The Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal of North America or GCNA was/is a water management proposal designed in the late 1950's to alleviate North American fresh water shortage problems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_Development_Canal
The premise...
THE CHALLENGE:
Design a flag for an ATL shipping company or other corporation, established after 1763, that is not government owned or operated (i.e. a private sector commercial enterprise). When presenting your entry, indicate the:
-Name of the company/corporation flying the flag
-Year it was...
Your challenge is to establish a French Colony on the Australian continent after 1770. Where & why is it established? How is it retained during & after the Napoleonic Wars? How large will it get? Extra points if in your scenario an alternate name for the continent is agreed to by the French...
This comment on my CoHE TL got me to thinking . . .
Let’s say that the situation/crisis in the colonies is diffused somehow and thus the ARW did not occur. Perhaps some sort of Dominion of North America, stretching from the Maritimes to the Floridas & Bahama is created. It’s now 1797...
The challenge --
The year is 1802. The Cajun and Creole communities in the Mississippi Delta region – Louisiana – have given up on France coming and reestablishing its empire in North America. They have also grown fearful that US expansionism will soon become a threat to their way of life. A...
The challenge for Round 9:
Based upon this timeline . . .
1763: The southern portion of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain is acquired by Great Britain and named British Tropical America.
1822-26: Amid the violent revolutionary firestorm sweeping through Spain’s colonial empire in South...
The poll is OPEN! Which flag do you like best?
The challenge this round was:
Design a flag for a Scandinavian/Baltic nation of your choice and in the century of your choice - Pre 1900- using one of the letters of the (elder futhark) runic alphabet as the flag's primary charge/symbol.
Further...
What if, as (I read somewhere) Benjamin Franklin initially proposed, the Treaty of Paris set the boundary between the United States and British North America along the blue line on this map:
As far as I know, there was no thread on this forum for signs and logos (corporate, military, military, etc.), so I decided to start one. Please feel free to post your signs and logos, requests and questions here.
When future U.S. President and Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft was 9 years old his skill was fractured in a carriage accident. What if he had died as a result? Who would have filled the void (a very large one, I might add :D) in early 20th Century American politics and the high...
What if President Nixon, rather than firing John Mitchell and Gordon Liddy from his re-election campaign (CRP) on June 20, 1972 after the break in at the DNC's headquarters at the Watergate Building and publically supporting Att. Gen. Richard Kleindienst's investigation of it, and later that...
What follows is a revised and expanded version of a TL I posted in December. I hope you find it interesting. Please feel free to make comments and suggestions as this history of North America unfolds.
Create a scenario where a US expeditionary force joins the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain, fighting with Wellington against France. What gets the US involved and how does the American presence help the war effort?
DOUBLE VACANCY
As the lame duck 40th Congress gathered in joint session on February 6, 1869 the mood was solemn. The great chamber was silent as senators and representatives entered the room. Everyone was hard-faced and somber. They were there to fulfill a constitutional duty. Their task was...
W/a POD after the American Civil War, develop a plausable scenario where the U. S. national capital is moved west to Chicago, St. Louis or someplace more toward the center of the westward expanding nation.
Now, more that 230 years later, Columbia seems like such a short sighted, politically incorrect and unimaginitive name for the community of states we (many of us on this board at least) live in. Several other names were bantied around: Brittica, Yankeelia, Transylmerica and even United States...
In 1763, King George III of Great Britain created his brother, Edward Augustus (Duke of York and Albany), Proprieter of North American Crown Lands. This territory included the entire Great Lakes basin and the lands reserved by the Proclamation of 1763 for the native Indians. With his title...