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I know I've personally tried and failed to start like a half dozen of these, and I don't even know if technically they belong here or in Shared Worlds these days. But dammit, this concept is an AH.com classic in my humble opinion, and we haven't had one in a while. :o The concept and rules are...

I'm back, sort of. Assuming any of you remember me. :p Anyway; a week or two ago, I ended up watching an episode of the documentary series Mayday (also known as Air Crash Investigation, Air Emergency, or Air Disasters), and this seemed like an intriguing What If topic. On June 9th, 1996, a...

One of the most popular and frequently recurring collaborative timeline formats in AH.com has been the the Famous People In Alternate Realities threads, starting with the strange universe which became known as "Puget Sound-One" and spawning more than two dozen universes. The idea is simple; post...

Basically in the same vein as the popular quote game thread; Someone posts the name of a court case (i e "John Smith v. Jane Doe") and the next poster writes a short description of what it was about and how the court involved ruled. For example, borrowing from OTL; I'll start off; King...

As many of you know, about three years ago now, the once promising political career of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford went up in flames when it was revealed he had been having an affair with an Argentine journalist, María Belén Chapur. Before this he had been considered a strong...

Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party goes the other way; electoral fusion everywhere Between 1992 until it folded in 1998 with key staff forming the Working Families Party in New York, the New Party was a progressive/social democratic third party which built a base among community organization...

Something for the political junkies here; if any of you are anything like me, you've heard of and played around with Dave's Redistricting, so let's see if you have any CD maps of what the districts would look like if they were drawn sensibly. I can't find anything along these lines on my...

Given the most recent one of these in post-1900 has been dead for a while and the two ones in pre-1900 didn't get much momentum, let's try and start this over again. As always, the game is simple; write a short biography of a person who was famous IOTL — a politician, artist, actor, general...

Given the current one in post-1900 seems to have died, let's start this over in a somewhat different way. The game is simple; write short biographies of OTL famous individuals; politicians, generals, artists, writers, actors, or what have you, in an alternate universe. Two ground rules; no PODs...

After seeing this somewhat silly thread, I came across this fascinating tidbit; So could Michael Sheen, perhaps best known as the fictional President of the United States Josiah "Jed" Bartlet, enter the race for the Irish Presidency? Perhaps for some reason the OTL winner, Michael D...

This is an idea that's fascinated me for a while now. First, of course, we need to get Alaska out of American hands. On previous threads on this topic, the POD was usually Johnson and Seward are killed in the conspiracy after the Civil War and so there is no purchase, but based on the Wikipedia...

Since the Democrats announced their 2012 convention will be held in Cincinnati, in my home state of Ohio (Albeit a good 350 km away from me), earlier this morning, I was reading up about the city on Freepedia. In particular, I was curious about the namesake of the planned convention venue, the...