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Garvillo Princip acts alone, assassinates Franz Ferdinand with a telescopic rifle from a window overlooking the street (this Kennedy anniversary stuff is a goldmine:rolleyes:). He manages to escape in the chaos, is never identified, takes his secret to the grave. The rest goes OTL, while...

WI: Oswald misses JFK but manages to pretty much hit everyone else, makes a bloodbath. Hits Jackie, hits the driver & he swerves off into the crowd mowing people down, hits Nellie Connally, Governer Connally, some Secret Service guys, Motorcycle cops, ..

OTL, 1969: Grace Slick, lead singer of the band Jefferson Airplane is invited to a White House tea party for the Alumni of Finch College, along with Tricia Nixon daughter of the President, Richard Nixon. She along with Abbie Hoffman plan to spike Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD (for most...

So I think it's fairly safe to say this war, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War was devastating for both sides. There's criticism from people in those countries that the Soviets & Americans played them, supporting the weaker side to keep the war going & in doing so preventing either...

I'll assume familiarity with the Tuskegee Airmen, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen and ask, 'What if there were an all-volunteer, Ranger Regiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Rangers) of segregated African-American infantrymen in WW2? A regiment that like the...

With Sean Connery being born earlier to match, how cool would those movies have been? Bond: 'Do you expect me to talk?' Himmler, Gestapo Guards: 'Nein (German Laughter) Herr Bond I expect you to die' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnasuKkQVQ

So there's a theory that the purges in Russia of the military leadership by Stalin that lead to the disastrous performance of the Red Army in the Winter War, early Eastern Front were deliberately set in motion by the Nazi's in order to weaken the Soviets. http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch20-5.htm...

Or 'put Rosie the Riveter on crank'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_Can_Do_It!.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_NZuCXofHY (don't watch if you're squeamish). It was common enough for combat personnel on both sides in WW2 to ingest Meth-amphetamine for vigour, alertness, aggression etc...

[Air-Launched-Ballistic-Missile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_ballistic_missile] I'm curious as to the technological* plausibility of an ALBM in service by the U.S or maybe U.K by 47-48 with a P.O.D no later than the introduction or discovery of the development of the V2 by Nazi...

Europe's era of colonization was accelerated by the diseases it's explorers carried such as smallpox, killing off (unfortunately & sadly) the native inhabitants in their path who might have brought resistance to colonial expansion. Others have considered what could have happened had the disease...

From roughly 1945-1973 was the 'golden age of Capitalism' or 'Long Boom'. It had high, sustained growth, low unemployment, low inflation, a trend to equality in growth in wealth. Had it continued the median income of a worker in the West would today be approx $90,000USD/YR. Instead Western...

(Disclaimer: I'm hoping this isn't touchy for anyone with it being fairly modern history, I'll look to pull it down if people can't be sensible.) Location: A town called Srebrenica, the former Yugoslavia. Date, around 10-13 July 1995. OTL (The Srebrenica Massacre...