"Prior to the Paris Peace talks, Prince Faisal, still temporary head of the Syrian administration invited Chaim Weizman, the Zionist leader to his HQ in Aqaba- with an eye to establishing favourable relations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. During their meeting,they signed an...
Why not both. While greeting some international guests from a socialist brother country alongside they're intended gifts some mosquitos come alongside and infect the Great Leader. Kim dies of a bad case of dengue fever and North Korea sees "Denguist" reforms.
Any source for this? Sounds like quite a major new discovery. If true that would be an important if rather unpleasent potential POD.
Edit: (But If there is no evidence it would be quite an accusation)
Maybe there is a route there looking at our timline‘s evolution of light gun games and speeding it up engough to something we would call a „video“ game console and at least less of a ectromechanical arcade?
1936 Seeburg Ray-O-Lite
Description: Ray-O-Lite Rifle, Seeburg, 1/36, a duck shoot game...
The easiest answer would be to slighly alter the doctrine of Aum Shinrikyo and have them go for international target(s).
Its a syncretic belief system that draws upon Asahara's idiosyncratic interpretations of elements of early Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Hinduism, taking...
One interesting example that came up occasionally in this discussions was the North Borneo Chartered Company as an starting point for "postive" imperialism that might lift up a colony in the long term. ( Consequences of surviving Aceh Sultanate /this way/ on *Indonesia & Positive imperialism )
I think one interesting possibilty could be some form of scientifc paleontology developing in Song China:
" It was Shen Kuo who formulated a hypothesis about the process of land formation (geomorphology) based upon several observations as evidence. This included his observation of fossil...
One idea I had for a while was an African American science/economy wank.
The starting point would be the POD of „Children Of Fire: An African-American TL” with a more successful freedman bank as explained by its author Kooluk Swordsman:
„The POD I have set is that the Freedman's Savings and...
Inspired by a quote form the article - This Pioneering Black Zoologist’s Insights Were a Century Ahead of Their Time:
"Turner may also have been a step ahead of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. About 13 years before Pavlov published a renowned paper on salivating dogs and the fundamental form...
I am not sure a non ASB Anarchist Germany would be possible but you probably don‘t want Hitler but someone like this guy and his syndicalist movement
„Johann Rudolf Rocker (March 25, 1873 – September 19, 1958) was a German anarchist writer and activist. His father died when he was a child, and...
This idea is basically based on a simple idea what if we combine the excellent timeline of Reach for the Skies: A Space Mad USA in 1876 with a fleshed out version of this thread Ming Dynasty and Steam Power and the Ch'ing-yang event of 1490.
The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (Chíing-yang meteor...
One interesting alternate technology would be " Blowing Bubbles to Pollinate Flowers - Researchers in Japan have developed a soap bubble-based pollination method that is as effective as doing it by hand" just for the aesthetic otherwordlyness.
Yes things like that. Mostly thinking/looking about/for possible interesting uses that wouldn't be immediately obvious. One example would be the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War were pigeons were used to carry mail between besieged Paris and the French unoccupied territory. Fairly...