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With a POD after 1900 what is the most realistic scenario in which Constantinople is either majority Orthodox or at least under the control of an Orthodox country/empire by 1950?

If the situation leading up to the 2015 general election was exactly the same apart from compulsory voting was introduced, what do you think the result would be?

In the late 60s and early 70s, many historians argue there was a Fourth Great Awakening in the US. While mainline Protestant church attendance fell significantly, Evangelicalism grew massively. This revival plowed onwards to the end of the century (in 1976 34% of Americans identified as...

Pentecostalism began at the start of the 20th century and since then the movement has exploded on a global scale and the Charismatic movement has infiltrated other Evangelical denominations. Today one of the key dividing lines within Evangelical Christianity is between Conservative Evangelicals...

Is the following true or a load of rubbish: that in the 19th century when Japan was going about adopting many of the features of Western civilisation during the Meiji Restoration, it seriously considered importing Christianity and adopting it, as part of the package of Western civilisation...

An area of mainland Britain where, historically and continuing to the present day, conservative Evangelical Protestantism is the dominant religious tradition, a significant part of the culture and church attendance is significantly higher than the nation's average. Is this possible and if so...

Lets handwavingly say that nobody tries to assassiante Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo 1914 and the Great Powers manage to avoid war for the next decade. Is this possible, or would Germany have found some reason to start a war soon anyway out of fear of the increasing relative power of the...

With a POD that Muhammad is either never born or just never founds Islam, and that no Islam equivalent religion begins in Arabia in the 7th century, then realistically what could the maximum extent of Christianity be by 2013? I'd imagine most of the OTL Islamic world would be Christianised. I...

On 23 June 1940 while visiting Paris, Adolf Hitler is assassinated. - Who would take control in Germany? - What would happen in the war? Would Operation Barbarossa still take place? - How would Hitler be perceived by history and by Germans?

With a POD after Hitler becoming Fuhrer of Germany on 2 August 1934, your challenge is for Britain to vote to abolish the monarchy in a referendum during the 1940s (most likely in around 1946). I imagine changing Edward VIII's life is going to be the key here... The only rule: - no unthinkable...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIt9lRzuFE How long could Thatcher have stayed Prime Minister for if: a) She doesn't introduce the Poll Tax. According to John Campbell's biography of her, she was initially very reluctant to introduce it. b) The Soviet August Coup in 1991 is successful...

The first POD is that there are small differences in Mormon doctrine - firstly that they do not come to consider the US constitution to be divinely inspired and so have much less loyalty to the union. Secondly Mormonism becomes slightly more militant, with greater emphasis on themes such as...

Let's handwavingly say that the Fall of the Berlin Wall happens 2 years before it did OTL. I'm not quite sure how this is possible, since it probably needs Gorbachev to become Soviet leader at a slightly earlier point, which is difficult - having Andropov & Chernenko die before Brezhnev wouldn't...

Obviously this is a difficult question to answer, and it would be easy to say "send out more missionaries". So I'll just ask: 1 - Do you think that if Joseph Smith had not been shot, and had instead died at an old age, that Mormonism would be more or less widespread than today? Bear in mind...

What if British India was not partitioned into India and Pakistan in 1947, and instead there was one united entity on the sub-continent. What would the foreign policy of this nation be, especially during the Cold War? Pro-US? Pro-Soviet? Would it have maintained closer ties with Britain than OTL...

If Al Gore won in 2000, who do you think would run in the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections, who do you think would get each nomination, and who would win? I know butterflies make it hard to predict, especially the last 2 elections, but heres my scenario: (2004 GOP Primary: John McCain v...

Would it have been possible for Jews to have created a state in the western United States, possibly called Israel, in a similar way to how in OTL the Mormons created Utah? I was thinking it would be possible if there was a wave of anti-semitism in Europe in the early 19th century, causing...

What if Labour somehow managed to get re-elected in 2010 and Gordon Brown stayed on as Prime Minister. The SNP still manage to get a majority in the 2011 Scottish election (due to Labour's unpopularity, bad economy) so the independence referendum is still held in 2014. Then, by a very narrow...

In 2008, John McCain choses to go with the more experienced Tim Pawlenty as his running mate, deciding against picking Sarah Palin. In November 2008, McCain/Pawlenty loses to Obama/Biden. Fast forward to 2012 and Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee is considering who his running mate...

After Operation Barbarossa the Soviets retained a significant number of troops in the Far East to deter against Japanese attack. What if Hitler and the Japanese had become more trusting of each other and communicated more? What if Hitler had told the Japanese that when he had defeated the...