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  1. Earlier 20th Amendment?

    From the time of the Framing until 1933, the terms of Presidents, Senators, and Representatives all began on 4 March of the year after the election. As Federal election dates standardized on 2-8 November, this meant a very long "lame- duck" period. A Congress (and all Representives) was...

  2. WI: Netherlands Hapsburgs?

    When Charles V passed his immense but unwieldy heritage to his successors in 1554-1558, he divided it between his brother Ferdinand and his son Philip. Ferdinand inherited Austria and its associated dominions. He also became the next Holy Roman Emperor (which had actually been decided many...

  3. AHC: "Name overlap" in US Presidential ticket

    Can you think of an even slightly plausible US Presidential ticket where the names of the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates overlap? Example: Rand Paul Ryan (Senator Rand Paul, Representative Paul Ryan). The only historical possibility I can think of would be Thomas Dewey Bartlett...

  4. TLIAD (sort of): U.S. doesn't quite get into WW II

    This will be quick and dirty - the details of the TL are less the point than the outcome and its possible effects. 1) March 1940 - Allies re-break Enigma two weeks sooner. 2) April 1940 - Warned by decrypts, the Allies smash the German invasion of Norway. 3) May-June 1940 - Germany stomps...

  5. Israel without the Mizrachim?

    Most Westerners (at least most Americans) think of Israel as a Jewish country, and when they think of Jews, they think of gefilte fish and Yiddish slang. That's because the vast majority of American Jews are Ashkenazim - descended from the Yiddish-speaking Jewry of eastern Europe. The Zionist...

  6. AHC: Maximum possible inheritance for Charles V

    The OTL inheritance of Chafles V was absurd enough. Multiple kingdosms, an entire continent overseas, and a swarm of bits and pieces scattered about Europe. Spain The West Indies Central America New Grenada Peru Sicily Sardinia Naples Milan Hungary Brabant Limburg Zeeland Holland Friesland...

  7. Walpole's "Regency"?

    In researching another post, I found that that the future George II was nearly KIA at Oudenarde in 1708 (horse killed under him). His son Frederick had been born in 1707. Assuming no other effects (Ha!) that means Frederick succeeds his grandfather George I in 1727 as a boy of 20. Walpole was...

  8. WI James II/VII had sons instead of daughters?

    This occurred to me when I realized that James' first wife, Anne Hyde, was the only British royal spouse-parent between Lord Darnley and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who was of British birth. And her blood died out of the royal line. So... WI James' children by her (Mary and Anne) were instead Martin...

  9. WI the U.S. legislative districts had names instead of numbers?

    In Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Turkey, and nearly all other democracies with election by district, the districts have names. In the U.S., districts have numbers. Seats are reapportioned and districts redrawn after each decennial Census. Sometimes the numbers stay about where they were...
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