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  1. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
    Threadmarks: Entertainment News for Early December 1984

    President elect Iacocca outlines his proposal for universal healthcare. - The Washington Post The Cosby Show is NBC's first big hit under new chairman Barry Diller. - TV Guide This season, ABC's Heathcliff is the second most watched Saturday morning series behind Muppet Babies which airs on...
  2. RedKing

    Visual art alternate history discussion

    Don't know enough to say, but definitely an interesting thread! What would art look like if Leonardo was a full on inventor?
  3. How much would it cost the modern UK to rebuild the Royal Navy to 1960s/70s levels of fleet strength?

    I think that there is a significant conceptual problem with this analysis beyond including RAF and the Army in the total defense spend instead of just the RN/RM chunk of the GDP share -- if we hold the RAF (exclusive of any naval aviation elements) and Army spend constant, then we have a...
  4. ...Those Marvelous Tin Fish: The Great Torpedo Scandal Avoided

    According to Eric 'Winkle' Brown, who at the time was flying the vampire doing the flexible deck trials, the angled deck was suggested by Captain Dennis Cambell in August 1951. This was made into a usable design by Lewis Boddington, Head of the Naval Aircraft Department at RAE. It just so...
  5. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    I was thinking of doing a Heimdall, but looks like someone beat me to it :) Spotted on Twitter.
  6. Visual art alternate history discussion

    You know what we don't see a lot of here? Discussion of visual arts in alternate history. Sculpture, painting, drawing, etching, architecture, fashion, ceramics, and countless other media are rarely touched upon here. We've gotten quite a bit about literature, theater, music, film and other...
  7. Driftless

    The Forge of Weyland

    Quote attributed to Churchill:
  8. How would a President Henry Wallace have handled the end of WW2?

    Renomination depends on who enters as a candidate. If ADA succeed in drafting Eisenhower or William O. Douglas to run, Wallace is definitely done for. If no heavyweights enter and Wallace only has to fend off moderate or Southern challengers, he can probably get through narrowly. The Dixiecrats...
  9. Alternate warships of nations

    The problem is you're not going to get that kind of build time out of them. The Renowns were built that fast due to circumstances specific to when they were built - they recycled a lot of materiel from cancelled battleships, particularly their gun mounts and machinery, and it was also done by...
  10. These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    I get the feeling that TTL America wouldn't be too keen on giving Native Americans autonomy.
  11. pattontank12

    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Admittedly I feel like I would have preferred to of been born ITTL.
  12. WI/AHC: US aligned Asia, USSR aligned Europe.

    Anything that keeps the US out of mainland Europe, really. I didn't consider the US joining Europe later, but that could work too. The trouble is, the US was going to declare war on Germany at some point, and, from what I've read, there was already major support for a declaration of war on...
  13. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Your timeline has already created that positive knock-on so you have the extra bodies and that could be some extra MPA aircraft to close the mid Atlantic gap earlier or armouring up the British infantry with carriers. But what ever is done with the surpluses will go hard on the axis.
  14. The Union takes Smith Island: whither Wilmington?

    But could the Federal positions be neutralized by fire from the Confederates on the North Carolina mainland, or would the Confederates need to outright retake the islands for that?
  15. TV invented by the time World War 2 starts, impact on public perception?

    Successfully broadcasting into enemy territory is most useful as a means of making the enemy government look weak - "look, they can't stop us". But wven if TV is more advanced you're not going to have all that many people who own one, and in occupied Europe those people will be the regime's...
  16. WI/AHC: US aligned Asia, USSR aligned Europe.

    I am not entirely convinced that communist France and Belgium would be all that much competent in decolonizing... (The phrasing in opening post implies the Pyrenees as another border, so presumably still whatever-you-define-Salazar-as Portugal.) On that note (on the parenthesis) Spain and...
  17. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    If memory serves (and I read this a long time ago), he raised concerns about the security of the transmissions but was overridden by his superiors. So if that is correct, it wasn't really his fault. Maybe someone else can elaborate?
  18. Sheep pastoralism in Japan and Korea

    But growing hemp requires clearing fields and competes with growing other crops that might be more directly useful. Grazing sheep can use grassland that is otherwise unusable and provides nothing directly for humans, so that you can turn previously unproductive land into useful agricultural...
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