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Okay, so Senator Stephen Douglas dies of typhoid before January 1853. The Kansas-Nebraska Act as it was never comes to be, though someone would probably come up with an alt-version in a misguided attempt to ease North-South tension at a later date. Pierre Soule also dies soon after October 1854...

Okay, the challenge is to spread the 'Deutche Athen' German-American political attitude beyond the upper midwest and into a durable, national, German-American political consensus.

In OTL, Lunalilo won with an overwhelming majority in the popular election for the office of King of Hawaii. What event could have altered Hawaiian politics to be significantly more anti-European/American or conservative or at least give this election to Kalakaua?

When, why and in which circumstances would Spain have been prepared to sell the Philippines and Guam to Germany? I'm looking at them ending up in Japanese hands after a WWI analogue. EDIT - Whoops, I meant Spain Sells the Philippines to Germany. Can a mod alter that?

What are your niggling (or throbbing) misgivings with the timeline or characterisations in the Kaiserreich HOI2 mod? For me, it's the depiction of Huey Long as a fascist instead of agrarian populist. Huey Long was a lot of things - but a man who turns to political violence to get his way was...

Currently thumbing through The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville. Anyone had a chance to read it yet?

What circumstances would allow Korea to pull a Meiji while Japan and China do not? What developments do you think you'd see in Asia in such a situation?

Was the Spanish-American War or a Spanish-[insert nation here] War unavoidable? I'm wondering how good the odds are of Spain staving off conflict with a more powerful nation until they throw in the towel and are prepared to sell their Pacific colonies to the Germans.

Your challenge, should you choose to blah, blah, blah, is to have a Japanese Hawaii with a POD after 1870. Have fun.

The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to outline a timeline where William Hale Thompson becomes POTUS with a POD no earlier than 1890. Bonus points for an Anglo-American war in the 1930s and Capone pushing Thompson down the Capitol steps. (That last one can be more metaphorical:D)

Continuing from a discussion in another thread, I'd like to know what specific event people think would be the most likely to spark WWI given the following scenario: Turkey has a stronger navy and is able to repel the Italian invasion of Libya. This deters the Balkan states from declaring war...