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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Still fairly chunky for a vehicle mount (remember you need space around it for the crew to work in). I suspect that mounting a 6pdr + autoloader on a tank chassis would produce something like the Marder, with the gun in a tall, lightly-armoured casemate on top of the hull. More to the point...
  2. Without the Ottomans, what happens to the Mamluks?

    Without the Ottomans and no successor state in Anatolia that will replaced the Ottomans as an Anatolian power, both Christian or Muslim, the Mamelukes are the only regional power. Because I expected than Anatolia will become a battlefield for an Anatolian Reconquista. But you have no real...
  3. Keep the Essex class as a strike carrier

    I've mentioned this before, but they didn't need to reduce the takeoff speed requirements. They weren't interested in operating Phantoms off the Essex-class, and so there wasn't nearly the same pressure to reduce takeoff speeds to get them off very small decks (which Eagle and Ark Royal were in...
  4. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Either Q pops the Enterprise over the the Star Wars universe to learn something, or some of the Star Wars species and characters could be reimagined to fit into Star Trek. The Force is easy to call psionics developed from a mystical understanding. Predator could be interesting trying to get...
  5. What if the Greek Revolution failed?

    A simple POD is that the Mahmud decides to accede to the Sheyhulislam when he refuses to sanction the execution. It would diminish support, I imagine - Gregory had excommunicated the rebels three times, while his survival would reduce anger felt by Christians throughout the OE. Well, it'd...
  6. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Maybe Paul Frees could've recorded some special dialogue to go along with the altered ride. I could see Venkman and the Ghost Host engaging in a battle of wits.
  7. Resurgam

    What if America banned guns instead of repealing prohibition?

    I was unaware bears drank so much in the 30s. ...seriously, though, my maternal grandfather was apparently quite rich until his family fortune got wiped out in the Crash. So I'd imagine they'd be starving alongside yours.
  8. Mad Bad Rabbit

    What if America banned guns instead of repealing prohibition?

    They would starve without firearms? Even exempting hunting weapons? The gold they were supposed to have exchanged two years ago, and the alcoholic beverages have no nutritional value.
  9. What if America banned guns instead of repealing prohibition?

    We move the thread to ASB where I close it because it is a mass death scenario where millions of Americans (including members of my immediate family) die of starvation. Just sayin'.
  10. 1901 and Going Up (A Collaborative TL)

    Midway in the 1902 Pro Football Offseason: Connie Mack owner of the Philadelphia Athletics had planned to rebrand this team next season into the Phiadelphia Eagles, However Mack owner of the Eagles (formerly the A's) and John Rogers owner of the Quakers are planning to keep their teams in...
  11. Denliner

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I'd like to see this event done during Halloween while the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay is done during the Late November - January. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Mansion_Holiday EDIT: Whoops, they do the Haunted Mansion Holiday during Christmas. Sorry about that!
  12. For Want of a Word – Stolypin endures

    The article is seemingly implying that after Stolypin’s death government’s enthusiasm in supporting this program was gradually declining. IIRC, it also mentions shortage of money. But this may be just my interpretation.
  13. Have Triumph Motors continue to be a viable company up to the present day.

    True - the SD1 seems to have been a financial black hole that destroyed much of Rover’s reputation, cut off Triumph’s future and drained the rest of BL of the funds to get the Maestro/Montego launched in good time. Still think MG had a future as a more niche purist sportscar division - like a...
  14. WI: Henry Fitzroy had had a son?

    If Elizabeth and FitzRoy Jr were married with a son at Edward's death, Mary has no chance at the throne.
  15. [Query] Successful Ottomanization or Turkification of Greece?

    This people forget how 'universalist' to use a word where mehmed and suleiman goals, here we could see a Grecco-turk ottoman empire over all
  16. For Want of a Word – Stolypin endures

    I could understand the potato revolt, if the government was pushing it on the peasants regardless of consent as well as punishing the non-cultivation of such crops (as far as a cursory search on Wikipedia can tell), but why the hostility towards medics and census takers?
  17. What if America banned guns instead of repealing prohibition?

    No. I would have moved it if it was. It is, however, so unlikely as to be a practical impossibility. Prohibition was an interesting Amendment. Most of the legislators who voted for it did not intend for it to do what it, in fact did. The expectation was that hard liquor would be banned or so...
  18. Mad Bad Rabbit

    What if America banned guns instead of repealing prohibition?

    Let's make it ASB: on December 4th, 1935 America wakes up to find all privately owned firearms (other than hunting weapons), alcoholic beverages (other than medicines), and gold (except for certain jewelery, coins and dentalwork) have turned into sand. From that day on, any such items made or...
  19. Discussion: What if Edmund, Earl of Rutland survives Wakefield?

    With Edmund marrying Jacquetta's niece I could see the Woodvilles coming to court. Nowhere near the same level of influence, but perhaps a York brother could still end up sleeping with a Woodville? Also, I just discovered that of the three surviving brothers, George was the only one to not...
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