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  1. TheMann

    Tales From Another World: Three Amigos Vignettes and Details
    Threadmarks: The Beginning, Las Vegas

    OOC: This is the post @Joe Bonkers was referring to when we spoke of a vignettes thread in addition to the Three Amigos world. That TL has basically reached the end of our original planning for it, but all three of us had many more details and additions we wanted to add into it, and so they are...
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    Advice Needed: Is a Permanent Union of Korea and Taiwan with Japan possible?

    I'm working on ideas of a world which is far advanced of OTL in many elements, and the idea of Korea and Taiwan, both controlled by Japan by 1910, becoming integral parts of Japan interests me. Not knowing too much about the politics of the nations in question, is this possible, and if so, what...
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    Welcome Race Fans: The Racers United
    Threadmarks: What Today Looks Like

    Kart Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 7, 2020 11:15 AM It was a scene of pandemonium inside the observation rooms of the famed Kart Space, a place that was wildly busy even at the slowest of times. The loud whining of the electric shifter karts mixed with the loud braaaap of Rotax...
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    Race on Sunday, Sell on Monday
    Threadmarks: What Happens When You Awaken a Giant

    What Happens When You Awaken A Giant Circuit De La Sarthe, Le Mans, France June 18, 1966 It took a lot to make Enzo Ferrari look out over a collection of racing cars on a grid and feel worried. Quite a lot. The legendary team owner and car creator had made his prancing horses into symbols of...
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    Big Sports Events of Alternate Worlds

    OOC: We have the best movies and music and weapons and fates of alternate people, why not alternate sports events? :cool: Hollywood Hill Climb Event Type: Time trial-based race for motorized vehicles Location: Hollywood, California, USA Event Frequency (annually, first weekend in August)...
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    The Other Asian Superpower?

    Honest question (since I struggle a lot with older Asian history), would it be possible at any point to make it so that Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the islands between them could be kept together as a unitary state? I'm basically curious as to whether China is always destined to be the biggest and...
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    Greatest Movies Never Made REDUX

    Just as on the title, guys. Let's see what you guys have in your imaginations.... To start us off:
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    Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada
    Threadmarks: The Prologue

    PROLOGUE July 1, 2017 Canada at 150: The Century That Was Steve Paikin for The Canadian Canada, our home and native land. A way of simply describing the land mass that most of those who read this newspaper live on, but also a portion of our national anthem and a way of expressing the love of...
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    Stories From The World: Vignettes from The Land of Milk and Honey

    OOC: Since my positive TLs still seem to be getting quite a lot of interest, I figure its time I did something about filling that interest. So, without wasting any more of anybody's time, here we go with that: Random stories about people, places, things and life in the world of The Land of Milk...
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    Streets of Detroit: Reborn

    OOC: Having learned a lot about the world of cars in the three years since I started work on the Streets of Detroit, and having had a bunch of new ideas come up since then (the threads about Studebaker and Packard as part of American Motors were a big help and gave me a bunch of new ideas, along...
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    We Turn Left AND Right - A Story of Sports Car Racing

    Prologue Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Sunday, November 19, 2017 10:35 AM Bright sunshine filled the thin-aired skies of North-Central South Africa, shining down through cloudless skies that marked the early portions of summer in South Africa. The summer at...
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    The Land of Milk and Honey

    New York Times Magazine August 18, 2020 Seventy-Five Years Of American Progress "Our World is Today One of Unrivalled Peace, Prosperity and Happiness." These were the words of President Barack Obama, speaking at the rededication of the WWII memorial in Tokyo, Japan, but he could have been...
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    Challenge: The Global United Kingdom

    The Challenge, should you accept it, is to have a UK in 2014 that is made up of: - England - France - Ireland (all of it) - Scotland - Wales - Iceland - Cyprus - Malta and Lampedusa - Rhodes, Crete, Karpathos and Kassos Islands - Shetland and Faroe Islands - Balearic Islands - Hong...
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    Question: Modern Heavy Cruisers?

    One question in modern naval thinking has had me wondering recently, looking at the multiple threads about gun-armed warships in the age of aircraft carriers. The reasoning is this. The most recent (talking late 20th Century here) conflicts that involved real naval operations - Vietnam...
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    The Land of Milk and Honey: An American TL

    New York Times Magazine August 18, 2020 Seventy-Five Years Of American Progress "Our World is Today One of Unrivalled Peace, Prosperity and Happiness." These were the words of President Barack Obama, speaking at the rededication of the WWII memorial in Tokyo, Japan, but he could have been...
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    The New Transport America: A Collaborative TL

    OOC: Here we go again with the world of transportation in America in the second half of the 20th Century, but this time we're making a whole world of it, and probably a rather bigger one, too. Guys, what's everyone got for ideas?
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    Alternate F1 World Champions.....Round 2

    OOC: Chipperback had a great thread like this, but it went dead several months ago, and I decided I couldn't keep this idea that way. Let's make this rock again, race fans! :) 1950 – Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina) Alfa Romeo 158 1951 – Jose Frolian Gonzalez (Argentina) Alfa Romeo 159 1952 –...
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    WI: Albert Speer Seeks Rehabilitation

    In OTL, Albert Speer (Hitler's architects and an important member of the Third Reich) was one of the very few Nazis who owned up to what he had done. After his release, he had talked of returning to his old job of architecture, but nothing ever came of it, and he spent his remaining life talking...
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    We All Have A Dark Side or The World Touring Car Championship Lives

    November 15, 1987 Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan It was a year that had exceeded all expectations....even if it hadn't always been smooth. Bathurst had been chaotic, for example. But the first season for Group A Touring Cars in their own world Championship, no longer playing second fiddle to the...
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    From The Streets of Detroit: America's Auto Powerhouse

    "There are many in who, in an alternate universe, are people who say that Detroit could have chosen to take the easy profits, as so many millions of people did in the post-war era, a time when the future was as bright as the sun, gas was cheap, interstates made travel easy and American cars were...
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