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I haven't read the books, but I'm intrigued. I'll probably order them off amazon at some point in time. I was wondering, however, if anyone could share with me the reasoning behind their strength. How did they accomplish so much with (assumingly) such a small population base?

What PoD do you think is most befetting for the rise of the Terran Empire, ala Stark Trek's mirror universe? According to cannon, I believe the PoD is that in Homer's Iliad, Achiles fails to show a single moment of humanity in his exploits, thus establishing forever that 'humanism' is weakness...

The French Offer the American Revolutionaries No Support What-so-ever. Consequences?

Does anyone know when the U.S. Military abandoned the idea of organizing its defenses / regiments along state lines? If different choices had been made, could the United States have still convievably fielded a world-class military in which state-based organization still played a major part? How...

Would it take ASB's to postpone or butterfly away the U.S. civil war and have the 1860s involve a conflict between a 'united' United States of America and the British Empire? If concievably not, what is the latest PoD imaginable to fufill this wetdream? ;)

The shaky foundations of Germany's atomic weapons program have been discussed before, but I wonder, if a few PoDs had lead to it being successful, what's do you think the latest date the Nazi could have produced a working bomb and used it to achieve anything except 'Total Defeat + The Anihlation...

Anyone here ever speculate on what the world might be like today if the Cuban Missle Crisis had resulted in WWIII between NATO and the Warsaw pack? Any TLs to point to, or thoughts to share?

What if HIV as we know it had developed into its present form a century or two earlier?

Just a silly little A.H. challenge out there, inspiried by all the recent discussion on the C.S.A. and the American Civil War. So here's the challenge: Create / Envinsion a slave revolt in the Southern U.S. - and a leader of that southern slave revolt - that closely parrallels the the one the...

Question: Can anyone see how the First World War could have been delayed for another thirty years? The reason for this in my mind is the chilling idea in my mind that somehow, with a POD as late as possible, Europe could have ended the 'Victorian' age in a nuclear conflagaration instead of in...

People refer to the Jewish Holocaust during WWII as unique. I'm aware that it was unique in its size, but I've heard various arguments - pro and con - as to whether or not it was unique in its intent. (19th Century Russian Progroms, Genocide of the Armenians, Rwanda, Even Classical Peoples such...