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  1. Film AHC: Make UHF a success

    Having released it before Batman, Ghostbusters II and Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade hit the theaters.
  2. AHC: Make the World Hockey Association A Success

    One possibility then the WHA could had been created a couple of years earlier, around 1967-70 instead of 1972. Or as I mentionned in the "Sports what if", the owners of the Cleveland Barons of the AHL decide to do a proto-WHA league...
  3. Alternate histories of TV shows

    You Can't Do That on Television didn't got an hiatus in 1988 and got new episodes during the 1988 season allowing a transition between the 1986-87 cast with the 1989-90 cast. Also Alanis Morisette stayed on the show a couple of additionnal episodes in 1986 and replaced Christine McGlade as the...
  4. To what extent could Pearson have retaliated against DeGaulle?

    I taught of the same thing, Pearson teast DeGaulle by saying he could support Corsica and Brittany.
  5. WI: Roosevelt doesn't go on his South American Expedition

    If TR was healthly and won in 1920, would had been victim of the "Zero-year curse"? In OTL Warren G. Harding who got elected in 1920, passed away in 1923.
  6. PC: Large-scale American Antiwar Movement in WW2

    I once mentionned it on another thread, that old article from the National Lampoon who did this kind of spoof before Turtledove. http://web.archive.org/web/20041102151849/http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/ww2/ww2.html
  7. WI: MLK survives an assassination attempt

    The Boondocks episode "Return of the King" did a interesting "what if?" about Martin Luther King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_King_%28The_Boondocks%29
  8. Closer Franco-British relation

    Speaking of the Suez crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations#Applicants It could had been interesting to start a separate topic about this. ;)
  9. WI Natal province did a secession?

    I spotted a interesting info about the South African referendum of 1960 where South Africa became a republic instead of being a dominion like Canada and Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_republic_referendum,_1960 And that old article...
  10. New Netherlands remains Netherlands

    I spotted these 2 alternate maps on Deviantart showing how New Netherlands could had grown http://fav.me/d1dsstt http://fav.me/d1lyyok
  11. WI: 1966, Bob Dylan is Dead and the Beatles Break Up

    It could be interesting to see if the Rolling Stones would still rolling in the 1970s like they did in OTL if the Beatles had break up in 1966?
  12. New Netherlands remains Netherlands

    My apologies for reviving this old thread. :o I wonder if the "American Dutch" accent of the New Netherlands could have evolved into a language of its own like the "Cape Dutch" in South Africa who bacame Afrikaans?
  13. If You Could Change One Historical Event, What Would It Be?

    Good point, I completely forgotted the Big Bopper. :o
  14. Nations, States & Territories That Almost Were (Post-1900)

    The Middle-East and the Caucasian mountains areas with a map close to what Lawrence of Arabia suggested with a bigger Armenia and a Kurdistan http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4967572
  15. If You Could Change One Historical Event, What Would It Be?

    Lots of ideas here: -Make sure then the Cleveland Browns don't fire Paul Brown. -tell Georges Romney to not mention "being brainwashed" in an interview on tv. -warning Pierre-Laporte about the threat of the FLQ with his kidnapping before the October crisis begins in Quebec...
  16. what if Roman Gribbs decided to seek a 2nd term as mayor of Detroit?

    Roman Gribbs was the mayor of Detroit from 1970 to 1974 who served one term and didn't want to serve another term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Gribbs But what if Roman Gribbs decided to be candidate for a 2nd-term as mayor of Detroit?
  17. Sports What Ifs.

    It's been a long while then I didn't posted here. ^^; What if the NY Rangers management in the early 1940s didn't burn the mortgage in the Stanley Cup resulting for the Rangers the "curse of 1940" (however some said the closure of the NY Americans was another factor for the curse)? Could...
  18. Expendable 1970's

    Oops, my bad!:o Another actor I forgot, Eli Wallach, he could had been a good guy or a bad guy. Also George Kennedy who portrayed Patroni in the Airport movie series could be part of the cast.
  19. Expendable 1970's

    I could also add to the list Roy Scheider (who was with Hackman in the French Connection and in The Seven-Ups) Gene Hackman Fred Williamson As for villains Henry Fonda (who portrayed a villain in "Once upon a Time in the West") Bill Hickman (performed a gangster who drive the black...
  20. WI: "Expendables" type film made in the 90s?

    Good point about Charles Bronson and in the early 1990s Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman was in their early 60s. Maybe they could had fit for the roles as well. Also, Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree and Robert Hooks was in their early 50s.
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