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  1. Challenge: Phoenician/Punic/Greek colonization of the Americas

    OP, it's easy to imagine a random visitation to the Americas by an off course Phoenician vessel, having originally intended to trade Cornish Tin let's say, and getting caught up in Lord-knows what conditions further west, around southern Ireland and dangerous Atlantic conditions. It's plausible...
  2. Stephen King Does Alternate HIstory

    Stephen King is not that great when it comes to his understanding of history, but as usual, his skill in other areas has gone to the head. Time for people on this forum to challenge him;) Have faith that SK and AH shouldn't mix. Anyway, come on, do we need anymore stuff about JFK? Gets as...
  3. Challenge: Have all of the Wonders of the World survive, except the Pyramids

    Since history arrived, historians have cast doubt over this one ever existing, except as a tidy piece of earlier propoganda : 'We are powerful magicians, ie. we can cast enourmous bronze statues'. The other wonders all arguably represented the same kind of glorification of science, manpower...
  4. Where did Martin Bormann go,after World War 2

    :) Sums 'History' channel up pretty neatly. Martin tried to scurry away from the bunker but, oh well, can't win them all I guess. At least Goebbels and his boss had the balls not to...
  5. Effects of a Failed Operation Sealion in British Popular Culture

    There would have been a more epic BoB movie, rolling in the contributions of all the services into one. The main effect would have been a dramatic reworking of the 1066 legacy, such that the fact of a defence on land against Germany would have erased the sense of defeat handed out by William...
  6. Stalin 'invade Europe'?

    First, Hello forum ! Well, the kind of Germany Stalin would have to deal with if Hitler dies before or after the emergence of the Nazi state makes a big difference to any answer, assuming here that Nazism could exist without its figurehead. I guess you mean a greatly weakened Germany, a...
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