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That pf course depends on whether you believe in souls, afterlife, etc. If you do, then trying to save someone from an eternity of torment does have to be counted as a good thing. If you don't, then it is just a waste of time. Which is why this sort of effort bogs down so fast - as Kiat...

Well, If he was a Sunni or Shi'a muslim (as opposed to a Nation of Islam muslim, which I don't think would fit the OP), he would not have been associated with that nutball pastor in Chicago - so he would have avoided some political difficulties at that point. However, it seems from some...

100% - c.f. the Philippines.

For the USA, America the beautiful is often suggested nowadays - though that would've made no sense for the early US (those rolling waves of grain weren't planted yet on land that was still French &/or Spanish, among other things) - edit - I see the post above noting that the anthem wasn't...

Sorry - overlooked the post 1900 limits and was just thinking about weather events and history. Given the greater fragility of boats during the age of sail, there's more room there for waterspouts, rogue waves, and storms to wreak merry havok with things like major naval battles, exploration...

Here are a few to try on for size. No typhoon during the mongol invasion of Japan. Unusually mild winter for napoleon's invasion of Russia. Unusually mild weather for the Armada's invasion of Britain. A squall sinks the nina, pinta, and santa maria - no survivors Waterspout hits...

hmm. Kidnap young Mohammed, drop him off in a monastery in Ireland as a foundling. Butterfly world. Convince the Mongol fleet to sail a week earlier for the conquest of Japan - Butterfly pacific. Frame young Cromwell for theft - have him sent to the colonies as his sentence. Butterfly...

Any TL with a surviving Rome, Byzantine Empire, Classical Greek culture, extended Renaissance, surviving Mongol Empire, surviving Spanish Empire, or surviving pre-columbian cultures - just to see some of the architecture in tip top condition Any TL with more airships, or surviving mastodons...

I think there are three factors: 1. (Primary)the whole imagery of the nazis - the uniforms, the crazy rallies, the (rather intentional) whiffs of paganism, occultism, and roman imperialism. They were totalitarian nutbags, an economic, political, military, and cultural self inflicted...

Baja quite possibly, maybe a few more bits and bobs along the OTL border, but can't see much more. Even Baja would take some real blunders on Mexico's part as: 1. Carranza will surrender and request a truce/white peace as soon as possible. As noted, he wasn't LBI, and could do the math as...

the other option is to have the formation of the islands remain volcanic, but with a slightly different composition - the islands physically are unstable and extremely prone to erosion - far more so than volcanic islands in other parts of the world. You'll end up with somewhat larger islands...

based on the thread title, let's presume no live fire. You have the protest, and probably some low level rioting, which is eventually broken up by riot police, or peters out on its own. So, just another protest march, with assorted idiocy attached, but no deaths, no crisis, no kindling of the...

All true, But the mustachioed maniac's core problem was that his war aims (conquest & clearing/enslaving of the Slavs, Conquest and domination of no-slav Europe, conquest & satellite status for UK) simply can't be met with the tools at his disposal. Either he scales back his war aims, or he...

so, amusingly enough - one way to have a regressed, dictatorial Europe, is to avoid WW2. huh

I'll take a stab. The ottomans sit out WW1, focus on strengthening & liberalizing(modernizing) their society. In Europe 'proper' WW1 get's set off largely on cue, but proceeds differently - due to various butterflies, the end result is a series of xenophobic military/monarchial...

Seconded - if he had the self-discipline and common sense of an Ataturk or Pinochet, there would never have been a revolution, Persia/Iran would have had a gradual transition to a more democratic era (but likely limited, as with Turkey, for example). Doesn't make the alt version a saint by...

Fairly widely accepted in Noam Chomsky circles, certainly. Just because a given autocrat aligned with the US during the cold war, did not make said Autocrat a US puppet, any more than a country aligning with the US vs Al Qaeda makes them a US puppet today. Or would you classify Pakistan...

so true. No tomatoes, no corn, no potatoes, no squash, no peppers, no chocolate...

Given that they were using them in the philipines, and for troop transport across the pacific & atlantic... ALso - armored, nuclear-powered, zeppelins seem likely to be a bit on the big and unmanuverable side. Not sure if that is a good thing for your aircraft carrier, medical ship, logistics...

for another blast from the past - Mirrored skies/burning heavens US military dictatorship (cue annexation of Canada and everything down to the southern cone) Resurgent Commie Russia splits Asia with Resurgent Commie China (which nukes Japan into unihabitated crater). The lack of india is...