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Was watching interesting documentary on BBC IPlayer (i love that), about the turbulent anglo-russo relationship and found out an interesting factoid: when in London attending a communist gathering of some such Stalin chatted up a London hooker and was almost beaten to death by her and her...

technically this should go in the Pre-1900 thread, but to me it seems more apropriate here, i'm sure i saw a site that said in his early childhood Curchill nearly died (fell of a wall or something...) not entirely sure how accurate that is... but he was born premature... so going with this as a...

w00t! Physics What If :p: This does belong in this board (barely), James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), made famous for his equations, died two years after moving to England to take up a post at cambridge, (IIRC the moving and his death are related) It is generally thought that if he hadn't...

just a quick question really... i think early on there was the war for norway (rather quick affair i think) but the germans landed just ahead of the british i think, so they were portrayed as liberators (even though they failed)... so my question is... What IF allied forces had landed in...

Ok, made a title i thought would catch people's attentions, but i'm just curious about people's opinions of this... to my understanding rome waltzed up the british isles because the individual tribes were unco-ordinated and in general didn't like each other a whole lot anther thing about...

just a thought, requiring that WW1 was exactly the same as OTL, is there a way for churchill to become PM before WW2 and if so (or even if not so) what would be the concequences?

ahem, yes hello i'm new, please don't hit me rather than trapse through the (seemingly) endless threads here to see if had been done before, i though i'd just try posting and see if i got shouted down :D so anyway, i'm mainly just curious about other people's opinions on the matter, but what...