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Disclaimer; Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport;"SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Called "Sombo" in english at times due to the racially-charged feel of the word in USA...

Spin off of the Tapie thread, but also others like the one on Marseille as a Venice-style city-state... Second city of France - Marseille/Maisilia fascinating, rich in history and perhaps older than Paris/Lutèce. Accusations of neglect and uncaringness come at times thought, born of France's...

Okay, I was watching the french-francophone Planète(+?) channel, a documentaries- and such shows themed channel. There was a serie on grands escroqueries, like Fernand Legros, the greatest arts fraud plan, and the Ponzi Scheme creator. And there was this case I heard vaguely about in the...

This is a random idea that came to my mind tonight. Mods, more to Future if it is too recent maybe, OR Polit chat if needed.. What if someone synthetised, unified the politics of post-Mao PRC as a coherent unity, ensemble, judging it 'works' in his or her mind, AND could be exported (and that...

Another topic on random basic ATL ideas... You can add and comment, and point me to good TLs or threads already done. 1. I see a lot of ideas on Balkans now and then, but there is a nation rarely used directly, like er, 'wanked'... Albania. Could it have remained independent, or turned...

Delicate subject maybe, touching personal believes... A cliché I see around here is a certain 'Protestantism Wanking' (albeit 'Catholicism Wanking' happens too) - the 'inevitability' of Protestantism (possible), the spread of it like wildfire AND a permanency, the 'need' of Protestantism for...

Okay, weird random idea that passed on my mind one day, albeit not so random... You see, french-canadians descend of course from french settlers - France was called once a daughter (elder?) of the church, from it's religiosity in the Ancient Regime days (minus Lumières)... and due to the...

Okay... From what I learned, somewhere around the fall of Roman Empires, Brithonic lords send warriors to what is now Brittany, France, seizing lands (and if Wikipedia is true, a part of what is called 'Green Spain', by the Basques Lands). MAYBE there was peoples who came from there before...

Inspired by old ideas, and that thread on lost civilizations, like the possible Tarteros... Is that a possibility that a 'native' or colonial power (like a greek or punic or such colony) would rise, unite (more) lands, grow in power and start a small empire of it's own, conquering some lands...

Disclaimer; my knowledge of the area's history is sketchy, so it may have happened already, or impossible per see... I know vague oulines around. The area roughly southeast of china to Malaysia/Indonesia, Burma to Vietnam... I know the Chams some, who used to be powefull and mighty, and...

Born of a discussion once on Islam in the subcontinent, southern asia... Challenge and discussion; bring Shi'ism to India, and beyond even possible, bonus points. More points if significant % are there, even majority(ies). How? Maybe stronger persecutions and warfare against shi'ites in...

Random interrogation and possible fluff-ideas for cultural atl; an obscure point of history to me is the languages portrait of pre-Islam maghreb - Libya, Tunisia, Morrocco, Algeria, around... And pertaining to it, how it would evolves if Islam never existed at all, or never came to the region...

Okay, Third Way-Blairism, etc... The turn Socialist Party took in France, etc... And the CAQ stealthy thing in my province... Honestly, we all know - it's lefties or pseudo-lefties who took a turn Right to center and such. 'Lucidity'. But with the 90s, the rise of altermondialism, a new...

Random idea, from a rpg I have involving peoples from ex-USSR and all... Albeit the different fates and paths the two 'sibblings' of Russia took and possible territorial issues may make that possible... maybe.... Ahem. Your mission, if you accept it, is to make Small and White Russias...

I wonder if it have ever been done around here - a success (in a large interpretation) of the 1837 Rebellion in the Canadas - or more precisely, the Rebellions, as there was also a (smaller?) movement in Upper Canada. ATLs, Threads, etc... Or if it was never ever considered, what would have...

...Seemed, by the end years of Austro-Hungarian Empire had the ultimate power, to me? I don't know jack, honestly. I remember Sisy (spelling?) and all that. It did seems to me that while the two ruling nations in theory had been a certain egalness, austrians was the real rulers, and...

Okay... Everyone here probably heard by now of the Avro case, the famous canadian plane and source of conspiration theories at times... But we had in Quebec a recent one, the 90s.... Hydro-Quebec (a subsidiary, it seems) developed a supposedly 'revolutionary' motor-wheel, who was not used a...

I was thinking , is there any fields of history, regions, etc left much inexplored, and this is one of Europe who seems not too used a lot... What if, during 'dark age' by example, the Magyars never came to Panonia(?) - maybe going south or even *east*, and didn't settle in eastern europe? or...

Disclaimer; I honestly know jack on religious believes of what is now Philipines beyond the southern muslims. So... The philipinians had been conquered and colonised by Spain, and converted to catholicism. Add this later the USA and possibly Protestants conversions I guess... But let's...

The subject fascinate me somes, its not touched much here as the dutches never landed anywhere close modern Canada, as far I remember, and their presence in modern USA was short-lived... I wonder if it was possible to make the Empire grow more, or to be at least strenghtened in major...