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What people wear in the United Kingdom Floc, hope you don't mind me posting this. If you prefer, I'll PM you first if I think of anything else, but seeing as you've been okay with everything up to now, I haven't bothered this time. Hairstyles A man's hair can be any length up to about...

Thinking about the environment in this timeline. With the more liberal attitude towards sexuality in the 19th and 20th Centuries and the generally more advanced technology, I would expect this timeline to use reliable birth control earlier than in OTL. This would mean a smaller population...

Search for "imperial parliament" on the forum and check out any likely looking threads. Also, there is a book called The Colonial and Imperial Conferences 1887-1911: A Study in Imperial Organisation by John E Kendle (1967). I haven't read it but the title sounds promising. Obviously only...

Well, apart from the fact you have no idea why the GBU came into existence in the first place, I like this timeline.

I just did. The Clayton Antitrust Act making it more difficult to establish monopolies - a Good Thing. The Nineteenth Amendment that gave women the vote - a Good Thing. Appointed the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis - a Good Thing in the context of the time, as people...

Can someone please explain why Woodrow Wilson not becoming President would make the world a better place? I've read this whole thread and it seems like people think that no Wilson = no American involvement in WWI = Central Powers victory = a better world, none of which makes any sense to me...

Taft and McCarthy died early in OTL. McCarthy's death was probably a result of his alcoholism. IIRC An agreement on Germany's post-war borders was already in place in 1944. Probably you are right; I know nothing about China other than what I read on Wikipedia yesterday. The rationale for...

Thanks. I know where I'd like things to end up by the 21st Century, but I'm also just seeing where it goes. No, my mum would have been in Harrogate and my dad in Stoke. I just moved to Slough last year. Churchill is trying for the best of both worlds. For example, Britain has blocked all...

This is my first timeline. It's called Betjeman. It only goes up to 1955 because it took me a LONG TIME. Don't be impatient for it to be extended to 2006 . . . I have a LOT of respect now for people who post timelines dozens of pages long - how do you do it!? 1945 March 30th...

I just remembered, Thomas Harlan has written a sci-fi trilogy set in the 25th Century in a universe where an exodus from a Mongol Japan led to the discovery of the New World. I haven't read it so I can't say if it's any good. Reviews on Amazon boil down to: interesting background, acceptable...

His longer posts have a kind of stream of consciousness feel to them . . . maybe he is actually another regular poster who is sleepwalking?

Try The Children's War and its sequel A Change of Regime by J. N. Stroyar.

Or ramp up the development in a nearby nation, and have Japan benefit indirectly. Then you need some eccentric ruler to sponser voyages of discovery, like Portugal did in OTL. Eventually, the Japanese can make their way through the Aleutian islands to Alaska. In summer, preferably. Or...

If you stop Columbus, that gives the Japanese more time.

If Mexico was a Spanish colony, it seems implausible that the Spaniards would tolerate pagan Aztecs, seeing as how they didn't even tolerate Jews, Muslims or Protestants. Ever heard of the Spanish Inquisition? Maybe if the Spanish Conquest goes badly, say Cortes fails. And then later, things...

WI there had been something like the EU after the First World War? With a POD no earlier than 1918, have the beginnings of a European Union (called whatever you want) in place by 1933. At the very least there should be a free trade agreement, involving both France and Germany, and regular...

Because 2000 or 3000 years ago there was a world war fought with WMDs. A few people far away from any cities survived but over time the world forgot a lot of what it once knew about science and technology.

Well, you wouldn't be the first person that has happened to :) That's just how AH.com works. You post something interesting. Other people who know more than you do shoot it down. Debate ensues. Hopefully some people learn stuff they didn't know before, or get some new ideas. So far you...

I wpave some questions about twpis . . . I know twpat in twpe Anglo-Dutcwp Empire timeline, [twporn] is used to represent a "twp" sound. But wpere you wpave it representing both twpe "twp" in "twpe" and "twpis" and twpe "twp" in "wppotwpetical". Two different sounds. Is twpat the case in...

But without the vast flow of wealth from the Americas to kick-start early capitalism (land, precious metals, agricultural products) perhaps Europe would have been in the same situation - some impressive inventions now and again, but no "take off".