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  1. WI/AHC: Tokugawa State Christian Church

    In OTL the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan persecuted Christian converts, killing huge numbers of them and driving a minority underground. Japanese subjects were required to have certificates of religious loyalty from state-controlled Buddhist temples. But what if the Tokugawa Shoguns had decided...

  2. Japanese Invasion of Ceylon, WWII

    There's a thread comparing a possible WWII Japanese invasion of Australia with the planned (and near-universally derided) German plan to invade Britain, Operation Sea Lion. Someone in the thread said a Japanese invasion of Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) would be more realistic. So under what...

  3. Medieval Burgundy Becomes a Modern State

    Faeelin posted this link on Facebook earlier today. It's too long to mega-quote, so here it is: https://www.adamtooze.com/2017/05/31/medieval-burgundys-abortive-state-building/ Basically the argument was that Burgundy was on the verge of transitioning from a feudal realm to an early-modern...

  4. Two "Fouke Monster" Scenarios For You

    On the recommendation of board member Petike I started listening to the skeptic podcast "Monster Talk" and they interviewed Lyle Blackburn, who has done an extensive amount of research on the Fouke Monster, also known as "The Beast of Boggy Creek." He's studied not only accounts of people who'd...

  5. Malcolm X Saves President From Assassination

    In the film X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, mutant extremist Mystique breaks with mutant extremist (and her sometimes boyfriend) Magneto to dramatically save U.S. President Richard Nixon from assassination. As a result, by the time of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (I haven't seen it yet, so no spoilers) mutants...

  6. WI Vichy French Sink (Or Damage) HMS HOOD?

    I'm reading about Mers-e-Kebir in ENGLAND'S LAST WAR AGAINST FRANCE and apparently a small French ship managed to get two torpedoes off against the HMS HOOD, which barely avoided them. What if they'd struck true? I don't know about the HOOD's protections against torpedoes, so what if: 1...

  7. AHC: U.S. Trades Imprisoned Black Muslims for American POWs

    During WWII, the U.S. traded a few hundred Japanese internees for American prisoners. However, during the war the U.S. also imprisoned Elijah Muhammad for preaching against the U.S. in favor of Japan and there were pro-Japanese black organizations, albeit (I imagine) not very significant ones...

  8. A WWII Movie Based on THE NEW DEALERS' WAR

    The narrative movie Lincoln was based on a book entitled Team of Rivals that's basically about how Lincoln assembled his previous political rivals into an effective team to win the Civil War. How likely is it that one might make a narrative film about the last days of FDR based on The New...

  9. Israeli Lobbying Groups Forced to Register as Foreign Agents

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act There were several cases ranging from the 1950s to the late 1980s where the U.S. government took steps toward making the American Zionist Council (a predecessor to AIPAC) officially register as a foreign agent, but this never...

  10. Darfur Intervention

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur During the war, there was a lot of advocacy in certain quarters for international intervention in Darfur given how the government there had been charged with genocide and apparently international law requires military intervention in the event of...

  11. Otto Ernst Remer Killed Before July 20

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ernst_Remer Remer was wounded in battle and placed in command of troops in Berlin. When the July 20 plot took place, he was sent to arrest Goebbels who put him on the phone with Hitler, who it turned out was still alive. Remer then took the troops he was...

  12. Goebbels Dies In Operation Valkyrie

    In the movie Valkyrie, soldier under Otto Remer are coming to arrest Goebbels and he puts a poison pill in his mouth before he calls Hitler. Fortunately (for him) communications with Hitler's lair have been restored and he puts Hitler on the line with the Army commander and stops the coup. (I...

  13. Playable Illidari Faction in WOW: The Burning Crusade

    In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, there was an expansion pack called The Burning Crusade. Basically you get to go into Outland and fight Illidan and various demonic powers. A lot of fans (including some here) hated the game for its character-assassination of Illidan. They took one of the more...

  14. AHC: Latin American PLO

    The United States for decades has been unduly influential in its neighboring countries, including overthrowing insufficiently-friendly governments and causing all sorts of problems due to its consumption or and militarized policies against narcotics. This has obviously not made the United States...

  15. AHC: Jihadi Caliphate Finlandizes Earth

    With a POD no earlier than 1900, make it so that all or most of the oil-producing Middle Eastern nations are united under an Islamic jihadi regime that raises oil prices to a large degree and manages to basically Finlandize the industrial world by using said oil prices to become one of the...

  16. Cultural WI: Ender's Game Succeeds

    The film adaptation of Ender's Game premiered last November amid controversy about author Orson Scott Card's rather harsh* views on homosexuality, gay marriage, etc. The movie, despite receiving good reviews, ultimately fizzled at the box office. (Possibly this was due to the boycott by...

  17. Economics WI: Minimum Wage Pegged To Inflation

    Every so often there's a debate in the USA on raising the minimum wage. What if it had been pegged to inflation from the beginning, so that it rose automatically as needed rather than needing Congressional approval each and every time? Given how controversial the minimum wage is among...

  18. AHC: Saner, Less Evil Axis That's Still Axis

    Inspired by this post I made in the "Fewer WWII Civilian Casualties" thread... How do we get something like this to happen? Having the Japanese government hang everyone involved in the May 15 Incident might be a good POD to have a saner Japan that's still provoked China against it, but it's...

  19. North Korean Coup or Civil War, 1995

    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/31/was_a_north_korean_general_really_executed_by_mortar_fire#sthash.VT6ta103.DOrqvasH.dpbs This article references a possible attempted military coup in North Korea in 1995 that was crushed with a minimum of combat and maximum executions...

  20. Al Qaeda Attacks on Wall Street

    What if at some point during/after the financial crisis, al-Qaeda had attempted or succeeded at some kind of terrorist attack on Wall Street? Not only would this generate the kind of attention and body-count that AQ likes, but they could claim they were punishing the financial sector for its...
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