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A question: would be possible, anyhow, to an European country to remain pagan (or having a pre-Christian religion) or at least having as religion a mixture of christianism with paganism until our days? Is the christianization avoidable in any part of Europe?

WI Europe does not adopts Euro (maybe still using something similar to the ERM - fixed exchange rates between European currencies) how does the OTL Eurozone countries fares during and after the Great Recession (2008-2012)?

WI Florida stays in the Spanish Empire during the early 19th Century? Would the US invade the peninsula, would a "Floridian-Cuban Federation" emerge in 1898 or Miami would be the capital of the "Republica de la Florida"?

A different WI: In 2007 one of the worst business disasters in history happened: a consortion of three banks (RBS, Fortis and Santander) bought, after a lenghty dispute with Barcays, the Dutch lender ABN AMRO. One year after the deal, Fortis was disbanded, RBS went from being the most aggressive...

Next Monday it will be 50 years that the left-leaning Brazilian Presidente Joao Goulart was removed from power by a military coup, starting a military dictatorship in Brazil that would last from 1964 until 1985. Your tasks are: I - Avoid the 31st. March coup by any means, with a earliest...

In the Italian General Elections of 1976 the Italian Communist Party ("PCI") almost managed to get a double feat: be the first communist party to get to the power in a Western European country and be the second communist party to be elected democratically (first one was in Chile with Salvador...

A double task: AHC: Make Franco changes his mind and decides that Spain will not return to monarchy after his death. The PoD can happen any time after 1939 but must happen before Franco death in 1975. WI: Without Juan Carlos I (or other monarch) how would Spain develop after 1975?

WI the Dutch never settles the Hudson estuary (and so no New Netherlands exists)? Would the Pilgrims extend their domain further to the south or a more Mid-Atlantic colony would appear in the OTL New York - New Jersey area?

Visiting Washington DC I wondered if the US would allow an international border to appear right across its capital in the event of a negotiated settlement for ACW. I wonder if, in this hypothesis, Virginia borders would be redrawn further to the south in order to allow a buffer space between...

Parallel to the immensely popular thread "Able Archer 83", how would the Southern Hemisphere and other parts of then called "Third World" react when knowing that World War III had just started? What would be the immediate and long term impacts of the NATO – Warsaw War in countries like...

WI Europeans never reached (or at least where delayed 200-300 years) Eastern NA and Iroquois League could kept its development like it was without the European contact? Would the Iroquois have reached the same technological and societal stage of the Incas or Aztecs? How far would the Iroquois...

What if Spain had became a Republic instead of restoring the Bourbon monarchy after Franco`s death in 1975 ?

Well, given the death of Margaret Thatcher, here goes a AHC / WI: Avoid Margaret Thatcher of reaching Downing Street and what would be the consequences of a "No-Thatcher 80s"? PS: Please keep it civil and respectful....

Spanish missions dotted Florida and Georgia coast until 1650 but left few impacts in the Southaeastern history.....your task is to establish a viable Spanish colony from those missions and keep the English to the north of the Carolinas...

A mix of WI and Future History: March 13th, 2013 and Odilio Scherer from Brazil is elected Pope....how would things unweild in the Vatican and in the World?

December 22th., 1978......at 8 PM Argentinean general Humberto Barbuzzi order his troops to invade some little islands in the Beagle Channel. After 30 minutes, the news of the invasion reaches the then Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. The War in the End of the World has started....who it...

I was just reading an old Portuguese book where it says that some Portuguese navigators could have reached the coast of OTL northern Pernambouc Republic (former France Antartique, independent from France in the 19th. century) by early 1500's, just a century early from the final integration of...

What if any of the current state in the US developed as a true bilingual state? It would be possible to Lousiania keep French as the daily languague or any state from the Mexican Cession keep Spanish as the main language?

An AHC and WI....avoid the major Mexican / Hispanic migration to the US or at least keep it in levels similar to the migration of other groups to the US after WWII. The only exception allowed is the migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans as OTL. What would be the effects in the US, Mexico and...

WI the Portuguese never came or decided to abandon the incipient colony before 1600 neve to come back? What would become of OTL Brazilian territory? Who and how would colonize the place.....