The Oliver Cromwell House  Welcome, and thank you for visiting the Oliver Cromwell House. Whether you’re coming here for the first time, or you’re a frequent patron of this museum making a return trip, we hope you’ll enjoy your tour...

The Undecided Peace Midnight, September 25th, 1918: Kaiser Wilhelm II steps down from the throne of the German Empire, and his son Wilhelm III takes his places. Even before Wilhelm III is officially coroneted, his representatives approach...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 36 April 20^th 1961 The Italians have no time to celebrate their political victory over the U.S. as reports begin coming in that a cabal of French generals are planning to launch a coup against the De Gaulle government...

Mint Condition The funny thing is, I wasn’t even really looking for the card when I found it in my attic. It just jumped out at me when I was trying to get hold of something else. I was looking for the owner’s manual to my...

Silent Thunder: The Russia-EU War of 2008 February 2008 – Kosovo declares independence from Serbia, much to the Serbs outrage and that of their Russian allies. The Russians do not move at once to take action – they have no choice, but to do something...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 37 January 24^th 1962 The Organization of the Secret Army (OAS) conducts a bombing against the French Foreign Ministry...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 13 For Adolf Hitler, the launch of der Reisende was one of the most exciting moments of his life; as the A-6 rocket carrying the experimental satellite climbed ever higher into the Baltic sky...

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You Stand Accused The 1948 September Revolt shook Australia to its political and social foundations. Though the Lance Sharkey-masterminded uprising didn’t accomplish its intended aim of overthrowing then-prime minister...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 33 January 12^th 1960 12:15 PM An unconscious Mussolini arrives in the nearest hospital and a team of doctors begin examining and working on him...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 5 Adolf Hitler formally assumed the chancellorship of Germany on January 25^th, 1933 amidst pervasive speculation about whether the self-styled revolutionary could successfully..

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 34 January 20^th 1960 Count Ciano arrives in Washington D.C. he requests a meeting President Eisenhower and is given an appointment for the 22^nd...

Jambo Olympus! It started as a dream in the mind of a teenager watching the 2010 World Cup, grew into a rallying cry for the people of Jo’burg, and finally became the coming of age for post-apartheid South Africa...

The Boys: Glorious Five Year Plan

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The Good Fight

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The Invasion of 1910

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World War Hulk

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Deutsch America My Dear Adolph, I was of course fascinated and proud to hear that you have been accepted as a Colonial Administrator in the German Congo...

We Will Fight Them On The Beaches Contrary to popular belief, the notion of asymmetrical warfare is not a uniquely 21^st century concept of even a uniquely American one. Indeed, in one form or another it has existed...

THE HISTORIC MOMENT To all our viewers, ladies, gentlemen, and AIs, welcome to NewsNet's coverage of this historic occasion.  Our advisors say we have about half an hour before...

Target Damascus Final Part It wouldn’t be an exaggeration, or at least not very much of one, to suggest that all of America was so quiet you could hear a pin drop as the American public waited on the morning of November 9^{th ...}

The Londonistan Guardsman We all love to read novels. Great novels. Best-selling novels. I have talked a lot about such novels in the past, for example the classic Extinction Event by Bruno Lombardi and the amazing...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 12 With its navy crippled and its army increasingly on the defensive, Germany’s last hope for turning the course of World War I back in its favor rested with...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 35 June 8^th 1960 Medici is recalled from his post as Viceroy following his appointment as Minister of Industry. The new Viceroy of Greece is Prince Amedeo...

1862 (Robert Conway)

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Storm

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The Alison Brooks Collection

A new scene for The Empire Strikes Back There's going to be an extra scene included in the DVD release of Empire Strikes Back coming up next year...

Alternative authors' versions of
Lord of the Rings One of the cult novels of the 1970s turned out to be Lord of the Rings...

An evil British empire The suggestion has been raised as to how an Evil British Empire (TM) could arise. To cover this, I've made a number of assumptions...

Emperor Norton the Peacemaker During the ACW, Emperor Norton felt it his duty to try and bring North and South to a peaceful resolution...

Review of the alternate history: The Falklands War The bandwagon of AH rolls on. We have seen the books on WW2, and the Korean War...

The Eagle and the Lion There are many timelines which take as their premise British intervention in the ACW. These usually go along the lines of...

The Original Alien Space Bats - Irony and Steal Being parody of a number of published What-Ifs and ideas floated on the newsgroup...

What If Harold won at Hastings? This was an ambitious attempt to plot the history of the world, or at least those parts touched by the Europeans...

What If "Emperor" Norton became President of the USA? In 1876, the US had a fairly close Presidential election between Hayes and Tilden...

Who were the bad guys in Star Wars' original trilogy? They call it The Force, you know, like it's supposed to be used for domination and hurting people...

Why Sealion is not an option for Hitler to win the war One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of...

