A Libyan salve from Carthage meets up with a bankrupt poet and they become Biggius and Pacius. This form of poetry becomes popular among Romans leading up to the battle of Zama when Scipio Africanus uses a hard-core put down rap to goad Hannibal into attacking him.
With a point of divergance from the founding of Rome to the start of the Empire, have the Romans invent hardcore gangster rap.
Bonus: They create a rap put down against Hannibal or another great enemy
North Korea is able to overrun the South during the Korean war, due to the Soviet Union being present to veto the UN resolution against North Korea. (How much of an effect this would of had is anyone's guess but i'd say the US at least still goes to war, but without International support)...
What if Great Britain went to war with the USA over the Trent incident.
What i see that could happen is a draw, or slight America victory on land primarily due to American manpower. On sea it is more unclear if the US could produce enough ships to maintain the blockade in the face of the...
So here's an idea I have, after a less devastating battle of Warsaw, the Soviet Union manages to defend, and hold onto the Eastern half of Poland. I think this has the advantage of changing world diplomacy significantly, while not igniting a second great war between the entente, a rearmed...
Possibly.
IMO without this Obama blowout early on, we could get him to give a Primary challenge to Clinton. If he clinches the nomination he has to deal with the Republican Mitt Romney.