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An interesting thread would be one where Russia keeps the war going six months longer, then Japan gives up because they ran out of money, then Russia has a revolution in 1906 that succeeds instead of one in 1905 that fails. Who knows about preWWI Russian history? Then Japan comes in on the...

Propane makes a nice fuel air bomb. Just drop fuel tanks half full over any city. Fighters as bombers? Hard to shoot down, can shoot down your fighters if they drop the fuel tanks over the countryside and go after the interceptors. Perhaps the twin mustang would have done a good job of smashing...

1. Early gets moving faster, Grant's reinforcements don't make it to Washington DC on time, Early takes Ft. Stephens, and Lincoln (in the vicinity of Black troops) is lynched by the Confederate troops after the battle at the beginning of June. 2. Hamlin is now president of the US and was...

I would have expected that the KV-1 (first used in the 1940 Winter War in Finland) would have been adopted instead. It was a bigger tank and would have enabled the Germans to fight all the way up to the earlier JS versions. Also, one could have been captured by the Finns and turned over to the...

Stirling writes interesting books. I have a problem with a story set two generations after the Change, when a police officer on the US east coast is not really clear on what is happening on the US west coast. I mean, get real. Also, they don't mention firestarting as the primary duty of...

The Turks and the Arabs. If they are united they control Iran and are de facto a super power due to their control of Suez, bases in the Med, the Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean, and, of course, oil. Access to areas of India, China, Europe, and Africa by land can't hurt.

No First World War, no Second World War, no Cold War?

If indentured servitude was a states right matter like slavery, then the North would have expanded much faster and the slaves would not have been worth as much to the South. We would have had a railroad to California through a free state Texas by 1861 and slavery would have been resolved by just...

Lee's army is bleeding deserters because they can walk away while foraging or serving as sentries and not be shot by their still loyal fellow soldiers. Meanwhile, the Union is reinforcing every day and the farmers are sending their supplies into their lines every morning and evening for US...

International bankers can hold grudges for a long time. When the Serbs looted the national treasury and spent it to prevent the opposition from spending it first, the die was cast.

Heaven or Hell, you still have to change dirigibles in Atlanta 1. Sneak lots of boll weevils, pink budworms, etc, into the South circa 1800, to destroy King Cotton. 2. Write articles on how the planters won't be able to pay their mortgages, so bank stop lending to Southern planters. 3. Make...

The Irish Catholics could easily have defeated the Irish Protestant minority. Only the British army and navy kept the Irish Protestants in power. In fact, if the British had apologised to the Irish Catholics the Irish Catholics would have not hated the British nearly as much as they did. The...

You know, the Mike was ten megatons and was essentially a giant water heater made of U238 containing liquid deuterium. So if the Teller-Ulam design is invented in 1942 and they have several years to work on cryogenic systems, you could build a ten megaton bomb and do some serious damage. Maybe...

The coastal states could not get an army big enough to fight across the mountains for a cheap enough price to make it worthwhile. The financial benefits of being able to sell land in Kentucky or Vermont wasn't worth it to Virginia and Massachusetts. We get states starting up all over in the West.

More Americans faster. Say, the starving Jamestown colony from the first expedition was rescued by supplies from Bermuda instead of being overwhelmed with immigrants. Most of the second expedition's colonists shipwrecked on Bermuda stay there because conditions are good (as they wanted to in...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oil_Prices_1861_2006.jpg That's the price of oil till quite recently. Avoiding war is important. Wars are expensive. Balancing Russia/France/Britain/Italy/Balkans vs Germany is important. You want to make the war last longer or not involve America or...

If the US does not fight an expensive civil war, the US does not need British capital. Interest rates go up, people save more, bankers invest more, and that's about it.

Maryland and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1861 The US loses sympathy in Europe for losing their capital city, and gains sympathy in Europe for abolishing slavery. The only reason the US didn't abolish slavery in 1861 when Lincoln took office and the Southern Senators and Representatives...

Liberal means supporting one man, one vote, or at least one white man, one vote. The South had problems with an elite that really didn't like that and in South Carolina an elite that really, really, didn't like that. Liberal means getting rid of slavery by letting the people that lived there...

I can see prostitutes of both sexes being popular among other races. Neanderthals never interbred with Sapiens as far as DNA analysis can show. White Neanderthals in Europe, Siberia, and probably all through the Americas, Sapiens in Africa, Erectus in India and Asia, with Floriensis in New...