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  1. What if the 20th July Plotters escaped Germany?

    And Angela Merkel won 35 percent of the vote in 2005, 33 in 2009, 32 in 2017, was she illegitimate? In july and November 32 the Nazis won a perfectly reasonable majority by any standard parliamentary system in Europe at the time and today. To claim Hitler was never elected is to be technically...

  2. Rank the Normandy Beach landings by difficulty

    Most difficult to achieve the stated objective of establishing a beachhead, which, necessarily, would include elements of all those things

  3. Rank the Normandy Beach landings by difficulty

    I don't think I've ever seen it put in quite this manner. Obviously people discuss the landings themselves and how difficult they were but an actual discussion of the easiest to hardest not so much. Practically everyone agrees Omaha was the hardest, but is there a consensus on the easiest...

  4. World Wars pre 1914?

    There are a lot of contenders for the title, Seven Years wars is one, or the war off Austrian Succession gets mentioned as well.

  5. World Wars pre 1914?

    Some historians have argued that the Napoleonic Wars, among others could be classified as early World Wars. What are some potential conflicts that could have broken out that could meet the threshold for a global conflict?

  6. Something Serious Has Happened on Air Force One (a Tl/story by Geon)

    Seratov is going to wake up with two bullets in his head for that breach if it gets out.

  7. Alternate celebrity politicians?

    Jerry Lawler did run for Mayor of Memphis which would be funny if he won.

  8. Gore doesn't run in 2000

    Dunno if that is true. Anyone else running probably wouldn't make his mistakes like distancing himself from Clinton.

  9. Gore doesn't run in 2000

    Don't think I've ever seen this possibility discussed before so I'd thought to give it a shot.. Let's say Gore has some severe accident that he'll eventually recover from but prevents him from running in 2000 as Clinton's successor. Obviously this leaves the Democratic primary wide open since...

  10. If John Lennon had lived?

    The claim that Lennon liked Reagan is a claim made by one guy with rather suspicious timing, and several people disagree.

  11. AHC: A comic book "Big 3" -- Which company could legitimately rival Marvel and DC?

    I could see this happening. I've sometimes thought of doing a best of all possible world for comics TL where EC stays in business and is popular and as a result the earlier diversity in comics we saw (Both Marvel and DC had non superhero stuff in the early days) results in comics being more...

  12. AHC: A comic book "Big 3" -- Which company could legitimately rival Marvel and DC?

    Best chance is no Seduction of the Innocent so EC Comics maintains its horror/mystery vibes

  13. WI: Ford doesn't pardon Nixon

    Could Ford win the Republican primary if he doesn't? Keep in mind the right was pissed over Nixon and believed him a wrongly persecuted man, driven out of office. Reagan very nearly came close to beating Ford OTL, this might push him over the top.

  14. Consensus on major events of an 8-year JFK presidency

    JFK suffered from Addison's disease and had a bad back that caused him considerable pain

  15. WI: Nixon commits suicide during Watergate

    Reagan would be to old by 84

  16. WI: Nixon commits suicide during Watergate

    I'd bet on yes, there's no way Reagan is going to run against Ford while he carries the mantle of a dead president, this would unite the GOP to him and despite Watergate, Nixon would still attract enough of a sympathy vote for Ford to win.

  17. WI: Nixon commits suicide during Watergate

    (Yes I got this idea from recent posts at the fantastic Richard Nixon twitter account.) During Watergate Nixon was heavily depressed and frequently drunk and many around him feared that the President may take his own life. Indeed in August of '74 Alexander Haig heard him mutter "You fellows, in...

  18. WI Chris Benoit only kills himself?

    Might end up the best of all possible worlds here, as one of the few things to come out of it was that WWE and wrestling actually started to care about the health of there wrestlers after it. If Benoit kills himself and leaves a note blaming it on concussions then that could lead to that without...

  19. WI: Elvis doesn't become a lounge singer?

    The point is with a better manager Elvis probably wouldn't be so exclusive to Vegas and tour outside the U.S.

  20. WI: Elvis doesn't become a lounge singer?

    Nearly all of Elvis's problems can be changed or curbed if he just had dumped his horrible manager.
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