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  1. AH Challenge: Make Fort Wayne, Indiana, Larger City

    My old hometown, Fort Wayne, is the second largest city in Indiana. Its population is around 250,000 (and MSA about 400,000), second only to Indianapolis' 1 million urban population. What could have made Fort Wayne a significantly larger city? Would the downtown expressway (proposed in the...

  2. 2006 Transatlantic Airliner Bombing Plot Successful

    In August 2006, there was a plot to use liquid-fuelled bombs carried aboard flights bound from London-Heathrow to multiple US and Canadian gateways to blow them up in midair. IOTL, these terrorists were caught by British authorities just before they launched their plan. What if they hadn't been...

  3. AHC: Keep Ocean Liners in Service Longer

    I briefly mentioned the possibility of a longer life for the ocean liner as transportation in the thread about a delayed jet age; I asked whether the delay of the start of the jet age (meaning no commercial jet air travel until a later time). What could keep the ocean liner longer in service as...

  4. WI: 1994 World Series

    This past Saturday, at an antique mall in Aurora, CO, I picked up a Rawlings official 1994 World Series baseball--an official baseball produced for a World Series that never happened IOTL due to the 1994 MLB strike that truncated the season. Or, maybe, just maybe, someone came back with this...

  5. What If Tsar Bomba Were Tested at Full Yield?

    In 1961, the Soviets tested the world's biggest H-Bomb, "Tsar Bomba" (King of Bombs), at 50 (or was it 57) megatons (MT). Its blast sent shockwaves around the world 3 times. The bomb was originally designed and built for 100MT, but a lead tamper was substituted for the last stage uranium...

  6. AHC: Get a MLB Team in Indiana?

    Is there any way to have a Major League Baseball team somewhere in Indiana (maybe through MLB expansion, for example)? If so, would it be in Indianapolis? Or even Fort Wayne (after all, where the first professional baseball game was played in May 1871, between the FW Kekiongas and the...

  7. V TV Series (2009): Earth Under Visitor Occupation

    Did you watch the remade V series that aired from 2009-2011? The one with Anna as the leader of the alien Visitors, whose ships arrived like Independence Day? The series ended all too quickly after only 2 seasons, on a cliffhanger (Anna's daughter using Bliss on the entire population of...
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