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Is there any way during Victorian times, that the British Empire could've setup some sorta gladiatorial arena in say London, some other big British city or even a major city somewhere in the Empire. then pitted captured members of warrior tribes defeated by the redcoats (Zulus, Maoris...

OK, what PODs would be required for there, after Malaysian & Singaporean independence in 1957, for there to have remained a substantial population of Europeans in a similar manner as say Rhodesia/Zimbabwe or Hong Kong ?

Is there any way that, asap after the surrender of France & the Law Countries in July 1940, that the Nazis could've secured control over the Belgian Congo in order to exploit all of the phenomenal natural resources there ? How much would the Nazi H-bomb program have progressed had they been...

PK, is there any way that in the antebellum South, all black ppl- slave & free- would have to name themselves in Classical or Biblical fashion a la TL-191 & be forbidden surnames ?

Hmmm, how bout an ANZAC federation which comes into existence after Allied victory in WWI, under PM Sir John Monash, which incorporates PNG, Fiji, the Solomons & other British pacific islands, becoming a South Pacific superpower with a continuing 5-division-strong military force with supporting...

DISASTER AT-DAY look at the above book, which IMHO is the best available AH novel discussing what a failed d-Day would've been like- including the evry interesting twist with Speidel assassinating Hitler in the aftermath of Rommel's victory & Rommel becoming Chancellor of a denazified Germany...

OK, did some research on IMDB tonight after watchin THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY- found out interestingly in the trivia section that Clint Eastwood came VERY close to being accidentally killed in that scene involving the destruction of the bridge, since a fist-sized piece of rubble slammed into...

During the start of the US entry into WWII in the Med, the inexperienced American soldiers & amateur or incompetent officers, after being severely mauled at Kasserine Pass in May 1943, were initially so disregarded as opponents by the AFRIKA KORPS that supposedly a captured German officer taken...

Hmmm, would there have been much difference to the Buffalo Soldiers, upon establishment in 1866, had there also been 1 or 2 all-black arty regts created in addition to the 9th & 10th Cav + 24th & 25th Inf Regts ? There were black arty batts in the ACW, plus later on in both WWs, the 92nd Div...

hmmm, WI at the start, in addition to the ROKA being better trained & equipped as a proper army, the US 8th Army was a professional fighting force instead of a bunch of pampered garrison duty draftees who'd grown soft pullin cushy duty in Japan & barely knew how to use their weapons properly ?

mate, in recent ACW mags, there actually have been a few articles & readers' letters discussing the issue of how important guerilla warfare was to both sides during the CW. Some of said articles, in addition to discussing the activities of well-known Confederate guerilla leaders like Champ...

Inspired by a mil hist article I read in the library the other day- WI, after his (temporary) defeat at Waterloo, Napoloen & his Marshals, continuing to retire in good order back to Paris & the surrounding fortresses with their surviving French troops, decided to still fight on instead of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_legion Is there any way that the Czech Legion could've successfully rescued the Tsar & his family from the Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg ? What effects would the Romanovs' survival have had ?

don't forget also the Danish Snow Leopards (Leopard 1 with L7 105 mm guns) in Tuzla, 1994, when they knocked out 5 or so VRS T-55s. Pity the Australian Centurion crews in Vietnam didn't get to bag any NVA tanks, since they were only used in the fire support role for the Diggers in phuoc Tuoy...

Is there any way that fast food could NOT have been invented & popularised to the extent that it is today?

WI Bacon's Rebellion hadn't been cut short by Bacon's untimely death from dysentery in 1676 ?

Is there any way that Transylvania could've, after 1989, been torn apart by ethnic cleansing between Hungarians & Romanians along the scale of the FY Wars ?

well, remember, Rosa Parks wasn't the 1st black person to have refused to give up her seat on a Jim Crow bus- there were a few such earlier instances of civil disobedience during WWII also- most notably with a certain young Lt Jackie Robinson of the 761st Tank Bn in July 1944 arguing with a...

OK, WI during the Italo-Ethiopian War, Haile Selassie's Ethiopian soldiers were able to actually inflict a major defeat against Mussolini's Fascists on a scale resembling Adowa redux ? What PODs would be required for such an event ?

well, how bout the essays on the ARW in Robert Cowley's WHAT IF ? AMERICA...