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What would happen if Charles Whitman, the infamous Austin "clock tower sniper", instead goes after Richard Nixon while he's campaigning for Texan Congressional Republicans in 1966? What happens? If you'd like, create a scenario that fits, and extrapolate from there, if you can. Just curious. :)

Just as it says on the tin; after his humiliating third-place finish in 1912, have William Howard Taft somehow manage to win back the Presidency four years later in 1916. If he does it in similar manner to Cleveland, that's a bonus. ;) Not sure what else to say, so... let's start! TAFT '16!!! :D

Your goal, is to make as many losers of Presidential elections into winners in one TL; the men who never became President. The candidates: - George Clinton - Aaron Burr - Charles C. Pinckney - DeWitt Clinton - Rufus King - William H. Crawford - Henry Clay - William Wirt - Hugh Lawson...

Hello, all! It's that time of year again, where budding writers like myself finally decide to crack open their TL cocoons and get to work -- except, of course, I've never done one before. Bit nerve-wracking. :eek: SO... I've decided you ought to help. I've got four TL ideas I have firm...

I'm curious... we've all come up, in our own time, with ways of how Humphrey-Muskie could win the day in '68. My question is... once they've won, what would a Humphrey Presidency look like? What would it do? What changes would it cause in the country, and the world at large? If possible... could...

I know David T is the go-to guy for these sort of things, but I'm just putting it out, here: How could you make an election of 1844 where Martin Van Buren was the Democratic candidate, Henry Clay wasn't a contender for the Whig nomination, and Texas annexation wasn't an issue at all? Moreover...

...yes, I know the title is spectacularly unwieldy, but hear me out: How set-in-stone was Charles Evans Hughes as the 1916 Republican presidential candidate? Was he the agreed-upon choice for a while before the convention, or was there more leeway? Or was he just deemed the best chance of...

The Antonine Plague was an epidemic which occurred from AD 165-180, and which is generally agreed as having been brought back to Rome by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East. It lingered from 165-170, and then broke out again in 174, reportedly causing 2,000 deaths a day in Rome...

Well... what if? :D Let's place this anywhere between 1928 and... 1942, maybe. Hitler is alone in the hills, puttering off... and a little mountain goat comes up to him. "Ba-a-ah," it says. "Oh, eine Bergziege!" Hitler exclaims. "Hallo, meine kleine Bergziege Freund!" He goes to pet...

Hey, all; I know some of you have been hard on me since I've been too hard on you, and have asked what I've written or planned to write. Well... I've finally worked up the courage (and/or brain-power) to get not one, not two, but three TL scenarios ready! And the best part is... you get to...

According to certain stories, on his deathbed in 1725, Tsar Peter the Great "asked for a paper and pen and scrawled an unfinished note that read: "Leave all to ..." and then, exhausted by the effort, sent for Anna to dictate his last will to her. By the time the princess arrived, the Emperor...

At the 1513 papal conclave, Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici was elected Pope (specifically, he became Pope Leo X) on the second ballot, conducted the morning after the first one. However... a Cardinal by the name of Jaume Serra i Cau, also known (for some reason) as Alborense, was nearly...

Right, so we know two shots hit John F. Kennedy in Dallas; the shot through the back of his neck that went through both him and Governor Connally, and the shot into the back of his head. Obviously, the shot into his head killed him, so... My WI is, what if either Oswald misses his last shot or...

I'm not going to defend Mr. Mosley in this thread; in fact, as I am not British, I first heard about him as being a kind of Hitler-knockoff. My curiosity was piqued, however, by this segment of his Wikipedia article: At this point in his life, Oswald Mosley seemed to have a lot of...

Forgive me if this has been done before, most likely much better, but: What if Frederick II, OTL King of Prussia, became heir to the British throne? As a grandson of George I, it would only take a few nudges into ATL for this to happen: At an early age, his older sister Wilhelmine is...

My question is... is Watchmen, the premier graphic novel of the 20th century and a cornerstone of AH, too convergent with its original timeline? Tell me what you think. :)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to formulate a plausible situation that will result in either Harry Truman and Alben Barkley winning another term of office in 1952. or Estes Kefauver, with a plausible running mate, winning the Presidency in either '52 or '56. Bonus points...

So... what if Thompson hadn't been stopped, and Nixon had gone up with his plane on the eve of New Hampshire, along with everyone nearby on the tarmac? Food for thought... or discussion. Get kah-rackin'! :D

Just as it says on the tin, folks; eager to see what (or who) you come up with. What say you? ;)

Just as it says on the tin, folks; especially applies post-22nd Amendment, when two-term Presidents are barred from running again. What say you? ;)