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Would it butterfly away the Byzantine Empire? Would Christianity still become the dominant religion in Europe? Will Alan Moore write of a trenchcoated conman named John Licinius?

I'd be interested in taking part in this, I'm a well-versed Lovecraft fanboy and I've got more than my share of knowledge of myths and folklore. I'm not so keen on the Inquisition manual idea, it's somewhat overused. How about something more modern but still in the same vein? The...

Since Baathism is a racist Arab-Nationalist ideology that hates Persians just as much as Jews and Kurds, I highly doubt it. Did you not hear about the Iran-Iraq war? Well, I can hardly blame you, it only just started thirty years ago.

How I figure it: The Russians have been in civil war, the West had been supplying the Russian government with weapons and gear (explains the Russian soldiers using FAMAS's, AUGs, MG4s, TAR-21s and Javelins plus their funky webbing and headgear.) so when the Nationalists took control, they also...

Err, isn't the entire point of Communism sharing power? The rebels at Kronstadt were the real Communists, put down by traitors who fancied themselves a new ruling class.

The title of this thread is going to mean something VERY different to the British board members :D

You are aware of the butterfly effect, right?

The Russians probably go apeshit in Chechnya again, it being the only blameable (donotmentionthesixletterword) target within it's reach... well besides Afghanistan, but I doubt the Russians would want to go through all that again. The FSB and SVR have a field day and a lot of young...

:rolleyes: Communism =/= Always Undemocratic. Carry on.

It's an unfortunate fact that one of the world's most badass religions is also one of the smallest, so I challenge AH.com to develop a scenario where Sikhism is either one or all of these things: The dominant religion of the Indian subcontinent. One of the three largest world religions...

Gah, it's so ASB my eyes are bleeding.

The former Premier of the Soviet Union has died. Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, born 1905, was one of the most beloved world leaders of our time. Since taking power in 1947 on the crest of a massive wave of popularity, she instituited sweeping reforms that stretched to every corner of Soviet...

They were also occupied by the British and were very anti-western.

We all know (well I know) the story of how Kalashnikov's tank was disabled and he had to make his way to a field hospital, and so witnessed the urban combat that inspired the development of the AK-47. So my What If is: What if a bullet had gone three or four feet in another direction or an...

The irony here is that by "making an example" of the volunteers who went to fight the French in Indochina, the US is endangering It's own Imperial holdings in the Phillipines. Ever since the Spanish civil war, the Italian anti-fascist purges and the Greek conflict, the West has been...