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  1. Earlier Proof of Rogue Waves

    For centuries, mariners have reported the existence of deep water monster waves reaching to 100 feet in height or more. These reports were dismissed by the scientific community as myths due to the Linear Model (used to predict wave height) that said a 100-ft wave could occur only once in 10,000...

  2. The Day the Music Lived

    POD: Feb 3, 1959 Pretty straight-forward - rather than crashing and killing everyone on board, the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper lands safely. What now? My impression is that of the three, Buddy Holly was the biggest name, and perhaps gives Elvis a run for his...

  3. Best link for why Sealion wouldn't work

    Can someone please provide a link to a summarized discussion of why sealion would not have worked?

  4. HMS Warspite at Pearl Harbor

    Hello All, So I just read a brief history of the HMS Warspite. It turned out that from August of 1941 to December of 1941, she at the Bremerton Naval Yard in Washington State, USA, having an extensive refit. She was there on Dec 7th. After the refit, she departed for Ceylon to join the RN...

  5. Poker WI - Doyle Brunson not hurt

    OK - time for a poker WI. Doyle Brunson is a living legend in the poker world - the grand old man of poker, who's won millions and is credited with bringing Texas Hold 'em to the mainstream of the poker world. What many people don't know is that Brunson in his youth was an amazing athlete...

  6. Stalin Dies, January 1945

    As title says - Stalin dies in January of 1945. Let's make the death accidental - he chokes to death or somesuch - and the Soviet Union is leaderless. What next?

  7. Boll weevil 50 years earlier

    The Boll Weevil is a beetle that destroys cotton. In OTL, it arrived in the USA in 1892, and by 1915 had migrated throughtout the South. In the 1970s, the technology to combat the Boll Weevil had been developed, and the South's cotton industry recovered. So, POD - the Boll Weevil makes it to...

  8. Independent Kurdistan

    In 2003, the US invaded Iraq. Turkey denied the transit of the US 4th ID to attack from the north. While opposed to that war, I was at the time angered by this, and remember a friend (who just out of the military at the time) saying something like: Thank you Turkey, for your outstanding...

  9. OOC - British BBs vs US BBs in 1940-1942

    OK - presume US-UK conflict. Who wins the following in 1940: USS Arizona, USS California, USS Arkansas and USS Maryland vs HMS Warspite, HMS Nelson, HMS Royal Oak and HMS Renown. Presume no airpower. However, do take into account normal escorts. What about this in 1942: USS North...

  10. A Worse WWII...

    Any interest? These are snippets of a TL I'm working on... September 4th 1940 150 miles West of Bordeaux, France. The lad from communications stuttered – Halsey supposed her couldn’t blame him. “Sir – the Navy Department just sent a message. They’ve done it sir!”...

  11. Hitler buys Anticosti Island

    OK - just read this gem off Wikipedia about Anticosti Island, a large island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: "In 1937, the government of Nazi Germany, led at the time by Adolf Hitler, tried unsuccessfully to buy the island. Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King became involved, and...

  12. Emory Upton Lives!

    Emory Upton was a 19th Century US Army officer who was very influential in the area of Army tactics - he has been called the US Army's equivilent of Mahan. In OTL, he died in 1881 at the age of 42 of suicide - he suffered from tremendous headaches perhaps caused by a brain tumor. OK - easy...

  13. Reds win Finnish Civil War

    OK - not an expert - so bear with me. 1. Is this ASB? 2. Should the Reds win, what would Finland's relationship with the USSR be? 3. How does WWII play out? Mike Turcotte

  14. IJN Yamato - A different fate

    OK, we all know what happened to IJN YAMATO in OTL - it sailed for Okinawa in April of 1945 and got blown out of the water. Operation ten-go IIRC. OK, so let's change that. POD: The Japanese High Command decides to save the YAMATO for the actual invasion of Japan, rather than Okinawa. The...

  15. Challenge: Make Vito Marcantonio POTUS

    Says it all. Useful Idiot, and you can butterfly away his heart attack if you want.

  16. Alternate Settling Accounts

    All, Let's change Turtledove's books a bit. My POD (and yes, I feel silly having a 'POD' for a fictional novel, but hey) is that Daniel MacArthur dies in a car accident in 1925. The butterflies from this are minor, but have a big impact. Morrell is listened to more at the War...

  17. Stalin anticipated Barbarossa

    OK, so I don't know if this requires a brain transplant or not...but WI starting on about May 15th or so in 1941, Stalin believes all the reports that are coming in, and realizes the Germans really, really are coming for the USSR. Hoping against hope, Stalin does not authorize a spoling...

  18. AH Challenge - Conquer/Contain the USA!

    OK, here's a challenge: With a POD no earlier than Nov 11, 1918, conquer or contain the USA by 1950. Rules: 1. No natural catastrophes; i.e. no asteroids hitting Nebraska, no plagues of zombies running amok in Chicago, no aliens landing in New York. 2. The United States must be largely as...

  19. Woodrow Wilson dies - 1918

    In OTL, on October 2, 1919, Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke. Let's move that up a year - to October 2, 1918, and have it kill him. Thomas Marshall becomes US President. How does this affect Versailles? Does the League or Nations gets formed, does the US join? Mike Turcotte

  20. A different July 20th 1944...

    POD - July 20th 1944. Von Stauffenberg boards a plane to fly to the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia to assassinate Hitler. The flight runs into mechanical difficulties and crashes. Stauffenberg and all aboard are killed. The bomb in Stauffenberg's briefcase detonates upon the impact of the...
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