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  1. Osakadave

    WI: James Connolly was not executed

    A friend who's not big into AH asked earlier today what might have happened had James Connolly not been executed in the immediate aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising. (One of the suggestions was "32 county Republic Gaelic and free!", hence the reference to that in my reply.) My reply: It's...
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    World Opinion of the Atomic Bombing if Used on Germany

    The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hirsoshima and Nagasaki has just passed, and, as always, there was a slew of opinions on whether tjey were justified. (Please take any discussion of that elsewhere! It's off topic.) In talking with someone earlier today, I wondered what they'd have...
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    AHC/PC/WI: Swap Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf's later careers...

    Powell and Schwarzkopf were roughly at similar spots in 1986 - both were Lt. Generals commanding V Corps and I Corps respectively. So, with a POD no earlier than that, and preferably at least mid-1987 or later... 1) Is it plausable to have Powell go on to be the commander of CentCom and be in...
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    WI: The Tanker War Gets Worse

    In 1987-8, the US and Iran had a series of rather minor kerfluffels that were mostly a side show to the Iran-Iraq War. Right around the same time, the 1987 Mecca Massacre happened, where several hundred Iranian Hajji pilgrims got killed. So, what if... 1) On 8/24, rather than the SS Bridgeton...
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    WI: Jerry Garcia or Bob Weir fatally electrocuted on stage at Woodstock

    Both Garcia and Weir recieved electrical shocks on stage at Woodstock. What might have happened if one of them got killed. Note that it's happened - for example Les Harvey.
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    AHC/WI: African Unitarian Universalism

    Came across this piece tonight and it has me wondering. https://www.uuworld.org/articles/why-martin-luther-king-jr.-wasnt-uu According to the author, both Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King attended Unitaroan churches at times and considered becoming Unitarians, but decided not to...
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    WI: Students from Little Rock Nine Lynched

    Listening to a radio interview right now with Melba Patillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine. She mentions several occassions where mobs nearly lynched them. Probably the closest call was the first day (Sept. 4, 1957) when a mob chased her with ropes, intending to lynch her and her mother...
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    WI: President Dan Quayle

    Lets say that Bush Sr's part in the Iran-Contra scandal gets clearly exposed early(ish) in his presidency and gets impeached or (more likely if impeachment looks probable) resigns, leaving us with Dan Quayle - one of the most ridiculed and gaffe prone VPs we've seen - as POTUS. What happens?
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    Some Very Bad Years (1989 and beyond)

    This is partly inspired by one of my all time fave TLs, @Mad Bad Rabbit's "A Very Bad Year (1973): Pt. 1", as well as a recent AHC post. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."...
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    Plausability Check: Taliban cooperation with the US after 9/11

    Even before 9/11, there were those in the Taliban government who wanted to "resolve" the OBL issue, and there had been several attempts to negotiate some solution, generally met with intransigenceon both sides. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/09/20119115334167663.html...
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    WI: The Day the Music Died, Elvis version (April 13, 1956)

    Looking up sonething for the current Elvis lives thread, I found an interesting tidbit - on April 13, 1956, Elvis almost died in a plane crash. http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/elvis-presley-1956.html Note that this happens after he records "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Blue Suede Shoes" but...
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    Environmentalism and Climate Change in an Axis Victory Scenario

    I was thinking this morning that I don't remember seeing anything dealing specifically with environmentalism or climate change in Axis victory scenarios. So, in a generic Axis victory, TL, how would environmental issues,and in particular global climate change, be dealt with? OTL, a lot of...
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    WI: No "Lawrence Welk Show"

    For the younguns and non-USAmericans among us, The Lawrence Welk Show was one of (if not the) longest running music/variety TV shows in the US. Running from the mid 1950s until the early 1980s, it featured some skilled, if cheesy and old fashioned, music acts (mostly big band pop) and was hosted...
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    Sesame Street WI: Badly (?) handling David's departure

    I just ran across a bit I didn't know that reminded me of the recent WI Mr. Hooper's death was badly handled thread. Northern Calloway, the actor who portrayed the character David from 1971 until 1989, had very serious mental issues that led to his dismissal from the show. So, what if, after...
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    The Wildest of the Wild West - The Las Vegas Plaza Gunfight
    Threadmarks: Murder at Brunckow's Cabin

    "The fifth murder victim, Ed Schieffelin was a strange character, described by one writer as "tall and gangly, wearing a mix-match of buckskin and flannel, and with wild matted hair and beard, such that he appeared almost more a wild animal than a man". An Indian scout as well as a prospector...
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    AHC: Russia is Red, The East is Black - Marxist Russia, Anarchist China

    Your challenge is to have Marxists come to power power in Russia but not in China - instead have anarchists in power in China. Changing the details Russian revolution is okay, doing away with it is not. A 20th C POD is preferable, but I'm okay with fudging that a few years.
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    AHC/WI: Red and Black remain united

    "Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!" Otto Von Bismark, 1872 Pretty much what it says on the tin - prevent the Marxist-Anarchist split. Would an earlier death of one of the primaries, Bakunin or Marx do it? Or would it require a...
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    No Meth = no Blitz?

    Came across this interesting book review/interview today: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview I knew Hitler was infamously a druggie, but of particular interest was this passage: "...the invasion of France was made possible...
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    PC/WI: Anglo-Russian War between 1870 and 1890

    I've thought off and on about doing a TL based on the idea of no Alaska Purchase leading to a British Alaska. One of the primary motivations for Russia's sale of Alaska was the fear that they would loose it to either the US or the British. Usually, when the question of no Alaska purchase is...
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    Culinary AH ideas...

    I've seen a fair number of WI or AHC threads about foodways or particular cuisines (especially fast food), and the odd passing mention of a few culinary stars in TLs. But I don't think I've ever seen an actual WI or TL dedicated to the culinary field. I may very well have missed one along the...
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