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The only Twins story that I know of from history (or legend, depending on you POV), is the story of Jacob and Esau from the book of Genesis. In that story, though the boys were twins, Esau was born first and so was considered the first born and the heir and the son who was entitled to his...

By the time the US is recognized as independent - roughly around the end of the ARW, 1783, the stage had been set for the US to dominate North America. the power and influence of France and Spain in America had already dwindled down. Spain was already losing its new world colonies and by 1820...

When does the Battle of Brimstone Hill occur? I assume after Lincoln has been killed? Is it still 1863? What are some of the ramifications of the Lincoln assassination? Need some details. Otherwise, its cool.

Hmm...this is quite difficult to pinpoint. Certainly the Romans were quite innovative and brought about many technological advances. Their discovery and use of cement/concrete is one notable example. But the fall of the empire saw a loss of knowledge that helped plunge the Western World at...

Well lets say in this ATL that an ACW starts around the same time an in OTL, but that Texas is an independent nation that has legalized slavery with a developing cotton trade. As in OTL, the US institutes a naval blockade around the CSA. As a result, merchants, traders, and entrepeneurs in...

I love the Texas Wanks on here, as I am contemplating my own ATL Texas Wank. But it seems any ATL Texas always has its POD being sometime after the 1836 revolution and "independence" from Mexico. And the main problem with that POD as has been pointed out is that the Republic had too few...

Even without the western territories, an imbalance between slave states and free states will occur when Iowa and Minnesota are eventually made free states. Plus sooner or later the Kansas question would arise as well. In order to counter that the slave holding states will put tremendous...

What sticks out in my mind is how cold relations between the ROT and the USA were for years following the assassination of Nixon. It didn't matter what the Greenhill Report said, the conspiracy theory whackos who were very influential in the Republican party throughout the remainder of the 60s...

Very readable and interesting. Keep the chapters coming. :)

Based on the discussion this thread has generated, it seems there are two camps regarding the butterfly effect. In camp one, the butterfly effect changes history at both a micro level and the macro level. After the POD, not only will completely different people be born and make completely...

Well I might be totally wrong on this, but from the latter part of the 19th Century, while under the Ottoman Empire throughout much of the 20th century, the Marionite Christians (which were a majority in much of the area that is part of Lebanon today) immigrated in large numbers to the US...

Your anti-Christian bias got the best of you on this point. First of all Christian fundlementalism (if there was such a thing in the latter half of 19th century America) was not centered anywhere in the South, but was centered in the Northeast, specifically in Boston. In 1860, the most...

I just don't see how a CSA that remains stuck in the 1850s in terms of its economy, infrastructure, attitudes, culture, lifestyle, etc., could remotely fend off a USA that with every passing year becomes more advanced, more prosperous, adds millions of new citizens, and continues to expand its...

So Glen, just read your TL (which I would have never found had you not bumped it) and am really enjoying it. Hope the bump means that more is on the way. Since you have had a year to complete development of the 20th century, I expect some more good stuff.:D

Most of the states in the deep south, from post civil war until approximately the early 1960s had majority black populations. Once reconstruction ended, in order to maintain/get back political power, the whites enacted various measures to keep most blacks from voting, and thus voting the whites...

Carter was so bad and unpopular that Ted Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. A sitting president running for reelection and he has to fight off a challenge in his own party. Not much to top that for unpopularity. So if Carter is assassinated even one month before the...

Simple. Have a congress and administration installed in 1933 that believed in less government meddling and allowed the markets to self correct.

Well its Oren's TL, and there can be huge butterflies in the ATL that can effect the balance of power throughout the region. Plus, Israel's got Yahweh on their side. So sit back and wait to see what he comes up with before you strike it down.

While I am enjoying the debate regarding whether Versailles was the primary catalyst for bringing about WWII, the emphasis of my thread was the profound changes to the world had WWII not occurred. Since WWII not only ramped up the technological revolution but caused greatly increased...

Specifically, if WWII is butterflied away, how does this affect the advance of technology, and more specifically, affect the development of nuclear weapons. If someone has already developed a TL with this slant, I would love to see it. If not, What do you think would happen in this ATL?