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    Likely Candidates Against Nixon in '64

    I've been thinking about Nixon winning in 1960 a little bit recently, and I was wondering who would be the likely Democrats to run against him in 1964? I'm assuming that Nixon's term goes pretty much as most people expected it would have, stronger reaction against the Castro regime probably...
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    WI: OJ Commits Suicide

    When the warrant was put for his arrest, OJ Simpson was staying at Robert Kardashian's house. According to rumors which were later confirmed by Kardashian, OJ threatened to kill himself in young Kim's room. Kardashian managed to talk him out of it, clearly, and the trial would go on to live in...
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    WI: President Clay

    My question here is a pretty simple one, and just a quick idea that I had; what if Henry Clay won the Presidential election of 1844? He only narrowly lost to Polk, and the outcome could probably switch fairly easily, maybe with Tyler deciding to run with the party he considered creating which...
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    Socialist Santa?

    This is a hypothetical I came up with earlier, but do you think it is possible that in a US that became socialist/communist in the early 1900s (the details aren't really important to this), could somehow convert Christmas and specifically Santa into some "Socialist Holiday"? This is about the...
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    DBWI: Goldwater loses in '64

    We all know that Barry Goldwater defeated President Johnson in his 1964 re-election campaign, after Johnson's year in office collapsed around him. The Civil Rights Act failed making him appear weak to the liberals, yet at the same the effort to pass it opened the South up to Republican...
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    DBWI: Hamlin dropped from ticket?

    So apparently in 1864, Lincoln's re-election campaign seriously considered dropping Hannibal Hamlin from the ticket in favor of someone else. I think the idea behind it was to try and appeal to the south or something. But, as we know, Hamlin stayed and would later become President after Lincoln...
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    WI: Wilson for a third term?

    Before he had his stroke (and after), Woodrow Wilson wanted to pursue a third term for the Presidency. Coming off of WWI and a decently successful eight years, would the party line up behind him if he doesn't have a stroke and runs again? I think that they would (they did it with Bryan however...
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    Cities to replace Chicago?

    Chicago has grown so large mainly because of its relatively central location leading to it being a hub of transportation, as I understand it. So what cities could possibly take the place of Chicago to become one of the larger cities in the nation? Could the Twin Cities in Minnesota be it...
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    Our Fallen Heroes: The Story of an Alternate America
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Thanks to @SargentHawk for making the titlecard! Our Fallen Heroes: The Story of an Alternate America In 1783, the United States of America was still young, fresh out of a victory in the Revolutionary War. However, in that short two year span, the fledgling nation had already been tested. The...
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    WI: Churchill ousted in '52?

    What would it take for Winston Churchill to be ousted from the Premiership in the December of 1952, following the smog. Would Elizabeth ask him to step down in favor of Eden, or would Atlee's vote of no confidence throw the Conservatives from a majority? Or is there another option?
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    Nazi Names for Conquered Lands?

    Right now I'm working on a personal project, in which the world is dominated by fascists, one of which being the German Reich. In a world where they annexed everything from the modern Russian border to Germany, what would they call it? I assume that they would want to rename things to more...
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    Prime Minister Halifax?

    I'm not a frequenter of the post-1900 threads, so I'm not sure how common thins question is, but how likely is it, and what would happen, if Lord Halifax became the PM in 1940, rather than Churchill. Halifax had been in favor of appeasement before the invasion of Poland, and was widely expected...
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    Alternate Locations for D.C.

    I've been working on some ideas for an American TL with its POD in the 1780s, so before Washington DC was chosen to be the new capital. I know that I want a new city to be created to be the capital, but also want to avoid the real location if possible. My favorite location I've come up with is...
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    The Pilgrims Stay True?

    What would happen if rather than settle in Massachusetts like they did, the Pilgrims ship stayed true to their course and they landed in the Hudson River area? What would likely be the future of New England and the colonies as a whole?
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    Should I put my TL in here?

    I've got an idea for a more narrative-oriented TL that would stretch 950 years from 1066 to 2016. The only issue is that it's going to be about an imaginary Norman family. That's why I'm asking, should I put the TL in here, or in a different section since an imaginary family?
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    Potential Industrial Cities

    In the US, much of the growth of industry happened in the North. However, Virginia (which at the time I'm looking included West Virginia), has large supplies of coal and iron. What I'm trying to do is make Virginia more part of the north than part of the south, and to do that I think I need...
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    Native Crop Package

    I know that this appears on the thread all the time, but apparently there are crops from North America. I'm pulling up an old idea I had about Mound Builder cultures along the Mississippi developing fish-farming, to jumpstart a sedentary life-style, which leads to development and greater...
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    AHC: Surviving Britonia

    During the 5th and 6th centuries, several groups of Romano-Britons fled England, trying to escape the Anglo-Saxons. The most famous of these groups developed in the Bretons, and their Kingdom of Brittany, which was independent until 1532, and is now the modern French region of Bretagne. But...
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    AHC/WI: Greek Influenced Hungary

    I'm not exactly sure what this is, so I'm going to call it both; can you get the Kingdom of Hungary to be more influenced by the Byzantines (rather than say, the HRE as in OTL), and, if so, what would the consequences of this be? It can have any POD, but I assume it would be prior to Kings...
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    Jutish Language?

    What language did the early Jutes speak? Some sources say that they spoke a language similar to Old Saxon, while others say they spoke Old Norse, which is what I am hoping for. Does anyone actually know though?
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