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I think the likely initial result of a coup is total chaos. The golpistas did not seem well-organized enough to pull off a seamless coup, and the Saudis are heavily entrenched among the Nedji tribes in particular. That, combined with the fact that the leadership of the coup came primarily from...

The commonly used main title of the seminal scholarly work, "The Saltwater Gospel: Ferment and Fervor in the South Pacific" by P.R. James, a history of Christian, Muslim and Buddhist missionary efforts in Polynesia, including the Coral Church Permanent, the syncretic state church of the Samoan...

Kill Halie Selassie, which could help make sure the British hand the Haud and the Ogaden to a Somali republic rather than Ethiopia. That, combined with a weaker France that allows Djibouti to join Somalia rather than remain in association with France, might whet the Somali appetite for Greater...

No. Just no. That is all.

I think iron (and by extension) steel production is the best bet, for the reasons mentioned upthread, as well as the fact that like textiles, durable goods production creates spinoff industries in transportation, intermediate goods (chemicals, tools, dyes for cloth, etc.) and marketing, which...

You need to preserve distinct indigenous elites, given that the liberation wars were driven by criollo elite demands for greater autonomy and power within the empire (similarly to the American Revolution) rather than any true drive for a broad liberal democracy. In most of Latin America, this is...

Yeah, unfortunately, this is it for now. I may try to expand this out into a TLIAD at some point, but for now, you'll have to wonder if Senator Rodham-Marks wins the nomination at all.

MADAM PRESIDENT? Monday, Aug. 4, 2003 From the Watergate affair to the Children’s Defense Fund, from the “mean streets” of Chicago to the Illinois governor’s mansion to the United States Senate, Senator Hillary Rodham-Marks has always, in the words of her 1969 Wellesley College commencement...

The Wild Bunch, Hombre, and, to be honest, an assortment of heist-film tropes.

If Montazeri can pursue a more Deng-esque path in Iran, and repair relations with the United States during the Gulf War, by today we may have a rough-and-ready alliance with them as long as the Saudi connection is broken (either through the collapse of the Saudi regime or a major public break...

Thanks! If I continue it, I'll show who Red Jack is. He was originally meant to be more Carlos the Jackal than Che or Castro - he's got an ideology, but he's basically just a psychopathic killer underneath a debonair revolutionary mask.

You know, he was meant to be a Communist, but having him as the native leader is even better. And hahaha, I see what you mean about Les Mis.

CHANNEL DOGS “Channel Dogs is a 1969 neo-Western film directed by Kerry McGowan and starring Max Hampstead, Masaharu Atsumi, Cassius Smalls Jr. and Kelsey Jackson. The film is based on the 1921 hijacking of the Areuto Maru, a Japanese-owned merchant steamer, by the predominantly White Alaskan...

Write it then. Feel free to do the research and write a full-length timeline. My interests are on different subjects for the most part - I wrote this strictly for a writing challenge elsewhere. No one is stopping you though.

1. It's done. 2. Beginning not long after the POD, presumably, but pretty much every famous person involved is an OTL figure who was born either before or not long after the POD. Neville Hammond is made up, while Cheatham is a relative of this guy.

Pretty much, although it skipped the Terror and went straight to the Directory, for the most part. And yes, that would be ironic. Unlikely though.

With Horatio Gates as the first President (Washington dies before he's able to take power), the Constitution is written differently and the Federalists consolidate near-dictatorial power quite quickly. By 1815, the country is run by a repressive one-party oligarchy based out of Philadelphia and...

Thanks. And yeah, pretty much what I was going for. Yes, it should be. Edited!

This Tree of Liberty, a Trunk of Hickory Colonel Neville Hammond could barely hear. The roar of the guns had sent his eardrums into a state of nervous collapse, huddling in on themselves and ringing like all the bells in St. Luke’s Cathedral. The campaign had been short but grueling. He had...

Sadiq Ash-Sha’ab The morning fog was unusually thick even for this time of year, desperately clinging to the streets like a child too old for its ratty birth blanket. It had been like this for the past few weeks, leaving vagrants shivering and stray dogs soaked and stinking. Some in the...