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  1. Earlier British Seizure of the Cape Colony?

    One of the hallmarks of alternate history (ASB, yes) the Domination of the Draka begins with the conceit of an earlier seizure of the Cape Colony by the British. I'm not interested in that sort of scenario. How do you think the Cape Colony would have fared if it was seized by the British in...

  2. AHC: Grossdeutschland

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have a Grossdeutschland in existence by 1900 with a POD in 1848 or thereafter. For the purposes of this challenge, a Grossdeutschland will be defined as approximately the OTL extent of the German Empire, but including the German speaking...

  3. AHC: President Bonaparte (R-MD)

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have this man elected President of the United States or, failing that, put up as a candidate for one of the main political parties in the US.

  4. Australian Analogue to Mormonism?

    Mormonism has always fascinated me- it is such a uniquely American religion. (I know, I know, you may disagree, but hear me out) Mormonism declared that the Garden of Eden was in America (specifically, Jackson County, Missouri) Mormonism integrated Native Americans into their Book of Mormon as...

  5. AHC: Earlier large scale Hispanic immigration

    To the US of course. Scenario must have the 'brown beats black' demogeaphic event occur before, say, 1988.

  6. Alternate World's Fairs

    Having recently read The Devil In The White City, I've become enamored with World Fairs. My current TL, for example, includes a proto-Fascist state showing its colors through the Exposition Universelle 1889, which isn't just a throw-away gimmick, as you'll see. (The New York Columbian Exposition...

  7. On A Black Horse

    Comedie Francaise In the comedy that was the Third Republic, Henry, comte de Chambord, may lay claim to being the protagonist. For it was Henry, the last, best hope of the Monarchists, who had caused the birth of the Republic due to his intransigence. And it was Henry, woe of the monarchists...

  8. In The Footsteps of Blanqui

    So, a plausibility check for an idea I've had for a little while (really, a long line in musings of a non-Bolshevik communist victory) So, basically, the Central Revolutionary Committee of Edouard Vaillant manages to staunch its losses of members to the Boulangistes. (Rochefort, I think, is...

  9. AHC: Former British Colony Gone Tinpot

    Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have a majority white (plurality if you include East Asians) and English speaking country, and a former British colony, go the way of much of the Third World. With a POD after 1865, to avoid the standard Confederate option. While a balkanized...

  10. "Rewilding" the West

    Based in part on this thread and on these ideas, is there any way we can see an extensive "rewilding" in the American West, with the seeding of African or Asian species on the Great Plains? I put this here as only prior to modern environmental studies can the idea even come into being. Decades...

  11. New Villages and Strategic Hamlets

    New Villages were the population transfers the British used to successfully combat the Malayan Emergency. IOTL, they inspired the Strategic Hamlet program of Vietnam, where they were an abject failure. Why was there such a contrast between the results of the two programs? Did the British get...

  12. The Big Switch

    The Big Switch- No Nixon in 1952 Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA) in tears after the 1952 Republican national Convention. On his left is Senator William Knowland (R-CA), nominee for Vice President THE BIG SWITCH Background/Point Of Departure: The California Delegation to the 1952 Republican...

  13. Nuclear Power Development in Britain Equivalent to France

    Is there any way for nuclear power in the UK to be equivalent to nuclear power in France by the present day? For reference, 19.6% of energy produced in the UK in 1996 was nuclear. 78.8% of France's 2004 output was nuclear. The first commercial nuclear power plant in France was built in 1965...

  14. Most Wanted Playing Cards

    If you don't know about OTL, look here. What ahistorical decks could exist? Is there any way the idea behind these could have originated in an earlier War?

  15. Earlier development of the angled flight deck?

    IOTL, the angled flight deck and the steam catapult stick out as the two post-WWII carrier innovations. So, what if someone had seen the merits of an angled flight deck earlier? Say, during the 1930s?

  16. The Muallaf of Kiev

    THE MUALLAF OF KIEV From The Tale of Bygone Years [1] Vladimir summoned together his vassals and the city elders and said to them: "Behold, the Greeks came before me urging me to accept their religion. Then came the Germans and praised their own faith and after them came the Red Jews...

  17. Modern Day Language "Reforms"

    Inspired by a recent thread in PC about Turkey, what countries could see a major language and writing reform equivalent to that seen in Turkey during the nineteenth century? I'm not including places that did not have a standardised method at the time, so much of Africa is out. During the...

  18. I need answers. TLQ&A

    (OOC: Why not? There seem to be plenty....) I believe that something has happened and I can't explain it. Today, I awoke in my apartment to find nothing out of place. However, after stepping out in my daily routine, I found everything completely unrecognizable. I appear to be in a small town...

  19. LoN Mandates Factored Into Reparations?

    One of the first failures of the League of Nations truth be told. So, lets change it. What are the effects if Germany's reparations are reduced according to the value of the African Mandates?

  20. Devouring With A Thousand Mouths

    It was the incarnation of blind insensenate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs: it was the Great Butcher — it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle 1906 [1] ------------- Red River Station. The primary...
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