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  1. An American Inventor in Paris:

    If you've served, you've served with a "François", that's for sure. Alas, the stories that my "François" told were less amusing and more revolting, since he was into some weird merde. It was entertaining in a shock value, John Waters kind of way, I guess. But nothing involving being chased...

  2. Plausibility of a Norse Home Nation?

    Shower Thoughts: Another wacky idea could be if the Great Heathen Army was less successful and were limited to Northumbria (Norseumbria?!?), a Kingdom that's clearly majority Norse and politically and economically isolated by the Saxon kings to the south, who see them as Heathens to be purged...

  3. Plausibility of a Norse Home Nation?

    Yes, just what I was thinking. The Kingdom of the Isles was very Norse-dominated at the turn of the 11th C and more isolated/defensible and I'd say that's your best bet for a surviving "Norse" UK State. They eventually (as typically happened with the Norse, making surviving Norse Ethnic States...

  4. Ukraine,Belarus join NATO in 1990s along with Georgia,Finland

    I'd agree that if there was a major will to expand earlier they'd play things looser, hence why I mentioned a scenario where an aggressive anti-western autocrat rose sooner, say a military putsch shortly after Yeltsin took over. In that case with a "clear and present danger" rather than a...

  5. The Great American-Indian War: A Pontiac's Rebellion Timeline

    Ha! Take that, my ancestors...err...waitaminute...... In all seriousness, great start. Very curious to see where this all goes.

  6. What would the name of the Central Confederacy be?

    From what I've read, there was talk about this from certain quarters in the Border States, and it's certainly built on a pervasive general feeling of "stuck in the middle" between Radical New England Abolitionists(TM) and Mad South Carolina Fire Eaters(TM) and plenty of talk about "why can't...

  7. More Than A Popularity Contest: If Al Gore Won In 1988

  8. AHC: Create a body of Folk Myths or Folk Hero for Asian-Americans

    Br'er Rabbit evolved from old African Trickster figures such as Anansi, so what Chinese legends make the jump and evolve with the location? Offhand I had a crazy idea for Journey to the East, the madcap adventures of the Monkey King in the New World as he aids the immigrants and interacts with...

  9. HA partners with Amblin, Don Bluth, and (perhaps) some non-Disney studio (WB, Universal...

    HA partners with Amblin, Don Bluth, and (perhaps) some non-Disney studio (WB, Universal, Columbia) to forge a Dreamworks-esque studio. But I'm done with pop culture for the time being. AHitHOM scratched that itch.

  10. How the elimination of a single railroad in Virginia in 1850 changes everything.

    How the elimination of a single railroad in Virginia in 1850 changes everything.

  11. Fine. Working on a TLIAW.

    Fine. Working on a TLIAW.

  12. Ukraine,Belarus join NATO in 1990s along with Georgia,Finland

    True, but Turkey is too absolutely strategically critical to ignore, even today. NATO still turns a blind eye to a lot of what goes down in Turkey that sometimes runs counter to NATO strategic interests since they control passage to the Black sea. Sure, claiming Crimea would be devastating for...

  13. The Red Boot: the history of Italy in the Cold War (TLIAW)

    As the guy largely, possibly singularly responsible for the proliferation of Italo Balbo on this site, I salute your initiative in doing the TL you wanted to see. That's what's driven all of my TLs, after all. As to the TL itself, great start! I'm curious to see the effect of (I presume) a more...

  14. A House Divided Against Itself: An 1860 Election Timeline

    Just finally caught up on this. Brilliant work, General, brilliant work! I just love the wacky politics of this TL. Forget Charles Sumner, clearly the driving force of this timeline's politics is Charlie Foxtrot! As a fan of irony having a Lincoln-Stephens ticket intent on preserving the Union...

  15. Ukraine,Belarus join NATO in 1990s along with Georgia,Finland

    It's worth remembering that you don't just get to join NATO, there are membership criteria. https://1997-2001.state.gov/regions/eur/fs_members.html#:~:text=%2D%2DNew%20members%20must%20uphold,respect%20sovereignty%20outside%20their%20borders. To writ: None of these States save Finland has...

  16. The Chrysanthemum Under the Cross: Christian Japan's Timeline

    Interesting, and Watched. I've been curious about a more open/Spanish influenced Japan since first learning about pre-Tokugawa trade. I'll let others sort out the mess of the HRE (the more I learn about it, the less I know), but I'm curious as to: How this will affect world trade, particularly...

  17. AHC: No Split US States

    Or if we're going back to such original charters, a Virginia that RULES THEM ALL! Or slightly less ludicrous:

  18. AHC: No Split US States

    Or alternately the CS Army crumbles at whatever alt-first Bull Run instead of the US, or the alt-Peninsula Campaign goes perfectly or what have you, and Richmond falls early, so the "Loyal Government of Virginia" (what became OTL West VA) just encompasses all of the State, not just the...

  19. What If alternatehistory.com Never Existed?

    Wow, gettin' meta on us, Ulas! There was the Usenet board soc.history.what-if that predated Reddit and AH.com and was reacting to an already established fiction genre with a long history going back centuries and with an established fandom . It was where a lot of the terminology and jargon and...

  20. WI: No 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act

    It's worth remembering that the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, a.k.a. the Sonny Bono act a.k.a. the Mickey Mouse Protection Act wasn't *just* about Greedy Eisner protecting profits, but was an industry-wide effort backed by the US government and made in response to 1993 Copyright Extension...
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