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WI Nikolai Tesla was never born?

WI there was no Potato Famine in Ireland?

WI the German historians of the 19thc had never come up with the concepts of historical eras? Jacob Burkhart doesn't invent the Renaissance. WI further the humanist scholars never come up with the idea of the Ancients vs Themselves. History is not diminished mind, the knowledge of events remains...

WI Hitler had not died in 1943? Would the Allies really have tried to invade Western Europe?

What if the native American leader Hiawatha had been born to the Sioux in the late 1500's and had brought his charisma and organizational genius to the tribes of the Great Plains at approximately the same time they were acquiring the horse? How would history change if the tribes of the Great...

Given a POD after 1945 make nuclear reactors a commonplace. They are in every home, just like the furnace is in ours and, yes, every car. Must use present or known technology, no ASB

Like public water, (tho most water is metered, innit) or, hell, like air. The idea was it would be so cheap that only the gummint could be put upon to run it or something like that. Given a POD after 1945 have nuclear power live up to this promise. This is not ASB and must use known technology

It almost happened, vonBraun's team launched a dummy which would have orbited if it was real 3 mos before Sputnik. But would the space race never start? Eisenhower didn't want it and only the Russian triumph really started it.

WI Mussolini reads a paper on the Atom bomb in 1930 and then in 1931 discusses it with Enrico Fermi and his new bride Lise Meitner. When the couple wants to leave Italy for America, Mussolini builds them a new Institute of their very own, with high salaries. He uses his astute political skills...

WI Hitler fears the Allies might actually enforce the Versailles treaty, eschews his military buildup of conventional weapons and goes directly to work on rockets (not covered in Versailles so he can work on them openly) and top secret jets. The planes he sends to Spain are the last of a dying...

What if Ashoka, India's possibly greatest ruler, and Alexander the Great had lived at the same time. (Only about a hundred years separates them in OTL, it's certainly not impossible that one or the other would be born sooner or later) WI Alexander meets him instead of Porus when he invades...

We're always seeing some US state called "the Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts" or somesuch. Given a POD after 1918 have that actually happen. That is, have Marxists (or Marxist-Leninists, or maybe even Stalinists or Maoists etc.) take over a state and change the govt to a "Soviet" model...

Given any POD, have Venice remain a Great Power until the present day. Its form of govt, however, must remain the same as existed at its height. Sorry if it's been done

I've tried this before, and it was uttlerly ignored. So in the the true spirit of obdurate noncreativity;... WI the Susquehanna was navigable, like the Hudson? How would it change American History to have a water route from the upper Chesapeake to lower New York State?

An incident on the Polish border is settled diplomatically in 1939. Hitler assiduously avoids war, tho the USSR, US, UK and France sometimes push many issues. Hitler stays in power until the early 50's (how and exactly when he leaves is up to you). What happens?

I've just read in another thread that Stalin wanted another great purge in 1953 and the target was to be the Jews. What if he had lived on and got his way? What would be it's effect on the world and the new nation of Israel? Would the world have tolerated a second Shoah on the heels of the...

What if Philip K Dick had lived? What would he write, how would he handle success? Would he explore other themes? Would he write more AH? Would VALIS become the strangest anime ever done? Would he go to Hollywood and marry Pamela Anderson,:D what would happen?

WI the plan to raise silk in Georgia, posited in the early 17thc, succeeds and spreads, cotton remains a minor crop since the gin is never seen as necessary or invented. What happens to subsequent history if King Cotton is Queen Silk

WI instead of WWII we get Great Depression lasting...well..forever. There's no good reason for the GD to last as long as it did, AFAIK and only WWII with subsequent economic management has kept it from returning. Or if you don't agree then what about an economically based post-apocalypse...

WI there was a causeway that occasionally opened up across the English Channel? I leave it to you as to where it will be and how often it opens up, but when it does it is about 10 miles wide and very solid; a safe and comfortable highway for any Army. How would this change English and...