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  1. JFK butterflied away. RFK runs in 1960

    I am in the process of reading a fascinating book that just came out.Lertzman, Richard A & Birnes, William J Dr Feelgood (2013) Skyhorse Publishing New York. It details how Dr. Marc Jacobson may well have altered US history from the time of the Kennedy Nixon debate by injecting JFK with a...

  2. Steppe History site new research resource

    While I was doing a bit of research on the Dzungars I ran across a "sister" site but dealing exclusively with factual history. Check out www.steppes@proboards.com The site is a discussion group exclusively about the history of the Eurasian steppes and attracts listmembers from steppe nations...

  3. Tsar Nicholas I dies in 1850

    It has been argued that Russia lost the Crimean War due to poor logistics. That if Russia had built railroads from St. Petersburg to Odessa and Vinnitsia and Sevastopol, the British would have not prevailed in the Crimean War; that poor logistics doomed Russia in the Crimean War. So what would...

  4. Nazis delay attack on West until after US elections

    I am just starting to read the history of the US mobilization for WWII. In 1939, the prevailing opinion in the US was that the New Deal had failed and that FDR was a lame duck. If the Nazis had been able to hold off on starting WWII for a few months (maybe as long as 14 months, FDR would almost...

  5. Steamboats catch on in early 1700s

    The steam engine for moving boats was not developed by Robert Fulton in the United States in 1814, but by Dennis Papen in 1690, 124 years earlier, as this article illustrates. Unfortunately, Dennis Papen had the bad luck to be short of funds and wound up developing his steam boat inland in...

  6. Mormon colony in Tierra del Fuego? Or elsewhere in North America besides Utah?

    I was reading the resurrected TL on a possible British colony in Tierra del Fuego. I found it illuminating because of the information of what the climate is actually like down there and the barriers to British interest in the place, ( I seem to recall that the British did try a colony near what...
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