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    AH Vignette: The Weed of Crime Bears Bitter Fruit

    THE WEED OF CRIME BEARS BITTER FRUIT Alternate History Pop Culture Vignette The weed of crime bears bitter fruit -- crime does not pay! The Shadow knows! 1996 In the mid-1990s, the world of cinema was consumed by superhero fever. Directed by Tim Burton and co-starring Michael...
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    AH Vignette: Lights! Camera! Action... RELOAD!

    LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION… RELOAD! Alternate History Pop Culture Vignette Sometime, somewhere, someone is plotting a government overthrow… A small republic is in danger… It’s time for the one-man army… TIME CRISIS: THE MOVIE 1999 Namco’s light gun rail-shooter Time Crisis made its...
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    The Doctor Is Who? TL (Finished)

    The First Doctor William Hartnell (1963 - 1966) The first actor to play the Doctor, William Hartnell portrayed the eponymous alien adventurer for approximately three and a half years between 1963 and 1966, piloting the TARDIS - his blue police call box which was bigger on the inside -...
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    TLIAFD: The Doctor Is Who?

    What are you doing here? Against my better judgment, I am submitting a timeline. A timeline in a few days? Yes, that seemed arbitrary enough to suit me. Please note that days might not be consecutive, or very close together at all. Cop-out. Probably. So what's it about, then? Doctor Who...
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    AH Vignette: The Big Man of Downing Street

    I have never written anything before, but since everyone in the PMQs thread is doing it, I thought it might be interesting to try. It's pure fantasy. Not very well written. No planning went into it. Probably not plausible; it took me an hour and a half to write. Whaddya want for nuthin'? ----...
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    WI: Lloyd George Out Before WWI?

    I was recently perusing the Lloyd George entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and learned that there was a fairly good possibility that he (along with Sir Rufus Isaacs, the Attorney-General, Herbert Samuels, the Postmaster-General, and a few others) might have been sacked from...
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    WI: Obama does not run in 2012

    I have lately been considering the scenario where Barack Obama, whether for reasons of serious illness or personal injury, decides he cannot run for re-election in 2012 and announces his intention to leave the White House at the end of his first term. What would the ensuing race look like now...
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    WI: Eisner appoints Katzenberg

    In 1984, Disney shareholders recruited Michael Eisner as the new chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company and Frank Wells as its president and Chief Operating Officer. Among other activities, they oversaw the Disney Renaissance, the expansion of Touchstone Pictures, the acquisition of Miramax...
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    AHC: President Nugent

    Just for fun, the challenge is to put Theodore Anthony Nugent in the White House without eliminating his career as a musician. Can his rock star charisma pull it off, or could it (in addition to some of the rather unsavoury aspects of his character) do him in?
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    WI: Hendrix Lives

    Supposing Jimi Hendrix had not died in 1970, what musical avenues would he have been likely to pursue through the rest of his life? How would his historical ranking as a guitarist be affected in comparison to contemporaries like Clapton and Beck, or successors such as Van Halen and Rhoads? For...
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    WI: A different running mate for Clinton

    While Clinton's decision to run with Al Gore in the number two slot was questioned for going against the conventional wisdom concerning ticket balancing, it has nevertheless been suggested that Gore strengthened the ticket's position on family values and environmental issues, where Gore was seen...
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    Who else could have fronted Van Halen?

    Following the tour in support of 1984, Diamond Dave decided to leave Van Halen to pursue his own musical interests. As we all know, he was replaced by Sammy Hagar, a veteran rocker who had previously fronted Montrose before establishing himself as a solo artist in his own right. In 1996, this...
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    WI: No Garfield and McKinley assassinations

    I'm sure this has been discussed many times before, but I'm curious to see what the long-term prospects would be. The assassinations of Garfield and McKinley tend to be overshadowed by those of Lincoln and Kennedy. If McKinley is not shot by an anarchist and serves his full second term, I...
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    WI: Eddie Van Halen joined Kiss?

    Gene Simmons likes to remark that he discovered Van Halen (and that they still owe them the money he fronted them to record their first demos). Indeed, when he came across the Van Halen in 1976, he attempted to convince Eddie Van Halen to leave the group and join his own band instead, but the...
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    Could the Irish Rebellion of 1798 have succeeded?

    Several factors seem to stack the odds against the success of the Unitied Irishmen uprising at the end of the 18th-century, but is there any situation in which the rebellion could have gone through? As far as I am aware, there are a couple of issues which bear some consideration. There's...
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