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  1. Paul I of Russia dies in 1771

    Inspired by my previous bunch of threads about similar PODs (themselves inspired by a bunch of FAI stuff). Apparently, IOTL, the then-future Paul I got very ill in 1771, and even though he recovered he had significant health problems ever since. POD: he doesn't recover, and dies. Bam, no...

  2. WI: No False Dmitry I?

    Okay. So let's say the guy who would've been False Dmitry I (whoever he really was) randomly falls off his horse or somesuch and dies around the year 1600, ending up as somewhat less than a footnote in history. At that point, Boris Godunov is already in power, and his son Feodor (the future...

  3. Paul of Russia dead in 1762, what happens?

    Okay. As a lot of people here know, Peter III of Russia, when he came to the throne after Elizabeth's death in 1762, was highly unpopular for his pro-Prussian policies; as always happened with unpopular rulers, there were many plots against him, one of which ultimately succeeded several months...

  4. Plausibility Check: Earlier discovery of Alaska?

    Okay. As some of you probably already know, in 1648, Semyon Dezhnev sailed around the cape now named in his honor and thus crossed (what is now known as) Bering Strait. However, he had not noticed any land on the opposite shore of the strait, which IOTL remained undiscovered until 1732 -...

  5. WI: No Gregory Watson?

    As some of you might or might not have known, in 1982, a college (IIRC) student named Gregory Watson had heard of what was then known as the Second Proposal (being, well, the second proposal in a list of 12 of which the last 10 are now known as the Bill of Rights; the First Proposal also had a...

  6. Plausibility Check: Columbus at the Pacific?

    As you might probably know, at his fourth voyage, in early 1503, Columbus' expedition stayed for several months at pretty much the place that would IOTL be the entrance to the Panama Channel (maybe a few kilometers away at most). POD: the local Indians tell Columbus about the ocean on the other...

  7. A Pitbull On The Pantleg Of Opportunity

    A Pitbull On The Pantleg Of Opportunity (a new timeline by January First-of-May) Part 1: The Past Is Over Prologue: Where Our Wings Take Dream [1] "When the eighth circles in the correct millenium, Men among the palm trees would make the wrong holes; Next to the village will the dimmer son...

  8. Cleveland wins in 1888

    As we all know, the 1876-1888 period was noted for particularly close elections (all four are in the first seven by popular vote margin - the remaining ones are 1824 (duh), 2000 and 1960); and honestly, the 1892 one wasn't much of a landslide, either. And in 1888, the incumbent Democratic...

  9. 1876 is just a normal election

    What if, either by seat apportionment or by voter will, the 1876 election clearly went for Tilden? IOTL, Hayes got 185 electoral votes versus 184 for Tilden, after contesting everything he could; Tilden, AFAIK, won 53% of the popular vote. ITTL, say, after a different seat apportionment (OTL...

  10. Galois Lives

    Exactly what it says - Evariste Galois survives his duel of May 30, 1832 (or if that's ASB, doesn't have it in the first place) and lives for another 50 or so years. What happens to mathematics and the world in general?

  11. N00BWI: What kind of a weird made-up name is "Ulysses Simpson Grant"?

    Really, what kind of a weird made-up name is "Ulysses Simpson Grant"? I mean, come on, "Ulysses"? "Grant"? SIMPSON??? What the heck? It is obviously made up! :eek: And the worst part? It made its way into HISTORY BOOKS! And now children will be taught about a made-up character!.. :eek::eek::eek...

  12. WI: No General Frost in the War of 1812?

    So, what if there won't be the General Frost in the War of 1812? What will happen to Russia? :confused: (OOC: This is neither a DBWI nor a NOOBWI; I know perfectly well what I'm asking about, and it all makes perfect sense for me; the main idea of this thread is to see how soon will you...
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