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  1. Sieg Allah 2005

    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...

  2. Prime Minister Michael Hesseltine: end of the UK

    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...

  3. More raiders

    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...

  4. Magda Goebbels & children survive

    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...

  5. "36 Hours" really happened

    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...

  6. Dresden not bombed

    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...

  7. Bigger 1992 London Asian riot

    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...

  8. King Edward VIII in WWII

    How might history have differed, if at all, if King Edward VIII had remained king and entered WWII as a batchelor? A nd if he had married a permitted Wallis Simpson type of female? (assuming that he suppressed any pro-German leanings he might have had). If he remained childless, and died...

  9. American land at Arnhem

    If the troops landed at Arnhem had been American instead of British, with their better radios, AT and automatic weapons, would the result of Market Garden have been any different?

  10. A natural Panama Canal

    Until the Panama Canal, east-west sailing was massively stymied. WI there had always been a natural canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific? Polynesians and Chinese on the East Coast of the USA? A Spanish Australia? A British Ecuador?

  11. One World Currency

    How would history have diverged from OTL if a One World Currency had been universally adopted in 1820, 1920 and 1990?

  12. Great Lakes land-locked

    The Great Lakes are navigatable from the Atlantic, enabling large ships to penetrate up to Duluth, 1000 miles into the US interior. If the Lakes were landlocked and only opened to canal recently, if at all: how would this have influenced US history & growth?

  13. Orde Wingate in the West

    WI General Orde Wingate had served in the west? How would he have employed his imaginitive & daring tactics against the Germans? Would there have been any room for a man of his "Biblical warrior" type talent? Or was he only suitable as a Gideon's Raiders or Chindits type leader in uncivilised...

  14. 1967: President Humphrey

    IF LBJ had been indisposed in 1967, how would his VP Hubert Humphrey have prosecuted the Vietnam War & the opposition to it? Any other major differences from OTL, or nothing drastic?

  15. Tokyo 1992:Bush Sr chokes on vomit:President Quayle

    WI in January 1992, Bush Sr had choked to death on his vomit in Tokyo? How would a President Quayle have shaped up in the 10 months before the election? Who would he have chosen as his VP? Might he have surprised everyone & turned out a match for Clinton? In the debate against Gore he was quite...

  16. 2002: Bush chokes on the pretzel:President Cheney

    If Bush had choked to death on the Pretzel in January 2002, what kind of a president would Cheney have made? Would he too have invaded Iraq? More quietly ruthless than Bush, with even less charisma & less loveable, but still a man of capability, would the union have stayed behind him? Who would...

  17. Anglo-Dutch Wars: Dutch do better

    What was the best possible victory that the Dutch might have achieved against the English in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1664-67, 1672-74 and 1680-84) & with what effect on history?

  18. Kerry wins but Bush refuses to step down: no Civil War II

    According to many, Kerry really did win! http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/members/forum.cgi?read=29476 WI Kerry had won Ohio, just. But it is so close and the neocons are so ensconced, perceiving that Kerry & his neolibs really would irreparably endanger & undo the USA & threaten...

  19. 1944: No Bomb Plot

    WI there had been no bomb plot? What effect would not having Hitler out of action for a month have had? An earlier Battle of the Bulge? Less demoralised Germans? And having Rommell around in 1945? Any change in German strategies & tactics? More costly for the Allies, or no difference from OTL?

  20. 1866: Austrians win

    In the 1866 Austro-Prussian War, the Prussian Needle Gun was superior. But the Austrians had better artillery. WI the Austrians had the Needle Gun too & had won the war?
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