If made in 1980 it might have more of a built in audience from the original fans of Dune the Book.
OTOH I think it would have failed too. Dune, the original, wasn't this mystical bullshit story. It was about ecology and politics and very hard SF oriented, with all the mysticism just an...
Assasinating Franz Ferdinand. "Uncle Franz" the most beloved leader of all time. What madman would do that?
The same in Russia, the people loved the little father, kindly Rasputin, tragic little Alexi. The whole world's hearts went out to brave and lovely Anastasia and the good job she did...
It is generally accepted that America could not have been invaded by the Axis in WWII.
However.
WI Germany had done even better in the war's early stages. They take the French Navy whole and then 300,000 prisoners at Dunkirk. They convince the British to exchange their Navy for the...
Given any POD before 1900 make the native nation of Hawaii a major power today. Either a superpower, Great power, or Regional Power will do but they must remain solidly independent throughout, though crucial alliances and friendships are permitted.
Feel free to butterfly away as much of...
WI they'd used a good deal of the money they used for military in OTL to buy up land from the Russians in Siberia as well. My understanding is the Russians were sellling at this time. If they got the land cheap (and it seems the Russians at this time had little use for it) they could have used...
And gives you special powers. You are now the Indian czar, as it were, as the President will back you all the way.
He wants the Indians treated fairly, but he also wants the West settled and prosperous. He wants solutions.
You're you but you back then. You're a fairly well-known lawyer...
I know this has been on before, but I can't find it.
Hitler's taking of the Rhineland in 1936 meets with stiff resistance. His forces, heavily outnumbered and outclassed, are easily thrown back by the French with heavy losses. What happens now?
Lee will die in 1870 of a stroke, he had symptoms of angina in the war but was never incapacitated. There are other generals, Stonewall Jackson may survive, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Remember that the American populace was then armed somewhat better than even now since full auto weapons were only recently illegal and the Army was considerably less numerous and sophisticated than even in WWII. There were also lots of WWI veterans around. Should push come to shove state...
Repeating rifles and Gatling guns for everybody.
One interesting part is what might have happened what with the big war between France and Germany in 1866. There was a TL about that on here just a month or so age tho I can't find it.
There was a sexual revolution in the 20's. There are ways to prevent pregnancy besides the pill.
But yeh, the pill did make it even more so.
There might not have even been a Great Depression had we had the pill in the 1920's. Increasing pregnancies were indeed leading to a moralizing...
One of the main things the Vikings came for was timber, in very short supply in either Iceland or Greenland by this time. What kept them coming was good farmland, also in short supply at home, and things like berries etc. The Indians were the main reason they left, hostile people who had...
Have all the Indians ally with Britian during he ARW, (IIRC the Iroquois didn't). Then have the British recognize the Indian nations as sovereign and have them then become their catspaws in the Northwest until after the War of 1812. At this point the Indians unite into one nation, taking present...