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  1. AHC: Most Successful Possible Celts

    True, but with no Roman Empire to bar the way, many of those Anglo-Saxons might have migrated south rather than west. Also, don't historians now think that the first Saxons in Britannia were settled as feoderates of the Romans - which won't have happened TTL.

  2. AHC: Most Successful Possible Celts

    Poul Anderson did something like that in his Time Patrol story "Delenda Est". His PoD was Rome getting destroyed by Hannibal, but a surviving Alexander would probably do just as well. The Celts might be Hellenised to some degree, but Greek differs from Celtic far more than does Latin, so...

  3. AHC: Avoid Danish Invasion of England (1013)

    What's the scor Was there any other king available? I've seen assertions that there were male-line descendants of Ethelred I (Alfred's elder brother) but am unclear as to who they were.

  4. House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    Possible butterfly. If there is a sizeable British force serving with Gustavus Adolphus (iirc he had quite a few Scottish troops even OTL) the various units at Lutzen may be situated differently, and it is at least conceivable that the battle is fought a day or two earlier or later for some...

  5. WI: Annie Oakley accidentally kills Kaiser Wilhelm in 1890?

    There would certainly be no Kruger Telegram. IIRC, when Heinrich heard of it he asked "What idiot persuaded my brother to send that?"

  6. What if Alexander didn't try to invade India?

    There'd be at least one more. His other wife, Darius' daughter, was pregnant when he died, whereupon Roxana promptly killed her. I think I read somewhere that her foetus was male.

  7. What if Alexander didn't try to invade India?

    Not necessarily. His father Philip was also a heavy drinker yet lived a lot longer. Also, various of his generals - Pompey, Seleucus , Antigonus and (iirc) Craterus led equally eventful lives yet survived to their seventies or eighties. So if he avoids that arrow in the lung which he suffered...

  8. Good Vinland PODs?

    Perhaps Harald III comes out on top in 1066 and decides to assert his sovereignty over Iceland. As king of Norway *and* England, he might be strong enough to make it stick. Were this to cause thousands rather than hundreds to move west, Vinland might be in with a chance.

  9. What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    ...childless in the early 1610s (as did both his brothers OTL), and Saxony reverts to the Ernestine line under Johann Philip of Saxe-Altenburg, and *he* accepts it. You now have a Bohemian crown that includes the Electorate of Saxony - a state perhaps strong enough to compete with...

  10. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    ...the additional Congressmen and electoral votes to which Black suffrage entitled them. I agree that the disfranchisement of Freedmen didn't *have* to be as total as it became from the 1890s onward, but that would depend on the North not losing interest in the issue. Basically, in this area...

  11. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    Well, at the very least it removes one major obstacle to it. AIUI the Dems relied a lot on the "race card" to scupper the Populists.

  12. Most Implausible Tales of History

    And don't forget that ridiculous "Abraham Lincoln" legend. Born in poverty, rises to rule a nation, is way too good to be true, has his greatest triumph on Palm Sunday, only to be martyred on Good Friday. Obviously the invention of some national mythmaker blatantly plagiarising the New...

  13. Treaty of Sevres ratified in 1920- Does Turkey join the Axis in WW2?

    Has Armenia been absorbed into the SU? If so the Turks might indeed join in Barbarossa.

  14. Discussion: What was your first Alternate History idea?

    When I was around 14 or 15 I started a yarn where two time travellers went back to the Battle of Gettysburg and accidentally changed its outcome. Returning to their own time they found the Confederacy still existing and the map of Europe totally different. However I think that was as far as I...

  15. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    ...Lincoln will pay no attention to them unless they happen to coincide with his own. One amusing thought. Could Johnson actually be taken up by the *Radicals?* IIRC that initially some of them privately expressed the view that, given his talk about how traitors must be impoverished, he might...

  16. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    ...be farm labourers or at best sharecroppers, rather than owning land, and that any massive redistribution, such as Stevens wanted, almost certainly *is* ASB? . After all this is what Lincoln seems to have assumed in the EP, where he advises them "when allowed, to labour faithfully for...

  17. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    Further thought. He might also have pushed for Section 2 to include a proviso that anyone over 21 who had served in the Union Army or Navy should be entitled to vote regardless of race or colour. This would probably have satisfied most Republicans, before their battles with Johnson radicalised...

  18. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    ...by the 15th Amendment, and, later, that falling back on it would be too embarrassing a confession that the 15A was unenforceable. Such a proposal *was* included in their 1904 platform, but the Democratic landslide of 1910 made this impossible, and the 1920 redistricting was never made. So...

  19. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    ...it distinctly possible that the original one would have gone too far for Lincoln as well as Johnson. But Lincoln, unlike Johnson, almost certainly *would* have signed the later version. Incidentally, how much land would be involved? There's an article at...

  20. What if John Wilkes Booth trips

    Why would Lincoln want more radical measures? His big job now is to rebuild the Union. He'll do what he can for the Freedmen, but at the end of the day reconciling the South to reunion will have to come first. I quite agree that he'll sign the Civil Rights bill, and one version or the other of...
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