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There are many TLs I know that I wouldn't exist in and I have a hard time finding one in the before 1900 section where I would exist. We like to think that if we meet our counterpart from another TL, they would probably be from a vastly different world and TL, but honestly, the differences can't...

Your challenge is to have as many countries and people as possible be as obsessed as the Koreans over computer games like Starcraft that they actually have professional tournaments and entire channels devoted to a computer game. There should also be huge fan groups to great players of the game...

What if John Maynard Keynes was never conceived by his parents? So, he never publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money which was the foundation of Keynesian economics. There's also no The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

June 1885 Amédée Courbet smiled[1], the war was just about over. It appeared that the Chinese were about to accept the treaty, the mandarin Li Hongzhang[2] was set to sign it. Amédée Courbet wasn't so sure they might accept the loss of territory, but the total defeat of whatever chinese...

Hailing from Hainan here, I thought a timeline for Republic of Hainan would be a good idea. When is the best time for a independent nation for Hainan?

Otto Von Bismarck was a very influential man who effected history greatly and considered the ultimate realists and practicioner of realpolitik. However, he eventually had to resign and lost the powers he once had. What if Bismarck continued to have as much power as he did throughout his time...

What if during the late 1990's in a mars mission, we found small microscopic life in mars?

What if Giuseppe Mazzini was killed in 1833 along with his other revolutionaries when the government made a crackdown on revolutionaries?

I was checking a documentary on solar energy, some guy said that Carter visited the solar facility when it rained, Carter reached out to wipe the rain from the solar panel, but the technician stopped hm because it would've shocked him. WI: when Carter was visiting the solar plant, he brushes...

What if Petrarch, considered the father of humanism, died of the plaque when it first hits Europe?

You're challenge, should you accept is to make a large percentage of people consider themselves world citizens, it doesn't necessary have to be accepted by the majority.

While eating pork and having a muslim friend of mine comment on how disgusting it is, a thought came to me, WI pork was accepted by muslims and jews?

WI Adam Smith died of a illness before he published "the Wealth of Nations"? Smith also ordered they burned all his works that wasn't published so what if the book was burned along with his other works?

Macarthur kept Hirohito, but there were some people pushing for him to be tried for war crimes. What if Hirohito was tried for war crimes and found guilty along with the other japanese generals and war criminals?

What if, the requirements to be president were the same, but the difference is that they let American citizens that are born in other countries be president?

Korean and Japanese used to use chinese characters, but they later developed their own, what if they keep on using written chinese characters.

In OTL, Kyoto didn't face much damage in WWII, but what if Kyoto was a target of bombing by the U.S, possibly even firebombing?

The public seemed to be pretty much against nuclear energy throughout the 20th century(I never understood it because I'm pretty much pro-nuclear) What if there wasn't as much resistance to using nuclear power plants to supply our energy by the public?

Some years ago, some man wanted to take out the under god in the U.S pledge of allegiance. However he couldn't take the case to the supreme court because his what he said about his daughtered tuned out to be a lie. What if he had gone to the supreme court and they agreed with the previous...

What if Burma never had a coup? How would their economy develop?