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What would it take to make camels as ubiquitous in Europe as they are in the Middle East? Either as a beast of burden, or as a food source. What effects would this have?

What would be the effects of a major Messianic religion having a female Messiah? How, where and when would this religion arise? And how successful would it be at proselytising? My opinion is that such a religion could actually be quite successful, much of Europe's pre-Christian religion was...

The Turkish government has expressed interest for quite a while now, but untill recently, its always been considered too far outside of Western Europe. The main problem is the Soviets, or so conventional wisdom states. Coexistance has been pretty stable since the end of the troubles in the late...

Your challenge is, with a POD after 1900, to get Palestine, (under any form), to be an Axis power. Palestine needs to be an active member of the Axis, and not just a passive supporter, and needs to be involved in at least some of the theatres of World War Two.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the ratification of the United Kingdom's first ever codified constitution? So what do people think? How well do you rate the Blairite Constitution's effectiveness? Personally, I applaud it, and I see it as one of Tony Blair's greatest achievements. Without...

What if people stopped keeping their coins in their mouths? Instead they start keeping them in cloth pouches that they have to carry around with themselves at all times, (implausible I know). OOC: This discussion is taking place in the village green of a pre-industrial settlement.

I trust you're all familiar with Jack Chick, that plucky/bat-shit insane internet defender of Mao Zedong-thought? He describes in his youth how he found a number of Chinese-produced 'tracts', cartoon strips designed by the CCP to convince impressionable minds of the validity of Maoism. He became...

Well, Hertzog did say that that's what it would come to in the event of an Obama victory. In return, Obama looks set to honour his campaign promises to combat the South African regime, but then, that's what every US President has said since the Great Expulsions. So is this just more posturing...

With a POD after 963, your challenge is to have, by the present day, a state called Benelux being bordered by a state called Malelux. The names of both states must be syllabic acryonyms, the '-lux' in both must refer to the County (or successor) of Luxemburg, which must be divided between both...

What if, in the late 18th Century, a disease struck the world's poppy population, causing entire crops to whither and die, bringing the poppy species to the verge of extinction? What happens to Anglo-Chinese relations?

Your challenge is to find a way for a trans-continental railroad to be built connecting Moscow in the USSR and New Delhi in the Republic of India with a POD after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. What route does this railroad take and how is it protected?

I hate to bring up this kind of debate, as I know it often gets quite heated, but what do the forumites feel about the Portuguese Independence movement? Its quite ironic now, as we see Black nations in Africa seek to liberate themselves from White leaderships in Europe, that Portugal, a White...

With a POD after 1230, have the House of Habsburg become the ruling dynasty of the Mali Empire. There can either be a separate Mali branch of the house, or, preferably, a personal union with another Habsburg possession.

I've been to Prussia, Siam, Phillipton, and Kaapstadt, and I could never find an Association Puntlemich ball in any of the stores. I would always take one with me, and on a sunny day I would go out to a park, and punt, dribble, and toss the thing around for a little while. Inevitably a local...

Dear, oh dear! The recent peace talks have just collapsed, and, if recent history is anything to go by, it'll be another five or ten years before the Republicans and Free-Statists get back round the table... Meanwhile, in Belfast and Drogheda, people are being shot in the streets. What should...

Symmetry is cool, so here's a challenge. With any POD, how could we have a state with the official endonym 'Westerreich' existing simultaneously with a state called 'Oesterreich', roughly analogous to today's Austria?

With a POD after Mao Zedong's birth, (so this has to be OTL Mao, not an ATL genetic 'brother'), how could Russia, (not necessarily the USSR), end up following a socialist doctrine based on the ideas and philosophies of Mao?

How would it be possible for a University to be the first organisation to place a human being on the Moon? The purpose of this challenge, government assistance/funds are acceptable, but the leader of any mission to the moon has to be academic.

In the Qur'an, Muslim men and women are instructed to dress in a modest fashion, and that instruction is essentially left vague, aside from not walking around with one's genitals hanging out, the definition of modest dress is largely an issue of personal interpretation. The justifications for...

At the time of the authorship of the American Constitution, the practice of having a codified constitution was still rather new and uncommon, (IIRC, the only other nation to have a proper codified constitution at the time was Poland). So what if the nascient United States decides never codify...