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I think one thing that needs to be considered is the motive. If the assassin is found to be an anti-war activist (plausible, given that Humphrey was a staunch supporter of the Vietnam War), then I think public opinion turns sharply against the anti-war movement. In OTL, Humphrey was getting...

If there were to be a Native American founding father, I would suggest Daniel Nimham. Most Native Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War were allied with the British, but Nimham was one of the few who fought on the Patriot side. He was a chief of the Wappinger people, and he may have met...

According to the map found here, the center of US population was in southern Illinois between 1945 and 1975. The general westward movement of the country would have been known and anticipated in the '30s, so it's possible they could have been thinking a couple of decades ahead when considering a...

1 would probably help Bush, as no 9/11 means no Afghan War (and maybe no Iraq War) and a later 9/11 means Bush benefits from the rally-round-the-flag effect without antiwar sentiment chipping away at that. And 3 is by definition ASB (no geological POD's). Though your suggestion of power grid...

Also, in this world's 2022, there are apparently movie stars with the last names of Risi and Burton (Gorton?). Any plausible candidates?

Thinking more about what a Pontiac pickup might be like, perhaps the Avalanche could have been rebadged as a Pontiac (Chevy already had the Silverado/S-10 and Colorado). Or maybe the Holden Ute is brought up from Australia, which almost happened in OTL, but was cancelled after GM declared...

Not a car expert, but I would suggest a few things with a POD of ~2000: More unique models that aren't rebadged Chevy's Better styling for the Aztek More serious performance models (that's what Pontiac had a reputation for historically, but in the 2000s this was long gone) More Toyota twins like...

*Angry Quebecois noises* In all seriousness, I don't think it's possible to get to 100 million Canadians unless you expand Canadian territory into what is now the United States, or more creatively, the Caribbean. Expanding northward is a non-starter due to the taiga belt, where permafrost and a...

Props to @Jonathan for that impressive list. Here's a few suggestions for the hard to find ones. I did this by Googling "(name of President) given name". There's a wikipedia site for each. Then I looked for American politicians with the same name who were born around the same time as the...

I understand the stigma, but arguably there's more sugar in most people's coffee than in hot chocolate.

What about a scenario where the revolution happens in Britain (think something similar to the French Revolution) and BNA is home to the crown's loyalists?

You inadvertently gave me an idea there: Vostoslavia. It's no different in origin from Yugoslavia (which refers to south Slavs).

What about Genoa? It was a fairly powerful city-state during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance and speaks Ligurian (a Gallo-Italic language).

Might be plausible, but you would need to prevent the rise of Protestantism to get all of (western) Europe on board with Latin. That wouldn't address Orthodox areas of Europe, which IIRC tended to use Greek as a lingua franca.

At least ITTL we'd (mostly) be spared the horrors of Scrappy Doo.

October 5, 2016 Fifty years after Fermi, can nuclear power make a comeback? Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of America's worst nuclear accident. For the American public, nuclear power remains a controversial concept. The last active nuclear reactor in America ceased production in 1998, a...

After a 3-month hiatus, I finally got around to writing an ending to this TL. Enjoy!

Reading through this thread, I'd like to see these ideas made into full-fledged TLs. Not as traditional timelines, but instead focused on the languages themselves (spelling, grammar, vocabulary, evolution, etc.). I know this isn't a conlang site, but does anyone know of any examples of what I'm...

Perhaps the Vikings ally themselves with the Bretons to defeat the Franks? And then divide the spoils among them (Vikings get the north of France, Bretons get the southwest)?

What is the name of the Washington D.C. team? Or is it "D.C."?