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  1. VIGNETTE: Songs for Europe

    THE BOSTON PEOPLE'S FRIEND. 29 Floréal CCXXVII EUROSONG 227: YOUR GUIDE FROM THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND Citizens, it’s happening again! Gather round the kinetoscopes, crack open the drink of your choice and leave your taste at the door, because it’s EuroSong 227! What’s that you say citizen? You...

  2. WI Sumner dies on the Senate Floor?

    In May of 1856 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was brutally assaulted on the floor of the Senate by Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina. Brooks was the nephew of Sumner's fellow Senator, Andrew Butler, who Sumner had attacked by name in a great anti-slavery oration several days...

  3. Vignette: The Starman and the Monolith

    i. Seventy years on, Starman & Monolith are a powered duo unlike any other. They’re earthy: fond of food and drink and cigarettes and a bit of a scrap. Properly working class- a private detective and his construction worker best friend. Patriotic and loyal to their friends, but absolutely...

  4. AHC: Li Hongzhang, Emperor of China

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make Li Hongzhang (Li Hung Chang) the most dominant figure in China, either to the extent that he fully eclipses others like the Dowager Empress... or as the head of a new Imperial dynasty himself. Your POD can be no earlier than 1839.

  5. WI Marcus Livius Drusus successful?

    In 91 BC the reforming tribune Marcus Livius Drusus was assassinated. His death was the catalyst for the Social War, one of the first major conflagrations of the Republic's final century.* He was also a man of impeccably conservative stock, and perhaps the last statesman who could put forward a...

  6. WI The Second Crusaders are competent?

    Just what it says on the tin: the initial bunch don't try to repeat the epic trek through Asia Minor and don't get wiped out, and then when the main body of the force arrives it decides to attack someone other than the Kingdom of Jerusalem's crucial ally. What happens?

  7. The Kiama Ghost: A Timeline.

    Hello everyone. I've lurked here for a while, and I've decided to finally try my hand at a timeline. It might be a little slow to start with, but basically I decided to try for an Australian timeline with a great deal more social unrest and internal tension than OTL. In 1868, the second son...

  8. WI MacArthur dies before Pearl Harbor?

    OK, so I don't know much about MacArthur beyond the received Hollywood facts- prima donna, egotistical maniac, flashes of brilliance, stretches of bumbling, violated chain of command protocols in Korea- and I know especially little about the Philippines campaign. But in several threads on this...
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