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I was just watching the music video for Tell Her About It, in which Billy Joel appears on a recreated broadcast of the "Ed Sullivan Show" as a teen idol with his own backing band, "the Affordables," and new hit. What would have been the likely consequences had things gone differently and Billy...

I actually have a story dealing with a neo-fascist Cuba in the future.

What do you think would be the consequences of that, other than the obvious one of less protests?

Well, the UFC did have a lot of power in Central America... in Honduras, Tiburcio Carias was backed up by UFC executives, in Guatemala they even established a company town on the Caribbean coast and backed the Arbenz coup. So I'm just wondering if this political interference could have continued...

Could a moderator please correct the spelling mistake

How likely would it be that the United Fruit Company keeps their power in Central America longer than in reality?

Ah, but that gives me lots of room to think about how the world might be like, seeing as something I'm drafting (I have this annoying habit of starting first drafts right away) has the heroine be a tribal leader/ruler of a sultanate called Barakesh (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Touggourt in...

@eliphas8. Pretty big.

If the Reconquista of Spain hadn't happened, what would the world be like up to now? Can someone help me figure out a plausible POD?

What I meant was, "What's a good name for an island based on Montserrat which isn't Montserrat?"

Maybe it could be based on Montserrat. What's a good Spanish name for fictionalised Montserrat?

So I suddenly remembered an old story idea I had a few years ago which was inspired by the song "Carolina Rua," which was covered by Mary Black and Lynn Hilary, who was a member of the group Celtic Woman. Since Mary Black's version of the song (the first version I heard) has a Caribbean-sounding...

Anyone else want to discuss this?

So I suppose I could go with "less successful British triumph in the Seven Years' War". Research! Yay! (Can anyone recommend a good book?) On the New Orleans thing, do you mean that the only thing New Orleanians would accept as a name change would be New Paris (after the title holder of Count of...

That could work. Thanks, Axeman! Cool name, btw!

In the 1910 Victor Herbert/Rida Johnson Young operetta Naughty Marietta (the source of "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!"), the heroine, Marietta, escapes an arranged marriage in Italy by sailing to New Orleans as a casquette girl in 1780. The New Orleans of the opera is still under French control...

No, I'd say the boys are him genetically IMO...

She died last year, apparently. Just looked it up on Wikipedia. Consider that to be a reliable source, as I highly doubt the average person who doesn't know much about the Soviet Union and didn't live through the 1950s knows that Stalin even had a daughter. ETA: Ididn't know Stalin had a...

Yep, Pangur, she did.

ETA: If I do eventually write this idea I mentioned, I can definitely say there'll be nothing like that in it. After all, why would Hitler's child necessarily be evil? I'd think if your father was the most hated man ever, you''d try to keep a low profile.