Recent content by SRT

I thought those pictures looked computer generated and too crisp for something from the 1930's, and I was right. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/russian-K7-heavy-bomber.shtml This is a hoax. Which you pretty much copy pasted -- seems like not maliciously/intentionally? This is what the real K-7...

Also, what would prevent the Confederacy from re-instituting slavery once they were a completely, legally independent country?

I've only ever read about this on wikipedia, so I don't really know any details about it, but supposedly the British made prefabricated iron blockhouses that could be hastily assembled during the Second Boer War. So I guess technically 1899 is the XIXth Century :rolleyes: but it shows that the...

News Flash: People Still Hate Nazis

I always thought if you wanted to have more Muslims in South America, an interesting POD could be a more powerful/successful/independent Palmares Quilombo/Angola Janga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmares_(quilombo)

Some ideas: More pagans unite in response to Charlemagne's wars with the Saxons. Something like a Federation of Pagan peoples uniting to stop the spread of Christianity into areas that were never part of the Roman Empire -- broadly speaking, OTL Scandinavia, North Germany, North Poland, the...

I think it's funny how sometimes people on this alternate history site treat certain cultures as very monolithic and unchanging. It's like, man, if you want to talk about real world history... just talk about real world history. Also plenty of Muslims drink, Jews drive cars on Saturday, and...

I wrote a TL forever ago that I never posted, but it involved a maritime-focused Emirate of Cordoba starting Muslim colonies along the coast of OTL France, England, and Ireland in the early middle ages, eventually protecting trade against Vikings and converting people.

I think goats are real cool animals. There were some that lived at my friends old house. I don't think everyone should have one but I think there's no reason they couldn't be more common as pets. I'd rather people who live in a proper environment for goats keep goats as a pet rather than exotic...

I always thought those WW1 and interwar-era dragoons with folding bicycles were cool.

In my opinion, star forts are inherently inferior to solid walls. The only reason people switched to them was because cannon could bring down solid walls.

What if the Beatles were banned from touring in the USA instead of the Kinks?

TRIGGER WARNING: STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES I actually read a forum post one time that said that New Coke was intentionally bad. Coca-Cola wanted to shift to high fructose corn syrup, but were worried if they did it directly from sugar people wouldn't like it as much. So they released New Coke...

I think it could be sort of done by extending the 'long nineteenth century,' perhaps by preventing WWI (though of course the POD would have to be far before that). The general idea is that you need a slowing of technological advancement but not a slowing of Western society's general wealth and...

What if ancient/medieval Polynesians were more interested in long-range mercantile adventures in general? Rapa Nui could become rich as a resupply/trading island partway between Polynesia and South America. It could be like a sort of waterborne silk road, with objects, but limited cultural...