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  1. AHC: Nomadic Chinese Tribe

    It would be like if barb wire was never invented and cowboys merged with the native americans and became nomadic wanders who bring there cattle with them. :)
  2. Cultural WI: Fantasy genre not based on Norse mythology?

    Baba Yaga a witch so classic Advanced Dungeon and Dragons had to include her hut as a artifact.
  3. Iron and Longships, Another Vinland TL

    One of my friends named William Moen is descended from Lief Ericson.
  4. That Wacky Redhead

    Believe it or not. This also butteflies away the bionic women and the incredible paorodie the bionic thumb. Which influenced Hardware Warz.Which would be a shame.
  5. WI:Pizza is invented in Germany not in Italy

    Except for the more exotic ingrediants in japanese pizzas. Squid ink and pickled wasabi cough cough.
  6. Lands of Ice and Mice: An Alternate History of the Thule

    The mossed faced ones. There will be myths about them being born from caribou and moosses :D
  7. Wine in a CP Victory World

    Little bit of hidden wine history. The french wine industry was saved by California grape vines. When the french vines were being killed by a disease, the California vines were resistant. So the imported resistant vines and splinted french vines on to them. There are timelines were this did not...
  8. The Political Colo(u)r Scheme

    Well you only need 4 colors to fill a map, the rest can be shades of those four colors
  9. Very Minor PODs

    You want a very personal but quirky small POD. My town of Ridgecrest California's old name is retained and stays the city of Crumbville. :)
  10. CH: Earliest Possible Space Elevator

    The real problem is making enough long enough carbon nano-tube filaments and then weaving them into wires thick enough that some bird or plane will not get sliced by the wires. So say about 2020 at the earliest /.
  11. Vapor Trails - An alternate timeline

    How does this timeline affect Edwards and were I live China Lakes naval weapon center (Yeah I know a naval base in the middle of the Mojave desert) Who'd thunk it?
  12. Impossible Dreams.

    The story that got me into Alternate Pop History "Impossible Dreams" would you give you could watch all the movies that never existed? In Tim Pratt's story "Impossible Dreams," a magical video store would let you do just that. Pratt's story won the Hugo Award in 2007 — and now it's been made...
  13. Other Science Fiction and Fantasy literature turned into shows and movies:

    I kind of think J.J Abrahms borrowed the concept of S.M.Stirlings Dies the Fire books or had the same idea for Revolution that's coming this fall. But using Technoligy as the reason instead of ABS's
  14. Alternate reasons for a WWI in 1915

    All it takes is something happening in the area were Austria-Hungry to start. It seems all large wars in Europe start there.
  15. AHC: Earliest time for "adult" content to be acceptable in mainstream culture

    Simple. Have Victoria's Husband stay alive. Before he died she was for that time a very swinging lady. And Somehow butterfly away Reverend Bowlder were the word Bowlderism came from (Making stories and pictures safe for the kiddies and the like.
  16. New 1632 book out!

    You can read quite a few of the chapters online at http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/9781451637762B/9781451637762B.htm?blurb
  17. WI: Atomism

    Actualy we still doing both. We just call the four elements the four states of matter :) Earth <-> solid, Water <-> liquid, air <-> gas, fire <-> energy.
  18. The Fountainhead Filibuster: Tales from Objectivist Katanga

    Remo Williams a.k.a The Destroyer
  19. The Fountainhead Filibuster: Tales from Objectivist Katanga

    I was thinking on how we were talking about how media would treat Objectivist Katanga and then it struck me. Chiun and Remo Williams from CURE go to a expy of Katanga. Then strike against Sue Rued and R.J. Leonard. :eek:
  20. AHC: An actually successful Reconstruction

    Of course Lincoln has to not be assinated. Booth gets stopped before he even gets to the Presinets seat.
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