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  1. A Communist Italy and the Mafias?

    Inspired by a thread on Italy turning Communist and it's relations with the Vatican and Church - what about the Mafias (because Cosa Nostra in Sicily is not alone...)? After all, even nowaday, far-right sympathisers claim the Duce 'squashed mafiosi' (which is not exactly how things may have...

  2. Botanical: Spread African Rice

    There is technically not one but two cultivated rice species (at least); the asian rice, but also an african specie who came from a local wild ancestor, Oryza glaberrima; range of origin is what is now Mali it seems. Wikipedia speak of it's ancient cultivation, 2-3,000 years old domestication...

  3. USA: Block or unseat Hoover

    Hoover, head of the FBI (and creator - I am not too knowledgeable on it's history?). Infamous, polarizing figure. 'Driven' in his quest to fight off Communism, associating homosexuals with the formers (while being possibly one himself), blind to the Mafia's rise and an all round asshole to say...

  4. Religious: Taoist or Buddhist China?

    Another of those alt. religious conversions and official religions threads, but with a less possibly threadened path, paradoxally. What would be needed, how and where an Emperor and administration (or maybe a vastly different path...) for that eitheir Taoism or Buddhism become official...

  5. Religious: a large conversion FROM Islam

    DISCLAIMER; While I admit being critical of Islam and not very patient with some traditionalists let's say, this thread is NOT Islam bashing intended. There is some clichés and tropes in alternate history. One seems to be - due to the Shariah rules on apostates... - that once muslim...

  6. Question for Arab world scholars

    Maybe fitting more for Help and Feedback or Non polit chat but could help me or others for a later topic... Do we know much of the preislamic organisations of arabic societies, and in this case, titles, ranks of nobility, etc? Are classic terms and titles as we know them - like Malik, Sultan...

  7. Portugal dragged/touched by Spain's civil war

    It was possibly already done long ago, but did anyone had idea, or made something about the Spanish Civil War reaching Salazar's Portugal? And I means it in a large potentialities range - be it by example a local opposition to Salazar appears or grow in courage due to the Republicans's...

  8. Religious: alt paths for Russia

    A few twists and ideas for the 'alternative religion for Russia(s)' meme who is at times around... Your challenges, if you wish to take it, is to end like... A. A muslim but SHI'ITE Russia... B. A Russia converted by Georgian church or perhaps Armenians OR even Nestorians...

  9. Linguistic: 'Official swiss german' language

    Your mission/challenge if you take it is to make that the german dialect/language of German Swisterland is officialised and nationally- legitimised, even made officially a language of it's own. Like, schooling and official texts in it, and an official position on it being an independant germanic...

  10. Economy: NO McDos?

    Okay, idea taken as I was eating pizza leftovers, and lo, yet anotehr McDo ad. The dream of somes, the nightmare of otehrs - what if the McDos chain never came to be, like, at max, the original prototypal fast food joint? Now, it mis more than a take that and such - the creation of McDo model...

  11. Europe: no 'scandinavian models/miracles'

    Sweden is much held around here, the so-called swedish model of social-democracy and all. So in fact the whole scandinavian region, from Finland (the finnish scholar system was discussed much those days as well), to Denmark and Norway. But according from here and old tales, it was not the case...

  12. A question on malay islands, peoples...

    I wonders... Checking here, wikipedia, etc, I find a lot on the history of the malay islands, peoples... The indianised states, the arrival of Islam... And I wonder - do we know things at ALL on the times BEFORE even the indian influences came? I was thinking actually of the religious and...

  13. Mexico; more afro-mexicans?

    Apologies offered if topic offend, it is made in no wish to hurt anyone. Just a random idea, cultural-ethnical make up of Mexico. The spanish colonials, after noticing that apparently natives made 'lousy' slaves, they brought black slaves from Africa over good portions of the whole Spanish...

  14. Law; no or alternate Interpol?

    In public parliance and stuff like those inane 'New World Order' conspirationite fears, there is one major yet discrete world organisation that seem rarely brought up - Interpol. Except maybe oddly in stuff like asian pop culture (was Bruce Lee helping an agent in one of his movie, and CHun-Li...

  15. Linguistic: Aramean living AND dayly serious

    It seems an obscure historic trivia - or was more before THAT Mel Gibson movie - but the Christ and many hebrews lost the old language apparently or spoke it only as a litturgic language anymore by His era. Aramean - another semitic language, (and perhaps already some dialects and varieties) was...

  16. Sports; Ice hockey SCREW!

    To celebrate the incoming sorta controversial and very canuck 'Goon' movie, who is like a new Splapshot of this generation maybe, and my frank distaste generally of sports, specially pro and all that.. Your mission, my fellows men, is to SCREW ice hockey; in Canada at least, if not whole...

  17. South Africa without (occidental) colonization?

    Some interrogations and thinking, tied to both alternate history of our world and my fantasy world, as I have a continent inspired by Africa and the (excellent) Nyambe setting... Who lived in South Africa (and surrounding states) before the arrival of whites (and maybe Zulus, as I heard they...

  18. Can imperial Japan survive and thrive?

    We all know some images d'Épinal about the feudal-medieval past of Japan - samurai, geisha, armed monks, etc... Hideyoshi, Nobunaga, Sengoku Jidai... But before it - the age of samurai, there was a another epoch, quite different. The imperial system(s) of Heian and Nara, if I am right. A...

  19. Europe and west's fate in Asia/China progress..

    Aka, what would happens to Europe and the west (roughly), and more specifically, sociological, religious, philosphicaly, etc edges, had China (or asia in general) kinda 'won' the advancement course? What if China overtook Europe and kept ahead, preindustrial, industrial conditions went in, a...

  20. Iberic peninsula with berber peoples?

    Random idea based on the obscure pre-roman history of the Iberic Peninsula, and later movements of peoples - the invasion of the muslim forces, ressac and the Sepharades going to Maghreb(?), implying the Columns of Hercules can be crossed easily kinda, and sailing around existed... Could (or...
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