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December 24, 2014. At approximately 2:00 a.m, December 26th, 2004, an earthquake measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale, centered right under Tokyo Harbor, struck Japan. In Tokyo alone, it is estimated that more than 350,000 people were killed and 644,000 seriously injured in the first three days...

What effect would killing Ayatollah Khomeni in say...1964, have on the history of Iran? Iran had many, many other problems, and the Shah was a deeply unpopular man in just about every segment of Iranian society. Killing Khomeni might just make him fall even faster.

Today, a pair of terrorists known by their aliases of Michaele and Tareq Salahi were killed by Secret Service agents. Posing as socialites, the two killers managed to gain entry into a state dinner in honor of India. According to Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan, “a Secret Service checkpoint...

This is going to be in basic outline form for now: POD: 1381, a Muslim boy from Yunnan, Ma He, is not castrated by the Ming Dynasty. However, he is sent eastwards to Nanjing, the Ming Dynasty Capital, where he is adopted by a scholar-official at the Ming Imperial Court named Guo Lin(*), who...

Simply put, what if Operation Bagration for some reason failed to achieve any of its objectives? Let's say Bagration's fate is the same as Operation Mars' fate 2 years previously, a bloody stalemate between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army?

How can we get snake handling to be a widespread, or at least more mainstream part of Christianity? I know it's a long shot but it can't be impossible, can it?

Based off this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=125615 After 3 weeks of brutal, hand to hand combat, Ottoman forces have taken Berlin. Meanwhile, it has been reported than the Russian Confederacy has conducted naval landings in the Danish provinces of Sweden...

What if the Japanese had better electronics in the Second World War, on par with American electronics? How much longer would the war have gone on for if that was the case? I'm not saying that the Japanese will win, but it would certainly extend the war by some time.

Note: The first few posts would be primarily to outline ideas. POD: Liu Bei doesn't drop his son on his head like a dumbass. Thus, Zhuge Liang doesn't work himself to death (from having to perform the duties of Liu Shan and himself) and thus lives another 20 years. Ultimately, the goal is to...

As very few of us know, Miley Cyrus, daughter of singer Billy Ray Cyrus, is the vocalist and lead guitarist for Hannah Montana, an underground sludge metal band based in Nashville, TN. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make Ms. Cyrus a popular mainstream celebrity. Bonus...

ooc: As from here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=116754 So, what do you think the most beautiful city in the world is? For me, it's a tossup between Qurtuba (1) or Jinshan (2). I've visited both before, both have their strong points, but I just can't simply decide...

I'll get started with this lovely number from my Imperial China TL: Chang'an Industries HY-3 Description: The Chang'an Industries HY-3 was a carrier based fighter aircraft that saw service in the Second World War. Known by the Americans and British as the "Fireknife", the HY-3 was one of the...

www.xinwen.com.cn His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Pujue of China, has just been assassinated by Yue (or as those pigs call themselves "Vietnamese") "separatists". I don't quite know what to say right now. Quite honestly, I'm in deep shock at this development, as his Imperial Majesty has worked...

Here's the question. How would you get the Ottoman Empire to become a modern, more or less secular state, with a POD sometime in the 19th Century? (the real challenge is doing it after 1870) The catch is that the title of sultan and everything that goes along with the title, has to be preserved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City This is just a question: By just how much can I plausibly increase Hong Kong's population before it becomes hideously intolerable? I'm thinking far more of HK manages to resemble the walled city, thus allowing for far more people to somehow...

"The modernization of China was from a historical standpoint, inevitable. Sooner or later, the Middle Kingdom would have dug its way out of its own high-level equilibrium trap and resumed economic and military of East Asia and the Pacific Rim. Now the question is *when* this would have happened...

The Map: http://www.world-map.nl/maps/wallpaper-world-map-2006-large.gif This was drawn for an ATL. Point out some things totally implausible.

Question for you AHers who know about Spain: At the Battle of Alacros in 1195, King Alfonso VIII barely managed to escape with his life. Now, the question is, what if he died? The loss at the battle already shook the stability of Castile, and Alfonso's death could have been a tipping point in...

ooc: Jumping on the bandwagon here. The POD(s) should be fairly obvious. I'm going on vacation in a couple of weeks to Al-Andalus. I have plenty of time and money, so feel free to recommend a wide variety of sights in the locations below. Also, I have a few questions for the Andalusian...

Somehow, I have a hard time believing that Manuel just let his forces get ambushed that pass without doing proper scouting first. After all, he seemed to have been at least a somewhat competent commander. Sure the Turks were harassing him, but he should have expected that. Let's just say that...