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Leadining from my Minor POD's thread, i've decided to start a new thread where you can post very peculier ( and funny) POD's that wont really change much at all globally. Make sure they're as funny as possible. Toi start this of.......In 1966,Gottfried Dienst, an obscure football referee, is...

This website is literally crawling with " could napoleon beat russia in 1812" threads with many Pods dating from this. And yet.......the equally brutal Peninsuler war, which arguably did more then russia to wear down and crush the french-dooming them to a drawn out in an endless guerilla war...

Of all the alternate history novels i've read, some of the most interesting are the " India conquers europe" books which usually include a reverse indian mutiney ( in england.) Now, to say that Any indian could conquer europe outside of books or empire total war ( long live the united...

I was amazed to learn that we brits have managed to invade, raid, pillage or hold to ransome 90% of the worlds counties-all but 22 out of 200. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227705/The-British-coming-Over-centuries-weve-invaded-staggering-90-worlds-nations.html?IT Now i think...

I've heard it suggested so many times that, for the french, they're navy was DOOMED e.c.t. What is forgotten is that French navel technoligy and shipbuilding was in many cases far superior to the Britsh, who relied on old techniques and aging ship construction sites. Frances ships were faster...

based during the american war of independence and its prelude and aftermath, i have taken it upon myself to write a series of short, story based TL's based on verious PODS in the american war of independence. To kick it off, I've started with an event that takes place 2 years before the Boston...

History is full of odd, seemingly absurd nations that ( usually) failed miserably and dissapeared into the murky sea of time, either splinterd or absourbed by other nations. But i wonder...... what odd empire, principality, country or nation from the past can you you think of? and what...

The idea of an independent state of Wallonia, catalunia and scotland would have seeen absurd to everyone 100 years ago. But now, in the midst of catastrophic global financal crisis and rising right wing nationalism, these states are becoming a reality. Cameron and salmond recently signed a...

This question has perplexed me. China had huge population reserves, a huge fleet and army and ample resources. And dont tell me that they wornt expansionist as they sent huge expladtory fleets around the pacific and dominated its smaller neibours. And yet....... it never started a serouse...

The battle of Pavia: A battle between the two great superpowers, France and the holy roman empire and France over the vital territories in northern Italy. A battle that for the first time showed the superiority of arquabuses over cavalry charge and more then any other battle destroyed the age of...

It is perhaps one of the most neglected years in British history. King John fighting back against the lords who forced him to sign the Magna Carta, The barons inviting the son of the french king, the future Louis VIII of France to become king and actually proclaimed him king ( he was never...

This is the first in a series of threads in which i will be asking you cleaver people " what if this individual battle had gone the other way." Some battles will ge popular and yet could be viewed as indecisive, others obscure and yet more important. So to start it off, a popular British...

As it says on the tin. I think Africa has been wrongly neglected when it comes to making TL about a more powerful nation. Australia's been done, so's both american continents. But why not the birthplace of mankind itself? Africa is full of minerals, farmland and could easily give rise to...

One of the great pillars of British trade and democracy in the early 20th century was " free trade", becoming the basis of modern day globalisation and leading to the rise of that great nation of industrialists- the USA. But in 1903, an outspoken and popular politician Joseph Chamberlain ( the...

Yes alright there teenager book- but they are undoubtedly the best alternate history books for that group and one of the best series i've read! However... some of the plots seem a little ASB. Take the third one...... A peasant revolt leading to a French uprising? or the 4th where the American...

i was doing my usual military history flick through when, on battles BC ( an Awsome show!) about the battle of Kadesh and learned that the widow of the ever famous king Tutankhamen had, in an attempt to protect her family and her belief in Amohteps III belief in 1 god. To do this she actually...

Today for a project i was told to describe a world in which mobile phones didn't exist, and what it would be like. After much thinking i realized hay, this sound Alternate historyish.... so i decided to get the good people of this site to help me and work out a plausible way of stopping the...

When reading about Napoleon Bonaparte for a project, i discoverd somthing amazing....... apparently, when he was young, Napoleon didn't consider joining the French army..... he was pulled towords joining the navy..... The BRITISH navy!:eek: suppose this wish was fulfilled- what are the main...

This thread is not about How or how plausible war plan red ( the invasion of Canada by the US army is) this is about what would happen IF it did happen and who would win? The USA would quickly overrun the border and occupy key rail hubs- but they would have been delayed by heavy resistance the...

I post this because this reminds of a history lession i once had, where we were recreating the treaty of Versailles. I was France, and i demanded germany be broken up. Then the US person ( who clearly must have decided that america was under a milatary dictatorship following the American civil...