The Fuhrer In The Dock It was the trial of the century. Everyone wanted to be there. Notables such as Winston Churchill, a noted anticommunist, rubbed shoulders with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Stalin’s foreign minister...

A Japanese Destroyer In The Sea Of Time We will assume that the destroyer arrives a week before Midway and that the crew has no difficulty in figuring out WTF is going on...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 11 Samuel Langley never forgave the Wrights for beating him to the punch on inventing a practical all-metal monoplane; it was a huge blow to his pride that those ‘upstart amateurs’, as he thought of them...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 32 August 4^th 1958 The first production run for the R-2 Diane Ballistic missiles begins. The Comando Supremo has ordered 60 missiles of which 40 will be fitted with a nuclear warhead...

Comrade Hitler Part 8 The tables had definitely turned in the war in Europe; while the previously successful Germans now found themselves in dire straits, their Soviet allies, who heretofore had been...

A CHANGE

IN TIME

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Army of Roses

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Making Money

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Sister Time

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The Sling and the Stone

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Epitaph For A Planet During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the human race was devastated by the most lethal plague in recorded history, respiratory disintegration syndrome (also known as "Morgan’s disease" or "the Rome virus")...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 31 March 15^th 1958 Colonial and Greek army positions are overrun as the Unification Day offensive continues to sweep through Greece...

Predictions For The Coming Century Breaking out my clear polyurethane fortune-telling ball obtained from a mystic gift shop outside Barstow, I'm making a few bold predictions for the coming years...

Target Damascus Part 17 The students occupying the Berkley administration buildings were just as adamant in their insistence on continuing their occupation of those buildings as Governor Reagan was in his demand...

Aldershot and Elizabeth The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was barely a year old when a strange event, believed by some to be the work of God or the Devil, brought a strange town into existence only 25 miles from London...

LUAKY
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and the President of Azerbaijan

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Love My Rifle

More Than You

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Slow Burn

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Ultimate Power

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The Six Year War The Six-Year War, a book written in 2006 by Harry Nosirrah, is one of the fundamentally unlikely counterfactual history books that have recently been written...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 4 Benito Mussolini was one of the first men in continental Europe to grasp the stark truth that the turmoil following the First World War...

The Key West-Havana Tunnel The drive south from Miami is a crowded one. Whether you make it in a minivan, sports car, or a Ford-built Ferrari, the traffic is what sticks in your mind...

Cabot discovers Virginia, American nation 100 years early Volume I John Cabot had early suspicions about his men. The first voyage, he’d explored Newfoundland’s coast and down into present-day Massachusetts, and it got very cold...

Comrade Hitler Part 7 Oddly enough, the first shots in the war between the German Peole’s Republic and the French Republic wouldn’t even be fired on French or German soil...

Cabot discovers Virginia, American nation 100 years early Volume II Britain gained a great deal from Spain - all of Mexico, in fact. It provided a link with their colony of Belize. They tried to insist on Gibraltar, too...

The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P Part 10 The USS Moffett was only the first casualty in what promised to be a...

Galactica 1980

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Thunderbirds The Movie

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Star Trek: Q & A

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Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 29 November 5^th 1956 British and French paratroopers conduct drops in positions throughout Egypt...

Eagle Land The Mexican-American War was an armed military conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 10 At the time of William Samuel Henson’s death ATC was at the peak of its corporate and financial power...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 30 May 17^th 1957 Argentina seeks admission to the Lira Block...

Target Damascus Part 16 Hubert Humphrey had set a tall order for himself in the spring of 1968, trying not only to win election to a full term as president but...

New England July 26 2006 to July 26 1979, Part 4. Who did JR shoot? that is the question...

United Armenia

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Black Widow FINAL Part Emperor Franz Joseph had just one aim in mind when he began his second war with France: avenging his sister’s death. Although publicly he insisted Austria was acting to protect itself...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 27 February 20^th 1955 Prototype testing begins on the next generation of Italian Strategic Bombers...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 9 The Merlin promised to be the most powerful and effective gasoline engine of its time-- if the engineers who designed it could just find a way to make it work...

New England July 26 2006 to July 26 1979, Part 3 Our new series is called Visits from New England. First up, a 44 year-old Rhode Island resident visited his home in Brooklyn in 1979, shortly after the Event. Actually it was a little scary...

A Chacun Son Boche Part 3 The German government was in an awkward position when its diplomatic representatives at the Geneva peace talks first met with their Allied counterparts at 11:00 AM London time on December 19^th, 1917...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 28 January 27^th 1956 Greek troops still loyal to the Hellenic Council and Italian Blackshirts disperse and arrest rioters and deserting troops...

The Second Black Plague

FINAL Part

From the logbook of the second New Zealand Special Scientific Expedition to North America, entry dated January 8^th, 1971(continued):

Thank God and all his angels, our theories about the radio signal were right all along!

