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The F-18L was a land-based derivative of the F/A-18, developed by Northrop for export to countries that lacked the carrier requirement of the USN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet#Northrop's_F-18L The F/A-18 has been quite successful on the export market, being...

Welcome to Just Like Starting Over! A new pop culture timeline that asks, “What if John and Paul just couldn’t resist $3,000?” I joke, but I truly hope I can bring a great pop culture timeline to you all, starting right here, right now. Some information before we begin: If you have an idea...

An Convenient Truth Presidency of Albert Gore Jr. 1988 Democratic Primaries: On April 11, 1987, Senator Gore of Tennessee announced his candidacy. Gore's campaign was 39 years old making his the youngest serious candidate for the White House since JFK. In contrast to JFK, Gore was a southern...

I want to start a timeline but I don’t know when to place it, I want it To either take place in the 60s or the 80s. Both have their pros and cons and both have their own vibe to them. Hopefully by listing the pros and cons of each that you can decide for me which decade for me to place my...

What is this? A timeline where an underrated figure from Rhode Island becomes president. His name is Buddy Cianci. At one point he was considered a rising star in the Republican Party so I got an idea. Why? I got bored at school. How long will this last? Hopefully until I finish it or get...

The Way Life’s Meant To Be An AJM8888 story Nishi-Shinjuku Tokyo early 1980s Times Square, Facing South, 1981 Main Building of Moscow State University, Moscow 1981 Piccadilly Circus, London 1981. Part I: Preamble Excerpt from The Long Way Round: My Rise In The FBI by Erik Nyygard...

The Stand-Off at the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the...

Imagine this, a world in which "Naruto" really did exist, but Japan, in a sense to prevent situations to occur such as wars over them keeps everything quiet, as in all of Japan knows but that is it. The hidden villages are known as military bases, and the Nine Tail Attack was a fire at Military...

“These are the basic Socialist values and principles – individual liberty, equality, citizenship, the diffusion of power, the importance of collective and social action…these principles may not have the satisfying certainty of Marxist analysis, nor may they constitute quite the same stirring...

Is it possible for them to die off in the 90s and replaced by a new kind of trend like having more minimalistic and simple designs being popular and the designs and culture introduced in the 90s and 2000s to persist.

What would happen if the post war economic boom in the USA ended in the early 80s instead of the early 70s of OTL. Maybe the US invests a lot in civilian nuclear power and public transportation so the oil shock doesn’t hit the US as hard, or maybe the USD is devalued in the 50s so the US has a...

So,yet another timeline from LordandsaviorKloka, he who is infamous for starting promising stuff and then abandoning it. Don’t blame the man,blame the muse. But your 21st Century Future thing is still on,right? Right. What’s this,then? A timeline where the winds of fortune blow ever in favor...

As the tin says, your challenge is to make Steve Garvey, the former NL MVP, and late 70s, early 80s baseball legend, the President of the United States. Note: you can't butterfly away his baseball career. Garvey's political ambitions were well known in his time, and he even gained the nickname...

What if by the 2010s, Japan continues to be a country that seems like to be at least 30 years ahead of the USA and Western Europe in technological development, and also completely free from the West's moral constraints, similar to its 1980s image? By the 2020s, Japan continues to be seen as a...

CD Projekt Red's upcoming video game, Cyberpunk 2077 has become widely anticipated across the world, with previews of the game showing us the corporates and criminals that run the underbelly of Night City. But to understand what transformed America into the neon dystopia we see in Cyberpunk, we...

With the C8, becoming a mid engine car for its next generation. This have brought up the question of what if the Vette had went mid engine in the 80’s? How would a low cost (under 100,000 for most models) mid engine super car effect the world.

Back in the 1980’s, a lot of Americans believed that, with their technological advancements and roaring economy, Japan was poised to take over the world. Of course this didn’t happen. Japan’s economy came to a halt in the nineties and now that there is a resurgent China it is unlikely they will...

Given the recent cultural reflection of an Eighties revival, the challenge in this is to create a scenario in which the Eighties, with its characteristic tentative optimism, heightened Cold War tensions, and flashy consumerism, never truly ends on the night of December 31st, 1989.

I had a strange dream last night about an ATL: Firstly, console gaming is more popular in Europe than it was/is in OTL. In a time period spanning approximately from 1986 to 2004, various European countries start state-owned companies that each develop a uniquely constructed video game console...

Richard Nixon never went away until the day he died. He was America's constant from the time he started politics all the way to the end, going away but always coming back. This scenario assumes a similar period of 1968 to 1980, with the difference being it is not Nixon in the White House from...