Recent content by Adam Parsons

How do we know the Americans wouldn't arrest him and ship him to Britain? After all, I don't think anyone in the US wanted to go through the War of 1812 again, especially against a Britain that's deadly serious about winning, and handing him off would get a lot of free goodwill from the Brits...

Probably not. Judging from what he wrote in "My Life", he seems to have learned his little lesson. Now, if he responds to the USS Cole bombing with a major stomp on Al-Qaeda, that might make the possibility of 9-11 occuring a bit more dubious.

In the book "Fitzpatrick's War", the footnotes mention a Biblical book known as the "Book of Joel". While I don't know the ins and outs, I am curious as to how exactly a new book could be added to the Bible and be generally accepted by the Christian community. Is it impossible to do after 400...

Out of curiousity, how was trade in pre-Columbian North America? I know there were a few semi-settled peoples clustered along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, but did anyone had trading networks that streched anywhere into the East Coast of North America and Northern Mexico? I was under the...

Maybe, but you'd have to change the leadership for both countries. While a lot of Nazi doctrine was focused on Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and Western (Russian) Asia, a clever politician might be able to bury that idea. As for the Soviet Union, Stalin was considering going after the Nazis in...

Pretty much everyone on the board has amassed a collection of alternate history-based materiel over the years, myself included. It's now time to see who has what. I'll go first. BOOKS - What If? - What If? 2 - What Ifs? of American History - The Years of Rice and Salt - The Peshawar...

More criticism again. I would recommend against having Strom Thurmond being installed as the president of the American Reich. After all, there is a fundamental difference between disenfranchising blacks and shipping them to death camps, and Thurmond, though a racist, might not be willing to...

I read somewhere that there was an Indian port city, Conchin if I'm not mistaken, that recieved a few boatloads of Judean refugees after the Jewish war in 70 AD. Maybe that ship could get stuck in a current and end up in Perth? Nothing important would change, but Australian archaeology could...

Damn-nation! Sorry, but the USSR had a number of problems, and while removing Gorby might keep them trucking for one or two more decades, I think they would slowly crumble and collapse anyway. For the USSR to remain a major threat for the forseeable future, reform is needed.

Texas survives, according to "Shikari in Gavelston". Appearantly, by the 1990's, there are some small Amero-native city-states in southern Texas, though most everyone east of the Trinity River is cannibal. Presumably a similar situation occured in the southwestern US. But, again, I am also...

As a tag-on to my list, I would recommed finding a way to reform the economic system, but keep an iron hand on the political freedom of the people. After all, loosening the reins of power is what led to the collapse in OTL.

This is just a random idea, and probably not plausible, but... How about the revolutions of 1848 are worse, such that government collapses completely in Prussia and France, and an overthrow of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. By 1850, France has stabilized, but Prussia is fatally weakened, and is...

Ah, this old chestnut. I've done some reading on what would have to be done, and I have isolated a few things: 1. Reform the farm system. Collective farming was never able to fully feed the Russian population. Small-scale private farms or modern high-tech "industrial farms" might be more...

If you're looking for in-depth timelines, I have two recommendations. The first is The Flashman Option by David Flin et al. In this one, Britain sinks the High Seas Fleet on the first day of the war, and stays out of most of the land war. It runs from 1914 to about 1935, but is richly...

Who here liked The Years of Rice and Salt? Who would like to play it? Yes, someone has taken Kim Stanley Robinson's novel, and turned it into a Civilization III scenario. Personally, I found it quite enjoyable, though I thought that Mecca as the capital of "Dar al-Islam" was a poor...