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He was favourite to win the 1972 Democratic nomination and polled ahead of tricky Dicky for a while nationally! However dirty tricks were employed against him suggesting he had an issue with French Canadians and that his wife had a drink problem and he ran out of campaign funds! He was...

If it were constitutionally possible would he have won a third presidential term in 2000 and how would it have turned out? Also given that their relationship seemed to have substantially turned south would Gore be his running mate? I remember at the time somebody speculating, that the US...

How does his presidency pan out? How does he handle Iran? Can he get 4 more years subsequently? He closed a massive gap from 30 points to 2 points in the peanut farmer's lead between the GOP convention and election day! He won more states than Georgia's finest and had he won Ohio and Wisconsin...

I know Christians of the past tended to take their Lent penance/fast much more earnestly than most do today! What if there was a Ramadan like fast/penance which all Christians were required to perform to this very day. Would it bring the various Christian sects closer together, would it make...

The Edict Of Nantes 1598, gave French Protestants e.g. The Huguenots the right to religious tolerance and was enacted by King Henry IV. It was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685, apparently having a crisis of conscience, believing he was letting his catholic side down! This led to massacres, mass...

It is debatable but if The Nazis successfully invaded The UK, eg Post Dunkirk, they could well have installed Edward VIII on the throne. What would have happened when the Nazis were eventually overthrown by The USA and USSR combined many years down the road? Would The UK government in exile...

I don't know if prior to 1914, in the cold war of its time between Germany and Britain if the olympics were used in a sense as a bloodless for the most part cold war! There was certainly a very strong element of this when the Soviet block nations and satelite nations competed against Western...

Harold Wilson became president of the board of trade in Clement Atlee's cabinet and AFAIK was the youngest cabinet minister at 31 that century, up to then! He was a huge proponent of having an olympics in 1948 with London to be the hosts! Eventually he was listened to and the games dubbed the...

Ataturk as part of his modernisation programme introduced latin script into the Turkish language in 1928. It had hitherto been written in a form of Arabic script! What if Turkish had maintained the Arabic alphabet. Would it be closer to the Pan Arab world then it is today. Would it be further...

Geneva a very important protestant refuge during the reformation, the home of Calvin, Rouseau, where the red cross and Geneva convention were formed! Also significantly a UN home. What if anything would have changed had it been a French city rather than a French speaking Swiss one?

If there had been no African boycott in 1974 at Montreal,Western boycott in 1980 at Moscow and Soviet block boycott in 1984 at LA, how would the world of sport have changed? I think African athletics which was starting to become more prominent in the 60s and early 70s was stunted a bit because...

I was surprised to learn that the defeated referendum on the Alternate Vote in the UK was the first referendum on a nationwide basis since the 1970s 0n EU membership in that case, AFAIK. Ireland has had around 34 referendums since its current constitution was enacted in 1937. What would have...

The Les Dawson of UK politics, John 2 Shags Prescott, condemned the Liberal Democrats as really only Tories anyway, post GE defeat. What if labour was a minor party in UK politics, with the Conservatives and the Liberals being the major players.

The English language is probably the only benefit we got from the Brits under the famous 800 years of oppression. What if Ireland had remained. largely Gaelic speaking or with a successful Spanish Armada, Spanish speaking or with a successful French invasion post revolution, predominantly French...

What if the Kaiser is left in "power" post WW1? Either as a figure head like The Empreor Of Japan post WW2 or still with some authority. My understansding is that he he was actually a bit of a nut case in reality.

I didn't know what forum exactly to put this one in so let the powers that be reposition it. Let me explain what I mean The Hunger Games resembles WW1 except of course that it is officially Children over 18 involved and on a mass scale! I strongly read the class stuggle into Never Let Me Go...

I saw in his Wiki entry that George Brown was a catholic, well fully towards the end of his life! I was wondering if the UK had a Catholic PM as the troubles in Ulster hotted up, would anything have changed? Mind you Jim Callaghan was an Atheist and it did not improve the lot of Ulster Taigs...

By this I mean what would have been the consequence of Germany and her allies winning WW1? Would you have an early form of the European Union? Would we all be marching the goosestep? Or would it be similar to Prussia's victory over France at the end of the previous century? How could the...

If 'The Pimp' survives the attempt to kill him relatively intact, how does it change Dutch society? Can he become PM? Would we have heard of Gert Wilders? Would Theo Van Gogh still be with us? I always thought it was an animals rights activist which sent him to his eternal reward, but he...

Traditionally this virtually all powerful axis within the EU has been a balance with The French President being Socialist while the Chancellor is a Christian Democrat or vica versa, so there was a balance and compromise was the result of deliberations more often than not! The current economic...