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  1. Sobel Wiki Featured Article

    This week's featured article at the Sobel Wiki is on Carlos Conceptión, the 19th century Mexican politician-turned-revolutionary. Although Sobel never explicitly says so, it is clear from Conceptión's rhetoric that his ideology has been heavily influenced by the Sobel Timeline's alt-Karl Marx...

  2. Four Awl Nails CCXXVI: Ride Through Hell

    Thank you, Bruce. We shall see.

  3. Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    IOTL uranium was being mined in Utah back in the 19th century, and in Arizona from 1918, as a byproduct of vanadium mining. Presumably Kramer Associates would have been mining vanadium in the U.S.M., and producing uranium as a byproduct. Also, Sobel makes it clear that the major problem facing...

  4. Four Awl Nails CCXXVI: Ride Through Hell

    From The Magazine of Fantascience, June 1994 The Bookateria by Charles Baird Global War: Ride Through Hell by Harry Turtledove (Knapp & Co., NA£13.00, IBIC 27622-D-741) A hundred pages into Harry Turtledove's Global War: Ride Through Hell, I had to stop, go back and reread Global War...

  5. Sobel Wiki Featured Article

    This week's featured article at the Sobel Wiki is on Benito Hermión, dictator of the United States of Mexico, and first (and only) Emperor of Mexico. For Want of a Nail has two central characters, one for each of the nations it features: Ezra Gallivan of the Confederation of North America, and...

  6. Four Awl Nails CCXXV: North American Front

    (This was originally posted to soc.history.what-if on March 13, 2006) From New Worlds of Fantascience, April 1993 New Books by Buddy Alger Global War: North American Front by Harry Turtledove (Knapp & Co., NA£12.50, IBIC 27114-B-741) The most popular topic for alternate history novels by...

  7. Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Two corrections: Mercator was 44 when he seized power in January 1950 (Sobel, p. 375), so he would be 66 in 1971. Still pretty old, and depending on his state of health, he might well decide to step down. Also, technically, Mercator and his allies overthrew Alvin Silva, since the coup took place...

  8. Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    I don't want to keep harping on this, but an isolationist political group that wants to withdraw from the United Empire doesn't sound that radical to me. If that's what they want, then they ought to be a mainstream political party and not a radical terrorist group. A radical group would be one...

  9. Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    I'm going to try again, but I'm afraid this won't be as elegant as my original reply. 1. Thomas Kronmiller was quite militaristic. He wanted the CNA to go to war with Mexico (see Sobel p. 233). 2. Under the Mexico City Constitution of 1819, the President serves a six-year term, and there are...

  10. Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    I just spent an hour composing a reply to this post, only to have it go away when I tried to post it. It was a really good reply, too. Oh well.

  11. Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    This sounds a lot like the doctrine of the Moral Imperative from around the turn of the 20th century. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Worden and his followers called their ideology the New Moral Imperative and looked back on Councilman Thomas Kronmiller and Professor Henry Newton as...

  12. Sobel Wiki Featured Article

    This week's featured article at the Sobel Wiki is on Bruce Hogg, the fifteenth Governor-General of the Confederation of North America, and an ardent isolationist. Being an isolationist was not unusual for a North American politician of Hogg's generation. The backlash against the Starkist...

  13. Sobel Wiki Featured Article: Alvin Silva

    Sobel Wiki Featured Article: Battle of Saratoga What with one thing and another, I haven't had time to put up a new featured article at the Sobel Wiki this week, so I'm going to post an essay I wrote last month on a prior featured article: the Battle of Saratoga, the event that serves as a POD...

  14. Sobel Wiki Featured Article: Alvin Silva

    I find that a busy background is distracting, but I'm willing to be accommodating. I think I've found something sufficiently AH-ish.

  15. Sobel Wiki Featured Article: Alvin Silva

    Hi, I'm Johnny Pez, the creator and admin of the Sobel Wiki, an encyclopedia of Robert Sobel's For Want of a Nail. Last October, I did a revamp of the Sobel Wiki to include a weekly Featured Article, and for the last six months or so I've been posting a series of essays on the Featured...

  16. For Want of a Nail Wiki

    Not sure what a confederation of AH wikis would look like, but if you start it up, count me in.

  17. For Want of a Nail Wiki

    I've got to start nagging Dan McDonald to update the FAN posts at kebe.com. There are actually over 300 of them, carrying the timeline into the early 1980s.

  18. For Want of a Nail Wiki

    Thanks for the good word, SR. I do indeed encourage anyone interested to stop over and have a look. And if the fancy takes you, go ahead and add to it. Sobel Wiki is only 3 months old, and there's plenty left to do.
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