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What if the Library at Alexandria had not have been burned by successive religious nutbags?
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What if more people than monks could read after the fall of the Roman Empire?AshtonBlack wrote:What if the Library at Alexandria had not have been burned by successive religious nutbags?
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What if Operation Eagle Claw had succeeded?
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We could have gone fishing sooner?Ian wrote:What if Operation Eagle Claw had succeeded?
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SOCOM may never have been created, and some people would have gotten home sooner.Ian wrote:What if Operation Eagle Claw had succeeded?
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I'll seriously be pondering this question soon. I'm doing a 20-30 page research paper on Operation Eagle Claw and its aftermath for a class.Ian wrote:What if Operation Eagle Claw had succeeded?
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What if the Japanese had said or done something other than mokusatsu in response to the Potsdam Declaration? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu
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Not odd it was to stop getting arrested.klr wrote:
Odd how so many communist revolutionaries had assumed names: Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Molotov ...
The Soviet Union would be here today but in a smaller form stalin was the beginning of the end.born-again-atheist wrote:What if Lenin had been able to voice his disapproval of Stalin?
I think he would got further if he did just bag stalin not everyone that was in high positions of the CPSU.
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What if the US had gone through with airstrikes against Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, instead of the blockade option? What if it went throught with a full-scale invasion?
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What if Catherine of Aragorn had provided Henry VIII with a male heir that survived through to adulthood and became king? aka. what if the protestant reformation hadn't occurred?
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The English wouldn't have arse-raped Ireland but they would also be teeming with arse-raping Catholic priests and they would be less smug about everything because Catholic self-debasement doesn't allow for that.
What if white was black and black was white?
What if white was black and black was white?
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What if the aquatic ape hypothesis were accurate?
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Sometimes the best way to see the reasons for what was done is to look at it in light of what was not done.Animavore wrote:The English wouldn't have arse-raped Ireland but they would also be teeming with arse-raping Catholic priests and they would be less smug about everything because Catholic self-debasement doesn't allow for that.
What if white was black and black was white?
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Accident rates at zebra crossings would be totally unchanged.Animavore wrote:What if white was black and black was white?
What if it was impossible to formulate what if scenarios?
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Bored people on forums would have more dramazSeraph wrote:Accident rates at zebra crossings would be totally unchanged.Animavore wrote:What if white was black and black was white?
What if it was impossible to formulate what if scenarios?
What if Hitler had skipped invading Poland and just gone quietly about gassing his own Jews. Would there have ever have been more than diplomatic tut tutting about it?
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