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WI the French King decides that while Franklin is a very nice guy they just don't have the money for another war with England. America gets no overt help from France in the ARW. As a result, France stays solvent and has money to put through necessary reforms, the French Revolution fails...

In 1908 SCOTUS rules that the Special Agents Justice wants are a too broad interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Act. The FBI is never formed. Effects?

Look, I'm as compassionate as anyone but enough is enough. Immigration laws have a reason, you know and that reason is USA. They're flooding our Social Services, taking our jobs and voting in Liberals. These Illegal Americans have to go I say we close the borders and send anyone who says...

WI the British, who had attacked Kamchatka and threatened Alaska in the Crimean war, actually took it, and kept it as war spoils? Do they sell it to the US? What is the consequence of a British Alaska?

In late 1944 a KGB agent who is also an aide to Patton reports to Stalin that the Allies intend to turn on him with the Germans. Convinced of the truth of this, Stalin contacts Hitler. When the Battle of the Bulge begins one of the first strange things reported is the sighting of German units...

WI the FF had written in the Constitution that new Territories, once they had enough people, first became autonomous regions; and then voted on whether to become States within the US or actual independent nations on their own? What would happen to US History? Which states would now be nations?

Santa Ana wins at San Jacinto. Sam Houston and some others are hung. There are reforms for the American settlers, involving both more control (especially vis-a-vis where settlement is allowed) and more government aid to new citizens. A year later these become the basis for Mexico allowing...

WI the First Crusaders, buoyed by success went on to take more land and invaded Sinai. Then in 1125 Prince Godfrey the Engineer of Jerusalem, financed by the Venetians, builds the Suez canal? Assuming this happens (and it's not really impossible, Suez is just digging, no mountains etc.) how...

How do we turn America into "An Army with a Country attached" by 1800 and what effect does this have on it's subsequent development? Government/culture/POD(s) should be whatever is necessary to make the country pretty much a duplicate of Prussia in the Americas.

All Revolutions "eat their own children". Victorious radicals turn on each other and the purists kill the pragmatists, then die themselves in orgies of vengeance. France, Russia, Mexico, there are few exceptions But America never did. WI Washington delivered a rousing call to arms instead...

What if Andrew Jackson had obeyed the ruling of the Supreme Court in re the Cherokee?

Many years ago I read that one of the first working scoped rifles was owned by a prominent and very prolific buffalo hunter who was himself a Native American. WI the RR and the Army decided to use Indian tribes themselves to wipe out the Buffalo and promote the RR? They pay friendly Indians...

WI Tsar Nicholas declares himself a Communist in 1918 and asks Lenin to help him turn Russia into a Communist Constitutional Monarchy. The Office will henceforth be mainly ceremonial, with the Tsar addressed as Comrade First Citizen and having a function as mainly an exemplar of a good communist...

What happens if the scout who finds the famous three cigars uses the orders to light them? Is there even a Battle?

Seeing as they're the most successful in Thande's poll let's wipe them out. The original elector dies after being skewered by an archer while taking a dump during a siege on his castle. He dies w/o progeny and the name and family die with him. How is history changed?

Escaping the guillotine he is exiled from France in 1794. He emigrates to America and founds a small gunpowder co in Delaware. What happens subsequent?

Some hours before Pickett's Charge Lee tells Pickett to run his men at the highest speed possible across the field to the stone wall. He says he is expecting high casualties but the development of the battle has left him no choice. 'Speed, and only speed, may be your salvation. We will also...

I can think of a start. The Wrights accept as gospel the calculations of the propellor power then extant in books and conclude they need something more powerful (In OTL they measured this and found the books were all wrong). Who was working on a gas turbine at the time? Was Coandra's idea a...

They sink the majority of the Grand Fleet and badly damage the rest. They have relatively few losses. Regardless of how likely it was, let's say it happens. What is most likely to happen next?

WI the Japanese decide to resist Perry to the full degree and win? The US was, ironically, one of the few nations in the world the Japanese might still have fought off enough that the US would judge it not worth their while to continue, but then what would happen? Would the other Western powers...