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Suppose that 9/11 happens anywhere from late August to late October of 2000. The POD for this is that a wealthy Saudi Sunni plans a terrorist attack with planes, but starts doing so roughly a year before Osama Bin Laden did OTL. I really want to isolate the effects of this, so suppose for the...

With a POD after 1867, can the Austro-Hungarian empire fall apart due to internal revolts or political maneuvering? Basically, I want the Habsburg dual monarchy to disolve under domestic pressure rather than having its collapse be precipitated by a European war.

Is there any way to have WWI start in 1912? Would it be sufficient for some Serbian nationalist to assassinate Franz Ferdinand at that point in time or are there factors that would make the situation different from '14?

Muhammad Ali once said of the Thrilla in Manila, "Frazier quit just before I did. I didn't think I could fight any more." Ali's biographer and a number of other sources seem to corroborate that Joe Frazier wanted to (and asked to) keep going before the fight was stopped by his trainer Eddie...

I know opinions will probably differ on this but is there any generally accepted way of dealing with butterflies, if say, a POD effects central Asia or Croatia or something before intercontinental contact? I was considering a different post-Roman world with a pod in the early 500's, and I...

With a POD after the foundation of the Latter Day Saints church, is there any way to have Joseph Smith's plans for a New Jerusalem in Missouri realized? He apparently had a relatively clear vision for the city with a preliminary street-grid layout and proposals for the foundation of separate...

With a POD after the start of the Reformation (for the sake of convenience, say, after Martin Luther's death in 1546), what trends or developments might lead to a more significant presence of non-trinitarian Christian doctrines? They needn't be a majority or plurality in any one country, though...

With a POD after the end of the Ottonian dynasty - that is to say, after the death of Henry II in 1024 - is there a way to have the Holy Roman Empire disintegrate gracefully without balkanizing? My original idea was to have the HRE lose Italy early on and consequently rule as a king of Germany...

With a POD after his marriage to Mary Stuart, I want William III to attempt an invasion of England, sometime in the 1680's or 90's and roughly analogous to his OTL adventure. Specifically, I need William to be in a position politically and militarily where he would still be tempted to make an...

Many discussions on the industrialization of Europe use China as a point of comparison; it seems to be fairly well accepted (to the extent that a proposition can be well accepted on online forums) that after a certain time, the hegemony of China failed to provide or even necessitate the impetus...