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Cross-posting my MotF 80 entry.

My map is loosely based on where I would take my "Under the Eagle Flag" TL if I could ever find time to continue it. This map is actually an alternate scenario for the present-day Eagleverse; in my actual plan for the TL, the Southern nations stay disunited. You can read a lengthier back story...

In discussing whether Jefferson would be a red or blue state, it's probably worth remembering that California in OTL was a reliably Republican state until 1992. That changed partly because California changed, and partly because the Republican Party changed. The same could happen to Jefferson; it...

On the topic of Carter's cabinet reorganization, what if, when he created a free-standing Dept. of Education he had folded the NEA and NEH into it and called it the Dept. of Education and Culture? That might be the best bet for Culture to become a cabinet-level post.

You could start with this. Then this. Then you might take a gander at this. If you do, you'll see that Chinese and Indian philosophy in particular predate the beginnings of Western philosophy in ancient Greece. And you might also begin to get a sense that these non-Western traditions have been...

I think having him not die in an election year would make a difference. It seemed like a lot of moderate liberals held off on strongly criticizing the more odious features of Reagan's regime out of fear of alienating the so-called Reagan Democrats. If he lived until 2005 when Bush II's...

From an alternate Europe with different alliances before the alternate World Wars; the *Central Powers won a quick victory in the first war, then lost to the Triad of France, (non-fascist) Italy, and (surviving tsarist) Russia about forty years later. Britain and the Ottoman Empire both used...

Indeed they do. They can do more than talk, too. There's another scene in The Subtle Knife where Mrs. Coulter's daemon...caresses...the daemon of another, male, character (in order to distract him while she slips poison in his drink). If only the books had a somewhat older target audience we...

I've been re-reading The Subtle Knife recently, and yes, in the books other daemons talk to their humans, and they can be heard by other humans. Daemons can even have conversation with other humans; there's at least one scene in The Subtle Knife when Lyra's daemon has a conversation with Will...

That the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 will turn out to be a catastrophic failure is about as close to an inevitability as anything in recent history. As long as the personalities in power are the same, the outcome will probably be about the same. If different personalities are in...

^^^This. That is actually the POD I used for the (long-dormant) timeline in my sig; Iturbide holds off on dissolving Congress and survives a bit longer. Now, even if he did not dissolve Congress, I'm unconvinced he'd last a whole lot longer; but it's possible he could stabilize things enough...

I made this up based on my entry for MOTF 76. Alternate colonization and exploration leads to France gaining most of the Congo basin rather than King Leopold II. Due to alternate world wars, France remains a great power and gains the German colonies in Africa for itself (no sharing with...

I decided to go for the trifecta: three OTL European powers taking portions of Africa that they did not gain in OTL during an alt-scramble for Africa. Let's say that the POD is that Henry Morton Stanley gets fatally stomped by an angry hippo while attempting to cross Africa. Thus, most of the...

As a Raiders fan, I've often wondered about this myself. Assuming Oakland did go on to win that game vs. the Patriots, this is how I speculate your short term scenarios would turn out: I think the Raiders probably win the AFC in 01-02 and advance to play the Rams in the Super Bowl, aka the...

From the same universe as before... Republic of Florida One of the four successor states to the Confederation of American States, Florida gained independence in 1960. Even with the addition of the coastal strip of what had been Mississippi and Alabama, Florida was the least-populated and...

Thanks! I could write entries for both countries, if people are interested.

I saw this was going again, so I decided to finish off a trilogy of countries from North America in my "Under the Eagle Flag" universe with one of the modern-day Southern republics. I did get...a bit carried away with the backstory, though. See this post in this thread for additional back story...

This could very well result in Virginia becoming Northern-ized much earlier than OTL, as in a century or more earlier. More industry probably means more immigration and more labor movement activity in the late 19th-early 20th century. By mid-20th century ITTL, Virginia might not be a...

This is an interesting point, about there possibly being one more free state from the beginning. And, if the Southerners tried to even the balance by splitting a slave state like Kentucky or Tennessee, couldn't that end of backfiring on them? The mountainous eastern counties of those states...

I thought the minimum population a territory needed to be eligible for statehood was 60,000, which PEI more than meets.:confused: