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In OTL the american Whig party only won two presidental elections. Of the four Whig presidents, two died in office (Harrison, Taylor) and two where embattled/ineffectual accendent vice presidents (Tyler, Filmore) the Whigs are also infamous for their collapse durring the 1850s over the issue of...

In life Louis XIV had a massive appetite, eatting considerably more then the average person despite his size. After his death, doctors found he had a stomach over twice the size of an average man, and over twice the length of intestine. So let's say he's born with a normal digestive system. How...

When the republican party first arived on the scene in the mid 19th century, it was considerably more progressive and left leaning then it's modern counterpart, while the democratic party, for most of it's life was fairly conservative. Your challenge, with any POD following the 1856 election, is...

In OTL, the six years of WWII where also the six coldest years of the 20th century. Cold played a major role in the war. What if instead of being the coldest years of the 20th century, 1939-1945 where the warmest? How would this effect the war?

In OTL the Chinese empire never expanded beyond the Caspian Sea. What if it had expanded further west? How far west could it plausibly expand? What would be the long term cultural and political ramifications of a "China in Europe" sceanario?

What if the NDP had won in 2011? How would the world react if Jack Layton died in office? Who would the NDP chose to be the next prime minister?

WI: Franklin Pierce dies in 1853? On January 6th, 1853, the train carrying president Franklin Pierce and his family was in an accident, killing his young son. On April 18th, 1853, his vice president, William R. King died of Tuberculosis. So, what if Franklin Pierce had died, instead of or as...

What if John C. Fremont (The first ever republican canidate for president) had won in 1856?

The American Civil War ends in a draw, the democrats in the south split, and so do the northern republicans. The slaves of the south rise up and overthrow the CSA in a violent revolution. The first black president of the CSA signs an order calling for the expulsion of all whites. How does the...

Your challenge, with any POD you want, is to have a president apoint, as his cabinet, as many ex-presidents as possible. Bonus if it's a multipartisan gesture with ex-presidents from multiple political parties.

What if instead of thinking the extremly toxic liquid metal was a good thing to drink, ancient people understood that mercury was dangerous?

With any POD you want, create the ultimate transatlantic sex sex scandal between the sitting American President, and the sitting British Prime Minister.

Durring the six day war, Isreal already had at least two nuclear weapons, and was prepared to use them if the war went badly enough for them. So what if the war did go badly, and what if Isreal had used the nuclear weapons it had at the time, dropping one on Damascus, and one on Cario?

Ever since the Oil crisis of the 70s and 80s, electric cars and trucks have been more or less the norm in most western nations, with none of the major auto makers willing to produce the old gasoline and diesel engines, Petroleum oil is now mostly used for heating and the production of plastics...

What if the United States was taken off the gold standard? How would this effect the American and Global ecomonies?

I was having a discussion with a friend of mine. She told me that even if Hitler and the Nazis never came to power in Germany, a Second World War, or at least a Major European war was inevitable, because if Hitler didn't start it Stalin would. We already know from OTL that Stalin was after the...

With any POD after 1900, have there be a period of american history in the 20th century where a president held five terms, and there where five political parties in congress.

I had a conversation recently where someone told me that Atheism isn't covered by the first amendment, because it says "religion" and says nothing about "lack of religion". What if the first amendment was slightly different: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or...

What if there was no second world war? Say perhaps the great depression was just a mild recession. How would that impact the rest of the 20th century? (no PODs earlier then the end of the first war please, this is not a central powers thread.)

So basically the point of this thread is to come up with the stupidest reasons for a ATL war that you can think of for example... The Manure War: Prussian and Austrian relations where at a dangerous low already, however when the Prussian King sent a letter to the Austrian Emperor, the messager...