Updated: Feb 9, 2021
(Topic suggestion from listener, Eric Rush)
As many as nine of Queen Victoria's male descendants suffered from hemophilia, a bleeding disorder known to be inherited from a recessive gene on the X-chromosome.
How might history have been changed if Victoria had not been a carrier of the gene?
Updated: Feb 9, 2021
(Topic suggestion from listener, Joe McCullough)
The first major battle of the 1898 Spanish-American war was the US naval victory over Spanish forces at the Battle of Manila Bay.
What if Spain had been victorious in that battle? How would the near term course of the war and the larger scope of history had been different with that change?
In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million thereby increasing the land size of the US by over 20% for what is now considered a financial bargain.
How would history be different if Russian and/or the Soviet Union had maintained a territorial presence in North America?
