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WI Nordics weren't able (or simply left untouched) to discover and settle in Iceland? What could leave the island untouched by the Nordics and when / how would finally settle and colonize the island?

Several threads already covered scenarios on which Argentina wins the Malvinas / Falkland War. However, not much was discussed about a "no war" scenario.... Let's imagine that the Argentina Junta simply decides, by early 1982, to archive the war plans and nothing happens involving Malvinas /...

WI, by legitimate or fraudulent means, the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite results are reversed, with Pinochet winning an eight years mandate? How Chile and Latin America would react and behave with Pinochet entering the 1990s?

WI Portugal's Carnation Revolution, somehow, flops (or is entirely removed)? How the country would transition to democracy and CEE membership? What would be impacts on the then colonies? Would Portugal witness a kind of gradual and negotiated transition, akin to Spain or a general collapse was...

Imagine that a "Yes" victory on the 1995 Quebec Referendum was already discussed in several topics...However, is always an interesting hypothesis to be re-discussed.... How do you imagine a 31st. October 1995 morning (and the following days, months and years) in case of an inverted result on...

What if not one, but two, Jewish states were formed at the 20th. Century. Let's say one as OTL Israel and other arising from previous homeland proposals, such as the British Uganda Plan or the Madagascar Plan? How would the two states relate and the impacts in the worldwide Jewish population?

WI, some how, Scandinavians never get to Iceland (maybe an earlier viking decline or more focus on settlement in England)...who would get there and when? A Gaellic Iceland would be a possibility?

Sure that several threads have already covered, but interested on views of a Communist Finland (either as a Soviet Republic or as an USSR satellite)....any thoughts or previous discussions?

WI the 1946 Italian referendum had a different outcome, with Monarchy being victorious? What kind of King Umberto II would be and how Italian politics would develop with the Savoia still at throne?

The 1973 oil shock was the definitive end to the Post-War Boom (which was already fading by the late 60s - early 70s), rocking the Western economies and making the 1970s an extremely tricky decade on economic terms (recession and then staginflation). How such oil shock could have been avoided...

Was the Lebanese Civil War avoidable (within a POD btw 1943 and 1976)? What about a No-Civil War Lebanon: something like OTL UAE, Jordan or was a general conflagration just unavoidable?

WI Jackie, instead of Jack, was hit on November 22th, 1963, dying some hours after, similar to OTC Jack? How JFK would react? A second marriage could follow?

By general comments, any late 1970s US Administrations were doomed to fail and be pulverized in the 1980 elections. Others says that much of such failure, or at least the general US sense of malaise prevalent at such time, was responsibility of one man: Jimmy Carter. My question: is Jimmy...

A general question: would be possible that Nixon could have survived Watergate and remained in functions until Jan 1977? Which would be the necessary PODs and how a post-Watergate Nixon administration would have behaved things until 1977?

The Sabarabuçu legend, of a golden mountain in the Brazilian backlands west of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia was know to the Portuguese since around 1540, with an initial unsuccessful expedition departing to the OTC Minas Gerais territory by 1554. Another expedition was done by Sebastião Fernandes...

Probably already discussed several times, but could the Weimar Republic survive the 30s and maybe onward? Any possible reform during the 20s / early 30s or the democratic republic was doomed to collapse?

Newfoundland ("Terra Nova" in Portuguese) was claimed by the Portuguese crown after the Tordesillas Treay and then reached by a Portuguese navigator, Joao Alvares Fagundes circa 1520. The Newfie & Labrador shores were constantly visited by Portuguese sailors and fishermen during the 16th...

Would be feasible to extinct the Japanese Monarchy after the surrender of the Empire in 1945? What would be the effects a Hirohito abdication, exile or even prision / death in the Post War Japan? POD after Japanese Surrender in August 1945

A POD after 1943 and WI after 1945: get Italy to be punished in similar fashion to Japan after WWII: an Allied-controlled government after the war, deep modifications into Italian social and economical model, faster modernization of economy and labour relations, suppression of nationalism and...

WI the Alhambra Decree was never passed by the Spanish Crown in 1492 and Jews were allowed to stay in Spain? Would an future expulsion happen in the following centuries? What about Inquisition? Would the Jews be tolerated in Spain or extreme anti-semitism would end up forcing most Jews to...