Search results for query: *

  • Users: Historico
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date

Forum search Google search

  1. AHC Roy Cohn, Mayor of New York

    I was going to make this thread a DBWI but, I would like to see some serious discussion about it . With the recent death of three-term Mayor of New York, Ed Koch and re-reading some of the classic '50's Dystopia Timelines on the board, I was wondering was there any way to elect Roy Cohn as Mayor...

  2. The Duke Does It: Michael S. Dukakis, President of the United States

    Happy New Year Everyone!!! As we begin the start of a new year and are still reveling in the aftermath of a combative presidential election, I feel it is appropriate to look back and examine the political trends that led to the third successive President elected to two-terms in office. Something...

  3. An Italian Bride for a Bastard Prince: Henry FitzRoy marries Catherine de' Medici

    I just discovered this morning that the 1st Duke of Richmond & Somerset, Henry FitzRoy(Henry VIII's Bastard Son) was in a proposal to Pope Clement's niece..."Duchess" Catherine De' Medici. Im not exactly sure when the proposal was offered, or why it didn't go throgh, but I do think it would be...

  4. AHC: Lord Darnley crowned King Henry IX of England

    I thought it would be nice to kick off a little summer fun, with a new AH Challenge. This is a POD that I think hasn't really been fleshed out on the board but could prove fascinating. So what means would we have to use to have Henry Stuart, the insufferable Lord Darnley win the game of the...

  5. WI: McCain chooses a Hispanic Running-Mate in 2008

    Hey guys, I know it's been a while since I last posted anything lol, but with the recent buzz about HBO's Game Change film, it has gotten me thinking about the potential possibilities that the McCain campaign could have made interms of their shortlist. As far as what has been reported, there...

  6. AH Challenge: An American Iron Lady

    With all the buzz surrounding Meryl Streep's biopic of Margaret Thatcher entitled The Iron Lady, and I was wondering what would it have taken to have an Conservative Republican Woman as President for the better part of a decade. So I have come up with some qualifications, as to how the scenario...

  7. AHC: POTUS Benjamin Netanyahu

    I found this little tidbit later extremely interesting, and I'm surprised no one's really brought it up for...So AH.com, your challenge is to come up with a plausible way for Bibi to the nation's first Jewish President. His home state can either be Pennsylvania or Massachusetts(I prefer PA...

  8. WI: Liddy Dole wins the GOP nomination in 2000

    So what would it have taken for all the early support for the former Secretary's candidacy to sustain a run through the GOP primaries of 2008? Would we have to negate Dubya somehow, so she could soak up the republican establishment voters? Or how might she would have battled it out with McCain...

  9. WI: A Duke of York is born to Henry VIII and Catherine Parr

    So What if the Great Caretaker-Queen Catherine had lucked out with having her only child a few years earlier than IOTL? Assuming Henry and Catherine are able to conceive on their wedding night, and a son is born to the Queen around Mid-March 1544? For arguments sake, lets name the child William...

  10. When Your Gone, I'll Still Be Bloody Mary: A Timeline

    When Your Gone, I’ll Still Be Bloody Mary: An Alternate History Written by Austin Ross Prologue: Love is just a history that they may prove Despite many reports that as she grew with age, The Queen’s once attractive figure was in all actuality quite short, and did not cut an imposing...

  11. Soverign in Utero: Prince Arthur impregnates Catherine of Aragon

    This is a Tudor POD, that I don't think really hasn't been discussed. So what if the Prince and Princess of Wales had truly consummated their marriage on their wedding knight and Arthur managed to impregnate Catherine? Arthur still succumbs to TB or the sweating sickness in April of 1502 while...

  12. WI: Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales survives

    As everyone knows, I've been on my recent Tudor kick, and It has sparked an interest in me in the Last Plantagenet sovereign, King Richard III. Although there has been quite a few TL's featuring the former Lord Protector surviving the Battle of Bosworth, by Killing Henry Tudor, and effectively...

  13. We Call a Rose: A Timeline

    We Call a Rose What If Prince Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset survives past infancy Written by Austin L. Ross **** Nantes, Brittany In the grand hallowed halls of the Chateau des ducs de Bretagne lay a man by the virtue of his blood that could potentially leave the realm of the...

  14. The Last Son: Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset lives

    I was searching through the old threads, and I was shocked that this is a POD that hasn't really been touched on before at this board. But What If King Henry VII's son Edmund had found the strength to survive past Infancy? Is it possible that without the stress of having to produce an issue not...

  15. AH Challenge: Colonization through Dynastic Marriages

    One of the posts over in the Preventing the Hapsburg Genetic Collapse that dominated the Seventeenth Century TL, came up with an idea of perhaps of widening the pool of potential non-relative candidates by having the European monarch marry into established Kingdoms in the Americas, Africa and...

  16. WI: A FitzRoy line of the Tudor Dynasty

    As I am still on my Tudor Bender, and It's a topic that really hasn't been discussed yet me thinks, but what if the King hadn't ordered the couple to not consumate their marriage, but actually encouraged them to do so? let's say that Duke and Duchess of Richmond had indeed consumated on their...

  17. Long May He Reign: Edward VI Lives

    Hey everyone, I've been on a bit of a Tudor bender recently and I am left with the question on What If Edward VI of England and Ireland did make a strong recovery from the illness that killed him and reigns as long Elizabeth did? Who might be his candidate for Queen amongst the high dynastic...

  18. WI: A very different concept of the Trinity

    So what would it take for Judiasm to remain henothestic or atleast duological in their worship of both Yaweh post-the return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian activity? Would the worship of two-true gods change the nature of the hebrews?And how might effect their sociopolitical interactions with...

  19. WI: Slower Recovery from The Recession of '82-83

    Attention all AHC'ommers, I know I haven't been active on the board lately, but I think it would be cool to have a new economic POD that really hasn't been done before. What could be some of the ramifications if the United States had not seen such a dramatic uptick from 1983 to 1984?

  20. AH Challenge: POTUS Sarge Shriver

    In memory of the well-respected man, who passed away last week...Is there any credible scenario's where we could have seen a President Shriver? All Ideas are welcome ***********
Top