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No African slavery means no America, or at least not the same one as we know. It was expensive to get people here and stoop labor was both much needed and in short supply. You couldn't use Indians, they either died or ran away, nor Europeans, as they died if worked hard in America. Now the...

Convair Motors Hughes Automobile Company The Great Atlantic and Pacific Automobile Company Wal Motors "Drive a Sears" Higgins Transport (Wooden cars after WWII) General Electric Autos (latest model the Tesla) In Ireland, the Norton Burro, a somewhat small but very rugged...

Instead of one Okla Fed Bldg bombing have several, & have Stirling & Turtledove implicated, (rightly or wrongly) with the guy who wrote the Turner Diaries (which is alternate history). When Bush takes office in 2000 his Patriot Act includes censorship laws. Sites like this are shut down, many of...

And I see no way in which any person of reasonable intelligence could do anything but recoil in horror from the manifest and terrible injustice of that statement. Women bear our children, indeed, they perpetuate our species. How can we possibly deny them a say in the govt they alone make possible?

Very soon you'll see the true results of your oppression. If you won't give us the ballot then you'll eat the bullet. Fools, you gave us all rifles so we could fight your wars and there are ten times more of us than you. See how well you pass a literacy test while swinging from a lamppost. Death...

G'night John-boy (I always wondered about that, were they all in the same bed? or was old Gramps the secret craftsman who had put the whispering gallerys into the Capitol? or did their secret source of money come from Papa's patents on the world's first intercom? or did they shout loudly to...

The Romans had no use for trade routes? (or is my geography off here?) I thought the main incense/spice routes ran right thru the Hejaz

Lost The Bush Administration dramatised.

What I found most admirable was the way she handled that speeding ticket. First insisting that she not be let off with a warning and then cajoling the judge into giving her comm service as well as a fine because any fine to her would be insignificant. I think she a shoo in for the Shannon...

Technical advance is not monolithic. Were a modern day military jet to be ISOT to 1930 we might conclude the engines were ahead by an accurate amount but we wouldn't even know what most of the electronic stuff was at all. (printed circuits, radar, miniature computers) Many things on BSG will be...

If the ERA was ratified the abortion debate would be over, wouldn't it? as I thought the ERA included a Constitutional guarantee of a womans's right to choose

Doesn't mean I can't appreciate the business aspects, or the historic and sociocultural ramifications. I can be objective, in fact. Robbie Rotten is one of the most active people in Lazytown.

Irsay shops the Indianapolis deal and a consortium of Baltimore businesses better it. The Colts stay in Balto in 1984. I know it's sorta ASB, Balto in 1984 wanted to have their team and kick it around too. Let's say Irsay keeps the dealings with Indianapolis secret but let's local businesses...

Yeh. This is OTL, I'd always heard that Detroit had a murder rate comparable to Beirut. One way might be to have the Islamabad model of 'urban renewal' continue to be the dominant and spread, eating up the inner cities. With literal square miles of unpolicable superblocks to contend with...

As I understand it the Viking age was brought about somewhat by something called the Medieval Warm Period or somesuch, which warmed up all Europe and particularly caused a population boom in Scandinavia. Now WI one of Charlemagne's sons was as good as the old man, killed off or dominated his...

If there is an ACW at all. The secession movement might very well have failed if VA did not go along. Other states might also have abolished slavery between 1830 and 1860, even maybe the Carolinas.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0419373/ There are 4 others in the IMDB but this is apparently the only one actually about your proposed subject.

Germany gets the bomb first...in 1915. Not to hijack the thread but what if Faraday beat Maxwell? (Maxwell based his equations on Faraday's work.)

First two, as has been said, easy, actually like that now. Have it get lots more progressive and secular in it mission, with lots of very liberal and social reforming theologians, maybe have John XXIII live longer and stay vigorous, so the Ecumenical movement becomes stronger and begins to...

Agreed. Reconstruction's horrors are mainly racist propaganda of the time. Read Lerone Bennett's "Before the Mayflower". The most "Radical" thing that the Republican reformers in Congress did was to enforce the Black's voting rights and ensure that Black state legislators elected actually...