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The river Vardar flows south to the Aegean sea near Thessaloniki and near it is the Morava river which flows north to the Danube near Belgrade. Widening and dredging the rivers, combined with an 80km canal to link them, could let ship traffic bypass the Bosphorus. What if the governments of...

I hope it's not considered too soon to ask this. The population of Libya is sharply divided into two big chunks, one near Tunisia and the other near Egypt and the 2011 civil war was strongly split between a mostly-loyalist west and a rebellious east. Ultimately the rebels won the war by...

I've wondered how WW1 would go if the UK stayed out physically out of it, if materially supporting France. Suppose that King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm have some private discussion at some point in 1914 and the rest of the year goes as OTL until the end of July when the Kaiser vetoes any plans...

I recently saw a youtube video talking about a Danube-Morava-Axios canal project that the governments of Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia are hoping to have built with Chinese investment and I'm wondering if such a thing could be done in the 1900s within 15 years of a POD. Any ideas?

POD: A major British newspaper investigates the institutions and sensationally publishes the findings on their front page for day after day, causing witchhunts/outrage similar to OTL. What's the earliest this could concievably happen?

Apparently the list of potential Polaris bases (back when it was drawn up) included Milford Haven in SW Wales. It was apparently snubbed in favour of Faslane because Milford Haven was a village instead of a proper town back then, and it couldn't be done now because it has LNG facilities. But...

How popular is the Scorpions song 'Wind of Change' ITTL?

Are we gonna hear much about northern europe? Also, how popular are world's fairs (if there are any) ITTL? Edit: A bit niche, but does San Francisco look much different ITTL? What about Chicago? NYC? The Texan Coast? Edit again: Oh dear I forgot about the quake in SF... there's one in Kingston...

If I could give only one CMOA, it would be the Hungarians in Africa, they more than deserve it. The life of Paulo Abacar and the 'Honolulu Incident' also came to mind. I'm a sucker for great war stories. Both the Sarajevo interludes and Ibrahim Abacar's bittersweet life are excellent...

A Khanate of Sibir wank. A 21st century India tl. A forum game: Alternate travel guides.

¡HI! ¡COOL! ¡INTERESTING!:eek I like this idea. (But yeah, it should go in ASB) With proper cartography the Romans will get a nice boost to trade, military undertakings and geography. I notice the map is topographic rather than true colour; when the romans figure that out it will help them...

Zhirinovsky? Ohhh no.

I'm sure there are many reasons why sedentarism and agriculture took so long to come about, but they elude me so. For example, assuming an earlier desertification of Upper Egypt around 20-15k BCE, why wouldn't we see a Neolithic level of civilization by ~12k BCE? I'm curious as to why many...

Camilo Cienfuegos' plane avoids its mysterious crash in late 1959 and he survives. What becomes of Cuba?

I don't mean to add to a no doubt heavy workload, but I can't recall you mentioning what became of Tchaikovsky ITTL? Edit: Will we be seeing much ATL-Dada post war or something more optimistic? Mind you, marxism hasn't had any major hiccups recently ITTL, so the left is probably less dismayed...