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  1. Charles Steward dies on the way to Spain...

    I just listened to the latest episode of the 'The History of England' Podcast, which talked about that strange journey of Charles Steward and go incognito to Spain in 1623 together with George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Now... They travelled through France for a bit. So what if they had...

  2. Environmental Anti-Nuclear Movement Question

    What would be needed to reduce the influence of the Anti-Nuclear Movements of the 1970s and 80s on politic and public opinion? No Thee Mile Island Incident? No 'China Syndrome' movie?

  3. Post revolutionary Iran as US ally in the mid east?

    I'm just wondering. What would have needed to happen before, during or after the Iranian Revolution to keep Iran in the orbit of the United States as an ally in the area? The Shah dying of his cancer before he could be admitted to a hospital in the US, which potentially prevents the Hostage...

  4. Solar Power Satellites & Politics What if?

    Not a timeline, merely a question I'm currently wondering about. What would need to happen to have a prototype solar power satellite before the year 2000? I have already pinned down a somewhat longer energy crisis in the early 1970s and a more politicized 'The Limits of Growth' by the Club of...

  5. Club of Rome and Ehricke's Extraterrestrial Imperative

    Yesterday I received my copy of 'Krafft Ehrickes's Extraterrestrial Imperative' by Marsha Freeman (Aprogee Space Books), and have made a few more inquiries about the man. Those made me wonder, Ehricke intended to publish a book on his Extraterrestrial Imperative philosophy in 1971 and/or 1973...

  6. Amethyst Incident - British involvement in the Chinese Civil War?

    in 1949 HMS Amethyst was trapped on the Yangtze after being fired upon by Communist forces and grounded, while on the way from Shanghai to Nanking. The incident eventually lead to HMS London trying to intervene to free Amethyst and was shelled from shore. The ship did eventually escape. I am...

  7. Arab Spring with existing Soviet Union?

    I'm wondering... Could the Arab Spring have happened in a timeline where the Soviet Union was still existing in 2011/12/13 and in a position of relative strength? Or would the CIA or whoever prevented it out of fear that the Soviets would take advantage of it to pop up new communist nations in...

  8. Yugoslavia War with Soviet Union?

    IIRC Yugoslavia has been unaligned during the Cold War. Would the Yugoslavia Wars had been possible if the Soviet Union has remained a political factor? Could it have been turned into another proxy war between the US and the Soviets?

  9. Advanced Space propulsion systems in the 1990s

    I have a question for all the space enthusiasts around here. What sort of advanced propulsion system that is not a NERVA style nuclear engine or a simple ion thruster could possibly developed during the 1990s? Something akin to the VASMIR? A Fission Fragment Engine? What would be realistic?

  10. WI: Space Shuttle without Air Force involvement?

    Assuming that NASA somehow managed to get a substantial increase of its budget in the early to mid 70s, could the Space Shuttle be build and designed without Air Force involvement? And if it would be build, how different would it be? This is mostly to do some research for a timeline I am...

  11. WI: Boris Yeltsin dies on 12 June 1991

    This question came to me after watching a docu about Gorbachev. What would happen if Yeltsin dies of alcohol poisoning after celebrating his election as President of Russia? Would it safe the Soviet Union as a whole? What happens during the coup in August 1991?

  12. Yellowstone December 1941

    Slumbering for hundreds of thousand years, the Yellowstone Caldera decides to erupt in late December of 1941, just days after Pearl Harbour. How will the eruption interfere with WWII? How will it influence the world at large, how will it influence the US in special?
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