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  1. WI: No Drug War

    The efforts, starting under Nixon, but yeah accelerating under Reagan, to criminalize drugs and especially those associated with the counterculture and African-Americans. (A Nixon adviser said this on f----- tape.)
  2. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    I believe 42 and Hidden Figures did pretty well too.
  3. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Agreed. that wasn't my point. My point was extending a series isn't bad in and of itself, the problem is when you ignore past canon . It didn't have to agree with the EU stuff but it had to agree with previous Star Wars movie canon. The Holdo Maneuver begs the question "Why didn't anyone do...
  4. A Dempster Fire in the White House!

    A Dempster Fire In The White House! It is not widely known that the Dumpster (yes, that Dumpster) is named after its inventor - east Tennessee native businessman and politician George R. Dempster (1887-1964). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Roby_Dempster Dempster lived an interesting...
  5. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Arguably, the SWU failed because it was handled like the MCU.
  6. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Which means it's great fallback if the Disney material flops.
  7. The Rainbow. A World War One on Canada's West Coast Timeline

    I thought this may be of interest to some of you. CTV News VI: Historic model of Canadian Navy ship likely saved from scrapyard. https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/historic-model-of-canadian-navy-ship-likely-saved-from-scrapyard-1.5361367
  8. Sārthākā

    Ottoman Empire & Austria-Hungary collapse naturally?

    Pan slavist Russia did not intervene in 1877, 1887, 1897, or even in 1907 when there was a constitutional crisis going on that could have been exploited. Why would Russia even intervene in 1917? Even Nicholas II wasn't that much of a fool and instead sent a telegram in 1907 stating that he hoped...
  9. Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    That's true, but reconstruction didn't make the effort to do that with all the active resistance and ended after only a decade. In Germany, the need for a long strong ally against Communism ensured that they didn't go too deep. The Soviets weren't any better of course but in this case neither...
  10. the best movies never made

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1959) An epic adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel. Still the record-holder for most Oscars ever won by a movie, winning all thirteen of its nominations at the 1960 ceremony. The movie is remarkably faithful to the original book, but contains a few minor...
  11. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Well, the story isn't good. It's stinking shite, and it's so much worse than what we could've gotten. The Imperial civil war, Yuuzhan Vong, Darth Krayt, Darth Caedus... so much future SW history in EU to choose from, and they instead choose to scrap it in favor of some completely new Disney...
  12. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    I admit it was certainly the poorest Star Wars movie up to that date (It was basically ANH reboot), but at least it asked intriguing questions that could have went somewhere.
  13. Warships that survived World War Two and should have been museums!

    My one visit to the states was for an Adepticon in Schaumberg where I took part in a Kings of War tournament of all things. My last day there me and my friend who had travelled with me from the UK visited the excellent U505 display at the excellent Museum of Science and Industry Well worth a...
  14. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    So, Disney, right? A quick search for most Woke movies got me: 12 Years a Slave Her Selma Arrival Interstellar Wall-E Black Panther And I am pretty sure those are all pretty Woke and none of the went broke. (But I could sit corrected for the broke part, if anyone knows)
  15. What would a Spiro Agnew Presidency have been like?

    If you see my timeline about Star Trek (the Enterprise completes its five year mission), I might do a President Agnew treatment in 1973-1974. Hint: It won't last long because the kickbacks scheme Agnew was running couldn't be covered up for much longer than it was IRL. Your POD would have to be...
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