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If the 1781 Congressional Impost amendment to the Articles of Confederation had somehow been able to overcome Rhode Island's obstinacy and pass, the Confederation Congress would then have had explicit power to collect taxes, if only a 5% duty on imports. What sort of effects would this have...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Yevgrafovich_Petrov These three events occurred within a month of one another and all are considered to have very nearly brought about the Third...

I don't know if this has ever been discussed before but here it goes. What would have been the consequences of the boll weevil jumping the pond and making its way to the cotton fields of Egypt at around the beginning of the American Civil War? Would Indian cotton have been sufficient to keep...

I though it would be interesting to make up or post already made up alternate names for people, works of literature, television shows, etc. that mean the same thing as in OTL except using synonyms and closely related words. Examples: Battlestar Galactica-Warsun Universalis The Marx...

What would happen to Werner G. Göring if during one of his raids over Germany, his B-17 is shot down, he survives, and is captured by the Germans? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_G._Göring

At the first session of the French national assembly following the collapse of the Second Empire in 1871, the Orléanists and the Legitimists held a majority when taken as a whole. While each wanted their respective pretenders to be King, for the sake of Monarchy in France they compromised...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to, with a POD no earlier than 1850, make Swaziland have roughly Andorra's life expectancy (82.67) and Andorra have roughly Swaziland's (32.23) in 2009. Swaziland still has to become a fully recognized nation and Andorra has to remain a...

Does anyone know of an image of one? (A heraldic depiction, not a real two headed eagle)

I am of the opinion that if Nikita Khrushchev had remained the the leader of the Soviet Union until his OTL death that he general quality of life in the SU would have been much better than OTL and that the Soviet Union would most likely still exist today. With his focus on light industry and...

I'm not sure this is the correct forum, but oh well.

I am under the impression that if Leon Trotsky had become the leader of the Soviet Union, that there would not have been as much investment in heavy industry in the inter-war years than with Stalin in control. Would this U.S.S.R. be able to withstand a German invasion of OTL proportions?

What is the possibility of a late overhaul of the French Monarchy led by a awe-inspiring King or general (basically a Royalist Napoleon), and then go on a conquering spree across Europe similar to OTL?

What would be the effects of Charles being crowned not "Emperor of the Romans" but "Emperor of the Western Romans" or "Emperor of the West" in 800, as an attempt to not alienate the Byzantines?

I declare a symposium of cartographers so each may construct a map to compete for the ultimate expression of "Balkanization" in the area we now call the United States of America. RULE: You can't just color every state a different color(or counties). You don't have to balkanize in what is...

What if the inbreeding of the Habsburgs led not to some mental deficiency in this particular human being, but a military and domestic Genius! I suppose it is a bit ASB, but if certain things happened at the right time, I belive we could get the right mix of genes for this to happen. By the way...

I am currently reading the timeline-191 books (I'm reading The Victorious Opposition right now). One thing that has bothered me is why Dakota is one state and why Arizona dosen't exist. It's kinda cool, but I don't uderstand why the USA would want to have the least amount of states possible...

How would it come to pass that at least one the most powerful battleships ever imagined(rivaled only by perhaps the Yamatos) is actually compleated? Any affect on the war at all? Or will they just go down as a footnote? Possible cold war/post soviet usage? Here are a couple of pretty pictures to...

Make this map represent the real world at present day. Good Luck. Buena Suerte.:)

What is the largest viable area of land the Papal States can cover? I am putting this in pre-1900 because the Papal States would probobly reach thier zenith before 1900.

If Julius Nepos is not killed, how long can Roman Dalmatia last? To my uderstanting Odoacer only invaded Dalmatia after Nepos died, because he wanted to keep Zeno happy by recognizing Nepos as Western Emperor, if only on paper. If Julius Nepos can create a stable line of succession will Roman...