Recent content by acgoldis

Hi! Just stumbled across this thread. I didn't read it all, but since this is Katherine Howard, imagine the following scenario. In a London bar, someone gets drunk, loses his inhibitions, and announces to the world: "I have quadruplets!" "Ha! You are so fortunate! The king is the father...

Just saw Alfred died relatively early at age 50, likely due to an illness. What happens if he lives to be 80? ITTL he lives exactly 30 years longer than IOTL and dies of natural causes.

What happens if Charlemagne is the brother who does early and Carloman gets all Frankish territory? Does Carloman build an empire like Charlemagne did OTL? Is there even a Holy Roman Empire?

I just read the king of Italy dismissed Mussolini once things started getting out of hand. Could Wilhelm II have done the same thing to Hitler once Hitler started showing his true colors? If so, who would Wilhelm have chosen to replace him?

Makes me wonder what the terms of the armistice would be and who would get what territory at this point. An armistice in early 1918 would save several months of butchery. If it's in 1917 after a 1916 Truce things get even more interesting.

Is it possible for the Christmas Truce to gain enough momentum for it to end the war? I can see it happening later in the war (maybe if they first try it in 1916) when people realize no one is making any progress and consequently settle for a "draw". The trick is convincing the leaders of the...

Here's something I just read about Commodus: ------ Was Emperor Commodus really a bad guy as we saw in the movie Gladiator? Great question! He was WAY worse in real life compared to Gladiator. Gladiator portrays Commodus as this obsessive power-hungry monster concerned with the love of the...

Here's the list. https://www.americantop40.com/charts/top-40-238/march-6-2004-3366/ Jessica Simpson Outkast (note if the artist is a band the band may have different members today), with 2 songs in the Top 10 Britney Spears Nickelback Evanescence Linkin Park Usher Eamon 3 Doors Down Baby Bash...

Your challenge, with a POD of 25 years ago, is to have all all pop artists who had songs in the Top 10 on March 8. 2004, continue their careers to the point where they all appear in the Top 40 today. The other 30 songs can be other artists. If an artist had more than one song in the list in...

I wonder what would have happened if the captain deliberately grounding the Titanic on the iceberg once he concluded that the ship was irrevocably lost. Had he done so he could have conceivably evacuated the crew onto the ice and used the lifeboats to shuttle people back and forth. Grounding...

Here's an article on Spinoza. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/baruch-spinoza-and-the-art-of-thinking-in-dangerous-times A few POD's to consider: 1, Spinoza remains Jewish and continues to develop similar views as IOTL. He convinces the community to at least consider his ideas...

I want to see some of the women get a chance for a moon landing (Jerrie Cobb and so forth). Would it be an all women crew? "Armstrong just fired a thruster while he was moving around the cabin!" "What was he doing?" "Cobb." "What about her?" (silence)

Just saw that there was a Black astronaut in the moon shot program but he died in an accident in 1967 or so. https://www.quora.com/Did-NASA-ever-consider-black-astronauts-to-walk-the-moon-or-was-there-just-a-lack-of-qualified-black-astronauts/answer/Jon-Mixon-1 Suppose this guy survives...

Oh we can delete it if you want. I'm sorry.

It should go to ASB then?