Recent content by Isot the Terrible

Spring 1916: A massive freak hail and snow storm hits southern Britain, destroying much of the crop for that year.

Had British politics taken a more eurosceptic turn in the '60s I can see staunch pro-European Ted Heath becoming a laughing stock, or if he had lost badly to Wilson in 1970. I can easily see ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne being a political joke instead.

I think you vastly overestimate the importance of Scottish and Welsh devolution in the English political scene. Not 1 Englishman in 10,000 would be willing to split his political party over devolution. Labour (in England) splitting over devolution is ASB. Nope. Until 1992 the Tories did fairly...

The Una river is a good natural boundary between Serbia and Croatia.

The US getting Albuquerque in 1810 seems implausible, rather than simply unlikely.

An utterly rediculous timeline about an ultracompetent Arab female honeytrap/secret agent who works for FAMAS, a merger of Fatah and Hamas. The Israelis are portrayed as stupid and lecherous, and our heroin, with a carefully campaign of assasination and seduction, almost singlehandedly brings...

The Boulanger coup succedes, and the General declares himself Emperor. Russia and France are very closely allied in this scenario. 25 years later, in this timelines WWI, Germany concentrates its armies in the East against Russia, fighting a primarily defensive war in the West, and not invading...

The allied invasion of mainland Italy did not occur until after Mussolini was temporarily overthrown in a anti-axis coup (in the wake o the Battle of the Kursk) - an event extremely unlikely were Hitler winning the war.

Environmental devastation : Where are the bees ? An ASB timeline where a proportion of insects (and other creepy crawlies) grow to giant sizes, and because there are so many of them, devastate the environment and destroy civilization. The heroine of the story, one of a band of survivors, guided...

M*A*S*H* No. The Korean War is too long ago. Happy Days: Probably. Bill Cosby show: Probably - assuming no sex scandal. It is the most recent of the shows listed. Cheers: IDK. I think it would be less successful now due to the recent reduction in bar use. Little House on the Praire: Yes...

Slower development and arguments about joining Australia delay New Zealandish home rule and independence to 1956, on the literal eve of WWIII. Yellow Snow or The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round or The Black Princess of Nineveh

And from exactly where would the bombers have taken off to hit axis oil targets, mainly in Romania, in March 1943? The idea is ludicrous.

GDP is not fixed. US Production and GDP expanded during WWII, due to mobilisation and improved technology. More people does not necessarily mean more advancement. And rebuilt. With improved technology, especially in Germanys case. Seriously, you think without WWI, (then British) India would...

Parliament by then would likely accept the abdication, but refuse to accept Charles II, then in exile in the Netherlands, as King. Charles I would probably still be tried and executed. Hardline supporters of Charles II would fight on, as they did in reality. A bit difficult as he was executed...

568. Lombard invasion of Italy. End of effective Byzantine rule in the West and Western Roman institutions.