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

    Now that reminds me in a roundabout fashion: 1988 is also the premiere of a certain cow town puppet show beloved by nerds all over this spinning rock we call home. One wonders what all the showbiz butterflies flapping about TTL might do to it...
  2. AHC/WI: Stronger IJN light cruiser line

    Wouldn't see it for that long. The scenario is more or less ideal for a mobbing long range hammer & anvil torpedo attack. Especially the Oi, with her utterly insane 40 tubes (20 on each broadside). One 5,600 ton ship with the torpedo armament of destroyer division. She actually retain 24 tubes...
  3. AHC: World War fought in North American soil?

    The obvious way to to do this is some sort of Anglo/American war that draws in other countries around 1900, which is highly unlikely but not impossible.
  4. Driftless

    AHC: World War fought in North American soil?

    Even if Carranza doesn't bite on the German offer - right away, the US & Mexico came close enough to more open warfare as it was. Cooler heads stepped in, as neither side was ready to go to general war. Still, there were enough hot-heads on either side, where a minor scrap could quickly have...
  5. SealTheRealDeal

    How would a hypothetical Socialist USA look back on it's past history?

    I'm not too sure of that. While critical of much of what Imperial Russia stood for, the Soviets saw no particular shame in further colonizing Siberia. Nor does the PRC see the expansion of past dynasties as anything but a point of pride. And both the USSR and PRC shed no tears when adopting...
  6. Gillan1220

    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    I wonder too how this would affect other alternate leaders in countries like the Philippines and Taiwan. Speaking of Taiwan, how are PRC-ROC relations after WWIII?
  7. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    Any fixed gun bateries would be primary targets for air attacj, unless you put them inside a massive fortress, and no 3rd world country could do that. ASMs, otoho, are (relatively) mobile. Shore-based versions of the RBS-15, SS-N-2 (P-15) and Exocet existed from quite some time; there was a...
  8. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    What if Charles, Duke of Guyenne survived?

    My mistake, I'd forgotten the rules of inheritance for a moment. Considering that any proceeds would go to his brother's holdings and not to his, and he was positioning his own son to get Mary, the historical outcome was best.
  9. NyQuil

    The Miracle Man:The Presidency of John McCain
    Threadmarks: NEWS IN AUGUST 2009 PART 2

    AUGUST 8th 2009 GORDON BROWN TO STEP DOWN SOON WILL HANDPICK SUCCESSOR BBC. COM After many calls some of them from even his own party Prime Minster Gordon Brown is set to resign as Leader of the Labour Party and of course prime minister in the following days. Brown has made it clear that he...
  10. Imperator Frank

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Thats something i never expected to see.
  11. Film WI: If "Blazing Saddles" had the "original" casting

    Pryor? OK. Wayne? Not for me...
  12. Driftless

    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    1916 Badger FWD-Davidson Armored Car – USA (shown in desert paint) Specs: Engine: 4-cylinder Wisconsin gasoline/petrol 36bhp/27kW at 1800 rpm (same engine as on the Model B truck) Drive: 4 x 4 Transmission: 3 forward – 1 Reverse Armament: variable M1909 Hotchkiss/Benet-Mercie M1895 Colt...
  13. Guajolote

    Doctor who WI: Hartnell goes cold turkey in 1950 & Doctor who isn't put on hiatus in 1985

    Assuming cold turkey is a reference to giving up smoking, I was kind of hoping he'd last longer. He's still only 60 in 1968.
  14. What if Charles, Duke of Guyenne survived?

    Louis IOTL did his best to prevent Charles from getting Papal dispensation to marry Mary of Burgundy.
  15. BELFAST

    Lincoln Lives: How a failed assassination changed the course of a Nation and a newly freed people

    The dust bowl might have less effect of there were better farming methods. The way of ploughing left the ground in dry periods very prone to wind erosion. Not ploughing the driest parts would help too. Dust storms from the driest areas damaged crops in areas with enough water. An early...
  16. Chrispi

    A New Coat of Arms Thread

    I'm working on the shield of the House of Wettin in the American shield style; I just have to finish the green rue bend atop. Let's see if I can do it before anyone else does!
  17. WI Italy discovers oil in Libya in early 1930s?

    They were still in Ethiopia when the British invaded (and indeed were in the country in 1948!) . If they needed access to American tools there was a way in.
  18. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    What if Charles, Duke of Guyenne survived?

    He was also a canny bastard who used everything around him to his diplomatic ends. Example: he used his crippled younger daughter Joan to Louis d'Orleans. Everybody could see that this was a ploy to end yet another Valois cadet branch, yet nobody could really object. Would he use his brother in...
  19. THE LUSOSPHERE

    Jaime II & I reorganized his government and Pedro de Sousa Holstein, Duke of Terceira, became his Chief Minister. João de Távora was the new Minister of Infrastructures, Francisco de Mascarenhas, Minister of Industry, Pedro Gomes Labrador, Minister of Agriculture, Benjamin Monflor, the Crown...
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