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Note: I apologize about the giant stack of text in the middle; nevertheless, it's quite relevant to the TL. And yes, it is a bit of a cheat to pad it out :D The Land, as Promised Prologue: This Year in Jerusalem ‘Next year in Jerusalem. Every Passover, we feast and tell the story...

I'm trying to plan a TL where the British are able to deliver on their promises made in the McMahon-Hussein Correspondences. IOTL, the French took Syria and were unwilling to allow Faisal to rule there, preferring instead to manage directly for a while before installing a republic. What would...

So, this is something that's always confused me - why is it that Argentina's known both for having a prominent Jewish population, and for providing safe haven for escaped Nazis? How the hell does that work?

While I realize that New York is not a part of New England proper, never has been a part of New England, and never will be a part of New England...the city itself (and surrounding area, and Long Island) have historically been more closely aligned with New England economically and politically, as...

Fun fact: Louis, Prince Napoléon (henceforth referred to as "Louis Bonaparte"), heir to the Imperial Throne of France, served in the French Foreign Legion in WWII (he wanted to serve in the regular military, but French law at the time forbade members of the French royal houses from holding...

This isn't an ATL, but rather a question about real history: why was Venice able to resist the Holy Roman Empire, when everyone else around them bowed to the Emperor? Later, of course, Venice was a medium-sized empire, far more powerful than most of the other Italian states - but in the early...

So, I'm starting a game of nation-states over at GiTP, with the aim of taking a partially isolated region of Europe some time in the period of ~1450 - ~1800, and one of the possibilities at hand is a balkanized Britain (others are HRE, balkanized Netherlands, balkanized France, or classical...

Of the timelines people put together, there is one common thread: almost all of them manage to stick a Jewish homeland somewhere or another. Sometimes it's actually in the Levant. Sometimes it's somewhere historically suggested (Uganda, Madagascar, Alaska)...sometimes less so (Crimea, East...

As we all know, the United States very nearly didn't sign the Treaty of Versailles. For those of you who need a history lesson, Willson quite annoyed Congress, and there was a lot of talk of Congress not ratifying the Treaty, and forming a separate peace with the Central Powers. If this had...