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...in which I blatantly rip off Hominid's idea. The premise: I've been transported to OTL from an ATL. Ask me about it.

Has anyone ever read The Alteration by Kingsley Amis? It sounds very intriguing if rather ASBish. And I'm always in favor of AH novels that are actually thinly-veiled commentaries/satires on real-life politics, which is kind of what this sounds like. The only reason I found out about it is I...

A couple things I don't think anyone's mentioned yet: 1. northern Minnesota was (maybe still is) a major iron-ore producing region. I'm not sure from that map how much of the iron region would be Canadian, but some of it probably would be. 2. this Canada got Alaska somehow or other, which...

George W. Bush: evangelical minister who counsels alcoholics and drug addicts (a ministry for which he is unusually well-qualified).

IIRC, the Stuarts and the Danish royal house became related through the marriage of James VI to Anne (?) of Denmark (I don't think James was King of England yet when the marriage occurred). Is there any way that their descendents could become rulers of Denmark? If so, Iceland would become a...

I love this, especially the Empire of Greater Salt Lake City. This map is especially cool because it really shows different regional identities in the West, which is a region that often gets lumped together as all one thing (as in the Nine Nations of NA map). Also, as a map of Mormon Country...

Wow, yofie, looking back at that post I've realized that I was very unnecessarily nasty there, especially the part about you not getting butterflies. I'm sorry.

I'm interested in people's thoughts on what would happen to UK and especially US servicemen who served in the Soviet Union once the Cold War begins. Would they be dragged in front of HUAC on suspicion that they'd been "compromised" by living and fighting side-by-side with the Commies? What...

On the subject of nativism, I wonder if in such a TL we might see a new two-party system develop where one (let's call it the National Party) is nativist, anti-immigration, and mostly Protestant while the other is largely made up of first- and second-generation Americans and, while it is a...

Quoted for truth. Frankly, this probably would have been a much better result than OTL. A surviving China-like Soviet Union could have benefits like no Turkmenbashi, less mafia activity, less destructive Nagorno-Karabakh war and Chechen war. The fall of the Soviet Union is at best a mixed...

I agree with Consul/Praetor especially. I think Roman titles would really come into vogue. Dictator might be a possibility too, as in the 18th century it didn't yet have the negative connotations of OTL. The Northern republics especially might go for Protector (even Lord Protector, maybe?) in...

Awesome map. Would the "Weston" from whom Westonburg takes its name be the Confederate Lenin analogue?

Yes, Fremont is going to be a big deal later on. Lake Galilee ITTL is OTL's Utah Lake, not too far south of the GSL. Basically, the Mormons settle around OTL Provo and leave the Salt Lake and Cache valleys to the gentiles (first the Army, civilians later). So they live in roungly the same...

Thanks for the positive feedback everybody! Now, this update basically concludes everything having to do with the Oregon War. It probably seems like a non-sequitur since it's about someone who hasn't been in the story yet and it takes us backward chronologically, but trust me--around 1863 or...

Interesting. So what might some effects of Ferdinand Maximilian (what would he go by? Ferdinand II? Maximilian I?) as Emperor be? Earlier Ausgleich? Lombardy & Venetia don't join unified Italy? Wikipedia says he was a naval officer; so maybe a bigger Austrian navy?

I posted this in the "Underused PODs" thread, and I'd like to see it get discussed. On Feb. 18, 1853 Hungarian nationalist Janos Libenyi attempted to assassinate Emperor Franz Joseph by stabbing him. The sturdy collar on the Emperor's uniform deflected the full force of the blow, and Libenyi was...

Time for a new update: the conclusion of 1848! “Ruin Upon Ruin, Rout On Rout”: 1848, Part 2 “I saw and heard, for such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded…”—John Milton, Paradise Lost June-July...