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The river Vardar flows south to the Aegean sea near Thessaloniki and near it is the Morava river which flows north to the Danube near Belgrade. Widening and dredging the rivers, combined with an 80km canal to link them, could let ship traffic bypass the Bosphorus. What if the governments of...

I hope it's not considered too soon to ask this. The population of Libya is sharply divided into two big chunks, one near Tunisia and the other near Egypt and the 2011 civil war was strongly split between a mostly-loyalist west and a rebellious east. Ultimately the rebels won the war by...

I've wondered how WW1 would go if the UK stayed out physically out of it, if materially supporting France. Suppose that King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm have some private discussion at some point in 1914 and the rest of the year goes as OTL until the end of July when the Kaiser vetoes any plans...

I recently saw a youtube video talking about a Danube-Morava-Axios canal project that the governments of Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia are hoping to have built with Chinese investment and I'm wondering if such a thing could be done in the 1900s within 15 years of a POD. Any ideas?

POD: A major British newspaper investigates the institutions and sensationally publishes the findings on their front page for day after day, causing witchhunts/outrage similar to OTL. What's the earliest this could concievably happen?

Apparently the list of potential Polaris bases (back when it was drawn up) included Milford Haven in SW Wales. It was apparently snubbed in favour of Faslane because Milford Haven was a village instead of a proper town back then, and it couldn't be done now because it has LNG facilities. But...

I'm sure there are many reasons why sedentarism and agriculture took so long to come about, but they elude me so. For example, assuming an earlier desertification of Upper Egypt around 20-15k BCE, why wouldn't we see a Neolithic level of civilization by ~12k BCE? I'm curious as to why many...

Camilo Cienfuegos' plane avoids its mysterious crash in late 1959 and he survives. What becomes of Cuba?

I've been reading up on Romanian history (for mostly unrelated reasons) and was reminded of the assassination of Alexander 1st by members of Ustaše. Assuming some POD that sparks an Italian-Yugoslav war, how would France and Austria respond?

Transnistria is an interesting quasi-stalinist nowhere. Search doesn't work today, so I ask of you guys if you know of anything involving it. The same goes for post 1990 Somaliland.

Shortly after the devastation of Hiroshima, Truman made a speech announcing it and reaffirming the Potsdam declaration. Suppose an aide mentions that the Japanese might think there was only the one and (after checks with higher-ups) Truman's speech is modified, mentioning that several are...

Assuming the absence of mildly ASB-ish societal collapse by disease/stronger mongols etc, how long can butterflies postpone the invention of Double Entry Bookkeeping?

Starting in 1870, how would you ensure that by 2000 New York City is seen as OTL perceives Jersey City, and that Jersey City/Newark/Elizabeth is a thriving metropolis?

This is a tad asb, but they aren't interested. If these islands are shorter and drown in the sea level rise at ~8000 b.c, how does history diverge from then? Edit: Assuming otherwise as OTL up to that point.

I'm wondering what would happen if ww2 started between britain and japan. So, with a post 1919 divergence have a british-japanese war starting in 1936/37 while having both Hitler and Stalin in power. Additionally, how would the second world war play out?

Is it possible with a post treaty of paris POD to have britain rule egypt, libya etc through to morocco and maybe the canaries? (Without having napoleon be british)

Suppose the french have the best possible outcome of the carnatic wars. How does this affect history?

About a week after the Soviet victory in Stalingrad, Nazi Germany allows the use of biological and chemical weaponry on the eastern front. How does history follow from that point?

When bockscar flies over kokura (primary target) it is shot down by scrambled fighters. What happens? www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar

Suppose the Millennium heist isn't foiled by the metropolitan police and they are blamed for failing to stop it. Version A) The criminals are not discovered at all until the police hear of an incident at the millennium dome. B)They are discovered ahead of time, but the location of the heist...