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As we all know, George W. Bush became only the third US president to be Impeached, and the only one successfully removed from office. The Democratic Congress found him guilty of violating the 8th amendment because of his adminstration's approval of "Enhanced interrogation techniques". Dick...

Anyone with the slightest knowledge of history can tell you that for most of human history women have held authority over men. In times past men where considered to be the property first of their mother, and then of their wife. The word "father" didn't even exist until the discovery of the male...

The original draft of the constitution was rather vague on if, upon the death of the President, the Vice President becomes a President in his own right, or is simply "acting president". John Tyler, the first Accendent VP set the so called "Tyler Precedent", where by the accendent VP is a...

What if James Madison and his wife didn't kill themselves after Washington DC fell to the British in the war of 1812? Would the war still end in a stalemate, or would his leadership produce enough butterfly effect to cause a more clear victory one way or another?

What if the United States congress, and those of the individual states, only had a single house of congress rather than a house of representives and a senate?

What if the Japanese car company Toyota had never bought out the Ford brand? How would this have changed the evolution of the Automotive industry? Would Hybrid F-150s still be the world's best selling truck? What about the Toyota-Ford Corrola? Would the Corrola still be the best selling car...

What if Britian and the United States never went to war in 1812. How would this shape the history of Canada, the United States, and Great Britian?

With a POD no later then 1985, have the world look like this by the current decade.

So if the Russians had made good on their promise to intervene on Serbia's behalf in the Austro-Serbian War of 1914-1915, then would the Germans and Italians make good on their secret alliance with Austria? What about the secret French Alliance with the Russians agianst Germay? What about the...

What if Democratic candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 election instead of Republican John C. Fremont as in OTL?

So if the south never left the union, and the american civil war never happened, how does the slavery issue play out?

The Protestant terrorist group calling itself the TCA, or "The True Christian Army" has claimed responsibilty for yesterday's bombing at the Vatcan, and the death of the Pope and five cardinals that resulted. The news resulted in anti-protestant riots by catholics in several countries.

I read a book about world war two. In the book it talked about a proposal that was considered in 1945 that would've split Germany into "East Germany", under Soviet occupation, and "West Germany" under British and American Occupation. What if this had actually happened? Would East Germany become...

Your challenge is to start with the same basic linguistic building blocks as OTL's english (Galic, Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Norman French, Church Latin, etc) and with any POD you like, have them evolve into an alternate language that is completly uninitelligable to OTL english speakers.

In OTL, the United States "Whig party" is know primarily for only winning the presidency twice, and each time having the winner die in office, and replaced by an embattled or ineffectual accendent VP one termer. Your challenge is to have the whig win the most presidental elections (in OTL the...

As we all know, of all the United States presidents, Abraham Lincoln had the by far the strangest death, attacked by an American Black Bear while ridding his horse at night. What if Lincoln was never attacked by a bear?

As we all know, the Visigoths where able to push the Moors out of Spain after epic and bitter fighting from 711 AD to 741 AD. We also know that the Visigoths where also the first Europeans to adopt Islamic ideas of science and medicine, and in 1501, the first Eurasian power since the Vikings to...

Your challenge should you choise to accept it is to have the groups of people commonly called gypsies in english (European Romani people, Irish Travels ect) make up 50% or more of the united states population.

What if the Russian royal family (by which I mean the Tsar, Tsarina, and their children) Died, let's say in a train accident in the year 1900 or there abouts, before either the 1905 revolution or the 1917 revolution.

As we all know when the first explorers from the United States of America discovered the New Caroline Islands* and Antipodia**, they where fasinated with the fact that the Caroline Natives* had domesticated the Elephant Birds*** and Haast's Eagles (named of course after the first White Man to...