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I wonder what would have happened with Waylon Jennings? Would he have become a major star in his own right if the band he was a part of had not been killed?

There is the possibility that the world wouldn't know what had happened (the AH novel "Fatherland"). The camps might have been quietly closed down, their mission successful. If the Allies had not liberated the camps, seen the evidence with their own eyes, there would have been no trials at...

Who says a nuke will only be military-level quality with command codes? There was an actual case in the U.S. twenty or thirty years ago, a college student was able to piece together instructions on how to build a nuclear warhead from books found in a public library. If our vengeful American...

I've seen a photograph of a London girl from the late nineteenth century, labeled "ten years old" and "prostitute". She was VERY pregnant. So the question is, if 12 is legal, why risk going for 10? Not to mention the risks to that poor kid. The yet-unborn-baby was nearly as big as the mother...

How about structuring the United Nations in the 1940s to have the authority to overthrow the government of any nation attempting to start a nuclear war? That would require an international peacekeeping force large enough to be a real threat, even to the US and USSR, plus enonomic blockades that...

John Paul II has attempted to create bridges of ecumenism to other branches of Christianity and other religions. Paul VI would not have done that. It was, not too long ago, the policy of the Roman Catholic Church that marriages contracted in other denominations were "illegal". Paul supported...

(I found this in a Scottish newspaper online. "Braveheart" doesn't give me enough background to understand any of this, but others here might be able to discuss it. --Alois) If Bruce had died at Dumfries, there would be no Scotland Ted Cowan MOST of Scotland must have believed that...

Drop millions of copies out of low-flying airplanes. You've never heard of that method? Happened all the time. The Allies had a lot of propaganda schemes going. Did the top Nazis publish those photos for the general public? (I don't know. Maybe they did.) Or keep them secret, like they tried...

I would think there would be newspaper headlines until he died, and then the whole thing would be forgotten. Nobody is trying to find out how high ranking Germans got smuggled to Argentina because the existence of ODESSA is known. My only information on neo-Nazis is from the view that they...

My mother, who became a teenager during the war, told me that the OSS tried to convince the Germans of exactly that. Nobody bought it. And as for "irrefutable", Joseph Goebbels was good at his job. But the topic is "What If--" Did the Germans, Poles, and the rest go along out of loyalty to...

I could be wrong, but wasn't the Drakia colony just a small group of Tories from America, which only ruled an area south of where the slaves were being shipped from, until it was bolstered by Confederate immigrants AFTER the bulk of the slave trade?

I don't think there would be a different reaction. In OTL, right after the attack, President Bush was on TV saying there must NOT be reprisals against individual Muslims, as they are mostly peace-loving people. And at the interfaith prayer service in New York City, Muslims were included...

Only a few days ago, before I found this website, I would have called them "outdated", because I did not think in AH terms. Pavel Chekov, on the original Star Trek series, refers to "Leningrad" two hundred years after the people of that city changed the name to St. Petersburg. I found the novel...

The difference here is that Luther did not claim to be the Second Coming of Christ. The Babi faith, in a conference as early as 1848, decided to completely do away with Islamic Sharia law and replace it with scriptures written by the Bab. Baha'u'llah continued along this line, establishing a...

Perhaps William Miller's Adventist movement of the 1830s and 40s could get involved. OTL The first hint of a new religious movement came in November 1845 when the London Times reported three Babis were punished in Shiraz, Persia. A Belgian army officer was an eyewitness to mass executions in...

All of the leading Babis were theologians, even Baha'u'llah who, although not trained for a career as a priest, impreessed others with his knowledge and speaking ability. The Bab outlined the structure of a Babi State, which treated non-believers harshly. Military conquest might not be out of...

Thank you. One of the main reasons I joined here was to learn more history. I was thinking of the worst atrocities and presuming they would continue.

Has anyone seen "Conquistador" by S. M. Stirling, just published in paperback? Appendix three describes Alexander recovering from his illness and consolidating the lands he had already conquered, instead of moving further East. Because of the dominance of Greece rather than Rome, Britain/western...

I would like to mention Genghis Khan. I've heard that on one occasion he divided up the inhabitants of a large city, assigning five people to each of his soldiers. At a signal, each soldier killed his five, destroying the population within seconds, and what? an hour or less to spread them out...

The natives of the western hemisphere, Ausralia/Tasmania/New Zealand, and the African continent doing better at resisting European colonization. Lady Jane Grey dying at a ripe old age, although that would possibly be a disaster for England's, and Europe's, politics. I worked out (vaguely, in...