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  1. Peabody-Martini

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III
    Threadmarks: Part 107, Chapter 1734

    Continued from Thread I; https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/stupid-luck-and-happenstance.405746/ and Thread II; https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/stupid-luck-and-happenstance-thread-ii.452138/#post-17613039 Chapter One Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty-Four 31st July...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread II
    Threadmarks: Part 69, Chapter 995

    Chapter Nine Hundred Ninety-Five 15th January 1953 Washington D.C. When Finley had been told that Nancy Jensen had been spotted boarding the train to Chicago the day before he had been happy. That was the first leg on the journey that would take her back to whatever rain-soaked Podunk...
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    El Estado Dorado
    Threadmarks: Part 1, Chapter 1

    1. Late Summer 1579 Eastern Pacific (Off modern-day Astoria, Oregon) The wind was shrieking through the rigging as the ship fought its way in a northerly direction against the tide. Rain swept the deck which was awash in foam as the bow crashed through waves higher than the forecastle...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance.
    Threadmarks: Part 1 Chapter 1

    Chapter One 28th February, 1916 Verdun Front, France “I thought I told you not to look” The Surgeon told Emil Holz as he was cleaning the gash that ran from his elbow to his shoulder that had been made by a French bayonet. “If this gets infected the man who did this might as well have got you...
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    If Napoleon is successfull in blowing up the Kremlin.

    Today a letter was auctioned off in which Napoleon Bonaparte states his intention to blow up the Kremlin before retreating from Moscow in 1812. IOTL the arsenal, a few of the towers and some of the sections of the walls were destroyed, parts of the palace were damaged by fire. The destruction...
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    John Bonham lives.

    Reading through threads about the Beatles and Freddie Mercury I thought of John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin. His death in the fall of 1980 caused the cancellation of an upcoming North American tour and resulted in Led Zeppelin disbanding shorty afterwords. What could have happened if John...
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    WI Smedley Butler lives

    I've had a TL bouncing around my head for awhile now. Smedley Butler died in 1940 at the age of 58 of a mysterious stomach ailment, possibly cancer. If doctors had somehow been able to save his life or he had not developed this illness. What might have happened had he lived past 1940? How would...
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    AHC: Battleships, Battleships, Battleships!

    Many of us here have a guilty pleasure. The thought of an armored leviathan raining death and destruction at points somewhere over the horizon. Who, besides economists and peaceniks doesn't love the battleship. Nothing says get lost quite like a 16"/50 or could kick in the doors like the 18"/45...
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    AHC Spring 1942 A very unwelcome visit

    March-April 1942 Two Imperial Japanese Navy Battlecruisers in one of the few times that ships of this type were used for their intended purpose steam across the North Pacific. Entering the San Francisco bay they shell the Alameda Naval Air Station before fleeing back into the Pacific. What...
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    AHC: South American super power

    From the middle of the twentieth century two powers emerged the United States and the Soviet Union. What impact would there been if a third super power emerging from a union of South American states becoming powerful enough to challenge the U.S. in the western hemisphere? What form would this...
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    AHC:An independent Alta California

    What could lead to an independent California? With A departure point prior to being annexed by the United States how does California first gain independence from Mexico and then maintain it to the present. Does Fremont successfully establish the Brear Flag Republic or do the Californios...
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    War by other means

    Winter 1946 South Bend Indiana It was snowing outside the window in big flakes under a slate sky. It was a far cry from the Philippines though not so far removed from the winter in Japan. He remembered that day when he was released from his cell. The Japs were all smiles, no hard feelings...
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