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  1. Space Half Wank

    What if there is no "space race" in the first man into orbit, first man to land on moon sense? Say we just build a standard 90 ton solid rocket, 9 ton pressure fed monopropellant, and one ton payload module with only very small maneuvering capability cold gas jets? We still get LEO comsats and...

  2. Go In Peace, Wayward Sisters (no civil war)

    There was quite a bit of support for letting the CSA just leave, and then throwing Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia after them. Horace Greely was the editor that wrote the headline above. What if the CSA wasn't a scam? What if somebody wrote a book explaining why both sides would be better off...

  3. Ottoman Medium Power

    The Ottomans need to do six things between 1895 and 1945. 1. Monopolise cheap oil. 2. Avoid the Balkan wars and WWI, while acquiring emigrants for skills and connections and selling high priced oil. 3. Annex the British occupied parts of the Ottoman empire like Yemen, Kuwait, Oman, the...

  4. Disunited States by Turtledove

    Another of his Gunpowder Empire, Curious Notions, Friends in High Places, etc, series. Disunited States assumes no Constitution and the Articles of Confederacy falls apart, so California is the most advanced state, Ohio is a second rank state, and Virginia doesn't have the massive Federal...

  5. Indentured Child Immigrants After 1776

    Indentured adults were forbidden by the Articles and then the Constitution, but native children could still be indentured till 21. What if there was a loophole where you could indenture children till they were 21, or reached a certain development stage or height or weight? 1. Would the North...

  6. No Fall Of France In 1940

    The French send in recon teams to Luxemburg. The teams have very good long range telephoto equipment and lots of carrier pigeons. When the Germans move in, the pigeons fly out with microfilm of German units moving across the river. Even the French command wasn't stupid enough to ignore this and...

  7. Bigger Articles Of Confederation

    The colonies signed the Articles of Confederation after the ARW. Consider what would have happened if Benedict Arnold had been more successfull in his attack on Canada. GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, and DE are strong slave states. PA, NJ, NY are weak slave states, CT, MA, RI, VT, and NH are not...

  8. Premature Republican President, Successfull Secession

    If the Know-Nothing candidate (Millard Fillmore) was caught in bed with a girl, two boys, and a sheep, causing Fremont to win the election in 1856, what are the likely first order results? 1. No Republican majority, even in a Congress and Senate without the Southern representatives. 2. No...

  9. No Civil War

    Hmmm.... This time we'll have the Republicans select a Missouri politician as the candidate. The guy gets Missouri a bare Republican majority. When the Confederate states secede, Missouri stays in the Union by a very close vote. Then the Republicans outlaw slavery after the southern...

  10. ACW AH written before the ACW

    Edmund Ruffin wrote "Anticipations of the Future in 1860, and Beverly Tucker wrote this one, below, in 1836. http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/tucker/tucker.html

  11. Arabs Are Pro Zionist

    My POD is the Armenian massacres. Let's say that somebody is visiting relatives and get's caught up in the troubles. They are making a photographic tour of their town and take several hundred photographs of their relatives and neighbors. They leave town for a week and come back after the...

  12. Earlier Gunpowder and Earlier Coal Mining

    If the Romans start mining coal and other minerals because gunpowder makes blasting easier, global warming will kick in earlier and we'll get some changes. Higher sea levels will give us 1. Suez Straits, for easier travel to India and the Far East. 2. Karelian Straits, for easier travel along...

  13. Debs Wins In 1912

    In 1912 the Republicans split between the Big Business and Reform candidacies of Taft and Roosevelt. Wilson won in OTL. What if Debs won because Wilson got caught doing something stupid and the Urban democrats went for Debs? Perhaps not Debs, someone more moderate? Without any significant...

  14. Gunpowder Empire

    I'm thinking more about Turtledove's Rome with gunpowder YA interdimensional travel series. I am assuming that Rome would have continued as a slave based agricultural empire and not built steam engines and railroads and such. Gunpowder reduces the cost of mining, then mining requires that you...

  15. Yet Another No UK WWI

    POD is the Italian attack on Turkey. This time the Italians don't make peace till the Balkans launch their attack, so that Turkey is worse off than in OTL. Considering that Turkey in Europe was reduced to Istanbul and had five armies outside the walls in OTL, that's saying a lot...

  16. Greater Korea

    A Korean ship gets blown off course and winds up in British Columbia. They cut down a tree for a mast and go home, bearing mention of gold and furs. Later expeditions contact the Andean civilisations and bring back potatos, etc. The natives adapt to them sufficiently to defend themselves from...

  17. Velvet Civil War, Phase Three, 1863

    Britain can't restrain itself form harrassing USA shipping and two weeks later Canada is in the USA, except for Halifax, off the rail lines. The USA has built up it's rail stock in contemplation of a war and promptly extends it's railroad to Halifax over the summer and fall of 1863. There's lots...

  18. Velvet Civil War, Phase Two, 1863.

    The Slave states are now the CSA, even though they have the original capital between Maryland and Virginia, and the original constitution. No one wants the war they have spent the last two years preparing for because each side can see the preparations the other has made and knows the price that...

  19. the Velvet Civil War

    The Velvet Revolution and Velvet Divorce were the Czech government changes when they left the Warsaw Pact and when Czechia split off from Slovakia. This is the equivalent for the USA/CSA. Assume that Lincoln wins a few less electoral votes as the POD, the election goes to the House, and nobody...

  20. Flashman On The March-Fraser

    Flashman in the attack on Ethiopia. Funny, interesting, etc. He makes a point that slavery was eradicated by a bunch of underpaid, underoccupied, undermanaged, British soldiers and sailors who did it for the hell of it.
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