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Question of this Post: How is History Changed, if Queen Victoria is instead King Victor? (!9th Century)

Manfred von Richthofen Survives; Kicks Ass! Suppose the Red Baron had survived the Great War. And suppose, before the end of the war, he scored another twenty-one victories to end the conflict with the fittingly epic number of 101 kills. (Absolutely Universally Confirmed Kills, Which Could...

As we know, a plague swept the world in the 14th Century that proved incredibly deadly to horses. Before then, the animals seemed to have great use in war and production. What if Horses had survived this plague? (OOC: In this world, horses died from the black plague rather than humans.)

Grump. Can't Delete. Just musing about a black death analogue that effects Horses instead of people.

I've been reading about Mesoamerican civilizations, after posting my thread concerning how one could have developed to European levels, and I've come across the disturbing (although probably well known) trend of them just disappearing. The Olmecs, for instance... I have heard of the...

Is there any way Islam could be sceen as a form of Christianity, similar to the way (for those of us in the West) Orthodox Christianity is sceen as a form of Christianity, although perhaps an exotic and form. In the early middle ages it seems Islam was viewed as more of a heresy by Christians...

In Science Fiction it's not uncommon to assume that two worlds, seperated by light-years, could arrive at nearly the same technological level at nearly the same time. Now, this might or might not be a preposterous assumption. Looking at our own terran history, its even hard to tell whether or...

ATL Challenge: Create a European Society, with presence in the Americas or not, that believes in white superiority but employes negroes / blacks as slave-soldiers in much the same way that Muslims seemed able to do. Bonus points if this European society is based in the Americas.... Triple...

So, what if West Point was never established. How might that effect the history of the United States and the World? How long could the U.S. pheasably go without establishing a Federal Military Academy? Where would the soldiers for U.S. wars in the meantime come from? If there was a civil war...

So, with a PoD after 1900, how can we have the King / Queen of England on a visit to the United States, and a diplomatic confrence end with the Monarch screaming at the U.S. President "Shut Up! Shut Up!" ?

So, could a Christian Zionist movement ever arisen, i.e., have some nations (or nations) primarily Chrisitian decide that the Ottoman lands around Jerusalem should be populated by Christians and a Christian nation established there?

Suppose an intelligent water breathing species had developed on Earth. It's intelligence is comparable to humans, and it has manipulators on par with human hands in facility (although they probably aren't hands. Mouths? Tenacles?) Now, how is world history different with these intelligent sea...

With A PoD no later than 1900, make 'Blowing in the Wind' the National Anthem of the United States of America.

Could there ever have been an 'unholy' alliance between Hitler and Stalin? The AH-Challenge: Have the U.S.S.R. end up an ally of Hitler's during the Second World War rather than an opponent.

How long can the discovery / application of nuclear power be delayed with a PoD no later / earlier than 1900 and what would the effects of this delayal be? Feel free to have prominent scientist / people die in youth, ect...but in the worst of all possible worlds for nuclear science...how long...

What could allow America's Draft Army To Survive Vietnam, And What Change / Modifications would allow it To Surivie to 2001. Moreover, what changes would a Draft Army have on the post-911 America?

Our German friends recently enlightened me to the fact that such a word as "Erbfeind" exists. Now to me - a native english speaker - that just sounds wonderfully sinister. So, how could U.S. popular culture have adopted this word? Erbfeind! Erbfeind! Erbfeind! Sienfeld?

What if fate and luck prove themeselves to be 100% against the Nazis, and England, France and Poland were able to conclude the war successfully against them without much intervention? How might this come about, and what might the effects be? (Every thing goes as well as it could for the allies...

What are the effects of a Buchanan Presidency?

Hitler dies in an accident in the days after his annexation of Czechoslovakia but before war is declared on Poland....