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May 27, 1968: The National League awards the city of Montreal an expansion franchise, and another expansion team to San Diego. The American League expands to Kansas City and Seattle as per their agreement with Missouri Senator Stuart Symington after the Athletics left KC for Oakland. All four...

I was thinking about this today, about how the Cold War would look if the US/UK would have launched an invasion of Albania & Yugoslavia in late 1943 maybe even early 1944. From what I have read this is the point where things were really beginning to collapse for Germany, though they were still...

I have heard criticism of FDR over his stance with the USSR at Yalta, but lets say FDR wasn't so near death or that he died before Yalta leaving Truman to deal with Stalin. What could have the west have done to prevent the iron curtain from falling the way it did, or are we still looking at a...

Lets go for gold, there have been two other sports threads started recently, why not a third? March 1953, the Boston Braves are just five years removed from their 1948 National League Pennant and are still the second team in Boston next to the American League Red Sox. Braves owner Ron Perini...

Write a scenario in which Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned the Emperor of the Roman Empire, and turns it into a great western military and economic power. The Roman Empire should have these borders or something very close to it.

Here is something I have been thinking about working on, an alternate World War II where Russia resembles Nazi Germany in every regard, right down to the vicious anti-semitism. Instead of anti-slavism, the Russians look down their noses at Turks and Germans (which includes the British and...

What if the 22d Amendment were slightly different by allowing the President of the United States to serve up to three terms rather than a limit of two? How would this effect the history of the United States? By using our timeline series of Presidents there are only three that could have achieved...

What would have happened if the northern states seceded from the Union rather than the southern states? For the sake of argument let us say New England forms its own republic, but the remaining northern states secede and reform a new union called the Federal States of America, the FSA. Would...

In 1940 France was about to fall and many people in the government of Reynaud were divided about what to do. Many believed they should stay in France and suffer the same fate as the people, others believed the Third Republic should move its headquarters to North Africa and conintue to fight. Due...

Here's a different challenge, we usually see Three Way Cold Wars but this is a very different one. Create a scenario where the world is basically divided into Three Camps of Major Alliances, all three sides have at least one power as a nuclear armed nation, but there must not be a nuclear...

With a POD no earlier than 1454 create a world where the Ottoman Empire reconquers southern Spain all the way up to Cordoba where the Mosque of Cordoba is restored to Islam. Meanwhile in the east, Christians have a reconquista of their own taking Constantinople and creating the Greek Kingdom...

A prelude to something Ive been working on to avoid the Cold War, its not finished yet, but I am working on a timeline for this so please be patient with me. Prelude: The Cold War in my honest opinion is probably the most wasteful event in human history, how many trillions of dollars did...

It seems everybody has a warped thread, well heres mine Create a world where it is acceptable for "mainstream" actors and acresses to engage in hardcore sexual intercourse for the mainstream movies. So whenever there is a love scene, we get that great pornographic music playing in the...

I originally posted this in the writers forum yesterday morning, it hasnt generated any interest, this is only a rough draft so please let me hear some ideas so I can continue. This is something I have been fooling around with for a good bit now, it truely belongs in the ASB section but Im...

In the 1930s the Kuomintang and the Nazi's had some contact with one another, with Nazi Germany being heavily invested in Nationalist China, however by the late 1930s the German's switched from supporting the Chinese to supporting the Japanese. Their reason? Japan was better able to resist the...

How do we get Japan to switch sides during World War II? I’m not certain how this will work; perhaps the Emperor sacks Tojo and replaces him with a more pro-western Prime Minister who begins to negotiate with the west to end the war in the Pacific. Perhaps Japanese terms are a complete...

In the year 540 Byzantine General Belisarius had conquered much of Italy and was offered the title of Western Roman Emperor by the Ostrogoths, he feigned to accept this coveted title to enter the city of Ravenna. Historians believe Justinian became suspicious of Belisarius’ motives and recalled...

I have been writing on this timeline for over a year, and I suppose I will continue writing it until I iron out all the kinks, so this is take III for me and this. I have read the criticisms of those who have read my previous two attempts, and enjoyed their praises. Thank you for both guys, I...

Abdul Hadi Pasha will like this one, in fact it comes from something he said before that inspired it. The Ottomans believed themselves to be the heirs of the Roman Empire, when they sacked Constantinople in 1453, they didn't believe they were killing the Romans, but rather perfoming a coup of...

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Caliphate was abolished, what event could lead to a new Caliphate being established in the second half of the twentieth century, bonus points if the Caliphate is established in Cairo, Damascus or Baghdad, Super Duper Bonus points if it is established in...