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In a scenario where the Central Powers won WW1, how and what will the world think of an Entente victory? Will the world think of an Entente victory as impossible as the Central Power and Axis victory threads criticized as impossible here or something which is possible? Does it matter if the...

How about we reverse the fates of Germany and America: What if the Union had decisively defeated Confederate forces at Antietam in September 1862 (maybe Order 191 gets lost or something), and eventually won the War Between the States, while Prussia failed to bring the South German States into...

NOTE: This was posted in another forum thing, but I’m posting it here because why not? We all know that after the events of Super Mario Bros. on the NES, Bowser has died in the lava pits and is never to be seen again. Because of that, Nintendo had to use either Tatanga, Wart, or some other...

Of course, since 1988, when Super Mario Bros. 3 came out, things started to become very unusual. It was the start of having Donkey Kong as the main villain of the Super Mario series. As for Bowser (the main villain of SMB1)? He fell to obscurity until Rare came along and brought him back as the...

I am of course referring to 1888 miracle in which Frederick third’s cancer after nearly taking his life on June 15 went into remission leading to him being being cancer free by 1889. Where we all know He then went on to rule until his death in 1921. Playing a major role Along with Queen...

The Late Bronze Age collapse was a truly pivotal event in world history. Many cultures and polities were swept away by the events and consigned to the sands of time. Not even Egypt, which had proven very resilient and withstood numerous other challenges over its millennia of existence, could...

When it comes to alliances, you don't get much more legendary than Rome and Carthage. When Pyrrhus invaded Sicily, it was only natural that the actions he took would cause the two republics to develop the kind of friendship that can only be forged in fire. Together, the two would square off...

Disney has recently announced plans for a new Simpsons series. Whether it will be as good as the original show remains to be seen. Like many others with fond memories of Springfield and its yellow-skinned denizens, I've greeted this news with a mixture of trepidation and excitement. In light of...

The Old World is commonly thought of as a place of monarchies, and the New a place of republics. While this is generally true, there are exceptions in both cases. One of these is the Mexican Empire. What if Mexico had ended up becoming a republic?

France spent a brief amount of time as a republic during and after the Franco-Prussian War, but after the Legitimists and the Orléanists worked out a compromise, the monarchy was quickly restored. The childless Henri, Comte de Chambord became ruler of France, with Louis-Philippe, Comte de Paris...

What if the quagga had never been domesticated?

Ioseb Djugashvili stands as one of the most famous religious leaders in history. But the seminary he attended was notorious for producing radicals - especially Marxists. What if he had become a Marxist?

Ioseb Jughashvili is widely considered to have been one of the most important religious leaders of the 20th century. But his life could very easily have taken a different path. While many have speculated how things might have changed had he decided to focus on becoming a poet, I'm going to take...

In the late 2000s, Nickelodeon was reportedly working on a live-action movie trilogy that would be a big-screen adaptation of its hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. But as I'm sure we all know, these plans never came to fruition. Why exactly it was scrapped remains a mystery...

What if Venice had ended up as part of Italy, rather than becoming an independent country?

After the crash of the Hindenburg the Zeppelin industry lost a lot of popularity. Especially with its association with Germany during WW2. But after the war the industry eventually revived as the main delivery method for low priority packages and as a luxury transportation method. But what would...

As colonialism in the New World faded, most of the newly independent nations became monarchies, as in the Old World. There were notable exceptions, of course, but monarchism by and large carried the day. But what if most of the New World's states were republics?

A relatively obscure rebellion against the British crown was put down, with George Washington, its ringleader, being executed and the rest of the leaders exiled to some godforsaken land in the middle of nowhere. I had a theory that if they won a few more battles, some European powers could have...

Okay, so, in our timeline, the term "National Socialism" is associated with the ideology Finnish nationalist rebels and the regime they managed to establish in the wake of the collapse of the Russian Tsardom. For those of you not familiar with early 20th century Finnish politics, their ideology...

Today (at least in the United States) we celebrate Columbus Day, a holiday dedicated to a man who was not just a bold explorer, but also remarkably magnanimous. Of course, he wasn't perfect, but he was more than humane by the standards of his day and the more negative aspects of his legacy are...