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  1. Left-handers are the majority.

    Sandy Koufax is just an ordinary pitcher? Right handers who can find the plate are highly sought after in the major leagues? (Wait, with today's pitching quality, that's already happening!):D
  2. the united states of east asia.

    Are you, in any way, familiar with the U.S. Constitution? How about the United States of America? May I suggest that you look at the Alien Space Bat section of the site. It is the proper place for these kind of utterly impossible TL's. If you post them in this forum the results will...
  3. Submarine Sculpin captured

    How would the capture of the boat expose the US code breaking? It wasn't until well after the war that the code breakers success became known. As said by Cockroach, December 1943 is way too late for it to change anything in a substansive way. Even if the U.S. had never broken the codes...
  4. i'm new here, here's my timeline, starting durring russo-japanese war

    Opps. Thanks for the correction. Got a bit out of joint there.:o
  5. the zimmer telegram isn't intercepted, and mexico attacks the united states

    The Mexican Army rebels, overthows the morons in charge, puts a more capable person in charge (in the case of a government that would actually be stupid enough to fall for the German offer when it had become fairly clear that Germany best hope was a draw, this person could be found in any...
  6. i'm new here, here's my timeline, starting durring russo-japanese war

    1905 - How do the Russians win, even with later industrialization? As I recall the war was due to competing claims on Manchuria & disagreements over Korea. If Japan is not far enough along in it's modernization, the point of conflict never occurs. To totally defeat the Japanese you have to...
  7. Aswan High Dam destroyed

    Wikipidia isn't research. The site is useful, but ANYBODY can put stuff on there. It's one guy's opinion, based what he's read and filtered through his individual prism. Some of it is terrific, some of it is BS. The 'Net is a big place. Maybe it would help to look at original sources. I...
  8. Here's one: What if September 11th happened, but not in the US?

    What, exactly, would you have liked to see the U.S. do as "support". Provide on-the-ground forces? I had the impression that 22 SAS had the situation covered as well as it could be done. Regular troops would just have been another target of both the Provos and the Protestants. Airstrikes...
  9. Aswan High Dam destroyed

    Is there a reason that your posts always seem to have disproportionately high number of DOA's and/or KIA's in any scenairo? To have 90% deaths from ANYTHING (save a couple of REALLY rare & exotic diseases) generally requires every single bad thing possible occuring all at the same time. The...
  10. Discussion: The most important battle of the middle ages

    1. Tours - Potentially the end of Christianity. A completely different world. 2. Hastings - Will English even develop as a Language? No Hundred Years War - Different France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, perhaps a different Italy, Germany, Russia. An entirely different Western...
  11. what would america be like in a cold war against a rightwing enemy like nazi germany?

    "RH- Whoa now, basic gap in historical knowledege here. The Israelis attacked first in 1967, starting with the Egyptian air force. Where did you get that idea that the Arabs actually attacked first? I thought that idea had disappeared by the 90s when the Palestinians started to realize American...
  12. Hitler acquitted on grounds of insanity

    The West would never see him or get him into the Dock (much less the Gallows). Stalin wanted Herr Hitler VERY badly. The Red Army would never have given him up; if the West had captured him, Stalin would have demanded Hitler be delivered. Failure to do so... (Wait I may have found a great POD...
  13. WI A militarized Cold War space race

    You don't need to do anything to have the Soviet program be a military one. It always was military & political. EVERYTHING the USSR did revolved around those poles. Portect the State, demonstrate the superiority of the State. True research for it's own sake & individual accomplishment were not a...
  14. WI A militarized Cold War space race

    The advantage of space based weapons is in the area of warning time. The space based platform (or, even better, a web of individual MIRVed pods) avoids the launch signature, the climb into ballistic trajectory, and the majority of the transit stage. Your radar doesn't see the attack until it...
  15. Stalin's Betrayal

    Stalin was a fool. He had tons of information, coming from different pipelines, that the Germans were about to attack. He said that it was all disinformation aimed at giving the Germans an excuse to attack (like Hitler needed a genuine reason to attack someone). Even after the attack began he...
  16. WI A militarized Cold War space race

    If you have military bases on the Moon it is even worse than it is for powers without orbital platforms. Can't shoot down the $%#%#$ Moon. All you need to do from the Moon is throw rocks. Heinlien did a story based on that exact weapon (well it didn't start as a weapon, but...)
  17. Favorite Lost Cause?

    That is exactly why I listed it. The ACW is (to Americans especially those in the South) sometimes called the Lost Cause. What that cause was is sometimes a matter of debate (pretty much every pro-Confederacy author & individual swears that the ACW WASN'T about slavery, be your own judge). To...
  18. WI A militarized Cold War space race

    Hitting something in orbit is easy. It is a matter of mathematics. Predict the path, throw something into the orbital path & bang. The hard part is throwing enough to destroy your target but not so much that you clutter up the space in the area so you can't use it yourself. A counter measue...
  19. AH Challenge: US and THEM

    Correct. But THEM hopes to more than just reclaim the lost islands! Anywhere that a romance language is spoken (or can be taught!) is to become part of THEM. The same goes for the lands where the languages of Princess Katrina of Moscow & Prince Wilhelm of Prussia are spoken. In the end the...
  20. Native American domestication of buffalo?

    Buffalo are NOT cattle. You CAN'T domesticate them. Saying they are genitally similar to cattle makes it possible doesn't make it doable. Can you teach a Chimp (99% similar genitally) or a Bonobo (99.8% similar gentically) to Speak English, use a computer, post to AH.com? Of course not. Why...
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