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  1. WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    Leonard Nimoy could also take the advice of Paul Newman on marriages--Newman was married to Joanne Woodward from 1958 to 2008, and famously said about it "Why would I go out for burgers when I've got steak at home?"
  2. WI: Larry Weiss offers "Rhinestone Cowboy" to Johnny Cash?

    This might be pretty subjective, but I associate Rhinestone Cowboy with that tacky late 70s pop-country vibe, basically one step away from BJ And The Bear. Not quite the milieu I imagine Johnny Cash in. (Then again, we're talking about an era when Cash was doing stuff like this and this, so...
  3. What if the Mark 71 8"/55 gun wasn't cancelled?

    I figured as much about the Burkes the ability to add it didn't last all too long in the design considerations in OTL. As related to the Zumwalts yeah you're probably right but hey one can dream that the USN went in a timeline where it had the Mark 71 went for more a conventional 12,500ish ton...
  4. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    How would the Greeks, Egyptians, Scythians, and an independent Israel kill him in a way that still fulfills prophecy? (hands, feet, and side pierced, no broken bones) I figured he would've been sawed almost perfectly after being nailed down to something with the men examining the remains...
  5. Map Thread XX

    Crossposting from the Telephone Map Game 8. As soon as I saw @Yanranay 's beautiful map of the African Steel Age, my immediate thought was to have an African empire across the Indian Ocean. And that I had to make something worthy of following that map, I hope to have achieved that. I also really...
  6. Knightmare

    "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    True, but at the same time, they'll be going up anyway, so best to just pass on some.... requests to the IRA and friends from the Republic, so everyone gets to come away happy.
  7. The flame of British Liberalism burns steady and brighter: A timeline from 1945

    The Southgate by-election, caused by the death of Beverley Baxter (Conservative) took place on 4 June 1964. It was held for the Tories by Geoffrey Johnson Smith. Their majority over Liberal was reduced from 18.6% to 12.9%, (1) The Shoreditch and Finsbury by-election on 15 October 1964...
  8. Carolus

    "Most Interesting Scenario To You" Redux Thread

    Welcome to the "Most Interesting Scenario To You" Redux Thread. Inspired by the original "Most Interesting Scenario To You" thread, I had decided to revive the idea for a second time. (Notwithstanding the fact that the original thread is one year old now.) Just as in the original thread, the...
  9. Gentleman Johnny

    God Save These American States

    Very interesting blend of ideas. I don't think I've seen anything like it on a TL before
  10. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    I wouldn’t exactly call crucifiction ‘icon worthy’. The practice was basically the most humiliating, painful and revolting way of executing criminals the Romans could imagine. The cross wasn’t an electric chair analog, it’s basically the equivalent of drowning someone in a used toilet bowl. The...
  11. A Map Shitpost Thread

    GAY RUSSIA
  12. Treaty Ports (Ireland) in WW2

    How was Dev and Co to know Russia would balckball Ireland post war (or that the UN would even be a thing)? That's using knowledge they couldn't have to question their decision. As for European Rebuilding, suppose it depends, again, how where they know about the Marshall Plan? Also we provided...
  13. No disaster in Malaya, no invasion of Burma; how long does India remains in Britain's sphere?

    Anticolonialism was a powerful movement worldwide. You would still have the example of Philippine independence, Indonesian uprising against the Dutch and a strong antiwar sentiment in Britain against sending the "boys" to support a Victorian concept, As to Commonwealth status whether George...
  14. Aghasverov

    WI: Wilhelm II is a pacifist

    Ummmm, yeah. There's a lot of blame that can be thrown around for the onset of WWI (and I certainly do not fall into the CP-sole-War-guilt camp), but there were elements in the German General Staff and civilian government (including some of the diplomatic corps) who were of the opinion that if a...
  15. What if the Mark 71 8"/55 gun wasn't cancelled?

    Spruance, yes. Burke, probably not. It won't prevent the Zumwalt fiasco; the guns were only a small part of it, the much bigger problem is everything related to the fact that it's a large littoral vessel with a focus on shore bombardment and ASW.
  16. What if the Mark 71 8"/55 gun wasn't cancelled?

    I supect that would change if it's used.
  17. How long could Nazi Germany delay its defeat?

    I could see them delaying a successful invasion of Northern France or escaping most of the troop losses from Bagration but not both - the consequence is that they would do much worse on the other front.
  18. marathag

    WI: Wilhelm II is a pacifist

    Unlike every other European power that planted a Flag in Africa or Asia, bar A-H In 1913, Germany pretty much had given up on the building race. And he wasn't the reason the South Americans had their own Battleship programs, either It's easy to dump on poor Willy, but you needed all of Europe...
  19. Treaty Ports (Ireland) in WW2

    All are valid points but failing to declare war among other things kept Ireland out of the UN for another 10 years and out of the European rebuilding. For most of the countries that declared war in 1943 and onward it was largely a ceremonial gesture and I would not have expected Ireland to...
  20. Remember the Texas! The United States in World War II (an alternate history)

    I doubt if anyone could have brought Chiang Kai-Shek around to the view of aggressively fighting the Japanese for the benefit of the western Allies. He wanted to bide his time until Japan's defeat and build his forces to fight his real enemy Mao. IT really was a pretty sensible strategy from...
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