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3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Confederacy, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years...

3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Confederacy, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years...

In 1932 the Republican party almost split. The party leadership was determined to run Hoover again, despite the fact that he was certainly going to lose. Some Republicans didn't like the pork orientation of the party, the strong dollar, and the generally corrupt relationship to regulation of...

After the destruction of the Italian army units by the Ethiopians at Adowa, the Italians build a blimp or dirigible air force. They decide that financially they can't compete with the British at building a navy and geographically they are imprisoned in the Mediterranean anyway, so a navy is...

The character averted Sarajevo, so there wasn't any WWI, so there wasn't any WWII, so there wasn't any 'Hogan's Heros' sitcom, so you know who became president, eh?

I'm taking my revolutionary war scenario in a different direction. POD 1. King George III dies, the Heir takes over, and for some reason the successor Prime Minister doesn't want to fight the war in the Americas. They do want to avoid war with France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Peace is...

The US attack on Quebec in the 1770's is far more successfull. We vacinate the troops, employ Rodgers, etc. The campaign goes from success to success as recruits flock to the colors and Lake Champlain is the keystone of the US. Which causes loyalists from Canada to flee to the southern...

1. The cotton gin is not developed in 1800. The price of cotton stays high but the price of raw cotton stays low, decreasing demand for cotton and slaves. 2. The Articles of Confederation do not forbid importation of slaves, so the price of slaves stays low and emancipation continues to be...

Japan buys Indonesia from the German dominated Dutch government in 1940. The Germans sell in return for lots of rubber, tin, and quinine delivered over the TranSiberian railroad. Russia is happy about the Japanese being bothered someplace else. What does Britain do? What does the US do?

This is an expansion of something else I posted. How do I pull this off? Mussolini's driver sneezes at the wrong time and drives into a tree. Musslini is in a hospital bed for three weeks before waking up. The Fascist Grand Council can't figure out who is in charge till after the French...

PODs No Lawrence of Arabia, the Arabs fight more on the Turkish side, more publicity about the Armenian genocide, the Turks take Cairo, and the Egyptians publicly abandon the British and persecute the Copts, etc. The victorious allies evict the native Arabs from the Levant and resettle the...

Polymer resistors come in two flavors. You can build one that is made by pyrolising/heating a polymer like wax. This one is conductive according to how many conjugate (alternating double and single) bonds it has. You can put a heater across it, and a voltmeter, and heat it till the voltage drop...

Adolf Hitler, greatest mass murderer of the twentieth century, died today when he was eaten by hyenas after falling into the Port Suez 'zoofari'. This accident took place while Herr Hitler was being chased by a visiting tourist when she found him in bed with her husband. The husband survived...

In 1919 the British betrayed their wartime Greek and Arab allies to curry favor with the Turks. What if they don't? Maybe Lloyd George gets run over by a truck and the Torys and Labor split the antiLiberal vote. So the Turks take Smyrna from the Greeks, but the Greeks get Thrace, except for the...

It's a card game. Now with an American history theme set. You alter history to make it the way you want it to have happened, open and close paradoxes, get and steal gadgets from the future, etc. I won the first game I played by pure luck. It's probably best played three handed. I'm going to buy...

I was at the Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, over the Labor Day weekend, in Boston, and picked up the book from the author. It's good. Made me think I really was in their time. It's told from the point of view of one of the Inca's sons, a potential successor. He made a bid for...

Assume that over the past two thousand years the Roman empire industrialized to the point of having coal mining when the trees ran out. Ergo, global warming. Gunpowder allows mining coal and other materials much more efficiently than by using picks and throwing cold water on hot rocks...

1. (1910) Dutch find the Groeningen gas field and produce cheap nitrates. Agricultural prices fall, the Russians are broke, the Germans don't worry any more about Russia affording a big army paid for by French loans. 2. (1911-1912) Italy and the Balkans fight a joint war against Turkey and make...

POD the burning of Baltimore. The British successfully burn Baltimore, like Washington. When the call for delegates to the Hartford Convention goes out, they get not just New England delegates, but also New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania delegates, and some self appointed disgruntled people...

By John Birmingham A US navy fleet from 2021 is dropped into the Midway fleet. They don't have nuclear weapons because that would make it too easy. There is some conflict between the local mores of 1942 and 2021, especially the racial, national origin, gender, sexual preference, and social...