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So, I've decided to write my first TL about the successful asassination of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 via the "Infernal Machine." Though the TL will by no means be focused on Revolutionary France, I'd like to know what you guys think the immediate affects would be?

Why is it that there are no timelines in which Korea ever has any importance? Is it guaranteed to be dominated completely by Japan and China?

The presence of the Romani (often called gypsies) in Europe is just plain weird. An Indo-Aryan tribe randomly wandering into Europe? It seems like something out of those weird ATL were the Slavs end up in France or something. What if we reverse this? What if a group of Europeans wanders into...

I've read that Dracula, in the novel Dracula, claims the Transylvanian Magyar's are descended from Huns and a Ugric tribe from Iceland! That is, of course, utter bunk, but what affects would there be to say, some Saami tribe settling in Iceland? Or would they even bother?

Although at first this thread sounds like it should be in ASB: If these "elves, ogres, and selkies" existed, do you think there is a possibility they could have survived longer as seperate ethnic groups, even as long as today. Although not in secret, of course. The Basques were able to hold...

All you need is a sharp nose and they haul you off to prison and interrogate you! The bloody Virginians thought I was a Pole! I missed my bloody airship too! There was even a big plaque that said "Anyone thought or found to be of Jewish, Slavic, or Baltic ancestry will be immediately arrested...

I am doing a report on the Myriad Genocides for school. I couldn't really get information from the local immigrant neighborhood, because it is Swedish, and I am...well, let's just say the Swedes now hate the Finns no less than everyone else hates each other.

Using a POD of whenever, how could you get the Germanic peoples to occupy lands know known for Romance people, Romance people holding OTL Slavic lands, and Slavs inhabiting Germanic lands? Populations of other Indo-Europeans and Finno-Ugric peoples in unusual places is also encouraged.

Has anyone heard any reports on that expedition of Fennoland? They sent the Pomeranian airships and the best Romani pilots (there was controversy as they had a pre-existing pilot contract with the Jews) to claim a spot of land in North Atlantis, and the Forest Palace of is reporting that there...

Anyone else see this fascinating and terrifyingly realistic portrayal of nuclear war? It shows the unraveling of civilization until the next generation consists of medieval peasents who speak in one word sentence fragments as they try to survive the harsh conditions of depleted ozone and a high...

What would be the most the U.S. could have realistically overreacted to 9/11?

Few timelines go into depth on such things. Lets speculate on this more relaxed side of alternate history. Talk about the culture of the world in any timelines you might have. I wonder in what kind of timeline we can have steampunk fashion actually be worn by people. It'd be unusual, goggles...

What if Charlesmangie's Empire wasn't broken up by his will? Whose side would they be on in WWI? OOC: Actually based on a old post I found.

Anyone here ever seen it? It's the movie that made me love airships.

A Basque scientific ship actually rammed a similar Guanche vessel. The Basque Republic is claiming ownership of the ruins of Atlantis, which should belong to the Guanche Republic. For those of you not up to date on Atlantis, it was an island civilization that flourished on many islands in the...

How could Rabbits be considered a common household pet in the Western World, with eating them considered something crazy only the Chinese do, like with dogs?

How could we have Altaic cultures (Turkic, Mongolain) dominating the world as opposed to Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic (Middle Eastern), and Chinese?

How does this affect Poland?

And now it seems to be massing troops near the borders of Wallachia, Khazaria, and Lapland, and Sakha. The Western Alliance may be able to save Lapland and Wallachia, but with the Turkish Republic of Anatolia blocking the entrance to the Inland Sea I'm afraid we might not be able to do anything...

How plausible would Finland being a colonial power be?