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  1. Keep Five Points as an existing neighbourhood

    The movie Gangs Of New York (and the novel I'm 'writing' now) are both set in the Five Points neighbourhood in Manhattan, famous as a disease-ridden slum filled with organised crime. It was so bad there that the place was considered the world's worst slum (definitely worse than The Rocks, the...

  2. WI 'BJ And The Affordables' actually existed?

    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...

  3. The United Fruit Company keeps their power in Centrl America?

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

  4. AHC: Modern day if Reconquista didn't happen/didn't succeed.

    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?

  5. Plausibility of Irish Caribbean colony with a strong Spanish influence as well?

    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...

  6. Louisiana still owned by the French in 1780?

    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...

  7. WI a dictator/political leader is found to have had secret children?

    Inspired by my Books and Media thread on Hitler's Daughter and the old Breaking News thread, and thoughts about the children of dictators (due to being a procrastinator who should be studying). What if a dictator or supposed dictator known to be childless, or any political leader, was found to...

  8. Don't know whether this counts as AH, but.. Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French

    While reading the Breaking News thread in the Alternate History After 1900 forum, I was reminded of this children's book by Jackie French, called Hitler's Daughter. The title is exactly what it says on the tin. Whenever I read it I'm struck by how Jackie French puts across the question of "What...

  9. Batista regains popularity. July 26th movement a lost cause. And human cloning.

    I'm working on an AH Young Adult dieselpunk novel set in Cuba in the future several centuries after the failure of the July 26th movement in that world. In that world, Batista somehow stays in power for longer than he did in reality, regaining popularity in the middle of his second term through...
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