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Inspired by my Cosmonaut Rasputin Halloween costume idea. March 6th 1916 Agents of Grigori Rasputin succeed in making the death of Czar Nicholas II look like an accident. Desperate to keep her little Alexei safe, Tsarina Alexandra gives regency to Rasputin who gains the support of the masses...

If you disagree with something, tell me why so I can make it better. The PoD Shortly after Bismarck becomes prime minister, he makes it known that he inclined to have all German speaking lands in his Empire. He makes a deal with the Hungarian nobility that they should have their own country...

I'm trying to do some research but I can't find much.. When did the Shi'a Fatimid Caliphate start to become Sunni? My own theory is with the influx of Sunni Turks as Mamluks (and their eventual rise to rulership) the switch to Sunni began.

How would the British/French/Prussian armies fare in an invasion of Japan, assuming they successfully landed? I'm not asking whether they would invade, because 1. they wouldn't 2. they probably couldn't, but if they did how would they fare against the forces of the Shogunate?

1. What other sort of Germanic groups aside from the Angles, Jutes and Saxons could make it to Britain? Perhaps Frisians, Franks or displaced Alemmanians? 2. What is the possibility and implications of a southern Germanic migration towards the Balkans? Yes, I know the westward movement was...

.. and how could they of been persuaded to align one way or another? This is something I never really looked into and would love to have an answer :)

with a PoD within the eighteenth century, make it so that the Spanish retain control of at least one colony in South America to at until at least 1900. The bigger the colony (or more colonies) the better.

The challenging is to make any sort of state, nation, culture, area, etc. accepting of homosexuals before the twentieth century. The earlier the better!

This is something that I'v always wanted to play around with but have had little knowledge of. What is the possibility of Orthodox Magyars and Romanians? I have a few ideas, but i want to see what other people think.

Let's discuss the possibility and consequences of Germany allying with Great Britain during the Imperial age. For starters, I think there would have been a good opportunity if Germany ceded all African Colonial claims to Great Britain during the Berlin Conference. For one, this would have...

This is an Idea I thought of today and I really like it. While I feign to call it a "Byzantine Survival" scenario, it is contingent on it lasting for longer than IRTL. Essentially, the Greeks became much more isolationist from around the 12th century and made a number of interesting political...

If The Caliphate had split apart early on. Sometime during the reign of Caliph Uthman ibn Affan (644-656) The death of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman came suddenly, and not without great despair. He was the hero of Nahavand, where he defeated a Persian force five times his size in 641, and he was...

My question is to anyone who knows much about the diet of the world: What cereal grains are used by what parts of the world? Now, most of them are obvious; The Americas used maize, East and South Asia are dependent on rice, and Europe mostly used wheat and barley. The areas I am not so...