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What if the Ottonian dynasty did not die out with Otto III? What if Otto II and Otto III lived long enough to create a centralized German kingdom which replaces the 'confederation' of German duchies and principalities that formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire? How will that change the...

Imagine that Barbara Jordan and not Ronald Reagan succeeded Jimmy Carter as President of the United States making her the first female, african american and gay PotUS. How will she deal with the problems of the 1980s? And will she serve two terms?

The idea is weird, but hopefully not ASB. Find a PoD that makes Queen Victoria not only Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India but alos (ruling) Empress of Germany, thus uniting Great Britain and Germany.

What if different actors starring in TV shows than in OTL? This can be weird, funny or realistic, but actor, role and show have to exist in OTL. Some examples: - Ellen DeGeneres as Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager - Jack Lord as Captain Kirk in Star Trek (yes, he was really considered for...

What if Rommel became a prisoner of war before the 20 July Plot? How will his survival change history?

What if the Saar referrendum held on 23 October 1955 accepted the plan of an independent Saar? Would we still have an independent Saarland today or would it have joined Germany later?

What if the different police organisations in the USA were reorganized and reformed, so that the state police includes county police departments, sheriff departments, municipal police departments etc? So a police officer for example could transferred from New York City to Albany any other place...

Imagine that the Franco-German Friendship elvoves into a Union of France and Germany.

What if the Church supported Darwin's theory of evolution, especially after the works of Champollion (decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs) and Hutton (father of modern geology) proved that Earth is older that the six millenia many read out of the Bible? Champollion deciphered the hieroglyphs...

What if Mao's Long March was a complete failure and never reached Jenan?

What if the ideas of the Age of Enlightment did reach the Ottoman Empire? Can that change history?

What if, the Kingdom of Hanover had adopted the same succession laws as the United Kingdom? What if Victoria also became Queen of Hanover in 1837? How will that change history?

Find a good PoD that would allow polygamy in christianity (even if it is only allowed in one of the major denominations). One of my ideas was that Henry VIII introduced polygamy in England after he broke with Rome and made himself pope of the Church of England.

Find a way to impeach president Bush and remove him from officebefore he starts the Iraq War in 2003.

What if gender-equality was one tenet of Christianity from the beginning? What if female bishops, patriarchs and even popes were possible? How would that change our history?

This is a really weird idea: What if Hitler did not turn Germany into a fascist Führer state after he became chancelor, but decided to abide by the constitution? Are case of the office changing the man. And before you say that it is completely ASB, remember that such things did happen in OTL.

What if the United Kingdom joins the Central Powers in the World War? How could this happen? And how will that change the oucome of the war?

Pornocracy means rule of the mistresses. In the 10th century (904-963) Rome and thus the Papacy was a pornocracy because the true powers was in the hand of the mistress of the pope. What if the mistresses of the french king had been more than just mistresses but were the true power behind the...

What if Germany either did not lost its colonies after WW1 or regains them after WW2? Will they want to gain their independence? Or will they want to become Federal States?

What had to happen that Hillary Clinton and not Bill Clinton won the presidental election in 1992 (and again in 1996!)? And how would that change history?