Recent content by Alcuin

There's one example in my timeline below. I think I have Beria succeed Stalin, followed by Mrs Molotov (rather than Molotov himself) followed by Kruschev.

Or you could have Batista meekly accept that the Cuban Constitution only allowed him two turns and so not become a dictator so that Castro was just another Cuban President for his two terms.

There's no Cuban Crisis in my timeline (see my signature below). That's because Castro petitions for Cuba to become a state.

Unless, of course, the Turks do NOT convert to Islam. Besides, St Vladimir (or his equivalent) might still choose Orthodoxy because the Emperor might still offer him a daughter.

I think it's unlikely Charles V would add Liege to the Netherlands because that would tend to annoy the Pope (Liege having a Bishop as its Prince and thus owing allegiance to the Church). The others are all tenable, though I can't see how much difference they'd make in the long run. How about...

He was, of course, using a ATL version... actually, he had a convention called at the insistence of South Carolina in response to British pressure to end slavery. That convention passed an amendment that stated that no state had the right to abolish slavery.

And instead of Aldi, we'd have VOC stores everywhere?

I rather like a solution I saw in a short story from Harry Turtledove. The South was successful in breaking away from the USA, thanks entirely to British Help. But then... the British imposed a blockade of its own on the Confederacy's ports and made it clear that they would allow trade only in...

Eventually, Alexander would have been thwarted. He would have spent the rest of his life defending his empire against enemies real and imagined, both within the empire and without. Perhaps he would have pushed his frontier in India as far south as the Ganges or even further, but sooner or...

Obviously cultural forms are more difficult to predict but I imagine not completely unpredictable. The modern popular forms arose from traditional forms already extant in 1777. If America tends to dominate economically, the cultural follows and it is likely that there will be Rock Music and...

At 21:20 hours on Friday, 10 April 1992, a bomb consisting of 100 pounds of semtex and a ton of Fertiliser (as an accelerant) exploded outside the Baltic Exchange at 30 St Mary Axe (the site of what is now Credit Suisse aka "The Gherkin"). Now just suppose, I alter that slightly for a PoD...

Given that the idea is to create a union of equals, surely the best bet is to admit the British Empire (including Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean) as as many states as exist in the Union plus some territories that could be decided later. Both the Empire and the...

The Angevin Union... that'd do it. It's much more wieldy than The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and France.

Ahh... in that case, how about Japan does not attack either Hawaii or the Philippines, but instead pushes down the peninsula to Singapore before taking out Indonesia with its oil and then moves on to Australia. With no US involvement in WWII, there is no reason for the US to build up its army...

They aren't dropping the name, any more than the Scots (to whom everything that aplies to France also applies) did when they became British. The English also became British when the Act of Union came into being. There would be one Political Union called Britain, which would be a single country...