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FBKampfer
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A daring story of what might have happened if computers had remained too expensive for the common man, through deliberate price control. In the alternate United States, the birth place of the modern computer as we know it, the divide has grown greater between upper and lower class. Amid simmering racial tension, and fueled by both resentment, and unusually profound moral compass, the new political generation will take desperate action to bridge the gap, and spread the greatest power the world has seen since the splitting of the atom. The home computer.
The Raid on Houston
The Raid on Houston
A WWIII timeline, where in 1961 newly elected President Kennedy and his cabinet are obliterated during a visit in Houston by a Pearl Harbor-like Cuban (with Soviet support) attack. Featuring an hardliner coup in Moscow, American presidential succession crisis and a very red Latin America.
The Reich strikes back
(I know that the OP did probably want a Nazi-themed reply...)
World War I is started with French and Russian surprise attacks in which they took most western states of the German Empire and the eastern half of Prussia up to the Oder. But then Germany after allying themselves with both Great Britain and the US strikes back. Not even a year after the start of the war it was over. The Russian army in shambles and the country itself on the verge of a revolution and land conquered in the west in the last two centuries gained their independence. France lost most of its colonies to Great Britain and Germany and also lost Savoy to Italy and Brittany and Corsica to independence.
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The Nude Society
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Men Fight, Women Preach
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The Twin Empress of Germany
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"Remember Queen Christina!"
The PoD is that Christina didn't execute Arnold Johan Messenius, instead, taking his advise and become less wasteful. The Abdication was butterflied as a result.
The story begins in 1655, when A war was declared by Sweden in support of Russia when Poland was invaded by russians. Which turned out to be success by conquering over half of Poland.. But Queen Christina had been killed when Polish Partisans have assassinated her in poland. And Charles X Gustav was coronated. Russia declared war on Sweden over Polish independence. After sweden won in battle of Warsaw in 1655, the peace was established. And Poland will be annexed to Sweden.
It is revealed in epilogue that Poland will not become independent until 18th century.
Rise of the Raiders: An NFL TL.
A lion is Sated.
A interesting TL where the British did not expand their Empire much save for the US and parts of India. This has knock on effects for world culture as Canada is French, Africa is divided up between Spain and France (and some German), and India is divided between the French and natives. China is not humiliated and the Boxer Rebellion never happens, and the Ming dynasty rules the Empire to this day, albeit with a pseudo-Parliamentary system. Germany rises eventually to be the power player in Europe after humiliating France in numerous wars and slowly consolidating the French colonies into their own. In the end German is the most spoken language, soon followed by Spanish then French. It is considered a bit of a Germanywank but nothing to egregious. Achieved moderate success and the author speaks of a sequel soon.
Lies, Trickery and Skullduggery: Electric Boogaloo
The TL deals with the intelligience TL during July crisis. Although in this TL the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand is averted by Austrian Intelligience, preventing the WW1. This results afterwards, the trickery part comes in that officially in peace, yet in covertly, a war went on.A cold war.
This TL would also feature Mata Hari, who, as the underground spy, carried out her carrier. But is arrested in 1919.
Revolution four: Trotskyist DPRK
Revolution One: Change of Dynasty (역성혁명/Yeogseonghyeogmyeong). Yi Sun-sin survived the battle of Noryang. He was conferred the title of 개국공/Gaeguggong, or duke the (re)builder of the nation, making him and his family on par with Silla's Gim Yu-sin in terms of power and prestige. He bore one more son before he died of old age. In the following decades, successive Gaeguggongs (that is, the Yi family) assumed more and more political power. Until and descendant of the admiral assumed the throne in a coup shortly before the Later Jin Invasion of Joseon, in a manner similar to the founding of Joseon Dynasty. A new dynasty was established, called the Daehan Dynasty*. The Daehan allied themselves with the Jurchens (or at least kept neutral in circumstances), thus sparing the country from Later Jin and Qing invasions, even securing some land north of Tumen River. The new Daehan court carried out far-reaching reforms, including abolishing some Yangban privileges, liberating the untouchables, lifting restrictions on Buddhism, introducing new world crops, and combining the land tax with the toll tax to encourage population growth. The military was also reformed along Jurchen and Portuguese lines. As the result of these reforms, the Daehan Dynasty entered a new phase of economic and population growth.
The rise in strength of the Daehan State alarmed the Qing Court, who tried much harder to keep Manchuria populated (as contrasted to its OTL depopulation). A few skirmishes broke out, but Daehan troops held out with the help of their Portuguese drill and weapons.
