I don't know why, but for some reason this just made me think of this: instead of James Bond, its "the names Clancy, Tom Clancy"
*snicker* Love it!
I don't know why, but for some reason this just made me think of this: instead of James Bond, its "the names Clancy, Tom Clancy"
The White Skull?
The Boys from Madagascar?
the 12 book long series by alternate History writer Geoff Jones, following the question of "What if Order 191 was found by the union army"?
I thought it was from Henry Turtledove? about how the CSA lost the Civil War and then leads to a history where Fascists instead rise in Germany lead by some painter named Adolf Hitler..?
I don't know why, but for some reason this just made me think of this: instead of James Bond, its "the names Clancy, Tom Clancy"
The White Skull?
The Boys from Madagascar?
the 12 book long series by alternate History writer Geoff Jones, following the question of "What if Order 191 was found by the union army"?
Django Unchained (2012) - A fictional account of four OSS operatives, accompanied by the German spy King Schulz, go deep into the heart of the Confederate States to assassinate Jake Featherston, Donald Partridge, Saul Goldman and Ferdinand Koenig at a film showing. They are unknowingly assisted by Django, an escapee from the Confederacy's Population Reduction, who is planning a parallel assassination attempt. Throughout the film they are challenged by Colonel Calvin Candie of the Freedom Party Guards. The movie is notable for diverging from actual history by allowing the conspirators to succeed, presumably ending the Second Great War in 1943.
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I know such a movie wouldn't actually be made ITTL because of parallelism, but it would be funny to see.
My little contribution to this TL : An early 80s ad for Eagle Airways.
(The picture is a reworking of this hypothetical profile art for a TWA-operated Lockheed L-2000. The Lockheed L-2000 was one of the OTL 60s American supersonic airliner projects, but unlike the Concorde or the Tu-144, it never got past the mockup stage. I figured it would be a sufficient stand-in for an ATL cousin of the Concorde. )
Thank you! This is fantastic! This is definitely canon. Always good to have visual materials to accompany the text.
Thanks for the promotion to canon. Incidentally, what brand would EA's supersonics be ? Are they Boeings ? Or some other American brand entirely, possibly fictional ? They'd need a catchy model name too. If we'd follow the name of the OTL Concorde and alternate naming clichés, I guess the SST could be called "Liberty", "Union", "Columbia" or something else in that vein. Though maybe it could be something less frequented and more international-sounding. (After all, the name of the OTL Concorde doesn't refer to any specific aspect of British or French history, but to the camaraderie of the two nations when working on grandiose engineering projects.)
I'd love to atually get a bit more information about how British & French politics took a turn following the SGW - I know that the Labour Party seem to have held in power in the post-war world until the Progressive Liberal Party won in the the most recent election, but it'd be good to get a list of PM of Great Britain as well as the same for France including a list of Presidents of the Fourth French Republic. Also, just how leftist is the Labour Party ITTL - I'd assume either a degree of moderation following being in power for such a prolonged amount of time is likely?
Also, just to check, is Belgium still a sovereign nation under indefinite German occupation or as it been amalgamated into the German Empire proper?
Another thing that's crossed my mind. In OTL, Ivo Peters (a famous railway enthusiast best known for his photographs of the long-closed Somerset & Dorset line) travelled to Ireland after WWII to photograph the Tralee & Dingle light railway before it closed. Would the Irish have allowed him to do so ITTL?
The American Football League began play in 1909 and was the first professional football circuit.
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How's this, David? Note that 2009, the year in which you intend to end this TL, is the 100th anniversary of the AFL....
Excellent write-up! Thank you very much! I appreciate having some of the gaps of TTL filled. It's all canon for this world.
This does give me some ideas for the next update...
It's doubtful that such a trip was planned in TTL (due to butterflies), but if it was, it's unlikely that the Irish government would have allowed him in.
Alright, David... Is your world more advanced than ours circa 2000?
Hey guys. I made electoral maps for 1948 and 1952, which David says is canon. I'm posting them here.
1948
Thomas Dewey (D-NY)/Harry S. Truman (D-MO): 281 EV
Henry A. Wallace (S-IA)/Rexford Tugwell (S-NY): 105 EV
Harold Stassen (R-MN)/Smith Altrock (R-CA): 11 EV
1952
Harry S. Truman (D-MO)/Irving Morrell (D-KS): 224 EV
Adlai Stevenson II (S-IL)/Earl Warren (S-CA): 167 EV
Harold Stassen (R-MN)/Cecil Schneider II (R-IL): 17 EV
Yep. They're canon. Morrell's why Truman won two terms. Don't ask me, ask David.Are those VP candidates confirmed canon by David too? Morrell as Truman's VP is very interesting. Warren as a Socialist seems rather odd.
Rexford Tugwell appears to be a real person, but am I correct in assuming that Altrock and Schneider are made up? Just curious, who made them up, you or David?
Yep. They're canon. Morrell's why Truman won two terms. Don't ask me, ask David.
Both by David. Illinoian Representative Smith Altrock's a hawkish Republican, descended from TL-191 character and veteran of the Great War, Private Altrock.
The Mayor of Evanston, Carl Schneider II, is the son (I assume) of Carl Schneider, a veteran of the First Great War.