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  1. For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
    Threadmarks: The World in 2020

    Hello all, The endeavour for this TL started back in 2013, when after the abandonment of my Ross Perot TL, I searched for the ideas of my fellow members of Alternatehistory.com in redacting a new timeline - Having Archduke Franz Ferdinand survive his fateful trip to Sarajevo on June, 28 1914...

  2. The Long Twentieth Century : a Franz Ferdinand Lives TL

    MID-YEAR EXAMINATION 2018-2019 SESSION DARTMOUTH COLLEGE MODERN HISTORY Q&A SUBJECT - EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Duration : 4 hours 1) THE FIRST GREAT EUROPEAN WAR What was the Megali Idea ? List the reasons behind the neutrality of different European countries during GEWI. “All quiet...

  3. No Mussolini ?

    Let's imagine that Benito Mussolini is killed during WW1 and, as a result, he's not there to structure the fascist movement. What happens next, in 1922, around the time of the Biennio Rosso ? Does another far right movement emerges in Italy ? Does the military takes power ? Does someone else...

  4. DBWI : What's your favorite Stanley Lieber novel ?

    As you all know, American novelist Stanley M. Lieber, 95, Nobel Prize for Literature, died today in Los Angeles. He's among the best known American novelists, in the likes of Philip Roth or Toni Morrisson, or F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway before. In his youth, he had always wanted to...

  5. DBWI : George Romero worked in the horror genre ?

    World-renowned director and Academy Award winner George Romero died yesterday at 77, in Toronto, Canada, following a "brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer". For those of you who are not cinephiles, George Romero is considered one of the best filmmakers regarding the description of the...

  6. Which TL should I do, after A Giant Sucking Sound ?

    Hello all, If some can remember me, my name is Masked Pickle, a French journalist who had his bit with fame with writing from 2011 to 2012 "A Giant Sucking Sound", an alternate history that imagined the consequences of the election of Ross Perot to the US presidency in 1992, with all its...

  7. For Want Of A Sandwich - Franz Ferdinand lives TL

    Welcome to this new project of mine, which I hope I will take up to an alternate present day, taking on a point of divergence that reached its hundredth anniversary this year: what if Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, hadn't been assassinated in Sarajevo...

  8. WI: The Red Army had won the Battle of Warsaw?

    I just went back from Poland, and I was wondering about possible PODs in Polish history. The 1920 Battle of Warsaw comes to mind: against all odds, Pilsudski's Polish army managed to defeat the Red Army. What if it went differently, and Poland felt into the Soviet sphere in 1920? Western...

  9. Straight out of development hell - An alternate history of cinema

    One has witnessed the evident rise of cultural timelines on the AlternateHistory forums. I was delighted to see this : as a Frenchman, I must admit that in order to make my stand in these boards, I had to comply with the then-ongoing trend, centered on American politics. As I’m passionate of...

  10. 70s cast for Lord of The Rings

    Wondering, for a future project, about John Boorman's attempt on Lord of the Rings: who could constitute the cast of a British Movie adaptation with, should. D Say, Fellowship of the Ring in 1973, Two Towers in 1976 and Return of the King in 1979? The cast must be as British as possible, with...

  11. DBWI: No President Khil

    I wonder what would have happened if former Russian President Eduard Khil, who died on June, 4 this year, had decided not to quit his singing career and never entering politics.

  12. Let's broaden our minds - Cultural mini-TLs

    Okay, guys, in order to take some breath from my Perot TL, I have decided to open this thread, that is conceived as being for collective works. If you want to post them here, it's okay. All kinds of arts will be addressed: literature, music, cinema, theater, webseries, TV shows, comics, and so...

  13. DBWI: Fmr. Pres. Kevin White has passed away

    It is on the news: Former President of the United States Kevin White, from Massachusetts, has just passed away. He had been dealing with Alzheimer, ear impairing and a pacemaker for years. What is your thoughts about him and his legacy? OOC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_White_%28mayor%29

  14. AH Challenge: Alternate castings for Star Wars released in canonical order

    Okay, as we all know, the Star Wars saga was filmed and released in an order different than the canonical one: Episodes IV to VI were released from 1977 to 1983, and Episodes I to III from 1999 to 2005. Let's imagine, without any regard to the writing process that was unaware of the prequel...

  15. Alternate presidential cabinets

    Please post there your coherent and possible presidential cabinets throughout US history.

  16. A Giant Sucking Sound: a President Perot TL

    FOREWORD A foreword is not always convenient. To quote Karl Marx, « famous last words are for people who didn’t have enough time to express themselves ». I will certainly not have enough time to explain myself. The figure of Ross Perot has always interested me, for he had a somewhat...

  17. What if OTL First Ladies became President

    Hillary Clinton has been so far the only First Lady to run for the presidency, but what if others like her, even if they hadn't pursued politics IOTL, managed to enter politics and eventually go to the Presidency? Would their opinions and ideologies be different from their husbands'? Would they...

  18. The Perot Presidency and party

    According to you, if Perot had managed to win the 1992 presidential election, would he have managed to constitute a political base, recruiting Governors, Senators and Representatives? Which prominent politicians of these times would have joined his new party (Reform or else, I don't know)? What...

  19. AH Challenge: La Follette elected in 1924

    While I was thinking about one of my TL projets, I just wondered how the rural-oriented Progressive Party of 1924, led by La Follette, Sr. and Wheeler, could have won the election. I have thought about Coolidge not running because of an earlier death of his son (and who would replace him?) or...

  20. Runoff - For a new TL

    So, let's for a runoff for the TLs I'm contemplating. 1.Standing at Armageddon: TR in 1908 Theodore Roosevelt, instead of endorsing Secretary of War Taft, decides to break the Washington Tradition and run for his own succession in 1908... I'm currently preparing this TL. 2. The Dead...
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