Once a leading figure in American evangelical circles, the Southern Baptist preacher's career came to an end with this admission before the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association on Thursday, April 10, 1969. He was forced to address and confirm rumors that he had...
In OTL, British author P.G. Wodehouse famously created the butler character named Jeeves. He was enormously popular in the US and UK until World War II. He was living in France at the time of that nation's fall to Nazi Germany and was interned for the rest of the war. He made certain recordings...
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, retreated from the public eye after his 1992 separation from the fabulously popular Princess Diana. Humiliated by the subsequent divorce and the Queen's withering criticism of his handling of his marriage, he disengaged from many of his royal...
In OTL, East Asian traditional martial arts came to the United States and Europe from Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong after World War II. They proliferated in the 1970s, launching many schools and federations of schools, in large part due to the popularity of movies that featured these martial...
Liechtenstein: on May 2, 1945, the remnants of the Russian National Army (a pro-German force that fought the Soviet Union) under Boris Smyslovsky flee into Liechtenstein and are granted asylum by Prince Franz-Joseph II. That tiny nation refuses to hand over these men to the Soviet Union.
In our...
Off the top of my head and loosely based on the sizes of the armies deployed during the War of 1812, I'd say at least 60,000 British troops. A much smaller number could occupy the major port cities, but subduing the interior would, as the British discovered during the War for Independence...
I'm uncertain about British motivations to launch such a war of reconquest instead of simply breaking up the US into manageable client states. But a hard enough America-screw could make it weak enough for a conquest to be feasible. Let's try this sequence:
There's never a strong federal...
Would a Russian token contribution to the British war effort in North America in 1813 or 1814 qualify? Or does your challenge require a standalone Russian force?
Yes, Norway. And, specifically, Svalbard if it was never retaken by the Allies with a thorough effort. A German holdout could survive for a few years if he was exceptionally skilled at living off the land in subarctic conditions.
The post-apocalyptic novel Warday imagines life in the United States five years after a nuclear war in 1983. The US prevailed over the USSR, but is economically devastated as a result of the nuclear exchange. Alaska, cut off from the lower 48, joins Canada. If memory serves, the US sells Alaska...
Agreed. Even if the US is able to somehow take Upper and Lower Canada during the first year of the war through incredible good luck and Isaac Brock somehow dying at the outset, it still won't be able to hold Canada. The Royal Navy will still hold Halifax and continue to strangle the American...
Perhaps it's for the best that there was no Star Trek V for that reason, too. I doubt if Congressman Takei's career would ever have gotten off the ground if he had kept at acting in a failing franchise.
Perhaps it would have been better to give Star Trek a serial, rather than episodic basis. The five seasons in Will Meugniot and Jeff Segal's Exosquad series showed that there was a strong market for long, complex, science fiction stories.
Yeah, if the captain was going to be an Englishman who plays a Frenchman, then perhaps it would have been better to go with Rick Berman's idea of casting the stage actor Ian McKellen as Captain Picard.