Target Damascus Part 15 It was just after 11:30 AM US Eastern Daylight Time on February 29^th, 1968 when President Humphrey withdrew his National Guard bill from Congress. It simply wasn’t possible, his advisors had told him...

Yellow Eyes

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The

Spanish-Moroccan

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PROLOGUE The brief Spanish-Moroccan war in the summer of 2002 was the culminating point in decades of frictions between both countries. What started as a stupid border incident escalated...

Day 1: July 17^th 2002 In an ironical twist of fate, this war will start in exactly the same place and date than the last war Spain suffered 66 years before...

DAY 2: JULY 18^TH 2002 July 18^th has been a significant date in Spanish life since 1936. That day started the civil war, whose shadow still keeps haunting Spanish society and politics...

DAY 3: JULY 19^TH 2002 Combat keeps raging on around Ceuta. The numerical superiority of the attackers has pushed the Spanish into the city, forcing them to abandon their defensive positions at the outskirts...

DAY 4: JULY 20^TH 2002 Despite their air superiority and some isolated victory like the one at the Battle of Congress Island, the Spaniards have been losing ground under the steady pressure of the Moroccan army...

DAY 5: JULY 21^st 2002 The Moroccans have lost the initiative. After losing most of their tanks and best units in the foiled counteroffensive of past afternoon, and with the Spanish airforce having control of the skies...

DAY 6: JULY 22nd 2002 Midnight: Hercules Transport planes start arriving to Fuerteventura Airport. More planes and fighters will follow in the next hour...

Day 7: July 23rd 2002 1AM: The Moroccan generals had been preparing the coup for the last two days as a last resort option when they saw that the Spaniards couldn’t be thrown back to sea but...

CRIME AND CONSEQUENCES The world of Earth having fallen totally under the influence of the Evil One, the children of the All Father fled in a liberated spaceship....

Four Feet High & Rising FINAL Part Like a storm cloud, one tormenting question has hung over the islands of the Caribbean and the southern United States for almost a quarter-century...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 25 The CIA tries to plant Italian-American mafioso in Italy to serve as spies and dissidents. The initial reports are bleak...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 26 Rioters overtake the remaining guards at the Athenian Royal Palace and proceed to loot and destroy the complex...

The Second Black Plague Part 6 From the December 18^th, 1970 Auckland Daily Mail: PREPARATIONS COMMENCE FOR SECOND N.Z. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO NORTH AMERICA

Black Widow Part 3 As Axel Fersson was detailing his rescue plan to Marie Antoinette, Grand Legion of the Republic troops were mounting a ferocious assault on the Tuileries Palace...

Comrade Hitler Part 6 It was just after 6:10 PM US Eastern Daylight Time on Septemer 15^th, 1938 when the White House first learned of the start of Case Otto...

Drafted #1 - The Awakening

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Moonstruck

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Marshal Boulanger and the Great Fashoda War In 1898, France and Britain came closer to war than anytime since Napoleon to the present. For almost four months, tensions ran high enough that both nations actually began military mobilization...

South Side Tragedy Throughout most of the summer of 1919 the Chicago White Sox had looked predestined to win the American League pennant; with a pitching rotation that included aces like...

Italy 1936 - An alternate Italian history of World War II Part 24 His palm slammed down on the detonator for what seemed like the hundredth time in those brief seconds and unexpectedly a second later a bright flash filled the sky and the telltale mushroom cloud...

Slipping The Surly Bonds Of Earth Part 7 Though the disintegration of William Samuel Henson’s business association with Corneilius Vanderbilt marked the end of an era in aviation history...

New England July 26 2006 to July 26 1979 Part 2 Mount St Helens erupted right on schedule, at 8:32 AM May 18th. Mandatory evacuations resulted in no deaths...

Target Damascus Part 13 The tension inside the Central Committee chamber on the afternoon of January 27^th, 1968 was so thick it was almost unbearable. Alexei Kosygin knew that he was risking his political career...

WHAT'S A NICE PLANET LIKE THIS DOING HERE? What, if anything has happened to Pluto? Did the IAU (International Astronomical Union) really abolish a planet? A lot of hysteria has been spilled over the IAU action, but I think that much of the concern comes from not thinking the matter through...

Venceremos Part 18 His second term secured, Jeb Bush immediately got to work on setting that term’s foreign policy agenda. High on his priorities list was containing Syria, which under the dictatorship of Bashir Assad...

Blood On The Ice By all rights, the 2018 Trondheim Winter Olympics should have been a spectacular triumph for Norway: it marked the second time in that country’s history it had hosted the Olympic Games...

Nightmares of an old man I could hear the screams as we walked into the Village and the smells were there of burning flesh, rupturing of guts...

1812: The Rivers of War

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