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  1. The Irish Free State mandates the use of Irish in all parliamentary debate by 1932

    Let's suppose that the Irish Free State, in its 1922 constitution, mandates that Irish is to be the sole language of all parliamentary debate within 10 years. After 1932 English will not be permitted in the chamber. English may still be used as in OTL in other respects, but Irish is the sole...

  2. WI: No Luxembourg Crisis

    Let's say Napoléon III makes more of an impression on Bismarck in their Biarritz meeting, and Bismarck decides not to oppose France's purchase of Luxembourg in 1867. How different would relations between France and Prussia be? Would this definitely butterfly away the war, or perhaps just...

  3. WI: Napoleon dies in 1812?

    Suppose, for whatever reason, Napoleon dies in 1812, a year after his son was born. Say he falls off his horse on the way to Russia. What happens now? Napoleon II would obviously be declared Emperor, with Marie-Louise as regent. Would the rest of Europe's powers accept this and agree to a...

  4. AHC: Make New Caledonia much more populous

    The recent New Zealand population thread got me thinking about another island in that region with a significant European settler population: France's overseas territory of New Caledonia. IOTL New Caledonia has around 250,000 people today, about a third of whom are European settlers. It is...

  5. 1454 - the Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant

    A year after the Turks had done the unthinkable and conquered Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire, the Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant was called to drum up support for a new Crusade, against the Turks. History records that there was much merriment to be had at this Banquet, but...

  6. AHC: a foreign "Gibraltar" on English soil

    Here's a challenge: with a POD after 1500, have a foreign power capture and hang on to its own little Gibraltar-equivalent on the island of Great Britain, maybe in Cornwall, or perhaps Kent? It could be a historic rival like France, Spain or the Netherlands, or maybe something more outside the...
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