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Marth and Roy are replaced by Diddy Kong and the Chef from BurgerTime. Due to the butterfly effect, on April 23, 2007 the world is destroyed in a nuclear exchange.

Folks are way, way too trigger happy with the ASB label around here. How about this:

Santa Anna took only a portion of the Mexican force to San Jacinto, one of many errors. Filisola and Urrea were both running around Texas with forces of roughly equivalent size, and even combined it hardly represented the fully military might of Mexico, which fielded tens of thousands against...

This is weird. I like it. I have a random suggestion/contribution/idea: Klemens von Metternich was certainly one of the most interesting Austrians (and, indeed, Europeans) of his time. For his services against Napoleon, in a rather precious denial of reality, King Ferdinand of Spain granted him...

The U.K. was very interested in keeping Texas away from the Americans, who were on quite a growth spurt at the time, and menacing Oregon. An independent Texas would also be a good source of cotton and could have served as an entrepot for British goods to get around American tariffs. OTL the U.K...

Am I reading correctly that the US annexes Mexico, but then takes the Emperor of Mexico as its own head of state?

This undervalues the Washingtonian cult of personality already well in place before he even entered office - there's a reason the presidency was crafted with him specifically in mind. Washington DC (or Washington City) was named for him in 1791, before the end of his first term. If one wanted to...

Hmmm. Well, in Alamo '60, Santa Anna was something like Nikita Khrushchev by way of Ming the Merciless. Why so? The Zorro stories seem to take place well into the 1820s at least, and yet depict California firmly in Spanish control. Maybe Santa Anna's career was stymied under continued Spanish...

Seems like a perfect fit also for The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne: And maybe this is the universe where John Wayne's The Alamo is an accurate depiction...

If Mega-LA County stays together into the period of rapid growth for the City of Los Angeles, you might end up with a smaller LA County, with the city and its immediate hinterlands as a consolidated City-County like SF. I guess that would mean either a Mega-OC or perhaps two counties carved out...

Otto in fact did use violence to overthrow the pope and force the appointment of a layman.

“I said a human body with an animal head, damn it! Those three giant stone cubes I wanted better be right...”

"Would you enforce me to a world of care? Well, call them again. I am not made of stone, but penetrable to your kind entreats, albeit against my conscience and my soul."

OTL late-career Santa Anna tried to pivot into the chicle business. In a bold departure, he pitched this gum people had been chewing for thousands of years to be used as ... car tires. People were not into that. Then someone probably said "Why don't we just sell it as something people chew...

I may well be wrong, looking around further it seems like the evidence is ambiguous at best on early use of the name. I’m seeing cites to a 1936 article by an E.J. Jurji on the topic, but can’t locate the article itself.

Theory: Islam first took off, obviously, among the Arabs. I understand that Mohammad wasn’t an uncommon Arab name in the time before Islam. So if you already know some Mohammads, you got an uncle Mohammad, whatever, it wouldn’t seem too strange to give that name to your kid. Meanwhile...

Iesus is the Latin version of Iesous, which is the Greek version of Yeshua.

That’s fantastic.

Every single gosh darn one of those Russias. Gotta catch ‘em all!