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Adequately. :D (Althoguth quite how socialism is relevant in a socio-economic hemisphere where 50%+ regard themsevlves as middle class, and the dialectical materialism of historical "progress" has been resolutely rebutted, well ... that's your poblem, presumably ...)

You get a proper politicial belief...

This was where I went with the POD...

The Coen Brothers are attached to a film adaptation of The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which I think would (will?) have sufficient literary, cross-over appeal.

Hullo! Alternate history! If it was done in combination with a nascent and techno-utopian Egyptian identity, at the right time, this kind of megaproject could be used for all the above suggestions. Look at Nehru's India, with its dam-building programme, the autobahns in Nazi Germany, and the...

It'd possible now, if the political will was there, though in this scenario is dependent on the POD and available technologies. If the surface area of the new inland sea is sufficient, it'd definitely affect weather patterns, and there'd be some increase in precipitation (mostly through dew)...

Contemporarily, such brine wells can be used to harvest the materials for everything from sodium hydroxide (used to produce aluminium from bauxite), industrial chlorine (disinfectant, bleach, poison gas), hydrogen (pre-Hindenburg airship fuel), salt-based food preservatives, and sodium carbonate...

Ding! Your timeline is ready. :)

A fantastic, if deeply disturbing, book. I think the finale was something like magical realism, with the timeline shift standing as a metaphor for the full emotional impact of the Holocaust. EDIT: That said, I think the strangest I've seen was "Murder in Geektopia" by Paul di Filipo, set in...

This one, for me. :D

Simple Salonika POD: avoid Great Fire of 1917. By the sound of it, the city was pretty vulnerable to fire at this time, but you could easily have something a bit smaller and later, extinguished faster, with nowhere near as much damage. Bam! 50,000 more Jews, 12,500 more Orthodox and 10,000...

Just out of interest, and not knowing that much about Judaism - who would be some of our best parallels from Jewish theology & scripture?

Star Wars influence map. :)

1272-1307: Edward I/IV (Plantagenet) 1307-1310: Edward II/V 1310-1312: Robert I (de Bruys, Scottish invasion) 1312-1324: Edward III/VI (Thomas of Brotherton, declared all regnal numbering starts at Offa) 1324-1334: Edward IV/VII (The Boy King) 1334-1351: Edward V/VIII (The Black Prince)...

PRE: 1910: Shapurji Saklatvala, President of the People's Republic (Communist) 1918: Ramsay MacDonald (Socialist Labour) 1922: Jonathan Smith (Communist, adopts 5-year, one term system, not retroactive) 1930-31: Cecil Malone (Communist) 1931: Cecil Malone dies prematurely and is succeeded by...

1714-8: George I (Hanoverian) 1718-1766: James III (Stuart second restoration) 1766-1788: Charles III 1788-1807: Henry IX (Cardinal-King) 1807-1809: Interregnum

With the early death of Josiah Wedgewood, the Wedgewood-Darwin dynasty is extinguished ... with a surprising number of butterflies: An underfunded Trent-Mersey Canal takes far longer to reach completion - with potential butterflies for the industrial revolution. No John Wedgewood (Josiah's...

Intriguing. Who'd be the principal actors in a (maybe slightly delayed) gold rush in Mexican California? Mexicans? Americans? Immigrants? Staying in Mexico in the first place? If so, I think we could safely give him a lifespan into the early 1840s. Radicalise them - with some...

I do have a certain fondness for Cambridge Computing, as one of those small PODs that butterflies rapidly. The latter stages are unrealistic and a bit -wanky, but the core concept is pretty solid.

Well, I wasn't saying it was going to make that much of a difference. He originally suggested running as a point of principle, rather than as part of any long-term game plan. And this is all in the primaries. It's quite a small POD, but still - doesn't mean it's inherently ASB territory. :(...