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Hi AHers, So I don't know a great deal about Mozambique, but I was wondering: -How big the white population of Mozambique was during the Portuguese colonial war of the 1970s? -Could the remnant European population, fearful of majority-rule upon the withdrawal of the Portuguese army...

So I thought I'd try my hand at one of these vignettes. WARNING: Extremely dark story ahead. === Kalash toyed with his machete, staring at the hapless chimpanzee sitting in it's cage. Kalash was very hungry. Kalash often didn't eat, no he didn't. Kalash could see the chimp look at him. Kalash...

Hi everyone, so whilst Stars and Sickles remains my flagship TL, I was considering starting one involving a surviving monarchist Russia. I'm sure the topic has already been done many times, but I'd like to have a look at other timelines on the topic to see whether my ideas have anything that...

Okay, so I was watching Behind Enemy Lines on the television and it got me to wondering whether, if a US two-seater fighter jet was shot down and BOTH (not just one like in the movie) of the pilots were killed, would the US have been forced by popular opinion to intervene more forcefully in the...

Hi AHers, Is it possible to transport modern capital ships overland in a relatively short time? I assume dis-assembly and re-assembly would be possible, but how long would this take? For the sake of argument, let's say the Russian Black Sea Fleet was to be transported to the Caspian.

Hi AHers, Because my knowledge on China is relatively limited, especially in the pre-1900 period, I was wondering how exactly the dynastic titles worked? For instance, the Former Qin dynasty, was it known as that at the time? Was it a name given in retrospect? Does 'former' mean something...

Hi AHers, This TL is focused on the development of a Gothic state (Guttstadt) in the Pontic Steppe and Dacia. The PoD is approx. 360 AD, so that is where this TL will properly begin. Although this timeline will be oriented around the Goths, it will also feature in-depth examinations of other...

Hi AHers, Although I spend a lot of time on both the After 1900 and Before 1900 sections of the board, I generally contribute to the After 1900 section because that is where my expertise lies. A major part of working on that has been the TL in my sig, 'Stars and Sickles' which is based on...

Hey AHers, Would love to hear what y'all think are the most frustrating, irritating, dare I say it, infuriating cliches that are overused in post-1900 timelines?

Hi guys, was wondering if anyone could provide me with some good (preferably online) academic sources about the Mughal and Safavid militaries, particularly their declines. :D

Hi AHers, In my Ancient Greek History lecture today, our lecturer mentioned that during the Persian Wars, the Athenians forced the Spartans into marching away from their prepared fortifications at Corinth into Attica to free Athens. Apparently the Athenians said they would resettle in Italy...

As the title says. Why were ball tanks not adopted? http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/monowheel.html

Is a united Maphilindo (Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia) possible? What events could possibly cause it?

As it says on the tin. When Egypt became independent, the British remained in control of the "Anglo-Egyptian" Sudan, even though it was legally Egyptian. But why? I always figured the point of having the Sudan was to provide strategic depth for Egypt, Sudan being very poor itself. I can't see...

Hi guys, can someone please explain to me why modern Chinese history (and to an extent other Asian nations, such as Vietnam, but that's another thread :P) is so full of religious/cult/pseudo-religious political movements that challenge established authorities? Why a religious element? Why so...

Hi AH.comers, My next update for my alt-Cold War TL will be set in the Malagasy uprising, and I'm trying to decide exactly what to do. The Malagasy uprising against French rule was brutally put down in OTL, and although that is a plausible outcome, I was thinking it might be a bit boring...

Hi AH.comers, My next update for my alt-Cold War TL will be set in the Malagasy uprising, and I'm trying to decide exactly what to do. The Malagasy uprising against French rule was brutally put down in OTL, and although that is a plausible outcome, I was thinking it might be a bit boring...

Hey AHers :) How would Operation Polo, the Indian invasion of Hyderabad, be prevented? Could the British be called in to repel or dissuade the Indians from invading? And what would the effect of an independent Hyderabad be, especially in regards to Kashmir, Goa, Pakistan and the Sikh regions?

This is a reboot of my timeline "Mitteleuropa - Endloser Krieg" which was never completed. There were quite a lot of issues with it, but I've always wanted to get back to it. So I did some more research and had some more ideas of what to incorporate into the TL, so this thread will host it...

Hi AHers! I'm intended to reboot a TL that I never ended up completing, but I wanted to improve it before continuing with the narrative, since there was a lot of disagreement with some of the things in there. The TL is about a post-Central Powers victory (which is not a Germanwank, but an...