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Presuming the French wars stop around 1795 (because Captain Napoleon is killed by a stray rifle bullet, or he falls off his horse, or is run over by an artillery carriage...:p), do you still get the same postwar progression? In particular, does it lead to the disintegration of the HRE (if...

Inspired by this & this.... (I think the D'backs still lose, tho.:p) Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it...is to a) start professional baseball as soon as possible after the first organized game in Ontario in 1838; b) have the pro league, by whatever name, incorporate as many...

I came across a mention of this someplace, & I've wondered about it, so let me pose it here. Australia's population is mostly British. WI it had been colonized by Spain, instead? Would it have become more heavily industrialized? More populous?

OTL WW2, after the Butt Report revealled how incompetent BC navs are, Winston, Prof Fred Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), & Sir Charles Portal agreed to a policy of attack on German morale by consciously bombing civilians (euphemistcally called "dehousing" by Lindemann). No study of its effectivenes...

In light of this thread, among others, I wanted to ask something that's bugged me for awhile. Borchardt made auto pistols in 1893. The Cei-Rigotti appeared in 1890. The Kjellman traces its origins to an 1870 patent. The Webley-Fosbery isn't terribly different from an 1850 Colt. So I wonder: what...

It's 1958. Seduction of the Innocent has seduced the ignorant, & horror comics are toast. The comics industry is in shambles. DC, desperate for something printable, decides to retcon Flash. What if DC had taken the approach Marvel later would, making the characters more human, flawed, & fitting...

64,999,999 years ago, a big-ass asteroid skips off the top of the atmosphere & knocks Venus into the corner pocket. The dinosaurs survive. 6 million years later (or so...), where are they? (The first person to suggest a United States or an amphibious attack by a marine animal will be eaten.:D)

Having seen the film "Elizabeth", which suggests Mary Scots threatened it, but didn't do it (OK, Hollywood's only slightly above ASB:p), I wondered what the effect might be if Liz had been executed for treason?

This one's been bugging me for awhile. Given the long-standing issues over Silesia, the Polish Corridor, & Danzig, WI Hitler had started with Poland, instead of ending there? Could he have pulled a deal =OTL Munich there, & still gotten the Sudetenland, without starting a war? Or persuaded the...

POD: 1816-7, Robert Stirling's engine is fitted into a workable automobile (by another name...), & subsequently buses. Naturally, highways develop. How does improved mobility impact the evolution of music in the U.S.? I picture early creation of jazz (under another name?) & honky-tonk (in...