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Bard Gets Fired Out of sheer boredom, the failed playwright William Shakespeare creates some harmless mischief during the translation of the King James Bible, but his "Bible Code" is discovered and he gets fired.

Impeached Even Without Watergate After he defuses the two-week wonder of Watergate, Nixon retains the authority to fight Congress over Vietnam funding.


What if the Gemini 8 spacecraft had crashed?

The Soviet authorities in Vienna crack down on the free expression of subversive painting by arresting the "Happy Jewish Artist Adolf Hitler".


What if petty rivalry stole Charles De Gaulle's manifest destiny to lead the Free French to liberation?


The independent maritime states of the Gulf of Mexico are "powerless" to impose their will upon the Royal British Petroleum Company following the Deepwater Horizon explosion.


What if General McChrystal had never taking his eye off the real enemy: the "wimps in the White House"


Recover And New Beginnings What if the G20 Summit in Toronto provoked even more protest and resistance?


Ten years after Quebecers voted for secession, another "distinct society" emerges inside French Canadians own borders.

What if the revolutionaries of St John's Parish had seceded from the Loyalist Province of Georgia?


Imshallah Part 10 As if Saddam didn’t have enough problems already between a multi-national army rolling across his border...


World Cup Final: Netherlands' Footballers honour the Dutch UN Troops who defended Srebenica to the death


CSA Dissolves The Confederacy survives the Civil War only for the slow working processes of history to force a later dissolution.


Old Master British General James Wolfe survives the Siege of Quebec to crush the American Rebels in similar fashion


Liquidation What if Harold Wilson really a Soviet spy?

Best And The Brightest First choice candidate Robert A. Lovett accepts JFK's offer to serve (again) as SecDef.

Change Of Government As the votes are 1960 President election votes are recounted in Illinois and Texas, Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated in Saigon.


The Deepwater Crisis forces life-term President Jimmy Carter to re-evaluate his thirty-year strategy of domestic-only oil production for his "energy secure nation".

"The Late Show" is an instant success and so Conan O'Brien has no regrets about his decision to decline the the opportunity to host the Tonight Show.


Zero Tolerance Part 3 It was just after 7:00 PM on the evening of January 10th, 1956 when...


Lee's Memoir Robert E. Lee has second thoughts about writing his memoir when his former sub-ordinates provide divergent accounts of the assault on Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg.


Man Of Principle Charles Kennedy leads rebel Lib-Dems into the Progressive Coalition conceived by Gordon Brown.

Night Skies what if Steven Spielberg made a "Close Encounters" sequel instead of "War of the Worlds"?


Sweet Home Chicago Part 3 George Steinbrenner, irascible at the best of times, was positively seething...


Return of the King In Azania, Septuagenarian Thembu rebel leader Rolihlahla Mandela continues to "shake the tree".


What if Catholic Europe emerged as the undisputed victor of the Seven Years War?


Death of Senator Robert Byrd What if the late Robert Byrd had supported the conviction of Bill Clinton?


Victory of the Orange Army What if the World Cup was being staged in a vastly different post-apartheid South Africa?


The near-bankrupt Canadian Government is forced to sell off "Supercorp" when the national debt hits a $500bn, a figure that would make even Gordon Brown's jaw drop.

Mutual Respect Bobby Moore's working class heroes arrive at World Cup 1970 on a mission to change the future.


The Few The Nazi High Command gather in London to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain


The Athletics staying in Kansas City Series


Volume 1 Who knows what might have happened had a different man been named Commissioner of baseball in late 1965...

Volume 2 Commissioner LeMay faced another problem in 1970, when “Ball Four” hit the shelves...

Volume 3 Owners threatened to lock out the players in 1975, but Bowie Kuhn ordered them to open the gates...

Volume 4  In the 1982 off season, almost a dozen players were given Federal immunity in exchange for testimony against drug dealers...

 



Human Time Line Series

The Renascent Epoch of Mankind


Godhood & other Miscellaneous Things No one ever really knew that we were among them. Us 17 billion were unknown to them, although the Humans were well known to us...

Operation Archangel The Union Explorers Agency (UEA) exploration teams continued on their journeys throughout the Elysium universe...

And Then There Was Light The initial success of stage one of Operation Archangel made the Elysium Union (EU) over confident...

Angels & Devils It was apparent to all that stage one of Operation Archangel had been successful...

Here Be Dragons Although it was hoped otherwise, it soon became apparent that the Elysium Union was indisputably split...

The Ascent of Man After the successful completion of the civil war (or so it seemed), the business of  the Elysium Union (EU) slowly returned...

Judgement The Elysium Union quickly patched things up with the Tempilous & Orville...

 



And The Oscar Could Have Gone To.... Part 2 Picking up where we left off last time, we’re going to move on to the post-1960 crop...


Charles De Gaulle flees Vichy France only to find a worse bunch of cowards in London


Noble Son Harold Godwinson crushes the Normans at Hastings before wheeling north to confront a second invading army at Stamford Bridge


Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You Part 13 For the first time in at least a week there are signs of hope...

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