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Or maybe, everyone in the US emigrates to Canada.

That was the picture taken by Apollo 17, the last Moonwalk mission, on their way back to Earth in Dec '72.

Wasn't this in one of the What-If books, the second one if I'm not mistaken? It seems familiar from someplace...

There's Hannibal, and Caesar, and Cleopatra, and Buddha, and all the heroes of the Trojan War...

Speaking of French victories, let's not forget Charles Martel, either. Without him we'd probably all be speaking Arabic right now. ;) Reading over this post, I could think of one way that a French victory in the Seven Years War could radically alter history: in the mid 1790s, a certain...

The film of the student at Tiannenmen Square in front of the tank.

In the late 1790s, Britain falls to the armies of Revolutionary France, and America seizes the chance and conquers Canada. When Napoleon comes to power, he shows a hankering for Quebec and a strong alliance with the United States. Jefferson grants him them, with the added concessions of...

I've read two of the Byzantium short stories: the one with Mohammed, and the one where Argyros is sent to Alexandria to settle the trade union strike. I found both the be pretty good, but I haven't been able to find the collection anywhere.

So let me get this straight...Napoleon, because he enlisted men into his army, deserves to be on this list, but brutal dictators who sent their citizens to concentration camps don't? Doesn't that mean that every leader who resorted to conscription should be up here? Where's Richard Nixon?

Post-WWII, the Communists stage a revolution and create an Italian People's Republic. The Pope dies in the conflict, and afterwards, when Catholics worldwide convene to decide who the new Pope should be, they split along regional lines or however it is the Catholic Church is orghanized (I'm not...

Why's Napoléon even on this list? He's a saint compared to all the other ones!

In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson (gonzo journalist, famed druggie, and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among other things) ran for sheriff of his county (Aspen Colorado), on his 'Freak Action Party,' and lost by only 4 percentage points. His 13 goals for being sheriff sounded reasonable to...