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  1. Chris Oakley

    AH Vignette: Orientation Day

    Good morning. My name's Carlton and I'll be your training supervisor for your first week here at the museum. Since this is your first day on the job, we'll focus on getting you familiarized with the museum layout and the basics of what you'll be doing as a tour guide here. First let's get you...
  2. Chris Oakley

    Plausibility Check: Second Balkan War escalates into world war

    Last night I was perusing Wikipedia and I came across an article about Romania being a participant in the Second Balkan War(June-August 1913). After a while I got to thinking: could the conflict have escalated into a world war, and if so what would it have taken to bring that about? So now...
  3. Chris Oakley

    Not One Step Back

    Not One Step Back The Jacobite Last Stand At Derby, 1745 Part 1 Adapted from material previously submitted by the author at Changingthetimes.net Prince Charles Edward Stuart fancied himself a liberator, the man who would lead the Scottish Highland rebels to final victory in their...
  4. Chris Oakley

    Operation Backstroke

    In the spring of 1940 Nazi Germany appeared to be on the verge of finally achieving Adolf Hitler's long-standing dream of dominating continental Europe. The Netherlands had surrendered in the face of the Wehrmacht's blitzkrieg in the West, Belgium and France were on the verge of collapse, the...
  5. Chris Oakley

    DBWI: King George III doesn't die after reading the Declaration of Independence?

    By now you've probably seen the History Channel's four-part DVD documentary series about the American Revolution. One segment that I found particularly interesting was the chapter on Disc 2 that recounts how King George III became so apoplectic while reading the Declaration of Independence that...
  6. Chris Oakley

    A Mile High And Deep To Right: A Baseball ATL

    From the Denver Post, March 16th, 1976: PLAY BALL! Mile High City Awarded National League Franchise For ’77 Season; St. Petersburg, Fla. Also To Get Major League Team Seattle, Toronto Joining American League From the New York Daily News, March 22nd, 1976: SEARCH BEGINS FOR DENVER...
  7. Chris Oakley

    AH Vignette: If Anything Can Go Wrong.....

    We should have known it was too good to be true. We should have been careful not to get our hopes up. But when the Browns pulled off the upset win over Denver in the '86 AFC championship game everybody in Cleveland just went nuts. We hadn't played for an NFL title since Jim Brown left, and...
  8. Chris Oakley

    Peter Tsouras' "Over The Top": Could Northcliffe have become the first fascist?

    If you've read Peter G. Tsouras' recent World War I AH book "Over The Top", you might recall that one of the essays towards the end of the book focuses on a scenario whereby the famed press tycoon Lord Northcliffe becomes prime minister of Britain after Lloyd George is lynched by an angry mob in...
  9. Chris Oakley

    Timeline In A Week: Heart Of The Matter

    In my two previous TLIAW productions, "Red Alert In Red Square" and "On To Berlin", I delved into events from the distant past. This time around I'm going to tackle some more recent history-- the 1994 Republican midterm Congressional election landslide, to be more precise. Those midterms marked...
  10. Chris Oakley

    Timeline In A Week: On To Berlin!

    And now, to mark the upcoming 75th anniversary of the start of World War II, I present my second Timeline In A Week series.... ON TO BERLIN! An Alternate History Of The First Days Of The Second World War PART 1 NEW YORK POST...
  11. Chris Oakley

    Timeline In A Week: Red Alert In Red Square

    OK, as you may have guessed by the first half of the title, this thread was partly inspired by the Timeline In A Day threads that have become increasingly popular around here. My other inspiration was the fact that in October we'll be marking the fifty-year anniversary of the ouster of Nikita...
  12. Chris Oakley

    In Their Ruin

    Late afternoon extra edition, New York Daily News, March 27th, 1968: CATASTROPHE 8.5 Quake Devastates St. Louis; President Johnson Convenes Emergency White House Meeting To Hear Details Of Disaster CBS News special report broadcast early that same evening: “The first casualty reports have...
  13. Chris Oakley

    Nuestra Patria: The Chilean-Argentinian Border War, 1978-80

    Chapter 1 An old adage has it that “good fences make good neighbors”, but that hasn’t always been the case. indeed, some of the bloodiest wars in human history have been fought as a consequence of disagreements over national borders. France and Germany, India and Pakistan, North Korea and South...
  14. Chris Oakley

    Grudge Match

    GRUDGE MATCH: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, And The 1993 Los Angeles Mayoral Race (adapted from material previously posted by the author at Othertimelines.com) April 29th, 1992...a day that would change Los Angeles forever. That afternoon, a jury in the suburb of Simi Valley convicted four LAPD...
  15. Chris Oakley

    AH Challenge: Effects of a bigger Sylmar quake

    As you may remember, this past February marked the 40th anniversary of the 1971 Sylmar earthquake that ravaged much of Los Angeles. As bad as it was, it could easily have been worse...and your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to craft a scenario describing how much worse and what the...
  16. Chris Oakley

    Plausibility Check: French neo-fascist movement in late 1960s/early 70s

    Were there any circumstances under which the political climate in France during the late 1960s and early 1970s could have spawned a French neo-fascist movement similiar to the American Nazi Party that sprang up in the United States just as Vietnam was starting to heat up?
  17. Chris Oakley

    Here's a book that needs to be translated into English....

    ....and fast: http://uchronia.net/bib.cgi/label.html?id=redlkrfoto
  18. Chris Oakley

    From the May 13th, 1886 Boston Globe....

    AFTERNOON EXTRA GREAT FLOOD IN NEW YORK!BROOKLYN DEVASTATED!THOUSANDS DROWNED! CHAOS FROM JERSEY COAST TO WHITE PLAINS AS SURVIVORS TRY TO RECOVER FROM HORRENDOUS TIDAL WAVE Most Horrific Calamity To Befall This Country Since Great Chicago Fire, Tells Our Correspondent My question to...
  19. Chris Oakley

    "Something's happened in the motorcade...":the assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser

    May 12th, 1967. Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser is en route to a massive propaganda rally in downtown Cairo. Neither he nor his cabinet ministers, nor the massive police detail escorting him to the rally, are aware that a middle-aged laborer driven mad by grief and bitterness over the loss...
  20. Chris Oakley

    The Assassination of Hideki Tojo: Told In Newspaper Headlines

    (OOC: It's been a dog's age since I've started any new threads of my own, and since everybody else around here has done headline-themed ATL threads I figured it was high time I got into the act myself....) New York Daily News, September 13th, 1941: TOJO SHOT! Japanese War Minister's...
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