WI during the End of Ramadan 2005 celebrations skullcapped Israel religious extremists, dismayed at Sharon's impending pullout, launched their own small stoning "counter attack" on the Jerusalem mosque to counter the Arab stoning of the Wailing Wall?
Just like Sharon in 2000 merely visiting...
Don't forget that despite his plummy Oxford accent, Tony Blair is also a Scot, born in Edinburgh! (as is the Chancellor and half his cabinet: Culloden's Revenge?!)
WI Major & Hurd hadn't run in the 2nd Conservative leadership 1990 ballot & "Tarzan" had beaten Maggie outright?
Would the Conservative party have rallied behind Hesseltine? Or would the Maggie loyalists like "Skinhead" Norman Tebbit have split the party?
"Phony Tony" Blair was still in...
Nine second-hand German freighters through stealth and cunning sank 142 Allied ships (1 million tons), disrupting schedules and tying down many warships sorely needed elsewhere.
WI there had been just 5-10 more raiders, so that instead of being a major nuisance, they actually had become a...
Goebbels 6 children were injected to death.
WI they had survived the war? In the last 2 years of the war, Gobbels speeches and propaganda literally fuelled the German will to fight the the end, even more than Hitler, who was virtually absent to the populace, and millions more died as a...
In the film "36 hours" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057809/
the Germans try to trick an Allied officer into divulging the location of the D Day invasion.
WI it had really happened, and the Germans had had 36 hours, or even 24 hours advance warning that Normandy was the real location? Would...
Today in Germany they are making much of the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden. Some want it marked as a "war crime" and aping David Irving, want Arthur "Bomber" Harris tried as a war criminal!
WI Dresden had not been bombed at all?
Would there have affect on the Russian advance...
As can be seen from the film "Yanks" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080157/ at that time the British had no racism against black soldiers.
How would the dropping of 10,000 of the lithe 555 "Triple Nickles" all black paratroop division on Arnhem to assist the British have altered things? They...
In 1992 15,000 UK-born Asian (Muslim) youth demonstrating in front of the Houses of Parliament "lost it" and went on a mini-riot, ignominiously chasing 400 British policemen and women down the Pall Mall.
WI emboldened they had stormed and occupying the Houses of Parliament or Buckingham...
Look how Judaism thrived even after Jerusalem and their Temple were levelled twice.
The Jews however could point to clear prophecies in Jeremiah and elsewhere that this would happen, and were/are strengthened by prophecies in Ezekiel that they would return to Jerusalem and a future Third...
The US Tax Authority employs about 1 million people. They would suddenly all be made redundant! They get such job satisfaction, I suspect several would go on shooting rampages on being fired.
How could they be best reemployed?
If the Germans & Japanese had both attacked on June 21 1941, could the Soviets have held the Japanese in the east, or would it have ended with an Axis party on the Urals?
Let’s look at this in a best case scenario for Rommel and co.
Rommel is given command of the German (panzer) forces in Tunisia and his ‘Kasserine Pass’ campaign achieves spectacular success.
The British 1st Army was rather weak in strength while the US forces were green. A major setback...