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MY NAME IS EARL Silly documentary aimed at junior high kids; the first episode was about the hurricane which struck the East Coast in late summer of 2010. It's told from the point of view of the hurricane. Other episodes are told from the of view of other weather patterns and geologic...

THE BIG BANTHA THEORY A SW TV series which starts out with Adam Sandler as some nebbish on Tatooine who thinks he can domesticate banthas, though the series moves on from that soon enough.

During the 1970s, a group of SF fans pool their money, buy shares of Berkshire Hathaway and other blue chip stocks, holding their shares through thick and thin for 20 years. They intended to make their own, really good blockbuster movie. But then when the SCI-FI Channel goes on the air, they...

I read that Tina Louise was under the impression that Gilligan's Island was supposed to be a show about Ginger Grant! Well, maybe that could have worked, if they revamped the other characters a bit. One of the problems with the Courtship of Eddie's Father was, he was such a nice guy, he...

I read an interesting quote from Aldous Huxley. The proper time to influence the development of a child is 100 years before the child is born. Okay. The challenge is to come up with a POD which is on your birthday, 100 years before you were born. It has to be exactly your birthday. 10...

This site will show you what's going on in the sky for any time between Julian Day One (4713 BC) and New Year's Eve, 7999 AD. This will apply to any spot on Earth, of course. It can be used in conjunction with that other site which gives information on occultations, transits and eclipses...

This web site has lists of things going on in our skies for thousands of years in the past and into the future. Now, I'm not complaining, but, who but alternate historians and SF writers is ever going to use this? Okay, some archaologists sometimes use some of this. But some of it's...

THE BIG BANG THEORY Long-running Chuck Lorre sitcom about two young male rocket scientists sharing an apartment across the hall from two women brain surgeons. THE BIG BANA THEORY Larry David's sitcom about the famous actor Eric Bana and his philosophies on everything. THE BIG BAND THEORY...

I forgot to do this one last time... AMERICA'S GOT TALENT Reality show about the star of Ugly Betty, America Fererra, trying her hand at different occupations and hobbies, interviewing professionals and amateurs all over the country...

What if the Rosetta Stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls and other documents had been discovered and translated earlier? Hildegard of Bingen was an 11th-century nun who invented an artificial language. Could somebody have done that earlier?

Because the original show was called Dallas. Why Fort Worth? AMERICA'S GOT TALENT Silly, short-lived Jewish sitcom about the USA using the Biblical "talent" as a unit for measuring everything. By extension, Jewish culture affects everything else in American life, as well. Pretty...

MAX REGER, famous composer, responding to Rudolph Louis, a critic for the Muchner Neuste Nachrichten. I am sitting in the smallest room of my house-- RUDOLPH LOUIS Wait--you're sitting in your pantry? Why are sitting in your pantry?? MAX REGER All right, I am sitting in the...

Should there be separate categories for these? The author has an axe to grind and he isn't convincing: The Probability Broach The author doesn't seem to be even trying: What's the craziest TL on Althistory Wiki Very superficial AH, barely mentioned in passing. (Several...

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL The adventures of Cleopatra and the Romans who loved and hated her. THE COWARDLY AND THE UGLY Soap opera-ish sitcom about Cleopatra's jealous, ugly sister and the jealous brothers of the Romans who loved and hated Cleopatra. ALL MY CHILDREN Soap opera about...

But...John X crowned Berengar as Emperor in 915. So he has the support of the Pope; I was thinking that he doesn't get assassinated and he keeps his throne. A more valid objection is that Berengar must have been close to 80 in 924. But he did have a son, Berengar II, who was old enough to...

From: Wikipedia's article on Pope John X. The defeat and death of Berengar in 924, through the combination of the Italian princes, again frustrated the hopes of a united Italy. Is a united Italy in the tenth century plausible? How long would it stay united? Thanks.

History Revisited: The Great Battles: Eminent Historians Take On the Great Works of Alternative History (Paperback) ~ J. David Markham (Editor), Mike Resnick (Editor)...

Thanks. Other threads here have discussed a Chinese colonization of North America. Apparently it was considered too distant and uncivilized to bother with much. They might have established a few cities, but--according to others here--they didn't have the incentive to go expanding their...

I hope I didn't already do this one... KING OF KENSINGTON Sitcom about a delusional geezer living in Liverpool, who has become convinced he's the king of a country called Kensington. He constructs this elaborate fantasy, with a consistent fictional history, explaining how the UK allows this...

In another thread I mentioned an Uber-Manitoba; would the hyphenation and the "Uber-" be likely? The names of the Central American countries come from vague, assorted sources, so... OTL ATL Mexico Colombia Guatemala...