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YNot1989
Biography
Born: February 24th, 1989
Puyallup, Washington
Nationality: American
Faith: Agnostic
Ancestry: Scotch-Irish, German,(1/16 Cherokee)
Residence: Prescott, Arizona
Occupation: Student
Previous Occupations US Congressional Page, Greenskeeper, Carpenter, Campaign Organizer.
Political views: Socially Liberal/Fiscally Moderate
Political party: Non Partisan
Political positions: Fiscal: Moderate
Social: Liberal
Foreign policy: Moderate-Libertarian
Defence: Moderate
Interests
Main interests:
  • Geopolitical history
  • History, society, politics, engineering, physics, cars, planes, space flight, philosophy, etc.
  • War Consol Games, PC RTSs, Spore, Political/Action/Comedy Movies.
  • The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Lost, the Office, Boston Legal, the West Wing.
  • Wikipedia and alternative history
Althistory interests: American Alternate History, Roman Alternate History, and Point of Departure Alternate History.

Contents

[edit] An Independent in 2000

A notable mayor from Seattle runs as an Independent Candidate for President in 2000... and he wins.

[edit] History 101

The timelines under this category are multiple points of divergance utilizing the same point of departure involving five students from Arizona.

[edit] Our Revolution

An Alternate Alternate History. What if the students from Engine of Progress, found themselves smack in the middle of the American Revolution, instead of World War II?

[edit] Engine of Progress

In 2010 a group of engineering students and their campus were flung into 1938 by forces beyond their control. With the knowledge and resources of half a century of technological progress at their disposal, these five young men and women rewrote the course of history.

[edit] A House United

The five students of Our Revolution and Engine of Progress find themselves stuck in the American Civil War, and shift the dynamics of American History into an entirely new paradigm. (Up for adoption)

[edit] What If?

These are really just above throw away TLs, written just as thought experiments.

[edit] Princip's Sandwich

In 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip who after a failed assassination attempt earlier that day, decided to go for a sandwich when he saw his target for a second time in the same day. What if Princip went to a different deli that day?

[edit] Heartland

Inspired by a chain letter: What if in 2005 the Blue States left the Union to form their own country?

[edit] Empire of the West

What if Catherine of Aragon bore Henry VIII a son?

[edit] The United States vs. Richard Nixon

What if President Nixon stood trail after he resigned?

[edit] The Second Depression

What if in 2008 the economic crash of the financial sector is much larger, and results in a new Great Depression.

[edit] Remnants of Armageddon

In 1994 Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 fractured and collided with Jupiter, but what if one of those fragments made its way towards Earth?

[edit] Thanks Jimmy!

What if the US hostages in Iran were returned the week before the 1980 US Presidential election, giving Jimmy Carter a narrow victory against Ronald Reagan?