Oh this is fun...
-Any timeline where Currywurst catches on as fast food in the US is a timeline I'd move to right now
-A Vinland time line seems likely to feature use of whales, seals, seabirds and their eggs, and dulse seaweed was consumed in Viking era norway. I would expect a variety of...
Wow just caught up and I'm devastated that I have to wait for new updates now T_T
In all seriousness though this is one of my favorite time lines I've read and I'm so happy to reach the most recent update of such a massive timeline and for once find that it's still alive. I'm keeping my eyes...
That would have huge butterflies in the future. The balance of power would be heavily shifted towards free states. An alt-civil war would end way sooner without Virginia, the powerhouse of population that it was. When they would ban it matters though.
Well supposedly Dessalines chose the name based on a native word meaning "land of the mountains", so any pod before otl revolution may bring a different name for the country, unless the natives actually called the land that word and Dessalines is being given false credit. I know the Kalinago had...
Yeah the vast majority are still practitioners of folk religions or buddhism, Japan is only about 3% Christian. He may be thinking about South Korea, which has a Christian plurality.
Yeah in that time frame I don't see a president converting benefiting anyone without having a tl where the Mormons don't get chased out of every place they stop between new York and Utah (exageration, but work with me). Even then, the mormon theology is so different from protestant or catholic...
It would be very interesting if ttl developed a version of the "lost tribes" idea, that each church corresponding to each apostle also corresponds to a tribe of Israel. Not that there would be any truth to it, but it would be interesting in the far future nonetheless.
The world you are creating...
I really like the idea of the Knights of Malta holding a colony, especilly in a New World with less Catholic colonies. Could have a very interesting history, especially if it ends up essentially a colony of the Catholic Church.
If the Dutch continue to hold Manhattan and Long Island, I could...
No its not really feasible without a pod long before independence or sometime after. Until they replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution the USA government was more comparable to the League of Nations than most other political organizations; No federal courts, no body to...
With the desert and Great Plains being important routes to continental trade, I would expect there would be plenty of motivation to innovate, perhaps expiramentaton with irrigation and farming techniques could be expected? Playing the right cards, whoever holds the desert trade routes could also...
So I was watching Last Night Tonight clips the other night and was reminded of that one time in 1961 where a plane accidentally dropped 2 armed nuclear weapons near Goldsboro, North Carolina, and they miraculously didn't detonate. Of course, being a frequent reader of this website, my mind...
Now this is an alternative history I can get behind. Banning sliced bread leads to more small bakeries which leads to there being a place besides Wegmans or a donut shop that I can get fresh baked goods!
They apparently actually did this in 1943, though the intention was to cut waste during the...