Recent content by Moobles

In general, the best insulation against oppression is to be stronger than your oppressors. So specify who the Church needs to be more tolerant to and find historical means to buff 'em.

All that's needed is for socially liberal policies to fall on the right-wing rather than the left-wing, and voila: "left-wing" Mormons.

It's also specifically entrenched as a right in their constitution. I agree and I think in the long-term, Europeans are going to be polarized over the CSA. IOTL 1876 England forced Zanzibar, long the slave capital of the world, to stop trading in slaves. It still happened obviously but it was a...

Damn, I was just going to start my first TL and it was a Vinland TL too :D I'll do it anyway but there's no claim to (recent) authenticity now! I'll keep checking in on this thread there's some really interesting discussions I hadn't known about going on. Luckily mine is quite different so you...

True to an extent. Francophilia was very widespread in the upper classes- which of course dominated the colonial government. I'm sure people like Ben Franklin had no quarrels whatsoever with helping out the French liberate themselves, if we assume the rebellion goes like OTL. However, the...

A FIBA-type competition could fly in the future, as basketball is exploding in popularity around the world. A baseball competition isn't out of the question. If someone has the money, time and is willing to invest in the sport in other countries- baseball is pretty inexpensive. All you need is...

I don't think it'll necessarily effect the size of the NHL nor will it kill southern expansion. If the Ballard-Pocklington swap goes through the Oilers will probably get moved to Houston, and depending on whether or not Bettman still ends up as comish we may or may not see Canadian franchises...

Weirder things have cropped in history, but there's plenty of good reasons for the French-Canadians not to have joined up with the Americans. The Thirteen Colonies at the time were pretty hostile to the French, as they'd spent the previous 100+ years raiding each other's frontier settlements and...

Damn, too much to reply to. In response to Poepoe, I guess I didn't make it clear that the aneurysm was meant as a result of him getting kicked in the head i.e. he died from a kick in the head, not some freak medical anomaly :D. I just decided to add some detail in it. I guess I've gotten...

Hockey would be a lot worse off in Los Angeles, assuming no one else comes. Gretzky was a huge draw for the oft-struggling Kings and helped vault them into the '92-93 finals against Montreal (on a play that makes Leafs fans cringe to this day). Would affect any future of the league with a...

I haven't touched much post-1900s PoDs and was reading recently about the history behind the Entente Cordialle. I set up two PoDs to occur in the very late 1800s that I think pave the way for the potential of more likely Anglo-German friendly ties (to an extent?) I wanted to get feedback, input...

The biggest overlooked cliché I can think of on these boards from lurking here over the past 3 years is: "that's not realistic". We're all writing fiction here: historically inspired fiction perhaps, or "reality-inspired"- but it is not "real". "Realism" and "realistic" are two words I've...

Having "as many" is a far stretch. You would essentially have to have major "pull" factors from France and whole lot of liberalization in the courts of their Kings in order to attract the same number of emmigrants that fled to the New England. A good start would've been being a bit more...

Alright so I've read a few stories about Napoleon on this here board but I'd like to compact all the fun possabilities you can come up with here in the thread. Appologies for the nonsensical name, it was only to get you here to read this. Basically, I'm looking for PoDs specifically that would...

Yeah, there was a Canadian Rebellion in 1837, led by a game named William Lyon Mackenzie. Basically, it didn't garner enough support to pose any "real" threat to the British, and it was mostly over farming land, as opposed to rights and stuff. The Lower Canada Rebellion took place just a bit...