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Yes and no. Yes, what happened was guaranteed to happen, because it happened and, since there in only one reality all things that did happen happened the only way they could. No, in the future, no event guarantees any other, the chain of causality can diverge in any one of a multiplicity of...

"..the Universe has maybe a thousand stars, tops.." Carl Sagan "I'm here announcing my retirement, I want to devote myself entirely to raising my children." Britney Spears "Gain weight?? who cares?" Calista Flockheart "I hate you, you hate me, I've eaten your entire fam-i-ly" Barney...

WI the British, who had attacked Kamchatka and threatened Alaska in the Crimean war, actually took it, and kept it as war spoils? Do they sell it to the US? What is the consequence of a British Alaska?

http://www.bartleby.com/43/43.html I didn't read it closely but it doesn't look like a lease is mentioned. Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase) (1867) [The risk of encroachment by Russia had been one of the causes which induced President Monroe to give official utterance...

No, this thread isn't ASB, that's the whole point of it; how would Batman survive in the REAL world? The other thread is about Batman considered AS real but still places him in a Superheroed environment. I'd say given a guy with a bulletproof costume and Chuck Norris skills he might last one...

That's a lot more than I thought, but still, would it make a lot of difference? And who was equipping/transporting them? They might not be able to send them all to POW camps but they could just ignore them and do without, and make a promise that after the war they might expect rough treatment...

Was this really possible at the time? The major Allies were fielding these huge armies, fully mobilized and full of blooded veterans, what could some small nation do if they suddenly found themselves declared an enemy? IIRC the minors were really...minor, no more than a few thousand troops from...

In late 1944 a KGB agent who is also an aide to Patton reports to Stalin that the Allies intend to turn on him with the Germans. Convinced of the truth of this, Stalin contacts Hitler. When the Battle of the Bulge begins one of the first strange things reported is the sighting of German units...

Y'know, you're right. You need a separation of these events in the yearly calendar. OK, we celebrate Christmas on March 4th and Easter in October. Easter could be a harvest just as easily as springtime thing. 'course now New Year's become Xmas. Now we have one HUGE holiday in midwinter and...

Dashing through the rain The Sleigh stuck in the mud All this wind and blow Our clothes all full of crud..... No, not quite the same somehow:confused: Doesn't it really make more sense to celebrate Christ's birth and resurrection together, as they're more symbolically akin? In re...

WI the FF had written in the Constitution that new Territories, once they had enough people, first became autonomous regions; and then voted on whether to become States within the US or actual independent nations on their own? What would happen to US History? Which states would now be nations?

Santa Ana wins at San Jacinto. Sam Houston and some others are hung. There are reforms for the American settlers, involving both more control (especially vis-a-vis where settlement is allowed) and more government aid to new citizens. A year later these become the basis for Mexico allowing...

Actually, they're more giraffes, in that really they're very different but alike, or sometimes they act like sheep but they're really wolves in sheep's clothing but then you have your Vegans, and I think they're more like Parrots really....:p:D (Yes, I got a bottle of very good wine, and just...

Now there's an idea. Problem is, it's the only connection in several thousand miles between two whole oceans, there HAVE to be major currents running through there. But yeh, one of my favorites is have it done about 1900 and the man in charge a young engineer, V.I. Ulyanov.

There may be a small problem with having cats prevent plague through killing rats. The flea that is the primary vector IIRC is called the cat flea, not the rat flea, as the cat is its preferred animal. Now, yes, having less rats would prolly mean less plague, but if the fleas then get on the...

Jets don't necessarily follow from rockets. Jets have a substances/heat problem (substances which would withstand the heat/centrifugal forces in the compressors weren't available) which would hold them back. Also jets/rockets have flames and this could be problematic around hydrogen airships...

WI the First Crusaders, buoyed by success went on to take more land and invaded Sinai. Then in 1125 Prince Godfrey the Engineer of Jerusalem, financed by the Venetians, builds the Suez canal? Assuming this happens (and it's not really impossible, Suez is just digging, no mountains etc.) how...

Didn't KFC actually predate MacDonald's as a franchiser?

Is that 19 mill including India and Australia, or just the home island? Britain may have still added up to less people but had (I think) something like 25x greater economy. It's not just how many men you can field but also equip and feed and also your artillery/BBS and trade sanctions. The...

I beg to differ, the colonists WERE British. The Americans may have hated the British AFTER the Revolution, (though there's not a lot of evidence for even that) but I think having them do so before the Revolution is ahistoric. Unless, of course, you have evidence to back up your claim.