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Keep the French Republican Calendar, which very minimal to no modifications, in use up until the present time.

I'm sure this has been done to death before, but how could Dewey win the '48 election, and what would be the consequences? How does President Dewey handle the end of the Chinese Civil War and PRC control of the mainland? What about Korea? Or the Soviets becoming a nuclear power? What happens to...

Sorry if this is in the wrong area, I wasn't sure where to put this. Basically what it says on the tin. Does anyone have any recommended reading on the later French Revolution/early Napoleonic period? I'm looking at 1795-1800 here, basically as the revolution ends and Napoleon's rise to power...

Pretty well exactly what it says. If at all possible, make a good, e.g. well received by audiences (critically acclaimed for bonus points) and successful; e.g. one that makes enough money for the studios and gaming publishers to consider adapting more titles to the big screen.

Simply what it says on the tin. What if Stalin, or any other ATL Soviet leadership, doesn't suppress the nascent Soviet film industry and the so-called "Marxist-Formalist" works of Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin, etc., are continually produced through the mid-to-late 1930s, and well into the...

"The name 'Bulgaria' is derived from the Bolghars, a semi-nomadic Turkic people who flourished in the Pontic Steppe during the 7th century AD before conquering the Eastern Roman Empire's Balkan territories, settling along the Danube. Their name is possibly derived from the Proto-Turkic word...

Some Background 1464: Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1) is 28 and has no heir; various Japanese nobles worry over the question of succession. Yoshimasa convinces his brother, Yoshimi, to abandon the life of a monk, and names him his heir. Yoshimasa begins considering retirement to a more...