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    Alternate US Regional Names

    As it stands, most US regions have kinda boring names; most of them have names based on cardinal directions (the South, the Northeast, the West Coast, the Midwest, etc) The only region with a different name is New England. So I was wondering what could be some potential alternative regional...
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    AHC: Larger French Minority in Canada?

    Today, about 22% of Canadians speak French as their native language. This is a third less than Anglophone Canadians (who make up 58% of Canadians) Also, the vast majority of Francophones live in Quebec with only a million French-Canadians living in other Provinces. Your challenge is to come up...
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    Plausible Alternate Standardizations of Language?

    So the traditional story goes that Standard German (Hochdeutsch) was born out of the Early Modern Saxon dialect spoken by Luther. General American is a hybrid of the New York and Midland dialects because newscasters in New York didn't want to sound like those filthy immigrants (link to cool Ted...
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    Cromwell has a better heir-how long does England stay a republic?

    If Richard "Tumbledown Dick" Cromwell had not succeeded his father as Lord Protector and in his place, a more capable leader became England's de facto king (maybe John Lambert?), how long would the Commonwealth have lasted? Was the Restoration inevitable? Would the position of Lord Protector...
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    John Brown’s Soul: We Shoulda Hanged Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree, But We Are Marching On
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    John Brown’s Soul: We Shoulda Hanged Jeff Davis from a Sour Apple Tree, But We Are Marching On -a timeline by demonkangaroo Oho! A Civil War timeline? Eh, not really. I’m not that interested in war in and of itself and there are plenty of actual ACW timelines and threads. Many of them are...
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    Maximum Number of Canadian Provinces with No Territorial Expansion

    Exactly what it says in the title. Without expanding Canada territorially, what would be the plausible maximum amount of provinces in the Confederation?
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    AHC: Frederick V and I succeeds and a Wittelsbach Bohemia

    For a very time period (August of 1619-November of 1620) at the beginning of the Thirty Years War, Bohemia and the Palatinate were joined together in a personal union by Frederick V, Elector Palatine. However, due to a successful Hapsburg campaign in Bohemia, Fred lost the Crown of Bohemia to...
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    WI: More Conservative Gridiron Football

    As it stands IOTL, gridiron football is one of the most innovative sports. Instant replay was adopted very quickly, the coach headset was accepted early on, and most importantly, a lot of modern football equipment would be unrecognizable to a player around the turn of the last century. Compared...
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    AHC: German remains large minority language in the USA, with a caveat

    Said condition being that the US still enters the World Wars against Germany. Would this be at all possible? Or is German in America pretty much toast as soon as the US starts making huge loans to the Entente?
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    So I vaguely remember a short story I might have read once

    If I recall correctly, in this story there was a family of Jews living in (maybe?) Nazi Germany, but then the daughter discovers a portal to a world with a Jewish majority in Europe. Does this sound familiar to anybody?
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    Japan Invades Australia: How Screwed Is Japan?

    Let's say IJN wins the Battle of the Coral Sea and Tojo takes some of Hitler's medicine (mostly amphetamines). The Japanese then land 5 division (Numbers from here) on Queensland. How much of a negatiive impact would that be on the Japanese war effort? How quickly would the Allies dislodge the...
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    Plausibility Check, and Challenge- Kennedy Family as Rockefeller Republicans

    Would it be at all possible in a timeline where the Republican Party is socially liberal and much more centrist for the Kennedy family to be Republicans? Or were their ties to the Democrats too strong to sever? Regards, dk
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    Term Limits for US Congressmen?

    One of the more slightly annoying peculiarities of United States Government is that in a system dominated by fear of tyranny, any congressman or woman can hypothetically be elected and re-elected for as long as he or she may live. I was wondering, with a POD between 1788 and 1900, how could we...
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    Pars pro toto for the USA

    As you all know in common speaking, many non-UK subjects will use England to refer to the entirety of Britain, or the UK, just as many non-Dutchmen and women will use Holland to refer to the Netherlands as a whole. Your challenge is, with a POD between 1600 and 1800 to create that linguistic...
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    WI: Israel in NATO?

    With a POD no earlier than 1948, could Israel become a member of NATO?
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    WI: New York instead of Yorktown?

    I just got back from vacation in Virginia, and I went to go tour the Yorktown Battlefield. In the movie played in the visitor center, it mentions that when planning for 1781, Washington preferred to attack New York, and dislodge Clinton there, but Rochambeau preferred attacking Cornwallis in the...
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    Cuba WI: Eduardo Chibas survived?

    In 1951, before the 1952 coup d'etat by Batista, the Partido Ortodoxo (Orthodox Party, their platform was mostly anti-corruption, and anti-communism), lead by Eduardo Chibas was expected to win the elections. However, IOTL, Chibas killed himself before the elections. What if Chibas hadn't killed...
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    How could France hold in 1940, and what would be the aftereffects?

    So, how could France hold its own against Germany during the Battle of France, and what would occur because the French kept fighting?
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    WI : Loius of Burgundy lived?

    In 1712, the Dauphin of France, Louis Duke of Burgandy (aka le petite dauphin) died after he caught his wife's measles. Just three years later, his grandfather, Louis XIV died. What would be the effects of having this fellow become Louis XV instead of OTL's Louis XV?
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    How can Acadia stay French?

    During Queen Anne's War, there were two British attempts at taking Acadia, the first one unsuccessful. What would need to happen in order for Acadia to stay ruled by the French?
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