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  1. Marvel acquires rights to Aliens and Predator

    WI, in stead of Dark Horse Comics teaming up with DC Comics, it's Marvel that gets the deal. Haven't got a clue how to make this happen though. DC Comics was hampered by it's lack of heroes for the Predators to hunt. And they ended up only using Batman and Superman, whom they had to weaken...

  2. Fun with Belgian given names

    History sneeks up on you from all sides, doesn't it ... streetnames, holidays (on the 11th of november "why don't we have to work today ... wow, there were TWO world wars???" ... I've actually witnessed this), monuments and ... given names. Given Names? Sure, most given names look like this...

  3. Help needed, identifying short stories

    Ok, guys, I need your help. Two short stories have been running around in my brain and I simply must have their title (and author, if possible) or I'll go insane, travel back to 1939, kill Hitler, take over and conquer the world via an alternate operation sealion across the atlantic in rhine...

  4. WI No Darwin

    WI Darwin dies before he gets to publish his work. Since he left his work on the shelf for two decades, there is ample time for a fire to off both him and all his notes. Or 'better' yet, the Beagle sinks before he has a chance to get any of his findings out. Now, obviously, there were...

  5. Japan "gives" Nazi Germany 3 or 4 carriers

    Someone in Japan (the emperor, Yamamoto, hell, why not Tojo) has one too many bottles of sake and comes up with a somewhat hairbrained scheme. "suppose we give the Germans carriers and we train their pilots. Maybe they'll destroy the RN for us." When the idea is pitched to Hitler, the...

  6. Wonderful new world

    "Wonderfull new world" is the name of yet another man-made island project in the UAE. some info (other sources talk about a $4 billion dollars and a selling price of $30M ... btw that's a computer generated image ... construction is only about 15% along right now) Nothing new there, they've...

  7. Text Balloons

    How about an ATL that doesn't involve millions of people getting killed. What would it take to make text balloons in comic books an unknown in 2005. So, either no one ever thought about text being displayed like that or there once were two schools and the non-text balloon school won (and...

  8. American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

    So, I'm at the discount book fair checking out the depressingly small collection of English paperback (only ~150 titles!!!) and the theme seemed to be "books with dragons on the cover" so this one item stuck out "American Empire: The Victorious Opposition" and at a price of 1 EUR I was...

  9. title and writer of book needed

    this seems as good a place as any. I once read a SF book written by a Czech(oslowakian) I'd really like to know the title and/or the writer The title was the name of the ship the story centered on "invincible" or "courageous" or some such inspiring name. The ship is sent to investigate...

  10. some alternate freewheeling ... Limbourg

    OTL: There is a separatist movement active in the Belgian and Dutch provinces of Limbourg. Their goal is for the two provinces to break away from their respective mother countries and to join together into a new, independant country (preferably an EU member) When drunk, their leadership has...

  11. darkness descending questions

    This seems as good a place as any to ask. I picked up darkness descending from a bargain bin (or rather a bargain fest ... as in 80000 titles at bargain prices, but anyway ...) some stuff is not explained (probably cause it's been explained in previous books) so, here goes: - what has...

  12. Invasion of the flying monks

    saw this documentary on medieval life yesterday (BBC2 oh how I love thee) apparently, there was a monk in the 11th century who strapped a rudimentary delta wing to his back and jumped of the abby. He flew 200 yards and crashlanded breaking both legs. After the accident he told the abbot...

  13. Question: Germany vs USSR in WW2?

    suppose the UK folds in mid 1940 (for whatever reason) ... it's not occupied by the Germans but it is out of the war. suppose Germany never declares war on the US and the US only declares war on Japan we now have a straight up fight between Germany and the USSR on our hands. Do the Soviets...

  14. The Axis member that never was

    If we look at WWII, there really aren't that many (semi-)plausible ways to get the axis to win. The Germans were good at a lot of things but picking allies wasn't one of them. Now, if you look at the political map of the 20s and 30s there was a country which would have made an excelent ally...

  15. Spartacus wins (at least 1 more time)

    Last week, BBC put on the last of the current series of time commanders. It was Spartacus' last battle. The players did rather well, actually winning the battle (but loosing to much to survive the next two battles) Now, suppose Spartacus does like the contestants, only better. ISO...
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