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Alternate history.
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POD 1980 Ted Turner's Bedroom.
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Ted Turner awakes from a very powerful dream, so strong that it feels to him like a Vision of the future. In the dream he surprised everyone by placing his new company, Cable Network News, world headquarters in Detroit, Michigan instead of Atlanta, Georgia. In the dream he does it to have his people... more »
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Peace Conference proposals as an alternative to Crittenden's
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See [link] for "Amendments Proposed by the [Washington, DC] Peace Conference, February 8-27, 1861 As has already been noted, the so-called Crittenden Compromise was so one- sidedly pro-southern (especially in guaranteeing slavery in all territories "hereafter acquired" south of the Missouri Compromise line--... more »
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AHC: Landlocked North American country
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With a POD after January 1, 1805, have a landlocked North American Country exist by the year 2000. This country must be diplomatically recognized by at least 2 Major European powers. Point rating. +10 for each decade prior to 2000 that it is first recognized by the European Powers -50 if more than 50% of the population of the country at independence... more »
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PODs necessary for a US Rail System
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We had WIs about this before but they always ended up as semi- flame wars between the pro-car people and the pro-transit people. This is an attempt to do this WI properly. Until relatively recently, the 1950s is when it started crashing, the United States used to have one of the largest passenger rail... more »
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Alternate fiction
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Douglass Wallop, The Year the Cubs Lost the Pennant H.G. Wells, When the Martians Ruled
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National Referendum on the Crittenden Compromise
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Referendums are commonplace in most states in the US, but the US has never had a national one. Perhaps binding national referendums are unconstitutional, since the Constitution says all legislative powers are vested in Congress, but Congress might conceivably agree to hold an "advisory" referendum and respect its results.... more »
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Assume you are Hitler. How would you have won the war ?
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would not fight the war if I was Hitler. After annexing Austria and wangling the Sudetenland out of Czechslovakia, I'd encourage the Slovak separatists and make sure Czechoslovakia was split into two small countries and neutralised as a threat. No need to anger the British unduly by annexing Bohemia, which... more »
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