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  1. MarkhamS.Pyle

    WI: Downing Street Mortar Attack actually hit 10 Downing Street

    It was only the War Cabinet present, with the Cabinet Secretary and some high-flyer civil servants (including Gus O’Donnell and Charles Powell), and the Chief of Defence Staff, MRAF Sir David Craig. Hezza, Clarke, Michael Howard, and others might be tapped as a caretaker, but the 1922 Committee...
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    WI: Pakistan remains a dominion?

    Well, it'd be good news for the acceding Princely States, and East Bengal would not, perhaps, become Bangladesh.... Also, of course, the PCB might be rather more competent and untainted - much to the relief of Boom Boom.
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    AHC: + Michael Cantuar (Easy as ABC)

    Here’s the scenario. See what you can make of it. Number 10: ‘Tony?’ The PM looked up. ‘I’m afraid,’ said Alastair Campbell, with a grimace, ‘we’re going to have to do God.’ BBC: BBC News at Six: Huw Edwards deployed The Eyebrow to subtle effect. ‘... at Six. The Archbishop of Canterbury...
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    WI: Bosworth Wasn't Decisive

    Not an unfamiliar pattern for the Yorkists. Get to Burgundy; wait for the Lancastrian(-ish) candidate to cock up; land in the North; take London; execute the Lancastrian. Remember, Ireland was Yorkist, Scotland trusted Richard more than they did Henry ap Meredith Tidder, the North was Richard's...
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    Nazi-British peace mediated by Mussolini?

    I suggest you consult the Cabinet minutes for the Dunkirk/ Dynamo period. This was basically what Halifax was suggesting be explored. Winston, Clem, Arthur Greenwood, and, fatally for Halifax, Chamberlain, all said not-yet-meaning-no.
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    Alternative locations for ancient English universities

    Stamford (a possible site canvassed by disgruntled Oxford dons in - I believe - the 14th C). Cricklade (well, lots of antiquarians believed for some time it had been the first university in England, deriving the name from "Greeklade"). Winchester (the ancient capital). Middleham (in an...
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    What if the bojinka plot was launched?

    Well, first off, of course, Santo subito! The ensuing conclave probably elects Benedict after flirting with the idea of Cardinal Sin, whom Benedict makes Papal Secretary of State. Well, he was the Archbishop of Manila, after all.... Cardinal Sodano becomes Dean of the College. Boris Yeltsin...
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    DBWI: Abraham Lincoln went into politics?

    What people forget is that he was a railroad lawyer first, which is what positioned him to become what he was. Oh, he's a fairly obscure figure nowadays, but had there not been a Lincoln: that combination of legal savvy, the tinkerer's talent, and a sharp eye for business: the US would have...
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    [Help needed] How can I better write/think about medieval politics?

    First, you might ask, Where in the medieval world? And, When? It was longish era, and not, actually, static. I expect you mean what'd then have been called, "Christendom," and probably the North-West European bits of that. And even that is not enough granulation. For example, you mention the...
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    DBWI: What if Hitler was never accepted into art school?

    Might have been a good thing. That combination of neo-Biedermeier mit Schlag and his odd fixations on Mayor Lueger's nonsense gave him less obscurity than he deserved. He'd surely have done less damage (not least aesthetic) - and for very little time, as down-and-outs at least die off quickly -...
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    Very Minor PODs

    Here are two for general consideration. Mary Anna Custis of Arlington marries the young Jacksonian Congressman from Tennessee who was courting her, Sam Houston, rather than that nice, FFV, but penniless West Point cadet. The Davies brothers stop their public fights sufficiently that The Kinks...
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    The worst cold war tl cliches

    Saint Margaret of Grantham, for one, never did accept it as having been a Good Thing.
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    Stalin and Hitler befriend in 1913, what are the possible consequences?

    I might point out that Stalin was in Vienna, in part, to make his bones as a party theorist rather than merely as a bank robber ... his chosen topic being, ominously, "the nationalities question." There remains some debate, by the way, as to whether Hitler was in fact broke when living in...
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    Green Party's David Cobb wins 2008 Texas Senate seat?

    Speaking as an actual Texan ... you can twist and shout all you like, but this is simply ASB. That dawg ain't a-goin' to hunt.
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    Unusual and funny battles tactics

    The first time "Quaker guns" were used by COL Wm Washington near Camden SC in the Revolution started a trend. And then of course there were the cottonclads at (most notably) Galveston, in the Late Unpleasantness....
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    List Political Parties of Alternate Countries

    Other parties’ logos: Parti-Manche: The Party Merchant: Caritas: The Celtic Party: The Sons of Ste Jeanne: CIDRE: The Cider Party:
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    List Political Parties of Alternate Countries

    The United Kingdoms Monarch: Mary III Union Prime Minister: HG the Duke of Lyme; Leader in the Commons, Margaret (Mrs Philip) Vickers, the Country Party Leader of the Opposition (Union Parliament): The Marquess of Lannoy and Picard; Opposition Leader, Commons, Francis (Taaffe), Earl of...
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    WI: Surviving Indo-Greek Kingdom

    I'm simply thinking covetously of the lovely, lovely coinage.
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    ACW generals and admirals who could have gone either way

    My error. I read the first post as, Generals and significant ... naval commanders as the overall aim, with the went through Wikipedia bios of Army and corps commanders as a methodological aside. So Gracie as a BG is out. I still see lacunae in the significant naval commanders bit, though...
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    ACW generals and admirals who could have gone either way

    More attention might be paid to naval flag officers. And as for generals, I think you missed Archibald Gracie III.
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