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  1. AHC: Longest possible airship age

    I do think airships have a future - one which is actually more bright that it's past. And it's all about modern technology making things viable. Imagine; massive airships, their engines powered by ultra-thin solar panels on the top and sides of the craft, along with long battery storage for...
  2. WI : Russia Gets Part of The Italian Colonies In 1945 ?

    Would the Soviets push their atheism and socialism on the people, seems like that could go badly.
  3. WI: Nazi Germany's Synthetic Oil Replaced With Biofuel?

    Biofuel + synthetic oil, seems viable, as germany has a high demand for oil, IOTL It can be possible that they can mass produce it.
  4. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

    At face value, it looks like the esteemed Lady Luck is on everyone's side as the New Year begins. But I also didn't expect HBO and Cinemax to get sold to Bally. I can't say I expected George Lucas to be the head of Columbia Pictures. Maybe Bill Mechanic can be the new head of MGM? That way...
  5. Countries that could go to war with a surviving CSA that’s never been done before?

    Somewhere in Central America, perhaps. The US probably wouldn't tolerate outright imperialist "Golden Circle" conquests, but conflicts over commercial interests aren't out of the question. OTL, two of the big three "Banana Republic" fruit companies (Standard Fruit and Cuyamel) seem to have...
  6. WI: Philip II dies in 1199 and Richard I lives until 1215?

    John always tried to end up on what he believed would ever be the winning side. Problem was, he was a lousy schemer and gambler, and about the only thing he will ever have over the rest of his brothers is that the current British royal family descends from his ballsack. I feel like that's...
  7. ChadMachine999

    AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    This is the problem with renewible energy, (until recently) the economics were heavily skewed against it.
  8. When the Levee Broke: An Alternate Lincoln Assassination and Beyond
    Threadmarks: Chapter 4: Turning the Tide

    4 TURNING THE TIDE From Battle Hymn: A History of the American Civil War By Eric McPherson, 1988 At the end of 1861, the war was going poorly for the Union. Confederate forces still controlled Maryland and Union troops were unable to supply pro-Union efforts in Confederate-occupied Nickajack...
  9. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    What are the chance of Belgium militarizing in the wake of the Anglo Japanese war
  10. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    ??? The French Left were Socialists -loud and proud. Blum was not a Communist, he was a Second International Socialist. (The Communist International was the "Third International".)
  11. WI/AHC: A Soviet Game Console

    Soviet game consoles are not Alternate History... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnir_(console) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_(arcade_cabinet) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendy_(console) (Would have been Soviet, released right after the USSR fell)...
  12. Rememberences of Map Contests Past

    zalezsky was first, gxblt second, with Tsar of New Zealand coming up third.
  13. Rememberences of Map Contests Past

    BryanIII: At the beginning of 1798, the War of the First Coalition had come to an end and following the Treaty of Campo Formio, where Napoleon Bonaparte decreed the final dissolution of the Venetian Republic, the city of Preveza – like other Venetian possessions in Greece and Albania – was...
  14. Little Rock Nine Massacre

    Don't forget that if Ike backs off, The GOP would get absolutely destroyed in the '58 midterms.
  15. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
    Threadmarks: Entertainment News for January 1986

    Michael Eisner officially christens The Jim Henson Company at a press conference in Los Angeles. - CNN Walt Disney, Jr. acquires VH1 in hopes of competing with MTV, now owned by Ted Turner. - Variety Capital Cities/ABC acquires premium cable channels Showtime and The Movie Channel in a...
  16. Countries that could go to war with a surviving CSA that’s never been done before?

    I mean, theoretically, an incident involving the Confederate navy and Aruba could bring the CSA into war with the Dutch.
  17. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    Mee-sa like-a the lens flare, Annie!
  18. U.S. has more successful nuclear power with waste stored on site, and therefore no transport and reduced NIMBY.

    . . http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news2004/pdf/nv0410survey_pr.pdf From 2003 . . . only 30% of Nevada citizens favored making a deal with the federal government regarding Yucca Mountain. For a high tech project which would bring jobs, especially during the construction phase, not...
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