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alternate name for telephone I've been trying to think of an alternate term for the device known in OTL as a telephone. One that is both different yet plausible. Interestingly, the first ever device called a telephone was a system of horns for communicating between ships in fog. Sadly there...

Yes Leo, the land was sold by the Hudson's Bay company to Canada, from what I'm reading rather against the wishes of the indiginis population. Obviously in order for this indipendant nation to exist at all, then the land must not be sold to Canada, unless we hypothesise some kind of later...

In a world without the USA, I envisioned an independent nation based on Sir Frederick Haultain's proposed province of Buffalo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Buffalo I was given further confidence in this idea by this nation in the timeline French Trafalgar, British Waterloo...

Just to add a note, I think for the last half-century, we have in the west been suspicious of both extreme right and left, and in Britain I think we've had bad experiences with, and learned ultimately to shun extremes fullstop over the last 500 years or so. Always the most successful regimes in...

I don't know if I'm playing fast and loose with the rules here, as my POD is actually way before 1900, however this concerns events after, and I thought I might find more people here with the knowledge to give me opinions. I have been debating the idea with user Perfidious Albion, very clever...

I wouldn't say we really are, since we're still discussing my TL, even if in a roundabout way, and since we're the only two folk talking on the thread it doesn't seem to matter to me, but that's fine I don't mind, guess it has spiralled into something it wasn't intended to be.

But by that argument, wouldn't our world be ultra-left wing, ultra communist because we fought the right? We fought an extreme right-wing group during the war, and yes Nazi is the ultimate insult here though it's much over-used. And though now yes most of us have a dislike of anything *too*...

A world with no conceptual art, no discordant music and no feminism? Oh happy, happy land! heheheh only kidding. I don't care for either of the first two, and while I fully respect the right of women to equality, some feminists seriously get on my whick, just as sexists do. It's like with human...

Hmm, now this makes my story seem a bit clumsy, as I introduce my ATL, briefly describing the world in a prologue. Just about the empires keeping the peace and that, perhaps I can weave it in somehow, don't know I'll think on it. Interesting read though.

Well, it's not that I wouldn't enjoy doing it, I actually love creating all the little details and so-on, but explaining why another planet looks like 1950s England or America would take some doing. And the story just... doesn't want to be there if you understand what I mean. I often feel that...

You really do have an answer for everything don't you my friend? :) You're seriously showing me up now heh. The worst of it is I can't disagree with the sense of any of it. You are an extremely intelligent and knowledgeable person, and conversing with you has been a great pleasure. I have made...

Oh no you're giving me lots of info and advice, and being very patient with my stupidity heh. That soft AH thing, do you mean: http://americankingseries.webs.com/americankingii.htm If so, I've read a bit of it, while It's thrown up some ideas for me, I don't really like it. Its POD is extremely...

Oh... first, thanks so much for all your responses, info and advice, I really do appreciate it very much. No I'm actually English, but we never studied the 7-years war in school, so I only know it from things like The Last Of The Mohecans, and Barry Lyndon, in which I think they both called it...

Hi Albion, I find this French win against Britain interesting, even if it does mean I have to let the French beat my country... twice! I say twice because I can't see a way of preventing the French-indian war. I will have to scout around for a suitable King candidate though. Time to hit...

Here is a link to the letter that Col. Lewis Nicola sent to George Washington, dated May 22, 1782. http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/gbi/docs/nicolatowashington.html This is the infamous Newburgh letter, which began the idea that George Washington was offered a crown. As you can see if you...

Well, this is all most interesting. Albion this certainly is an angle I didn't think of before. It's worth consideration. So far as autonomy after a lost war of independence goes, surely for the British to continue their former attitude to America would only have been saving up resentment for a...

Oh gosh, thanks everyone for the responses. I hope you'll all forgive me if I can't address you individually, but I'll do my best to respond to everything that's been said here. First, I believe the last poster is right about an American parliament. Don't forget that in OTL, numerous offers...

Hmm, it's taken out all my paragraphs. won't waste time worrying about them in the future. I have more to post, the timeline I mentioned, but I'll wait for feedback on what I wrote so far, otherwise there'll be so much to respond to it'll be hard for people to think of what to say first heh.

Hi all, looking for some help to craft an AH timeline. It's primary purpose is as the backdrop for a story I'm writing, but who knows it could become a project all its own if one or two folk wanted to work on it with me. Below I'm going to lay out the ideas inception, and the scenarios I've...