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  1. Alternate style for American cars of 50s.

    The first T-birds were pretty cool, too.
  2. WI: Beatles Album in Late 1966/Early 1967

    Rockier than Pepper, but still with 'exotic' instruments? Sounds like the Stones on Aftermath!
  3. If you could eliminate one person at any given time in the last century who would it

    Hah! I'll counter with F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, as the rust-belts of the US and UK eloquently testify :mad:.
  4. AHC: Franco 'joins Allies' June/Sept 1944

    There was a military airbase at Palma de Mallorca that might have been useful-ish for supporting Dragoon, but the timing was prolly a bit late for that. Hard to see what else Franco could bring to the party at this point.
  5. If you could eliminate one person at any given time in the last century who would it

    ..at any given time in the last century.. So that would rule out Bismarck entirely, and there's not much point in offing Leopold II when he's already done most of the damage in the Congo. I'm also not convinced that WWI or something much like it can be butterflied away with the loss of a single...
  6. Naval Super Powers

    Setting the Brazilian Empire on a collision course with the British Empire? Oz, NZ and SA would demand a showdown by London, and no doubt get one sooner rather than later. This one gets strangled at birth, I think.
  7. New Northern Ireland Flag

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25198298 FWIW, here's my contribution (sorry, my graphics skills aren't up to a pic). Four equal rectangles, clockwise from upper left: Union Flag; Brian Boru harp - gold on blue ground; ROI tricolor; Red Hand of Ulster on white ground. This would...
  8. Northern Ireland as part of the Irish Republic

    The latest POD possible for a united Ireland, but probably not a Republic, would see the Government of Ireland Act 1914 not being postponed but enforced, by regular troops of the British army suppressing the Ulster Volunteers if it came to it. The problems there were considerable, but not...
  9. AHC: Arab Military under Allied command in WW2

    There was the Arab Legion, of course, but it never really amounted to more than a "smattering of infantry" OTL.
  10. capitol punishment abolished in the United States

    Criminal Record I sentence you to confiscation of your record collection and condemn you to listen to the attached for the rest of your natural life. May God have mercy on your soul.
  11. WI: No, or failed, Berlin Airlift

    In the first scenario, the Allies abandon West Berlin and withdraw their Berlin brigades. Unlikely, I think. In the second they have the choice of abandoning West Berlin or calling Stalin's bluff by forcing truck convoys with armed escorts across at Helmstedt/Marienborn and possibly also a...
  12. Worst War to have lost?

    For England and the world as we now know it, the Anglo-Spanish War(s) of 1585-1604. No UK, no USA, probably no independent Netherlands and quite possibly the extinction of Protestantism in Europe. If we're allowed a pre-1900 POD on here, that is...
  13. Worst case scenario for British at Jutland.

    If the HSF and GF were even in numbers what would stop the HSF from venturing down into the Channel and temporarily cutting the sea lanes to the BEF? Aaaand.. Shedloads of destroyers in the Dover Patrol, not to mention British and French coastal artillery. A non-starter, really.
  14. Alternate F1 World Champions.....Round 2

    ^ 1958 – Alberto Ascari (Italy) Ferrari 246 I'm saddened that you've written my boyhood hero Mike Hawthorn out of *history. Now if he had (come out of retirement and) lived... what a timeline that would make!
  15. Civil Jets

    Having engines buried in the wings is not maintenance-friendly, compared to them being slung under like the 707 and DC-8.
  16. French Saar

    Speaking as someone with a language that's a much-evolved synthesis of Low German, French and Danish... WTF! The Saarland voted to be part of Germany, and I invoke Wilson's self-determination doctrine. Full stop, point, Punkt.
  17. How would a failed Sealion effect British Politics?

    The 1945 election OTL was much, much more about the memory of failed economic policies and working-class hardship of the 1920s and 30s than anything else. I don't see almost any ATL with an allied win altering this.
  18. Suez

    So how do we see Israel's relationships with UK/France/USA/its hostile neighbours developing?
  19. Ronald Reagan is still alive today

    How to keep old rightists alive
  20. Early Suburbanization

    If we allow that your whole complex of PODs could happen (highly improbable in their entirety), then yes to that question.
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