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I remember this from over 10 years ago: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/anyone-see-where-i-am-going-with-this-mini-tl.12678/#post-161026

Here's a bizarre segue: speaking of Watts, remember when black conservative Congressman J.C. Watts said that the slave-holding Confederates had been "redeemed" by their descendents among the elite landowning classes in Central America who (supposedly) prevented Leftist Soviet-backed regimes from...

Well, if Johnson hadn't been impeached, convicted, tossed out of office and imprisoned, perhaps the Radical Reconstructionists wouldn't have had the political capital to disenfranchise all former Confederate soldiers as well as political officials. If I recall correctly, that was Watts' beef, no?

Yup- Harry makes an excellent point. Also a possibility: a butterfly flaps its wings in '44 and the potato blight still happens, but is less devastating- say 50,000 deaths from famine rather than a million. Britain actively encourages emigration by the "overpopulated" Irish-Catholics to Mexico...

Courtesy of Ivan Druzhkov: When Henry VIII breaks with the Church, he converts England to Orthodoxy. When Queen Elizabeth comes of age, she marries Ivan the Terrible of Russia. Mayhem ensues.

In other words, there just didn't happen to be a New World smallpox that the aboriginals generally resisted but Europeans didn't resist at all?

Semi-OT: Y'know, I always wondered about that. How come New World diseases didn't eventually decimate Europe? Were there any epidemics amongst animals as a result of the hemispheric contact?

Wow- this has fantastic possibilities! What if the British wrote her charter and insisted on a few things like free trade and an independent judiciary? The crummy economic policies of a surviving Imperial Russia and eventually crypto-socialist Greece and muddleheaded post-colonial strong men...

YA THINK ?!?!?!

CA 100,000 BCE: A favorable mutation in maize renders it a hardier species with higher concentrations of lysine and tryptophan. New Worlders prepare it with mineral lime for the necessary calcium as in OTL, but figure out that trick earlier. They munch on that and also brew up alcohol that is...

O/T: Somewhere, George Orwell refers to lower-class miners who "cleaned their teeth at the table and dropped their aitches." I stared at that phrase for about half an hour before I figured out what it meant.

Mmmm... Henotheism is a sub-category of polytheism. Henotheism is more accurate, to be sure, but it's important to acknowledge that historically Latter-day Saints have believed the Godhead consists of three Beings, rather than one Being revealed in three Persons. Also, the doctrine of...

Rigdon was a hothead and Joseph Smith III was pretty neurotic; I can't see either one of them making much of a sucess of the Presidency. Strang, on the other hand, seems viable to me. His claim to leadership is at least arguably legitimate- here's a couple of pretty good Strangite websites...

I read it, Gladi. I don't know anything about European lions, though. I do know that lynxes, while not lap cats by a long sight, are a good bit more domesticable than tigers and whatnot. Some people keep them as exotic pets, and can go for months or even years without getting their throats...

OOC: Not to encourage the unpleasant rape content of this thread, but this is sorta interesting: Neanderthals and homo sapiens mated?

That seems overly optimistic. It's been only thirty-five years (less than two generations) since Dear Leader Charlton Heston sparked the Glorious Revolution with his immortal battle cry, "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!" Our species may well take up arms against one another again...

Some mammals, notably the Great Apes, have what is called a "menstrual cycle." From Wikipedia: Mammals share the same reproductive system, including the regulatory hypothalamic system that releases gonadotropin releasing hormone in pulses, the pituitary that secretes follicle stimulating...

Oh, also, is there any truth to the rumor that Togo's words upon surrendering his flagship to the Russians were "Mikasa is su casa."

Semi-OT: a footnote of that war was the Dogger Bank Incident, in which Joe "Deadeye" Hardy, an Irish loon on a fishing vessel in the foggy North Sea, started shooting at a Russian battleship with a six-shilling pinfire revolver and killed a Vice-Admiral. Russia wanted him extradited and the...

Oberdada's pretty sharp for a dumb-looking fellow, hirsute or otherwise. We can't find the Constitution unconstitutional. I can put Bubba back in the driver's seat, though. If anybody has any thoughts, why not hook a bunny up and bump the original thread? :D Hillary: "I'm pleased to accept...