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  1. Steve Brinson

    [TLIAW] False Start: Texas Politics in the Rear-View Mirror, 1969-
    Threadmarks: Briscoe, 69-73

    DOLPH BRISCOE, Jr. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR 1969-73 In another life, Dolph Briscoe could have been a great Governor of Texas. Perhaps he could have risen faster during his first act in politics. In the 1940s, he served in the Texas House of Representatives, representing his hometown of Uvalde in...
  2. Steve Brinson

    TLIAW: Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart

    ...So. So. Which one is it? What do you mean? Is it a TLIAW, like the title says, or a TLIAD, like the title card says? Well, the timeline will, indeed, take a week to post. But I think TLIAD is a more general format, one not limited to the single day. A more suspicious voice might accuse...
  3. Steve Brinson

    Oneshot: CEPHALOPOD_Round2_Packet.ttd

    Contemporary Events in the Previous Half-century of American Life Open - Packets On Demand (CEPHALOPOD) #2 By Steve Brinson 1. This President signed Executive Order 11615 in response to actions by France, West Germany and Switzerland, implementing wage and price freezes that lasted into his...
  4. Steve Brinson

    Divided We Stand

    Arizona Republic - Former President McCain Admitted To Hospital PHOENIX - The former President isn't out of the woods yet. That's the takeaway from a press release put out by McCain's office, who stated that the former President was returning to the Mayo Clinic Hospital due to "complications"...
  5. Steve Brinson

    I'm Your Huckleberry - A Timeline Of Texas (and the 49 lesser states)
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    PROLOGUE February 25, 2006 Michael DuBois staggered as a gust hit him, blowing cold air into his face. It wasn't the coldest day he had walked through since he had come to Houston, but it felt close. His coat - about two sizes too big, acquired from the Salvation Army, and with all of its...
  6. Steve Brinson

    Alternate Supreme Courts

    This is intended as a sort of companion thread to the ones for Presidents/PMs and Cabinets. To kick this off, here's one from Sundown in America as of December 15, 1987: Chief Justice William Brennan (appointed as an Associate Justice by Eisenhower in 1956 to replace Sherman Minton, and...
  7. Steve Brinson

    SNL Politician Casting for Stephen Colbert

    I'm working on a timeline - it's fairly bare-bones right now - which has, as one feature, Stephen Colbert as an SNL repertory player, starting in the 21st (1995-1996) Season. I'm trying to think of politicians who he could plausibly play who were or could have been active in the period. Here's...
  8. Steve Brinson

    Coming Forth to Glory

    "It is, of course, impossible to speak of the Civil War without mentioning what happened five days after General Lee surrendered. "On April 14, 1865, General Grant and President Lincoln went together to see a play at Ford's Theatre. Grant had initially rebuffed the invitation, due to some...
  9. Steve Brinson

    No Party Color Standardization in the US

    On this board, I've seen red Democrats and blue Democrats, silver Democrats and orange Democrats, beige Democrats and indigo Democrats. (I made that last one, though, so perhaps it shouldn't count.) It seems trivial to have some different combination of color become the standard. But would it...
  10. Steve Brinson

    WI: No/Better Bay Of Pigs?

    The Bay Of Pigs invasion was an abject failure, in essentially every sense. What if it were never attempted? Alternately, what if it were less of a failure, and how could that have happened?
  11. Steve Brinson

    2012 Solar Storm Hits Earth

    On 23 July, 2012, a coronal mass ejection occurred on the Sun. It was comparable in size to the one which hit in 1859, but missed the Earth. What if it hit?
  12. Steve Brinson

    AHC: Divided India, United Europe

    In OTL, India's diverse cultures, languages, and peoples are (largely) united under one flag, while Europe's diverse cultures, languages, and peoples are divided into many nations. Your challenge is to, with a point of divergence after 1453, create a world where those situations are reversed -...
  13. Steve Brinson

    My Empire Lies Over The Ocean

    My Empire Lies Over The Ocean or, Mon Empire Est d'Outre-Mer From PEOBE (Publicly Editable OmniBus Encyclopædia) Bookman's Revolt[1] was a short-lived slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, between 1791 and 1793, though isolated fighting continued until 1794. It was led by Dutty Bookman and fully...
  14. Steve Brinson

    Could a language without consonants evolve?

    What I'm thinking of is a tonal language. Could it happen, and why?
  15. Steve Brinson

    How to make the world a deader place

    Basically, I'm looking for a plausible way to f**k up the world. All of it. Before 1900.
  16. Steve Brinson

    The Lionheart Lives- A TL

    This has been bouncing around in my head for a while. It'll come next week, as I'll be camping for the next few days.
  17. Steve Brinson

    WI Andrew Jackson assassinated by Richard Lawrence

    What are the ramifications?
  18. Steve Brinson

    Challenge 31416

    Come up with a Scenario where, by 1900, the world looks like this:
  19. Steve Brinson

    For Want of a Bullet

    The New York Times, 7 Sept 1901: Excerpt PRESIDENT MCKINLEY SHOT! Anarchist Leon Czolgosz Arrested By Daniel Dillon President William McKinley was shot yesterday at the Pan-American Exposition by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. Authorities say the President was shot at twice, however, the second shot...
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