Most Interesting Historical 'What If'

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Expand on that a bit if you will lardo, I'm not sure what that implicates...I've never really studied in depth the happenings at Pearl Harbor...
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Council of Nicea and Alexandria library are good ones.

I know some people will question the validity of this, but there is enough evidence out there for me to intellectually propose what if Christ had not risen from the dead?

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Lardo- the Japanse werent equipped for a sea invasion of Russia from the East, bad weather and overland invasion would've taken to long (would sitting ducks marching in from China, Burma, etc)

Interesting theory - would've kept the US on the sidelines for awhile longer

Having bombers at Pearl and actually doing massive amounts of damage might be a better - what if?

For all the US screwups (possible Conspiracy Theories on Pearl and Roosevlet- the Japanses Navy actually did a crappy job)
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I'll go out on a limb here....and pick one.....but i give myself the right to take it back


but the one that most directly affects me in the way that I know it.... is what if America had lost the Revolutionary War.

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we would have better accents.

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What if the printing press was never invented?
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What if the transistor had never been invented?

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What if Bill 1572 passed??


A bill that would have given college students and employees the right to carry handguns on campus died with nary a shot being fired in the General Assembly.

House Bill 1572 didn't get through the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus."
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What if some of those students & professors had been able to protect themselves by being armed and not ducks in a barrel?

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Great stuff so far! Here are three more.

What if the South would have won the Civil War?

What if the Prophet Muhammad had been killed by Meccan idolaters when he began to preach against their religion?

What if the U.S. government would have discovered the plot to hijack planes on 9/11 and prevented the entire event from happening?

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