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yeah; hence why I then though of moving that to before or during 1914 (H.G. Wells does it basically; he made a bunch of tabletop wargames so it is not too out for him/)

You mean this thing: http://bajasafari.blogspot.com/2009/06/cabal-of-baja-racing-covering-up-racing.html You'd see that legalized around the same time as NASCAR. You'dprobably see two (Well 3) major leagues; Daytona racing, Indianapolis racing and Baja Racing as sports. Baja racing will be...

So we can move LARPing up to 1914 then. Have H.G. Wells come up with the idea 'for all the fun of dueling without the death involved' :p

I remember hearing that Brazil was close to having a civil war over abolishing slavery. What could have happen if this war broke out (between democrats/nationalists and internationalists/monarchists)

Ok. One POD: Mexican American War; the US conquers Mexico. How will you get them largely anglicized, to the point at least of how Louisiana was Anglicized OTL. POD 2: No major war, the US takes advantages of mexican instability and foments a collapse and annexes the republics, then fills them...

Have a resurgence in 'joke' dueling for some weird or 'insignificant' insult to one's honor with nerf guns or paintball. That makes it future history though. Hmmm. I do find the idea of fencing duels as a good idea.

Living in colonial lands will force people to develop new modes of thought (i.e. more 'liberal' ideas develop in the colonies anyway). You saw that in Imperial Russia with Siberian settlers who were new/forward-thinking and arguably the same with Crimeans. The Spanish will probably fuck up their...

let's say the spanish dont settle mexico for some reason. The US gets colonizing anf colonizes up and takes all of Mexico, How would you extrapolate current trends in US culture to Mexico. How would their culture be. I imagined it'd be a mix of 'southern' and 'western' US culture. Not sure; it...

Staging an uprising in Poland would shit on the Germans themself and the Austro-Hungarians, ESPECIALLY the Austro-Hungarians as there were Poles in those countries. Germany could probably deal with Polish uprisings as German Empire was mainly German; but it would be a sapping point...

Even if Soviet export hardware was relatively-shitty; the Israelis would still be able to do wonders with them - remember in OTL they modified a LOT of their hardware they got from other countries. I can easily see pimped-out T-series tanks going around doing good against hypothetical arabs with...

Isn't modern-day scotland considered a more clannish and egalitarian society than say, England?

Spanish Armada is not defeated; meaning England is beaten and the Spanish colonize all of the American continents? Which means The US will still exist in a recognizable form (white majority country, decent standards of living, immigrants from mestizo-majority countries); just that will be...

Apparently Khrushchev wasn't the only person at risk of a coup. Kennedy apparently had a real risk of having LeMay pull a coup or a 'general ripper' on himself and star bombing. http://www.cracked.com/article_19553_6-terrifying-real-speeches-that-were-thankfully-never-given.html