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Hi everybody. Some of you might remember I started a (:cool:Turledove nominated:cool:) TL a while back called Jesus Walks, it was about the Iranian Hostage Crisis going tits-up and turning into a massacre, which provokes a US invasion of Iran. It was pretty clear to everyone from the get-go...

"Acceptez-vous que le Québec devienne souverain, après avoir offert formellement au Canada un nouveau partenariat économique et politique, dans le cadre du projet de loi sur l'avenir du Québec et de l'entente signée le 12 juin 1995?" ["Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after...

Hi everybody, some of you might remember a TL I started up about a year ago, called Empire of a Hundred Millennia, in which the extinction of the mosquito in Africa causes human civilization to begin early, along the Congo river. I'm planning to tentatively start the thread up again, but I'm...

Part 2 of Gamasutra Interview with David Jones and Mike Dailly, February 20th, 2014 By Leigh Alexander GAMASUTRA: Last week, we discussed the work you two are doing at Sega West, JONES: Well, the parts we aren’t barred from discussing by NDA. [Jones and Dailly chuckle] GAMASTURA: Obviously...

In OTL, due to the circumstances of its birth, Fascism wasn't sustainable. It was too bent on conquest and driven by passion to ever be a stable system of government. But suppose cooler heads had prevailed. Suppose that Nazi Germany were in the hands of those who knew what they were doing...

The international community's failure to intervene in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide is often held up as one of the great failures of the United Nations, and of the international community at large. Hindsight, though, is 20/20, and now after two failed interventions in the Middle East, and...

41 years from now will be the thousandth anniversary of the Great (or East-West) Schism, specifically dating it from when the Catholic Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople mutually excommunicated each other. This was the first great split in Christianity, and it permanently cemented the...

Suppose that something goes wrong on the Moon. For the purposes of this exercise, let's assume that the Eagle landed safely on the lunar surface, but due to an irreparable technical failure, return to orbit is impossible. What would the effects have been on the space program, and the country as...

One of the more interesting yet neglected areas of history would have to be Al-Andalus, the half-millenium of Muslim control of large parts of Spain. At its greatest extent, over three quarters of the Iberian peninsula were under Muslim control. So, the question: what would it have taken...

Prologue: For Want of a Worm Great Rift Valley, 3.2 Million Years Ago (OTL chronology): A tiny insect buzzes about the head of the large Australopithecus female. She swats at it as it tries to land on her, but even though the insect seems slow, she just can’t quite hit it. Little does she...

Exactly what it says in the title. What would it take for the Papacy to come to an end, assuming a POD after Constantine? This doesn't have to be an end to the Vatican, or the Catholic Church, just the title of Pope. Extra points for recency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector As you may know, in the American political system, the people do not technically vote for the president, instead, there is the Electoral College. To simplify it, each state is assigned a certain number of electors, and the voters choose electors...

Author’s Note: To those who desire utmost realism and scholarship in their alternate history, this story may not be to your liking. It will not be so much an exploration of the consequences of a point of divergence as it will be an exploration of an alternate world. One which, by the time our...

What if George Washington had decided to remain president for so long as the people would re-elect him, which given his popularity, would be the rest of his natural life? This is not a Washington-as-dictator scenario, just one where he never resigns and keeps getting legitimately re-elected...

I brought this up in the TL Ideas you lack the wherewithal to execute thread, but it's gotten a decent response so I'm posting it here. After the Apollo 13 disaster ends in the deaths of the astronauts aboard, President Nixon ends the Apollo Program and, more significantly, makes the...

We at war. We at war with terrorism, racism, but most of all, We at war with ourselves. -Kanye West Act I: The Father It will probably never be known what went wrong in Tehran. Our intelligence suggests that the attack had been planned as a hostage taking, but any evidence that...