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AHC: Most Successful Possible Celts
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True, but with no Roman Empire to bar the way, many of those Anglo-Saxons might have migrated south rather than west. Also, don't...
Tuesday at 4:57 AM
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AHC: Most Successful Possible Celts
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Poul Anderson did something like that in his Time Patrol story "Delenda Est". His PoD was Rome getting destroyed by Hannibal, but a...
Sunday at 4:17 AM
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AHC: Avoid Danish Invasion of England (1013)
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What's the scor Was there any other king available? I've seen assertions that there were male-line descendants of Ethelred I...
May 25, 2024
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House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI
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Possible butterfly. If there is a sizeable British force serving with Gustavus Adolphus (iirc he had quite a few Scottish troops even...
May 16, 2024
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WI: Annie Oakley accidentally kills Kaiser Wilhelm in 1890?
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There would certainly be no Kruger Telegram. IIRC, when Heinrich heard of it he asked "What idiot persuaded my brother to send that?"
May 16, 2024
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What if Alexander didn't try to invade India?
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There'd be at least one more. His other wife, Darius' daughter, was pregnant when he died, whereupon Roxana promptly killed her. I think...
May 14, 2024
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What if Alexander didn't try to invade India?
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Not necessarily. His father Philip was also a heavy drinker yet lived a lot longer. Also, various of his generals - Pompey, Seleucus ...
May 14, 2024
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Good Vinland PODs?
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Perhaps Harald III comes out on top in 1066 and decides to assert his sovereignty over Iceland. As king of Norway *and* England, he...
May 10, 2024
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What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?
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A "Greater Saxony" Either John George of Saxony accepts the Bohemian throne in 1617, or he dies childless in the early 1610s (as did...
May 6, 2024
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What if John Wilkes Booth trips
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There will certainly be some kind of 14A, if only to repudiate the Confederate debt. I also suspect that Section 2, which reduced...
May 2, 2024
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What if John Wilkes Booth trips
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Well, at the very least it removes one major obstacle to it. AIUI the Dems relied a lot on the "race card" to scupper the Populists.
May 1, 2024
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Most Implausible Tales of History
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And don't forget that ridiculous "Abraham Lincoln" legend. Born in poverty, rises to rule a nation, is way too good to be true, has...
Apr 28, 2024
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Treaty of Sevres ratified in 1920- Does Turkey join the Axis in WW2?
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Has Armenia been absorbed into the SU? If so the Turks might indeed join in Barbarossa.
Apr 18, 2024
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Discussion: What was your first Alternate History idea?
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When I was around 14 or 15 I started a yarn where two time travellers went back to the Battle of Gettysburg and accidentally changed its...
Apr 18, 2024
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All I’ll say is that if Hitler died before WW2, he might have been remembered as the greatest German statesman since Bismarck.
Apr 13, 2024
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