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Like to see my Congressman getting some love, even if it is as the leader of the 4th largest party. Also, as others have said, the map is amazing.

There were several Hazara uprisings against the Afghan government in the 1880s and 1890s, but they were all crushed pretty quickly. How about this: We tweak the treaty at the end of the Second Anglo-Afghan War in some way that really angers the Afghan government. There are plenty of ways to...

Honestly, I think that the main (albeit rather small) way that AH.com has influenced the world is in terms of the maps that have been created. Because we need easily editable maps to represent alternate scenarios AH.com has become an amazing resource for clean basic OTL maps that don't take...

So let's imagine that sometime during the 18th century (or 19th century in a TL where Napoleon doesn't dismantle the HRE), Prussia wins some sort of crushing military victory over Austria. They've destroyed their army, marched into Vienna and they can basically dictate whatever terms they want...

In a timeline where the Communists were somehow completely defeated before the Japanese invaded and thus the ROC was secure and stable after driving out the Japanese . . . then maybe, but even then an occupation zone in Japan is far more likely than Germany. In a timeline resembling OTL...

Well, the most obvious answer is that the Parthians are in the way. They're going to have to spend a few decades chewing through that before an invasion of India would be feasible.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of any Orthodox countries that converted directly to Protestantism. It really wouldn't make a whole lot of sense. Protestantism was largely a reaction to abuses within the Catholic Church. No Catholicism=No abuses=No reaction. So in order for Russia to...

Sometimes very flawed candidates can win if the anger against the current administration is strong enough. See 1920 as an example of that. Truman's approval numbers in 1952 were comparable to Nixon's at the height of the Watergate scandal. It really was that bad. People may not want to vote for...

The Draft Eisenhower movement was well underway before Truman announced he wasn't running, and Eisenhower won 5 state primaries before he even announced his intention to run. If you're right that Eisenhower was dead-set against challenging an incumbent he could take a wait-and-see approach all...

In 1933, voters in Western Australia voted overwhelmingly to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Australia with the goal of becoming a separate dominion within the British Empire. However, the British Parliament rejected their petition because it didn't have the support of the Australian federal...

Eisenhower beat Stevenson 55-44 with 442 EVs in OTL. Kentucky, South Carolina, and West Virginia were all within 4 points and Louisiana and North Carolina were 6 points and 8 points respectively. If it gets to 60-40 as you describe, Eisenhower could feasibly get to 490ish electoral votes. If...

I assume he loses, since he was extraordinarily unpopular at the end of his term, but how bad? Worse than the OTL landslide or is the power of the incumbency (even a really unpopular incumbent) enough to make it a little closer? Could he conceivably be denied the Democratic nomination? I know he...

Ted Williams is an obvious one. Between WW2 and Korea he missed 4 full seasons and most of a fifth. The man hit 521 homers in OTL. Give him five extra seasons in the prime of his career and he could conceivably be flirting with Babe Ruth's home run record.

Oh, I gotcha, it takes place earlier. Maybe one of Herb's weird inventions work better and she gives it a go without the Minions?

But shouldn't the Scarlet's predecessor be Bob I? He was king between Elizabeth II and Scarlet I.

Haha! I love the age advanced Scarlet.

You just saw the Minion movie, didn't you? They never did explain now ol' Nappy survived that . . . :D

Yeah, I was looking for them too, but they were all just generic looking guys in suits. Of course, as the opening scene revealed, the POD for the Despicable Me timeline was the emergence of the "Minion" species several billion years ago. Quite frankly, given all the butterflies, we should be...

I just saw the Minions movie, and in honor of the 8 hour reign of King Bob, I present to you, his infobox:

Alternative Vote is usually pushed for when there are more than two strong parties. So your question basically boils down to "when in U.S. history could the two party system break so thoroughly that it is deemed unfixable by any non-radical means?" Personally, I think the best scenario would be...