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So the 1964 election is Nixon v. Kennedy again? Or i) Do the Democrats replace the "loser" candidate with someone else, and if so, who? ii) Do we have *Watergate ten years ahead of OTL?

IIRC, during the Nika riots, Justinian I was advised to flee from Constantinople to Carthage, but was dissuaded from this by Theodora. Would Carthage be a viable "Third Rome"?

Can a Confederate Government in Exile have any effects after 1865? Where would they be likely to end up?

There is another process, although an unlikely one, (perhaps verging on ASB), which could produce President Mussolini. What were his ancestors doing in 1776? When news of the uprising in the Thirteen Colonies reaches Italy, Signor Mussolini is inspired to sail to America and offer his...

The Sound of His Horn Queen Victoria's Bomb

By 1917. the British popular press were already well aware of this. See this cartoon from Punch:

The first thing that occurs to me is to have a President or other senior establishment figure (Patton or MacArthur?) become a comic book fan. When it is public knowledge that the Department of Defence is having tens of thousands of each issue of All-American Comics shipped out to Korea for...

What happens if an American ship is sunk by the Germans who claim that they thought it was British? How much mishandled diplomacy by the Germans is then required to produce an American declaration of war?

Always remember that Mark Twain got there first. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15551306/bbc-the-war-of-the-worlds-tv-series-peter-hartness http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a827551/war-of-the-worlds-becomes-bbc-series/

A return to nineteenth century diplomacy, ignoring Article 102 of the UN Charter. Before the end, many more conventions of post-1945 international relations will be abandoned ITTL.

Would they significantly improve the effectiveness of the air attacks against Great Britain?

At this point, the Balkans were a powder-keg waiting for a spark, as happened in 1914. Just pick one option from each list: "The unspeakable [Serbs / Croats / Slovenes / Bosnians / Bulgars / Roumanians / Turks / Albanians / Macedonians / Greeks] have killed our beloved [Emperor / King /...

How does this figure compare with other regiments at the same time?

Federal taxes on slaves would very likely be seen by both sides as a pro-slavery measure. Southern slave-owners would see this tax on their property as explicitly recognizing their lawful ownership of that property. Abolitionists would object in principle to the Federal government profiting...

A larger Puerto Rico? What prevented Cuba from going the same way as Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War, and how easy is it to change this?

The obvious reply! You have been reading too much alternate history :D

I haven't read Turtledove's novel, but this is the OTL MGB

410 Sack of Rome by the Goths. End of the Western Roman Empire. 1204. Fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade. End of the Eastern Roman Empire. Anything subsequent to this is just minor successor states and deposed dynasties. For the Holy Roman Empire, see Voltaire: "Neither Holy, nor...

If ITTL Sarajevo is averted completely, what difference does it make in 1916, when Franz Ferdinand rather than Karl succeeds to the Austro-Hungarian thrones?