WHATIF

What If

What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is a comic book from Marvel Comics which was published in nine series . The narrative thread of each series is based on an alternative situation to the one established in the mainstream continuity. The characters and events in each series are treated as being independent from the mainstream continuity of the Marvel Universe.

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What If...

What If... is the seventh full-length studio album by the American rock band Mr. Big, which was released on January 21, 2011 through Frontiers Records. It was the band's first album since their 2009 reunion, their first album in 10 years since 2001's Actual Size and their first album with the original line-up featuring guitarist Paul Gilbert since 1996's Hey Man.

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What If?

What If?, subtitled The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is a collection of twenty essays and thirteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1, and this book as well as its two sequels, What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History, were edited by Robert Cowley. It was later combined with What If? 2 to form The Collected What If?.

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what if

Adverb

  1. Used to introduce a suggestion or proposal for a future event.
    What if we arrange it for 9:00 instead of 10:00?
  2. Used to introduce a speculation about a future event.
    What if we could learn to get along? What would happen then?
  3. Used to introduce a speculation about a past event. Often the basis for counterfactual historical interpretations.
    What if Abraham Lincoln had not been assassinated? How might the Reconstruction of the Southern States have been handled?


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