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    Soviet Graf Zeppelin

    Per Wikipedia, the Graf Zeppelin sank on its way to Leningrad (the Soviets say it made it and blew it up). It seems the Soviets took German ships and used them for bombing practice (not surprising—the Americans used German ships to blow up atomic bombs nearby). Would the Soviets have any use...
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    RPGs without Dungeons and Dragons (D&D)

    I can't necro this thread, so.. I came in on the 2nd generation of D&D, around 1978, so pretty close to the source, but not completely. The people I learned from were in the wargaming tradition. I am also reading The Elusive Shift, and with Galactic Journey, I've gotten to 1968. so proto-RPGs...
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    No Mulberries at D-Day

    I am reading Ellsberg's "The Far Shore" after having read "Under the Red Sea Sun" and "No Banners, No Bugles". Ellsberg was a salvage officer par excellence. Seriously, a superhuman. In "The Far Shore", Ellsberg is given the option of serving in the Pacific or the Atlantic. He chose the...
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    Successful Casablanca raid

    This is pretty esoteric, but someone might know something. On December 30, 1942, three waves of FW-200s attempted to bomb Casablanca in the only raid on the city of the war. Despite being picked up by radar, the shore defense did nothing about it, and the lead scout actually got through...
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    Shah of Iran dead in 1967.

    A German friend of mine posited that the death of the Shah in '67 prior to his visit to West Germany might have staved off a lot of ugly, violent radicalization of the left (and ultimately have been better for Iran in the long run). Does anyone have an idea how history would progress if the Shah...
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    Beatles gone after second album -- whither music?

    I recently submitted a story for a Beatles-themed anthology, the premise of which was that the Beatles schedule their trip to America earlier, for November 22, 1963. This is the day they released their second album, and also the day that a rather significant event happened in Dallas. In this...
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    In a timeline not far from this one...

    Heard on NPR today: "Happy Birthday to semi-professional artist and political theorist, Adolf Hitler! He would have been 128 today. Terry Gross interviewed him in 1983. We'll play that tape after this break..." (okay, it started as a joke, but then my wife suggested it'd make for an...
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    U.S. drawdown in Vietnam around 1970

    In my Sputniks timeline, President RFK tries to bring about a peace between the Vietnams and bring the troops home. Do you see such a peace lasting? Is it even feasible? What do you see as the likely outcome by 1975? I looked around and didn't see a thread on this topic... Thanks for your...
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    There are innumerable pro-allied butterflies too you know.

    Thanks to pattersonautobody for the title. I thought this would be a nice omnibus thread for all of the pro-allied butterflies and their effect on the timeline of WW2. My favorite is that France makes a better show in 1940, causing the Germans to collapse in 1941 or so. I understand that this...
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    Alternate Space Missions blog

    Hello, folks. In planning for my next generation Sputniks game, I went looking for a blog that had lots of great space might-have-beens. I thought it was called Beyond Apollo, but I can't find it. Does anyone know where it might be? Never mind. I see it became a WIRED blog.
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    No Finnish War.. other effects?

    Never mind. I see there's a recent thread already. Sorry.
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    No women's suffrage?

    I've done a search and can't find a thing. What if the 19th amendment had failed ratification in 1920? Would another state have ratified? Would it have died like the ERA? Would Cox have become President? Would America have joined the League of Nations? Would the Depression have been...
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    October 4, 1957... reminiscences of a dream (DBWI)

    October 4, 1957 was a Friday. I remember it only because dad took us all out for ice cream, and it was the day I read my first article on rockets, the one that got me hooked. It was a half-page spread in a newspaper about Project Vanguard, the Navy's satellite project. Their first test of the...
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    After WW2--weak Germany and Japan?

    Simple question, likely leading to complicated answers. After the war, Japan's far right government was removed, the gap filled by left-leaners. In Germany, the plan was for the destruction of heavy industries and the reduction of the country to a second-rate state. But the spectre of...
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    Vice-President Teddy Roosevelt

    Post: McKinley wins It is my understanding that Teddy was an unusually vigorous V-P. How would he have used and changed the office had McKinley served his full term(s)?
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    France wins 1940: Collaborative TL

    I have seen several timelines in which France fights on after a loss on the mainland, but I have seen precious few where France wins the Battle of France, and none dealing with the world after. So there is a simple POD--the French do not get routed in May 1940, through a variety of factors, but...
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    Vertigo, and a Space Race What-If

    This might be fun to make a timeline out of: 1961--Alan Shepard succumbs to an inner ear problem which makes him ineligible to fly. He joins Mercury astronaut Donald Slayton on the no-fly list. John Glenn becomes the first man in space. Is Grissom still #2? Or is it Carpenter? I can see...
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    Early discovery of Neptune

    This will probably drop like a lead balloon, but what if Galileo had recognized his discovery of Neptune? He did notice it during a chance conjunction with Jupiter, and he even commented that it had moved between observations. He may even have noticed the color--Neptune looks very blue through...
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    Irish Wales

    After a rousing game of Avalon Hill's Britannia, we found ourselves with a unique-looking board. The Irish had managed to conquer all of Wales! This unusual turn of events was caused in part by an ambitious Roman conquest. My question for those in the know is whether or not this is possible...
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    Sputniks... an Alternate Space Race

    So, Calbear's amazing Anglo-American/Nazi war timeline is over, and I now no longer have Saturdays to look forward to. As a long-time lurker, few-time poster, I've decided to give back to the community. As you may know, I've been running a very in-depth simulation of the Space Race for nine...
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