Revolution Two: Gwangmu Rejuvenation (광무유신/Gwangmuyusin). Born out of a naval tradition, the Daehan Dynasty was initially quite extrovert and mercantile. Korean trade ships traveled back and forth between ports as far as Batavia, Manila, Guangzhou, Tainan and Incheon, which flourished. However, the trade was strictly state-controlled, and subjected to political whims of the Kings. So, although Korea was never as cut-off from the rest of the world as IOTL, it still took a full scale naval defeat on the hands of the French to serve as a wake-up call to alarm the Daehan Dynasty into a full-scale reform. A new prince was effectively hailed as king by revolting peasants in 1866, who were angered by heavy taxes and inspired by egalitarian ideas derived from Catholicism. The revolt was called the 서학/Seohak (Western Learning) Rebellion.
After assuming the throne, the new prince adopted the Era Name Gwangmu, and purged the ranks of the Seohak Rebels who made him King. Reform measures initiated by the King included opening the parliament, westernizing the Army and Navy, total abolition of the Yangban system, building a railroad, reforming the law system, introduction of western industries, and setting up universities. the Gwangmu Rejuvenation happened concurrently to the Meiji Restoration, and the two countries competed against each other, descending into an arms race. To make himself on par with the monarchs of Japan and China, Gwangmu made himself an emperor, and Korea an Empire.
The two nations competed in building up their ironclad fleets, and then for colonies in Southeast Asia. A combined Korea Japanese army marched on Peking in the 1880s, and within decades a reforming Qing build a railroad from Peking to Liaoning, and then to Sinuiju, linking up with Korea railways.
Wisely, Korea chose to invest in its fleets, other than colonizing Manchuria as suggested by some ministers. This contributed to the victory in the Naval Battle of the East Sea in 1905. After the battle, Korea took over Japanese holdings in Luzon, Borneo, Taiwan and Ryukyu.
Revolution Three: The Communist Revolution (공산혁명/Gongsanhyeogmyeong). After WWI, Korea sent an army into Russian Siberia. The army was heavily influenced by communist ideas, and had to be pulled back to Korea in batches, which only exposed more men to revolutionary ideas. Back then, Korea was a country suffering under the full impact of industrial revolution, with workers living in slums and working up to 18 hours a day. Communist officers tried a coup in 1922, which failed.
Revolution four: Trotskyist DPRK In 1927, Leon Trotsky fled to Korea, he was given a grand reception, by a government hoping to discredit the Bolsheviks by exposing its infighting, and then sent off to Mexico, where he was murdered as per OTL. However, this made it fashionable for Korea radicals to name their own groups "Trotskyites", which distanced themselves from Russia and Stalinism. Two years later, it's the Great Depression, and such groups sprung up like wild fire.
The government tried to distract internal discords by starting island disputes and colonial conflicts with Japan, this only backfired. in 1937, Korean and Japanese troops fighting in Mindanao broke a truce with each other, drank wine, singing revolutionary songs together (Japanese, Korean). In high spirit, Some junior Japanese officers declared a "Japanese People's Republic" while Korean officers declared a "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". Prime minister Syngman Rhee was forced to sent tanks to Mindanao and rotated troops back to Korea. However, communist ideas were far more widespread than the authorities were willing to admit.
In 1940, a communist crowd gathered in front of Gwanghwamun. Facing them, were the tank brigade lead by a zealot right-wing former Yangban officer determined to defend the interest of the rich, named Kim Il Sung. What would happen next?
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Fleet of the Korean Empire.A TL where Admiral Yi's successes spawns a Korean invasion and conquest of Japan. It follows the further development of the Korean fleet into the primer Naval power of the Pacific.
Never a More Pure Man: A Hitler TL
A TL, stretching from 1919 to 1957, dealing primarily in the life of Father Adolph Hitler during that period. A disillusioned artist in Vienna, as he sits depressed after being rejected from the Academy for Arts, a Catholic priest comes across him, and tries to encourage him by telling him that God has certain ways of working. Sure enough, after his horrific experiences during the First World War, Hitler remembers this, and, after abandoning it, once again becomes interested in the religion of his mother. Eventually, he converts to Catholicism, joins the priesthood in Germany, and eventually becomes a priest in the city of Nuremberg in 1929. He was eventually given a radio show in 1934 due to the popularity of his sermons. He becomes known as the German Charles Coughlin, due to his constant anti-Semitic, racist, anti-Leftist, nationalistic rants. He becomes a darling of the far-right movement, both within Germany and internationally. Despite the efforts of many groups to shut him down, he manages to have a long tenure on radio from 1934-1942, before the Vatican (embarrassed by his antics) forced him to end it, and focus on his other duties. Despite piping in to criticize the Weimar Republic or the Soviet Union or to promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Father Hitler's life was uneventful before his death in 1957.
Play It Again, Sam.
A timeline where Samuel Clemens becomes a musician instead of a writer. He isn't as successful and soon becomes depressed, even more so after the Spanish-American War during which he fought in Cuba. Near the end of his life, he becomes a key figure in the newly-formed Socialist Party of America and became in-charge of its propaganda machine. Just before his death, he writes an autobiography as well as a political novel espousing his extremist left-wing views as well as his nilhism and cynism towards the world.
After his death, he would later be regarded as one of the fathers of American Socialist Totalitarianism.
