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  1. WI : Delayed massive use of television

    Without a definite POD, it's hard to be specific about personalities and events, but I can imagine some broad trends: Radio remains the only way to experience live or up-to-the-minute events like news and sporting events. This butterflies the kind of vivid, cinematic TV reportage that had...

  2. Could Nixon still have won a second term in office if he didn't do Watergate

    Is this actually a widespread belief? Are there a lot of people out there who think that Nixon was on course to lose the election, and that the Watergate burglary somehow propelled Nixon to victory? This is a very odd idea.

  3. Could Nixon still have won a second term in office if he didn't do Watergate

    Is the Space Pope reptilian?

  4. Very Minor PODs

    In 1866, Ernst Haeckel proposed the binomial name Homo stupidus for a recently discovered species of extinct European hominid. If William King had not already proposed the name Homo neanderthalensis two years earlier, Haeckel's name would have had priority.

  5. October 27, 2012

    There are immediately suggestions that Obama rigged the whole thing as a trumped-up October surprise. This becomes a long-lived conspiracy theory and fodder for Fox News. Obama wins the 2012 election by a similar margin as in OTL, and Republicans convince themselves that they would have won...

  6. 95 year old Friedrich Nietzsche

    So he dies in 1939/1940. Assuming that his survival doesn't butterfly WWI, it would be fascinating to see his reaction to that. How would he react to the rise of communism and anarchism? How would he react to the establishment of a sovereign Polish state? Nietzsche believed adamantly...

  7. PC: WAllies piggyback on Eastern Front

    This is one of those "dumb questions of history" that I've long been curious about. Rather than attempt a risky and expensive amphibious invasion of France, why did the Western Allies not simply ship their forces overland to the eastern front and join the westward push already in progress? I...

  8. WI: Watergate wasn't exposed

    Wouldn't Pat Buchanan have talked him out of it?

  9. WI: Watergate wasn't exposed

    And keep in mind that there was a lot of other stuff in the pipeline, even before the June 17 burglary went south. There were plans to firebomb the Brookings Institute, kidnap student radicals for the duration of the RNC, hire prostitutes to compromise Democratic politicians, forge documents...

  10. WI the CIA successfully assassinates Fidel Castro's beard?

    Well, either communism would immediately collapse in Cuba, or Castro would go around reaping sympathy as a beard-martyr. I think the latter is more likely.

  11. WI: Watergate wasn't exposed

    If Watergate isn't exposed, there's a strong possibility that Liddy and company are emboldened, and go on to do something even worse. Shenanigans at the Democratic Convention in Miami? Blackmailing the Kennedys? Whatever it is, Nixon tries to cover it up, and that becomes the scandal that takes...

  12. AH Cultural Descriptions

    Popular nickname for the Jewish Motorist's Guide, a directory of Jewish-friendly hotels, restaurants, and gas stations in the United States. It was published annually from 1918 to 1953, and was discontinued shortly after the Supreme Court struck down anti-Jewish segregation laws in Weinstein v...

  13. Alternate names for Ukraine?

    Perhaps "Malarus", as in "Little Russia".

  14. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A Paleotheist motto popular during the Roman revival of the 1960's, an abbreviation of "Juno And Venus Never Overlook A Heathen". It was often painted on walls or tattooed onto the arms of pious Pagans. Today the initialism is often used as a visual shorthand for the bacchic laurel-and-toga...

  15. AH Cultural Descriptions

    In Confederate politics, a polemical label applied by the Populists to the Conservatives, who are accused of disdaining the common Anglo-Saxon heritage of the CSA and the USA. The term often carries anti-Catholic and anti-expansionist overtones, and is often used interchangeably with...

  16. AH Cultural Descriptions

    English title of Les troubadours du garage, a 1993 action comedy film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a Provençal motorcycle mechanic who moonlights as a rapper. The film was intended to launch Van Damme's rapping career, but instead it was an embarrassing flop. Van Damme was criticized for...

  17. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A low-budget 1968 movie directed by schlock auteur Coleman Francis. The paper-thin plot concerns a group of American oil workers who enter the Colombian jungle to find a buried treasure. The entire picture was filmed in the vicinity of Santa Clarita, California, and is the only color film ever...

  18. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A 1958 novel by Graham Greene, set in interwar Ajaccio and the Cote d'Azur among the Corsican underworld. A pimp named Napoleon Palmieri experiences a "road to Damascus" revelation while pursuing a fugitive prostitute to Marseilles. The novel was adapted into a 1968 film starring Tony Curtis and...

  19. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A chain of aquatic motels that flourished in the upper midwest from the 1950's to the late 1970's. Their logo was a cartoon duck wearing a sleeping cap. The chain gained national infamy in May of 1975, when Elvis Presley died of a barbiturate overdose at the WataMote Minnetonka, hours before he...

  20. AH Cultural Descriptions

    A TV action series that ran from 1977-1981. It starred Lou Gossett Jr. and Ben Murphy as two suave, street-smart members of the NYPD vice squad. The series is known for its disco sensibility and emphasis on trendy fashions. Its theme song was composed by Giorgio Moroder. A 1901 march composed...
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