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I've been contemplating a TL where Franz Joseph is successfully assassinated in 1853, leading to Maximilian being crowned as Emperor of Austria. Now, my problem is that I don't really know how he would handle Italo-Austrian relations. Given that both he and Cavour were liberals, I have no...

According to Wikipedia, Gary Gygax initially promoted the idea of TSR merging with Games Workshop in the 1980s (GW previously having bought the licensing rights for Dungeons and Dragons in the UK), but Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone turned down the proposal. But what if Gygax somehow...

Suppose these two different scenarios happened: -Something happens in the German high command and the Nazis decide not to attack the Ardennes. They opt to attack through Belgium instead. -The Germans DO attack through the Ardennes... but the French are prepared for an attack on that area and...

Is it possible for the Sino-German Alliance and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to have never petered off, so that the Chinese are on the Axis and the Japanese on the Allies in World War II or an equivalent conflict? If so, how, and what would be the repercussions?

I was looking at Wikipedia's biographies of Yves Montand and Jacques Prevert and I noticed that the era of World War II and Nazi Occupation seemed to have been entirely skipped over. This got me thinking: if the Nazis somehow won World War II, how would the French (and Parisian in particular)...

I've been wanting to write a TL about a successful Jacobite rebellion in 1745 for a while, and I've been looking for some feedback. Basically, the premise is this: the French manage to successfully invade the British Isles in early '45, routing the British and placing Bonnie Prince Charlie on...

Is there a several-paragraph or so summary of this TL? It looks quite interesting (in a train wreck sort of way), but the length of it is rather daunting.

Whoops, it seemed that I forgot about the other thread. Locking request sent...

Is there any way that the HRE could have become a centralised country with a civil service replacing the old feudal nobility, after the 12th century?

Your challenge is simple: make the King of Rock avoid his death in 1977 with a POD no sooner than 1960. Try and aim for him at least survive the fall of People's Republic of America in 1991, with bonus points if he lives to 2010.

If the storms that destroyed the French fleet that was going to invade Britain never materialised, then could the French have landed at Britain and assisted the Jacobites? If they were successful, then what would a Stewart Britain look like?

The possibility of a union between Canada and multiple Caribbean nations has been proposed several times in the past. How could these proposals become successul, would the consequence be of a Canadian-Caribbean union?

Is there any way that the Golden Liberty in 16th/17th Century Poland could have been expanded to the commoners as well as the Nobles?

Is there any way that China could have remained a maritime power during the Ming Dynasty? In addition, what incentive could China have had to continue trade and commerce with the rest of Asia?

I did a thread about this before, but it seems that a lot of people misinterpreted the point of it, so I'll go again: What if Atomism became widely accepted sometime around Ancient Greece or in the medieval Middle East, becoming as popular as Aristotle's Four Elements theory IOTL?

What if Democritus's Atomism prevailed over the Four Elements model? How would Western (and Middle-Eastern, for that matter) thought be affected?

What if Chaucer somehow died in childhood due to Black Death or some other disease? How would the development of English be affected by his non-prescence?

Assuming the Turks won the Seige of Vienna in 1529, how much more could the Ottoman Empire expand? I personally can't really see them going past Austria at the most. Perhaps they could take out Southern Italy if their lucky at sea, but that's about it.

What are the possibilities of George Washington dying at Valley Forge? Assuming he does die, what would be the repercussions later on?

What if the British citizens in the Mayan city of Bacalar were never massacred, and the British never stopped supporting the rebels of Chan Santa Cruz?