As someone who lives downwind of a large hog operation, I can also imagine a high priest walking out on a warm summer day,taking a sniff and summarily declaring pigs , EVIL!
Well, the Dakota conflict would have been put down in short order , but since most of the Firearms would doubtlessly have been sent to Ft. Snelling it would have been very easy to ship them back down the Mississippi. This would have been of great assistance to the Federal Troops at Jefferson...
A St. Charles Expat weighs in.
Howdy,
A more "expansive" St. Louis in the Guilded age is going to spread out the Cultural sites (Museuems, Zoo, Parks) instead of concentrating them around the Forest Park Area. I also doubt that Lambert Field would end up being the site of the Main...
On the other hand , a 1960's Halo might come across more like Joe Halderman's "Forever War" , a Vietnam inspired creation that if it were made into a Game would have quite a bit a combat , but the overall theme is about Dysfunctional-ness of the Society and in the end a "this war was All a...
William Jennings Bryan, 1896-1901, His monetary policy with adding Silver to back the currency as well as Gold helped the economy for the common man.
His Assasination in at the Columbian Exposition cut short what promised to be an even better second term.
westward expansion
I could see the Brownies building a new "Sportsman's Park" (perhaps a McDonnell-Douglas Stadium) out in St. Louis County to take advantage of the Booming population there.
[ Though I didn't undersand the Iranian Revoulution not happening or Mobutu retiring. The book was written Pre-Iranian revolution and being mostly a Nato vs Warsaw pact senario , the author didn't really anticipate it. I read it back in High School (early 1980's) and being somewhat of...
Mongol Gunpowder
I just finished reading Jack Weatherford's book, "Genghis Khan- and the making of the Modern World" and by his account, though Genghis Khan might not have significantly used gunpowder, his succesors certainly did. Indeed it was quite instrumental in conquering Baghdad.
Baja spaceport
IIRC, the more southern the latitude , the more cost effective and easier to launch to Orbit. Since the Baja extends down to the Tropic of Cancer, might the US have decided to put it's launch site there instead of Florida?
Bombs away
I'm not so sure that we would have used the Atomic Bombs on Japan in this Timeline. The US had used all it's refined Uranium and Plutonium to produce the 3 bombs we had in 1945(The Trinity test bomb, "Fatman" and "Little Boy"). It was going to be early 1946 before we had enough to...