A bloke with a funny mustache, a hilarious accent and a Cossack's face
This is an 1930s TL which describes where non Aggression treaty between germany, USSR and Italy fell through. Which results in Soviet invasion of germany in WW2. Stalin's attempt at invasion of Germany backfires, however, as The WAllies look at USSR as aggressor and declare war against the USSR.
Coming home to Roost
FBKampfer
Banned
After an inconclusive war, grappling with depression, and facing ever increasing vitriol for his political views in Germany, one of America's most accomplished, and daring foes makes a home in America's heartland.
Mankind's Most Noble Goal
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A short story set in a Central Powers victory. The story is set at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, in 1925. In the backdrop, news reports talk about protests in the Russian Republic, and riots in Glasgow over cut rations. Two scientists (implied to be Warner Heisenberg and Erwin Shroedinger) are doing an experiment on hydrogen and helium (the latter a Noble gas) to determine the process by which hydrogen could form helium (testing the hypothesis of exiled British scientists Arthur Eddington and Cecilia Payne that hydrogen fusion into helium could produce the energy for the sun). When the heat they supply isn't enough, they begin to create more and more heat, using everyday items. When that's not enough, they come up with a novel solution to contain the energy, and create the necessary amounts of heat. They manage to convince the Reichstag to give them the funding, and several years later in 1931, they do their first test in a facility built in the Pacific. Fusion is successfully achieved, releasing a lot of energy. The scientists wonder about the possibilities... and what the German military might do with it, given a charismatic leader named "The Man of Steel" has come to power in Russia...
Yankee Doodle Do or Die.
A rather comedic TL where American exceptionalism is more widespread in the mid to late 1800's, just as the US is growing into a world power. In the late 1890's a US President running on the platform of expansionism and 'liberating the oppressed'. This would lead to a series of wars that would reduce much of Central and South America, including Mexico to little more than satellites of America, and forming an 'American Empire' in the West. The US would even expand its colony in Africa, Liberia, by seizing the Congo Free State in the aftermath of the public backlash of Belgian mismanagement. The American Free State as it was called would become little more than a penal colony with much less long term success than Australia. The former slave's turned administrators would try, but ultimately fail to manage the State properly and the US would largely ignore it; however crucially keep foreign observers out. So by the time the US left Africa in 1923 the Congo was in anarchy and would nearly instantly split up due to rampant warlordisim. Meanwhile the regimes in the rest of the Western Hemisphere would a lot of times be forced into brutal repression to keep power. This would lead to further instability after the First Great War when, with America's attention focused elsewhere many fell and led to America becoming incredibly isolationist because, as President Lindenburg once said, "We tried helping them once! And as thanks they killed us"! The title comes from a humorous song sung by British schoolchildren where the title is "Yankee Doodle Die"
In the Shade of Irminsul
In the Shade of Irminsul
Part of Kaiserreich timeline.
In the Shade of Irminsul is a Germanic neo-pagan book written by Heinrich Himmler in Berlin of 1947 shortly after destruction of French Commune by the German Imperial forces and Savinkov' Russia which sought to expand into Mitteleuropa. In a Cold War world between Entente (MacArthur's United States, Canada, Australasia, Indian Empire) and Mitteleuropa neo-pagan cult arose during 1950s and began spreading through Empire. Culminating point was reconstruction of Irminsul on 1961 where tens of thousands followers gathered to celebrate victory over hated French. Loyal to the Empire, they sought destruction of the German enemies (Entente), ensuring domination over world and germanization of the society.
Choose one of these topics and write.
Man in Deepest Cave
Carter, Ba'al and Asgard.
Odyssey of Betazed.
Tal Shiar and 2368.
Man in the Winter Palace.
Gate to the Stars.
Part of Kaiserreich timeline.
In the Shade of Irminsul is a Germanic neo-pagan book written by Heinrich Himmler in Berlin of 1947 shortly after destruction of French Commune by the German Imperial forces and Savinkov' Russia which sought to expand into Mitteleuropa. In a Cold War world between Entente (MacArthur's United States, Canada, Australasia, Indian Empire) and Mitteleuropa neo-pagan cult arose during 1950s and began spreading through Empire. Culminating point was reconstruction of Irminsul on 1961 where tens of thousands followers gathered to celebrate victory over hated French. Loyal to the Empire, they sought destruction of the German enemies (Entente), ensuring domination over world and germanization of the society.
Choose one of these topics and write.
Man in Deepest Cave
Carter, Ba'al and Asgard.
Odyssey of Betazed.
Tal Shiar and 2368.
Man in the Winter Palace.
Gate to the Stars.
A Stargate fandom TL. This is a linking the Stargate:infinity to main stargate series. This TL deals with development of Stargate Command, fall of Goa'uld and rise of Tlak'kahn. This tL is regarded as one of the greatest Stargate TL in AH.com.
River flows in you
Kiss the rain
When the love falls