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Durring the last ice age, the so called "Clovis" people settled North America by way of the Berring land bridge. Evidence showed that they even had considerible success hunting the native megafuana, even nearly causing the American Elephant and Ground Sloth to go extinct. Then they mysteriosly...

Any animation buff will tell you that the early cartoons by Walt Disney where amoung the most influential things to happen to the industry. They'll also tell you he died in poverty, forgotten and bitter. What if he was more successful on the business side? Maybe his ambitious plan for a full...

What if the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 never happened? Would Manchuria still be part of Russia? Would the Russian revolution still happen? Would Japan still become the major power it did? What about Korea?

What if Washington D.C never gets built, and the precident of Moving the US capital, say every four years or so becomes fixed?

Gennady Yanayev, famous for coming to power in the infamous 1991 Soviet hardline coup, was found dead, apparently of Dioxin poisoning. Now who takes over the Soviet Union?

What if cars that in OTL are classified as "Microcars" where much more common? What would be needed for this to happen? What would the effects be on soceity and culture?

In OTL English is a mixture of a Germanic language closely related to Frisian, and a Romance Language closely related to French. Why is it that English is the only european language like this? Why didn't any Germanic/Romance languages form on the mainland, in any of the places where Romance and...

What if at about the same time as GM came out with the EV1 in 1996, Toyota came out with a car similar to OTL's Prius. Would EV and Hybrid technology catch on with other automakers, or would the EV1 still suffer the same fate, with the same Hummer dominated 2000s?

On this map, everywhere that once had Wild Lion populations, but no longer does is red, where as everywhere that still has them is Blue. What if wild lions still existed in all the red areas on this map?

In OTL, the so called Zero_Year_Curse claimed seven US presidents. What if Every single US president elected in a year ending in zero was either assassinated or died in office: 1800: Thomas Jefferson 1820: James Monroe 1840: William H. Harrison (as OTL) 1860: Abraham Lincoln (as OTL) 1880...

Well, I decided with gas prices being what they are I might as well trade in my old gas guzzling 1997 DeLorean DMC-25 (that's the dorky sedan not the awesome 2 door that is the DMC-12) for a 2013 GM EV2. I like that there's some improvements from the EV1, and that General Motors is just as...

The Candidates are: Incumbant President Edward P. Moore, Republican Former President John F. Kennedy Jr., New Union Former President Katherine "Kate" Swift, Democratic Governor Of California Ronald "Ron" Jeremy, Libertarian Former Vice President William D. Mays, Green

So basically what it says. If neither world war was fought, would the technologies that came about as a result of military R&D durring them still be invented around the same time, "eventually", or not at all? For example without WWII would nuclear power, jet engines, or computers still exist as...

Watching this old ad for a 90s RC car that I had when I was a kid. The advertisement talks up three of the toy's features, fast, Six wheels, battery electric. I also remember the car having foward four steering (the front four wheels turn, unlike in a four wheeler where the foward two wheels...

With any POD you want, have a society where black people and white people co-exist in the same population for over 500 years without slavery or genocide of one side on the other.

In OTL the east block was infamous for making horrible cars like the Trabant, or the Yugo. With any POD after 1945, make east block cars at least as good as western ones.

Okay, so basically, what if combustion engines where never invented, but electric and steam engines still existed. How would thiss effect the history of technology and transportation?

With any POD you want, create a timeline where all four of these OTL doomed cars where successful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tucker_Sedan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklin_SV-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

Thermal_depolymerization is a process that turns hydrocarbon basied waste like plastics, biomass, and sewage into artifical crude oil. What if the knowlege and technology to preform this process exsited much early, say by 1900. What effects would this have on history?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliica With any POD after 1900, have the average car: 1. be electric 2. have a top speed of 230 MPH 3. have eight independent wheels 4. have a range of 200 miles.