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The idea is actually pretty cool. Warren Ellis creates a new series for Marvel Comics called newuniversal which came out on 12/6/2006. In a parallel world wherein Paul McCartney of the Beatles passed away but John Lennon still lives, the Cold War still goes on, the World Trade Center still...

Imagine in 1973, Bruce Lee, who is only 1/3 of the way finished filming the movie Game of Death and is trying to gain initial financing to his film project The Silent Flute, is driven to a hospital by George Lazenby in Hong Kong, preventing his eminent death from a cerebral edema. Bruce Lee...

In a recent episode of Saturday Night Live (NBC-TV) , President George W. Bush names Vietnam as a new member of the "Axis of Evil" against the United States, and prepares to make war on the Southeast Asian country... Not to be outdone, the humor magazine, The Onion posed a situation wherein...

As you all are familiar with, in 1977, the United Nations passed Resolution #3418 which formally recognized Native American nation states, in the same way that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were given a non-voting status within the General Assembly. How would history have been different...

History seems to pivot on many seemingly benign points. What is a POD involving the question,"Coffee or Tea?", which could drastically alter the state of world affairs? ASBs need not apply!!

We all know the story how in 1980, the world had been warned about the hole in the ozone layer, and the many environmental warnings that were ignored until it was too late. We certainly remember the photographs in Bueonos Aires, Montevideo, and Santiago of the many wards of victims that shocked...

Ever since the early 1990s the American Southwest has been plagued by Africanized bees.The first attacks taking place in Dallas/Ft. Worth in 1990, spreading to Albuquerque and Phoenix in 1993, moving to San Diego and Santa Barbara in 1994, and leading to Las Vegas in 1999. What would have to...

Of all the film genre (e.g. horror, musical, Western, comedy, gangster) that were appropriated in the 1970s for "blaxploitation films", one that was quite apparent in its absence was science fiction. Consider that horror had Blacula and Blackenstein. The only example was Space Is The...

On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein suffered a massive aortic aneurism which could have easily been fatal, considering the amount of internal bleeding he suffered. In OTL, he recovered slowly at the Princeton Medical Center, and was able to publish his "Grand Unification Theory" in October 1955...

On 4/11/2006, Italy's most famous porn star Cicciolina has offered herself to Osama Bin Laden. The 55-year-old actress said it was about time somebody tackled the terrorist and claimed she could be just the woman for the job. Speaking at an erotic fair in Bucharest, Romania, Cicciolina...

As we all know Franklin Robinson (b. 1921) was narrowly selected in 1962, as the sole African-American candidate for the Mercury Space Program by Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson at a time of severe racial conflict. "Newsweek" would later dub him "NASA's Jackie Robinson". What would the...

Honore Ngume (b. 1886-d. 1945) has often been called the "African Khan" for his political liberation of the African continent in the 1910s and 1920s, by negotiation when possible and by military force when necessary. He was nominated as "one of the most influential men of the 20th Century" by...

As we know Chief Gene Roddenberry (R-CA) has been one of the nation's most controversial leaders in law enforcement since he joined the force in 1949. According to his recent biography he was tempted to leave the force in 1958, he was already considered a rising star in the Los Angeles Police...

As we all know, a year into the second term of President George H.W. Bush, the World Trade Center was attacked by supporters of Osama bin Laden in a truck bomb attack that killed hundreds of people. This led to the use of military forces in Afghanistan in 1994. But this also led to the...

On April 4, 1968, just under 4 weeks until he launched the "Poor People's Campaign" in Anacostia Falls (later to be renamed in 1983 "Liberty City"), Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was nearly assassinated by a white supremacist by the name of James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis...

POD: March 8, 1862 On March 8, 1862, in OTL, William "Willie" Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln died of typhoid fever, at the early age of 12-years old, leaving him in a melancholy mood throughout most of the war. Consider what if he had not died that day , and continued to live on, until...

According to the recent book Red Star Rogue by Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond. On March 7, 1968 the nuclear submarine K-129 was positioned 350 miles off the coast of Hawaii, with a nuclear submarine designed to resemble a Chinese Communist submarine in almost every respect. The plan...

On October 26, 1945 science fiction author Issac Asimov was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving time at Fort Meade, Maryland....away from his beloved New York City, New York. This was a critical time in his life, wherein he began publishing the short stories that would form the basis for the...

Believe it or not...in 1967 there was an active liberal Christian movewment that was formed in the Haight/Ashbury of San Francisco which was called "Street Christianity" or "Jesus Freaks", created by Elizabeth and Ted Wise. They formed communes throughout the Bay Area called "House of Acts"...

So far, on the message board, tehre has been a discussion on almost every taboo subject from sexuality to drugs. For this little discussion piece, I want to explore another taboo subject...Racism!! Using PODs after the year 1863, try to create an alternate timeline wherein one of the following...