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What if the British forces under James Murray were to be forced to surrender after a successful siege of Quebec in 1760? Knowing that forts Ticonderoga, Detroit, and Niagara had already been captured by the British, might this have meant a more limited British victory? Perhaps only the Ohio...

Inspired by this thread. What if Tony Blair refused to join the United States' "coalition of the willing," and called the Bush administration out on its blatant lies and propaganda about Iraq? What impact might this have on the supposed "special relationship?" Would other nations refuse to join...

Currently France gets 75% of its electricity from Nuclear power. Your challenge is to get the United States to embrace nuclear energy with similar gusto. Perhaps there is no Three Mile Island accident in 1979? Why did France embrace nuclear energy while the United States largely rejected it...

The viewership of the movie reached 9 million in the UK, despite it's disappointing ratings in the United States. While I haven't yet begun to explore the pre-2005 Doctors yet (still wating for a free weekend where I can watch the DVD set of The Pyramids of Mars that I ordered a few weeks ago...

What if the most famous theorists of leftist thought never existed? Would communism exist as an organized ideology? Would their absence help or hinder the improvements in the life of the average worker that have happened in the past century and a half? Would leftist thought benefit from being...

Say that attempts at diplomacy that IOTL resulted in the Algeciras Conference instead led to war/ How would a First World War 9 years earlier play out? Would Britain enter the war? Would Russia intervene, given that this is right in the middle of the 1905 revolution and immediately after the...

Let's say that a major pharmaceutical company sets up a lab in Florida some time in the late 70s. They bring with them a large number of Rhesus monkeys. Then, in 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hits, the lab evacuates the monkeys. While on the interstate, however, one truck carrying several dozen...

Basically somebody describes a concept, maybe gives a little backstory, tells us what it's called in that universe., along with it's OTL equivalent. my idea Musiciacta (soundtrack, in OTL) A corrupted version of Musikgeschichte (literally "Music Story," in German) Originated in the 16th...

What if, in early May, 2011, the New Madrid fault experienced an earthquake similar to the quake in 1808? Furthermore, what if, like in 1808, a series of major aftershocks occurred in the month following the earthquake? How much damage would be done to levees along the Mississippi? could we see...

Personally I've always preferred Hail Columbia as a national anthem, partially because by fiddling with the dynamics and arranging it differently, you could make it into an anthem every bit as bombastic and obnoxious as the State Anthem or the USSR of the Internationale. Is there a way for...

What if Pat Toomey defeated Arlen Specter in the 2004 Republican senate primary in pennsylvania in 2004? Could Toomey have won against Joe Hoeffel in 2004? Would having another ultra-conservative have helped or hurt Rick Santorum in 2006? Would having a Democratic Junior Senator have helped or...

You challenge is, with a POD after Britain declares war on Germany in 1914, to create multipolar world throughout the entire 20th century. Instead of a cold war, we have wheeling and dealing between great powers. Bonus points if you can create a situation where new Great Powers arise in the...

Just like it says on the tin. We all know Kennedy had affairs, so did FDR before he got polio, and so did a significant portion of Congress. Really until Gary Hart was an idiot and took a picture of himself and the woman he was having an affair with, in order to make the newspaper in order for a...

What if, instead of the relatively modest earthquake that it was, the La Habra quake on March 28, 2014 was a major quake along the Puente Hills fault, a worst-case scenario as presented by History Channel's MegaDisasters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Kz5CQcElI. That is- a 7.5 Magnitude...

Worst-case scenario, how long can the segregationist regime in the south continue? At what point does it become so politically humiliating that Congress HAS to step in? How long will it take before resistance takes the form of Northern Ireland-style violence? Could we see the KKK and some...

Your mission is to preserve the economic growth that Liberia enjoyed during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. You should also prevent the civil wars that wracked the country. Bonus points if by 2014 Liberia is stable and democratic. Is this possible? Can it be done even after Samuel Doe's coup? Or does the...

Say the 13 colonies never break away, and instead get representatives in Parliament, while the Spanish Empire also reforms and survives. It is now 1940. The border is somewhere around the pre-1844 US/Mexican border. London remains the capital, but is first among equals rather than preeminent...

Just like it says on the tin. What would the Great Depression be like without the Federal Reserve? Austrian "numbers? we don need numbers" economic ideas aside, would the lack of a Fed really have prevented it? Would the lack of the Fed made things worse? Thoughts?

The challenge here is for the Holy Roman Empire to collapse as a result of the 30 Years' War. How might this happen? Could a bungled handling if the Bohemian Revolt by the Empire lead to a deadlocked electoral college? Could the Siege of Vienna have gone better for the protestant side? Could...

How might we create a scenario in which the Dutch manage to keep the New Netherlands? Having done so, what effect might it have? Could the English then decide to grab the lower-hanging fruit of French Canada? Would the colonies of New England and Virginia still eventually seek independence...