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From CaliBoy1990 & Mr_ Bondoc: July 29th, 1800: Napoleon Bonaparte meets with Robert Fulton in Rouen, France, regarding construction of "Nautilus" vehicles (OTL: hand-driven submarines).... November 3rd, 1800: James Madison wins the first U.S. election, against John Adams...

Here is one ATL that I found on Youtube. It is supposed to be footage of a manned mission to the surface of Mars in 1973 to 1974. It is something to behold: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFakingHoaxer#p/u/13/HUHmd26rPKs

For all of you fans of foreign film, here is one that you should look for. K-20: Legend of the Mask (2009), is a Japanese film, which takes place in 1949, in an ATL where Japan never participated in hte Second World War, and China is still controlled by Japan ...

Here is the 1910s: May 18th, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. Charles Taze Russell, head of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" movement commits suicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after proclaiming "the Rapture"... May 31st, 1910: Emma Goldman is killed in a car accident in...

Welcome to 100 years! A collaborative timeline in the spirit of "XXth century" and "50 Years". Beginning on May 18th, 1910 and ending on May 18th, 2010, this timeline will explore just how much difference 50 years can make. The butterfly effect will be used in full, which means that anyone born...

IC: We are now coming close to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 disaster, and currently The New York Times and CNN-TV are reporting the rise of the "superhero" phenomenon in major cities across the country and around the world. In the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico, France...

Just saw the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, and it was actually a pretty cool comedy that had some interesting riffs on standard time-travel cliches, including the "butterfly effect", the "granfather paradox" of meeting your parents, and the ISOT cliche that anyone with enough sports and music...

Here are two ASB TLs that should make for some interesting reading. You have: Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter by A.E. Moorat http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Victoria-Hunter-E-Moorat/dp/0061976016/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265232893&sr=8-1 Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth...

Here's a challenge based on too many hours watching G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, the James Bond series of films, The Venture Brothers, and the many Command & Conquer games. The challenge, starting with a POD of 1945, is to create a multinational, extremely well-funded, international...

Well, this maybe the wrong crowd for the announcement, but the 83rd Annual Great Outdoor Fight (GOF), going strong since 1927, is scheduled for February 14th, 2010. As you all know the Barkersfield, California event has been seen as the inspiration for pro-wrestling, ultimate fighting, and...

Writers throughout the globe have heaped praise on Australian Rupert Murdoch as the "Savior of the English Language..." since the appearance of his books in 1975. But the literary world finally had its hero acknowledged when it was announced last Tuesday, that Murdoch would receive the Nobel...

Hey Everybody!!! Here are a few comic books titles that you should check out at your local comic book stories over the next few days for some fantastic reading: A) Resurrection (Oni Press) POD: May 21, 1998. Aliens appeared over all of the major cities of Earth, and proceeded to lay waste to...

Believe it or not, the controversial series Galactica 1980 (ABC-TV) has returned as a comic book by Dynamite Press. Issue #1 has already arrived in stores. The comic deviates from the series and can be read by people who are familiar with the original Battlestar Galactica (ABC-TV) but would...

Here is the challenge for readers. After watching the Korean film The Good, the Bad, & the Weird (2008), is it possible to create an ATL wherein the film is considered historically accurate model of 1930s Manchuria and Japan??: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrhkJYLnl4&feature=related...

OOC: The following discussion is based on : http://io9.com/5330041/gilliam-animator-brings-puppets-to-steampunk It is now 159 years since the novel 1884 by Tim Ollive was published in London, England, featuring the adventures of a spy against the arrayed forces of Eastern Europe. As such...

It is now 28 years since 60-year old anti-Semite James Wenneker von Brunn of Annapolis, Maryland, marched into the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington D.C., and proceeded to shoot, killing 2 guards and injuring 3 more people in the process. How owuld the world have been different had the police...

When it comes to the 2000 election, one aspect that people always talk about is the fact both major parties decided to choose candidates who reflected the lineages of their respective party. The Democratic Party choosing John F. Kennedy Jr., and the Republican Party choosing George W. Bush...

IC: It is now 10 years since a group of libertarians established their own independent society in the form of a floeet of supposedly self-sufficient ships (e.g. Freedomship, Oceania: The Atlantis Project, Residensea, et al.) off the coast of Florida. But for every supposed libertarian state...

It has been 8 years since the series Plymouth (ABC-TV) was last aired, starring Dale Midkiff, Cindy Pickett, Richard Hamilton, and Perrey Reeves. Consider that before Firefly (FOX-TV), you had a successful science fiction series that acted as a successful counterpoint to the paranoia of The...

It has been just announced on CNN-TV and MSNBC-TV that the North Korean press has been broadcasting the following story from Pyongyang since early this morning (1/31/2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZIgda01k6o&feature=bz303 Apparently the story is being seen by leaders in Seoul as a...