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I really like alternative local history - and although my knowledge of Indiana is solely based on Wikipedia, I'll have a go. Most obvious thing I can think of is for Indiana University to have its original campus at Fort Wayne, instead of Bloomington. That would probably lead to extra growth -...

Marriage almost always changes a man's life. He probably would have spent a lot less time on politics, people in 2017 might never have heard of him....

Without the heavy British support, the northern Dominions wouldn't have been willing to fight so hard and sacrifice so many troops. The south was less prosperous , the north was beginning to see them as a economic millstone around their necks. But it is economics that would cause any kind of...

Good questions, the answer is 'no' in each case :eek: I think a couple of smallish places in South Africa will be named Victorton or a variation thereof. And at least one Canadian province will have a different name..

Well, possibly ;)

Men's Cricket World Cup 1976 Quarter Finals West Indies bt Cape by 8 wickets at Hanover Cape 105 all out (Tutu 32 Marley 4-16) West Indies 107 for 2 in 24 overs (Greenidge 52 not out ) England bt Newfoundland by 85 runs at Kiel England 305...

I think you are absolutely right. Any POD is going to have be much earlier ... and probably inadvertent. any ideas of what would do it?

Thanks for the info...:p

Not ASB , merely very unlikely.- George Gregory, who died in 1804, was 108 or 109 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_historical_events .

As this thread starts off by mentioning a hypothetical posthumous son, could I go off at a tangent and ask a question that's been bugging me? Suppose a king dies , without having had any children but while married to someone of childbearing age? If the queen gives birth to a posthumous child...

... The idea of a fourteen-year-old princess coming to England for consideration as a future bride seems extremely creepy by modern standards. But these were the dreadful days when princesses were treated like pawns on a chess-board . Victoria's half-sister Feodora married someone she had only...

"September 7th 1840 Slept well & breakfasted at ½p. 9, before which Mama came, bringing me a nosegay of orange flowers, & good Lehzen gave me a dear little ring. Wrote my Journal. Had my hair dressed & the wreath of orange flowers put on my head. My wreath & veil were worn, according to the...

1860 James Botham savoured the last mouthful of the Beef Wellington and smiled at his wife Mary sitting opposite him. He was really enjoying this evening. His hosts clearly employed an excellent cook, nearly as good as the one they had back home. Mary gave him one of her secret looks, the...

Persuasive and much appreciated input ... but the historical sources say there were only two escorts, probably the Metropolitans were nearby anyway. I am sticking with the idea that the escorts were Gentlemen at Arms; it makes it easier to write my next post, which is from the viewpoint of one...

A refreshingly different thread, well done everyone..:D One of the things that I like about these splendid canines is that they could turn up in other threads and timelines. Want to flesh out your ACW character and make him more meaningful - give him one of these dogs? Or would that count as...

Looking at the picture again, I think the guys in blue are just passers-by. The two horsemen in orangey-red could be Gentlemen at Arms.

You know, that's a good question. I was wondering myself which organisation would provide the escort. I'm still not sure. For those unfamiliar with Mr Oxford, he was a real person. In OTL he did attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria. The painting is actually one showing his real-life attempt...

...Early in May 1840 [Edward] Oxford bought a pair of pistols for £2, plus a gunpowder flask, and began practising in shooting galleries in Leicester Square, the Strand, and elsewhere in the West End of London . Late at night he would return to sleep at his mother’s lodgings in Camberwell. A...

Buckingham Palace. Illustrated London News (25 June 1842): Text and scan by Philip V. Allingham. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/bp/1b.html

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