person. Look him up), in July of 1976 while campaigning in Jacksonville, Fla., following a speech in April, promising his support for the minority communities of America. The badly injured Carter decides not to run anymore and instead gives the nomination to Scoop Jackson, who wins the 1976 & 1980 elections.
Jackson, unfortunately, is assassinated in March, 1983, by a Ukrainian nationalist while visiting Toronto, along with highly unpopular Canadian PM Robert Stanfield.
Jackson's vice president, Walter Mondale, ends up inheriting an increasingly unstable world. Even worse, WWIII nearly starts in September 1984 following an attack scare at a Russian early warning station. Mondale had already pledged not to run in 1984 but this only hastens his departure. Mondale has a heart attack in late November following yet another crisis, and decides to leave the country in the hands of VP Lloyd Bentsen while he recuperates for a couple months.
Howard Baker won the '84 elections with about 58% of the popular vote but proved to be a terribly incapable leader, and many people began to grow tired of both parties.
In 1988, the greatest upset in U.S. political history occurred when Texan maverick economist Pat Choate managed to win 46% of the popular vote, versus Republican Bob Dole, and Democrat Paul Tsongas. His stay in the White House, though, lasted only one term, because of his inability to get things done.

Now, in 1993, President Bob Kerrey, and VP Bill Clinton, are providing Americans with hope for the future, with their grand vision for the new United States. Will it work out? Or could their noble intentions end in disaster? .......

[Starseed]

Derp. I goofed.

[d32123]

Originally Posted by Starseed

Woah dog, fix those fucking typos. Fix them now. You misspelled Kerry.

No he didn't...

[Starseed]

Originally Posted by d32123

No he didn't...

Yes he did. Read it all. Kerrey?

[d32123]

Originally Posted by Starseed

Yes he did. Read it all. Kerrey?

Yeah, Bob Kerrey, not John Kerry.

[Starseed]

Originally Posted by CaliBoy1990

Here's one: Jimmy Carter is shot and nearly killed by a crazed white supremacist gunman named Samuel Todd Francis(yes, he's a real person. Look him up), in July of 1976 while campaigning in Jacksonville, Fla., following a speech in April, promising his support for the minority communities of America. The badly injured Carter decides not to run anymore and instead gives the nomination to Scoop Jackson, who wins the 1976 & 1980 elections.
Jackson, unfortunately, is assassinated in March, 1983, by a Ukrainian nationalist while visiting Toronto, along with highly unpopular Canadian PM Robert Stanfield.
Jackson's vice president, Walter Mondale, ends up inheriting an increasingly unstable world. Even worse, WWIII nearly starts in September 1984 following an attack scare at a Russian early warning station. Mondale had already pledged not to run in 1984 but this only hastens his departure. Mondale has a heart attack in late November following yet another crisis, and decides to leave the country in the hands of VP Lloyd Bentsen while he recuperates for a couple months.
Howard Baker won the '84 elections with about 58% of the popular vote but proved to be a terribly incapable leader, and many people began to grow tired of both parties.
In 1988, the greatest upset in U.S. political history occurred when Texan maverick economist Pat Choate managed to win 46% of the popular vote, versus Republican Bob Dole, and Democrat Paul Tsongas. His stay in the White House, though, lasted only one term, because of his inability to get things done.

Now, in 1993, President Bob Kerrey, and VP Bill Clinton, are providing Americans with hope for the future, with their grand vision for the new United States. Will it work out? Or could their noble intentions end in disaster? .......

New Democratic Millennium


iOS fails hard when when Android is released due to a stricter agreement that forces people to keep to a visual standard. HTC bitches about this and is told to STFU. Android is successful and is the OS released on Google's new notebooks.

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

Originally Posted by Starseed

iOS fails hard when when Android is released due to a stricter agreement that forces people to keep to a visual standard. HTC bitches about this and is told to STFU. Android is successful and is the OS released on Google's new notebooks.

Android - A Success Story

Cleopatra manages to secude Octavian and to lay the blame for the whole power struggle on Marc Antony. Egypt retains much of its autonomy and does not become an imperial province.

[freivolk]

Originally Posted by Barbarossa Rotbart

Android - A Success Story

Cleopatra manages to secude Octavian and to lay the blame for the whole power struggle on Marc Antony. Egypt retains much of its autonomy and does not become an imperial province.

What a beautiful Nose

Emperor Friedrich II. dies in 1231. His son Heinrich becomes Emporer, his son Konrad King of Sicily. So a german and aitalian Line of Stauffern is established.