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In real life, the 1745-46 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland began to collapse when Prince Charles Stuart's forces retreated from Derby, England in December of 1745; in some alternate histories, the Jacobite forces opt to continue advancing from Derby and march toward London. But suppose the...

The Battle of Bournemouth is one of the most well-known and successful Allied engagements of the Second World War. The victory of the combined British, Canadian, and Free French forces defending the seacoast town effectively doomed the Nazi invasion of Great Britain to failure and is credited in...

(OOC: This scenario is being presented in honor of the 40th anniversaries of The Prisoner and the Fugitive series finale.) OK, let's imagine that at some point in the early '70s an American TV network either acquires the rights to all the scripts from the original Prisoner series or opts to...

Describe the circumstances under which a second war could have broken out between China and Japan in the late 20th century.

Describe a set of circumstances under which Spain could have landed an invasion force on continental US soil during the Spanish-American War.

Using a POD after Fort Sumter but before the Trent incident, construct a scenario under which Great Britain sides with the Union in the American Civil War.

Venceremos! The Florida Keys War Part 1 Adapted from material originally posted at Othertimelines.com and Changingthetimes.net The Two Toughest Kids On The Block: April 30th-May 16th, 1961 On the surface...

Let's assume that by some cosmic miracle John Wilkes Booth gets taken alive instead of burning to death in a farmhouse after he shot Lincoln. Two questions for you to answer: 1)How does the arrest come about, and 2)What's the impact of his trial on a Civil War-ravaged America?

Maybe this is straying into ASB territory a bit, but...let's see if any of y'all can figure out a way to get Japan involved in the American Civil War.

The merchant ship Star of the West approaches the South Carolina coast under Union warship escort bearing supplies for the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter. As all three ships are sailing towards the mouth of Charleston Harbor, one of the Union warships is attacked; she immediately returns fire...

When it was first published in 1932, the erotic novel Pearl Harbor: Memoirs Of A Woman Of Leisure touched off a wave of controversy, debate, and-- in at least one European country --riots. The condemnation of this book by right-wing activists eventually drove its author to suicide...

"Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Communist government of North Vietnam since it gained independence from France in 1954, has been assassinated in an apparent coup attempt by junior officers of the People's Army of North Vietnam..." Now then, the questions I put to you are: 1)What could have...

Beyond a doubt, among the most heartbreaking tragedies of America's Reconstruction era were the 1867 Watts riots that left half of Memphis in ruins; these uprisings, so named because they were believed to have been instigated by embittered ex-Confederate major Jeremiah Watts, killed nearly...

Iran's victory in its 1998 border war with Afghanistan not only destabilized the Persian Gulf region but also created a gaping political and spiritual chasm within the Islamic world between those who sided with Iran, those who supported the Afghans, and those who were neutral and sought to work...

November 7th, 1861: While en route from Cuba to France, the British steamer RMS Trent suffers a catastrophic fire in her boiler room, sinking her within a matter of hours. Question #1: What could have sparked the fire? Question #2: Does anyone on board(including Mason and Slidell) make it...

Without using ASBs, try and create a situation in which baseball rivals soccer as England's most popular sport.

This thread is inspired by both Anthony Appleyard's Tunguska thread and the NBC miniseries 10.5. From the Boston Globe, October 7th, 2002: Bridge, city shattered by 9.4 earthquake What started out as a day to celebrate the dedication of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge ended up...

September 13th,1861. CSA president Jefferson Davis is working late at night in his office at the Confederate White House in Richmond,Virginia when an assassin's bullet shatters a window--and Davis' skull.Within hours, Alexander H. Stephens is being sworn in as the second president of the...

KAISER WILHELM SHOT DEAD IN BERLIN Two basic questions to consider after you read that headline: 1)What could have brought it about? 2)What happens after the Kaiser meets his untimely demise?

Try to create a timeline in which America has not three,not four,but TEN major television networks in the late 1950s-early 1960s.