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A classic piece of alternate history, from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter LI.

Naming of the elements Am I right that Arminium is OTL Polonium ?

An Ottoman map of the British Isles I hope that this is in the right forum and the right thread. It's OTL, but has an ATL feel to it: https://twitter.com/AbdulAzim/status/513362363157082113

I bow to the superior knowledge of the American contributors here about the recent history of their country, but I would like to suggest a specific event in 1963. What happens if George Wallace refuses to back down at the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door? After the shooting stops, Wallace is...

I think you meant "invincibility" :) If you meant what you said, you have an entertaining idea for the ASB forum.

While the decadent Americans treat the Moon as the world's most expensive beach resort, playing golf and driving a dune buggy, the glorious Soviet Union pursues serious scientific research. (Summary of Pravda articles on the present state of the Space Race). Can the N1 put a Salyut into...

Looking at the photographs you used to show Nixon speaking to the press after the successful Russian moonflight, and given his character, how likely is it that the President loses control completely in public at this point? Specifically, is it possible for Nixon to claim in public that the...

The House of Hanover leads the HRE Is the House of Hanover the answer here? Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, who are also Kings of Great Britain. Let the union between Hanover and Great Britain become political rather than personal, and Hanover takes on the role within the Empire which...

The composer you want is Kurt Weill, who with his wife Lotte Lenya are already in America IOTL. If Bertolt Brecht can be persuaded to leave Denmark for Red America, you have a lyricist of equal calibre. Now we have a possibility of a new classic ITTL: Lotte Lenya and Paul Robeson singing...

Robert Heinlein How is his life and work changed in this timeline?

The Panama Canal Thanks for that reminder. As the USA collapses, does the Canal revert to Panamanian control, if only by default? What are the effects in this period of the the Canal coming under new management?

At this period, are there any elements in Mexico who would want to reclaim former Mexican territory in the south-west United States? Or would the Mexicans consider that attempting to annex large numbers of discontented gringos would do more harm than good?

Andorra comes to mind, but you really want somewhere with a coastline or another reason for the outside world beyond Spain and France to take an interest. With a c. 1920 POD, can you do anything with Fiume becoming an independent state governed by the successors of d'Annunzio?

May you live in interesting times! This is a major change in Soviet international relations. You have just had them tear up the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.

Link to Project Gutenberg text: Edison's Conquest of Mars

It sounds convincing so far, but can any real understanding of atomic energy bypass the contributions of Dalton (for atomic theory), Faraday and Maxwell (for the theory and practical applications of electromagnetism) ? Until the supporting knowledge is available, "mineral electricity" (OTL...

This sounds like a recipe for turning the American South into something like Mugabe's Zimbabwe, enforced by the Federal Government. There's a dystopian timeline here if someone with detailed knowledge of post-Civil War America cares to work it out.

Just thinking off the top of my head here, but can California be neutral during the Civil War? Not neutral on the question of slavery as such, but not prepared to pour men and resources into the bloodbath. Or are the economic links wioth the Western states already too strong to allow this...

Just an ASB suggestion to produce the required result. It's not strictly ASB in the sense of requiring either extra-terrestrial intervention, magic, or technology within the scope of Clarke's Thrid Law. However, it does require the collective insanity of both Houses of Parliament and a number...

I'm going back to my childhood for these, but they stay in the memory and are still worth reading: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon The Bull of Minos by Leonard Cottrell