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One of the defining features of Charlemagne's reign was that he was recognised as Augustus, which pissed off the existing Roman Empire based in Constantinople. So I was wondering how, and what the consequences would be, if Charlemagne agreed only to be crowned as Augustus of the West, and...

I was reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/01/world/conflict-in-yugoslavia-austria-refuses-to-withdraw-troops-from-slovenia-border.html And it got me thinking about a possible Austria vs Yugoslavia/Serbia military conflict in the 1990s; how would this go about, possible military...

Would it be possible for naval combat to occur in the South African Border War? Between the South African Navy on the one side, and the Cuban/Angolan/Mozambique Navies on the other?

Like the title says, what if when the Warsaw Pact invades in 1968, the Czechoslovakian are prepared, or at the very least offer some sort of coordinated military response?

Okay, let's say that in the aftermath of Albert's death, Victoria loses all interest in the crown and Britain becomes a Republic. What are the hoards thoughts and ideas on this?

The 6th of August, 216BCE. Rome. The Senate. “We cannot and will not countenance any terms that would have us surrender Italy! It would insult the gods, and our noble forebears to do such a thing, to surrender land that has been paid for in Roman lives and blood!” The Senator’s words were...

Was it at all possible for the Romans to colonise these islands? What would the consequences be with regard to Roman development and West Africa?

It was the coldest year on record, and it was getting worse with every day. The boffins said everything would return to normal sometime next year, but it was still a year without warmth. The Underground was on strike today, and so the Officer was forced to walk in the cold streets of London. He...

Let's say he avoids his infamous duel with Burr. What are the boards predictions on what he does with the remainder of his life. I for one predict that he would have probably lived 'till about 1830, and would have played a key part in the development of New York State as a financial and...

Could "Plantation-Syndicalism" arise in an alternate Haitian Revolution; ie the plantations are own and run by the freeman and women who till the soil, and government is basically a branch of those syndics? Could syndaclism lead to a more prosperous Haiti?

In OTL, the Ottomans adopted some Roman concepts onto themselves; the Sultan was entitled Caser, for instance, and it controlled the territory of the old ERE. The House of Osman even married into the last ruling house of the Byzantines. But would it be possible for the Ottomans to be even more...

A RED SUN What's this? I've decided to write a Timeline In A Day. Why? Because I wanted to. TLIAD are narratively driven, you suck at writing people. Go fooey. If Meadow, Lord Roem and Johnathon Edelstein can do it, so can I. You're a mad man! A mad man! I never argued otherwise, and...

Also known as the Force or Lodge Bill, this would "have authorized the federal government to ensure that elections were fair. In particular, it would have allowed federal circuit courts (after being petitioned by a small amount of citizens from any district) to appoint federal supervisors of...

Just a thought I had: what if somebody, maybe a hard-right group or even Anti-Soviet Anarchists, blew a large chunk of the Berlin Wall to bits in 1983? Consequences? Practically?

Would it continue to modernise? Was revolution inevitable? Would it be a rare island of stability in the region?

Let us suppose that Operation Valkyrie is successful and the new German government decides to sue for terms. What does the board think they would offer? And what would the allies accept?

You're mission, if you choose to except it, is to have state existing in the period 800AD-1453AD in Europe with a professional army paid for by taxation, standing and volunteer based.

Okay, let's set the POD as No Islam. Okay, if the Pentriarchial form of Orthodox Christianity remains dominant, would something resembling OTL Protestantism ever arise? Perhaps in states outside the ERE?

What if the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants'_War had resulted in a victory for the Peasants? What kind of political structure would have resulted? Something like the cantonal confederation of the Old Swiss?

What date would you say the Roman Empire collapsed? Some would say it was 476AD with the collapse of the WRE. Others would argue it was in the 7th Century, when the ERE lost the southern and eastern Med to the Islamic conquests, and became a radically different entity in both language in...