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  1. Merkins?

    Why in the 19th century did Merkins get popular in Europe and in America? Just something I'm wondering about; but I read it had something to do with the wives and widows of deceased Confederate soldiers being without a means of support and selling their own hair to the Hassock makers.
  2. Sergei Korolyov

    Have we had a Segei Korolyov recovers and lives on for another fifteen years after his OTL fatal abdominal surgery? If not, what is the effect? Do the Soviets get to the moon first? If not do they stay in the race anyway? What is the effect on US Space policy? What, if anything is the...
  3. A trans-Atlantic Confederacy

    I have just had an interesting thought, what if, during the American Civil War Scotland decides to ceed from Great Britain and join the Confederacy?
  4. A trans-Atlantic Confederacy

    Deleted in wrong forum - Dure.
  5. Space Hoppers

    What if, in the late 19th Century the Space Hopper is invented and rivals the bicycle in popularity. There is more investment in Space Hoppers or the 'Gentleman's leaping dervish' as it is known, than there is in the bicycle. Eventually cycling becomes a minor sport whilst leaping becomes an...
  6. Victoria, trend setter

    Can anyone think of a reasonable POD for a time-line in which Queen Victoria invents and popularises the bikini?
  7. Elasticated, weatherproof, shocking pink Victorians

    What would the mid-Victorians have done with lurex, spandex and goretex if they had discovered advanced artifical fibres in the 1840s. Suppose just for the hell of it anline dyes take off in the 1830s instead of the 1890s.
  8. Cecil Rhodes the Colossus of Africa - Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair?

    I got the idea for this during the Malta thread. Suppose Cecil Rhodes had not died until a few years after WWI ended, after the war the German colonies are no longer an impediment to the route of the Cape to Cario railway. What if Rhodes had been able to convince the Colonial and Imperial...
  9. A slightly more pro-Confederate Europe?

    Just suppose that Europe had been a tiny bit more pro-Confederate in the ACW. Suppose the Confederates are more willing to take financial risks. Assume the following:- 1) The British let Bulloch complete the two Laird rams as CSS North Carolina and CSS Mississippi, they are commissioned in...
  10. How can the Soviet Union win without excessive loss of life and treasure?

    We have just had two threads that ask what would happen if the Soviet Union did particular things in World War II respectively dig-in and attack west first. Let me instead ask a different question. How can the Soviet Union, without attacking first and with Barbarossa going ahead on schedule...
  11. 6'6" Black US President petite flirtatious blonde white first-lady

    In response to the white president black first lady thread.
  12. Homage to Beans: Canada gains USA, Russian America, California and Cuba peacefully

    I am incapable of thinking such wonderful thoughts myself, all I can do is provide a mirror. In the vast majority of AHs where Canada gains all or part of the USA it's usually due to war against Britain. Now, how could Canada have peacefully gained the USA, Russian America, California and Cuba...
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