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  1. Another "should never have entered service" thread- Ships

    We have aircraft, tanks, why not ships? This also has the advantage of a longer period to look at. So, here are some... Napoleonic War: Nuestra Senora de la Santisima Trinidad- the ridiculous four-decker 140-gun Spanish ship of the line (aka El Ponderoso), which was so slow and unwieldy that...

  2. Shakespeare's Queen Mary?

    IOTL, the latest, in terms of setting, of Shakespeare's "history plays" is the seldom-performed Henry VIII. Could he have written a play about the reign of Queen Mary? Possibly he'd have to live a bit longer to avoid any problems with the "Spanish Match", but it would be interesting if he had...

  3. No 25th Amendment?

    POD: After Kennedy is assassinated, no-one sees any need to change the rules for the Presidential succession, as 8 Presidents have died in office and been replaced by their VPs, and the country has managed perfectly well with no Vice-President. As in OTL, Johnson serves out Kennedy's term with...

  4. Monarchic US states?

    WI the US constitution did not "guarantee to each state a republican form of governance"? Instead, either there is no mention of the form of government of the states, or simply a guarantee that the government of a state should be representative- still allowing constitutional monarchies. Could we...

  5. Plato's Academy survives

    IOTL, Plato's Academy at Athens was forcibly closed down in the 6th century by Justinian, as Athens was still a hotbed of paganism. Now, a pagan academy surviving to the present day would be ASB- the later Byzantines wouldn't allow it. So WI, instead, the Academy is Christianised, at least on...

  6. UN seats for US states

    Forked from this thread Obviously, we assume the compromise- otherwise, considering the relatively small number of countries at that point, the General Assembly becomes a US rubber-stamp. So, 2 US states are given UN votes. Firstly, how does this work? Does the US as a whole get 3 votes, or...

  7. The Apostolic Church

    The two sides of the 1065 schism call themselves (in full) the Apostolic Catholic Church and the Orthodox Catholic Church. What would it take for the Western Church to be called "Apostolic" not "Catholic" which can refer to both?

  8. Things that make you think you're in ATL

    Have you ever had the experience of seeing something that made you think you're in an alternate universe? It could be a newspaper headline, somebody wearing unusual clothes, a special event, or anything. For example, I was in a national park in the western US last year when I saw some Indians...

  9. Aerial refuelling in WW2

    Mid-air refueling existed since 1923. If it had been widely used during WW2, how much of a difference would it make, and where? Discuss.

  10. Schicklgruber?

    WI Adolf's father had not changed his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler? Would he have had trouble getting elected? Heil Schicklgruber doesn't quite have that ring to it...

  11. A Nuclear Ukraine

    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a large number (thousands) of nuclear warheads were left in Ukraine. The Ukrainians soon gave them back to Russia due to international pressure. What would have happened if they had refused?

  12. DBWI- what if Metropolitan Djugashvili had embraced Marxism?

    We all know that Metropolitan Iosif Djugashvili was born in a small Georgian village, got a scholarship to a seminary in Tbilisi, and later became perhaps the most famous Orthodox prelate ever, uniting the Orthodox churches and spearheading a return to Constantinople. However, it is less well...
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