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In 1980, Iraq launched an attack at its neighbor, Iran. Within two years, however, the Iranians had already regained their territory, and were on the offensive. My question is this: what if Iraq had some massive stroke of luck? How much could they have gained from this?

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is as follows: 1) Create a POD which creates a majority Native American nation in North America. 2) Ensure the survival of said nation to present day (2009). Bonus Objectives A) Nation exists in the territorial boundaries of present-day United...

What would change if there was no Cultural Revolution? Don't you just love it when posts are short and sweet? Particularly when the author has no idea at all what the answer will be?

Following up on my most recent obsession, we turn to Russia and one particularly interesting figure: the Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich. First cousin once removed of Tzar Nicholas II, from my research he seems to have been a very popular man. During the uprisings of 1905, the Tzar demanded that...

What would have been different in world culture had the Beatles never gotten together? Never affected the world (I'm particularly thinking America) as they did?

Something I never learned in school: during the Civil War, there was a militant force in Missouri determined to make it Confederate. The Missouri State Guard, led by Stirling Price, fought the Union for quite a while, even occasionally winning. So, the thought came to me: what would be the...

I love these little things. Anyway, opinions of Collidge remain divided to this day. Some think he was good, others think bad. I challenge you to make "Silent Cal" a candidate for "greatest President in US history", right up there with Washington and Lincoln. Bonus points as always if he's...

Harding often ranks as one of the worst presidents in US history. Your challenge today is to make him a contender for the greatest. Not just plain great, I mean "challenging Washington, Lincoln, and FDR in the polls" great. Incidentally, those were the three presidents ranked highest. Bonus...

I searched, and there is so little about that event on here. It seems to me like an interesting idea; what if something had happened there? So, I decided to test you guys on it. Today's challenge: come up with at least a semi-plausible reason for Nixon to send troops to break up Woodstock '69...

Is it to ASB for Germany to somehow become a member of the Entente, with the US as part of the Central Powers? Without just renaming the factions, I mean both sides keeping their original ideologies. And, if now, how would this work out? Posted because there's just not enough WWI what ifs.

I never got the impression that the Kingdom of Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel) was a very seafaring nation. So, my challenge for you today; make the Hebrews seafarers. Bonus points if you can make sailing an important part of their culture. Double bonus points if you can...

Before the Battle of Salamis, much of the Greek fleet wished to either return home or meet the Persian fleet in the open sea. Themistocles, the Athenian naval commander, warned them that this was a foolish move. When they still wouldn't listen, he threatened to take his fleet and people and...

In 490 BC, the Persians made their first major strike into Greece. They landed their forces at Marathon, 25 miles northeast of Athens, one of their main targets. Originally, the Persians were tricks and almost destroyed. However, what if the trick had not worked, and the Persians had instead...

Well, I posted a challenge to AH.com: make Franklin Pierce one of the greatest US Presidents. Sadly, Pierce was a mediocre man, and nobody's come up with any scenario that doesn't involve ASBs to get him out of that slump. Someone, however, suggested that the Civil War breaks out on his watch. I...

Well, I tried this once before with Grover Cleveland, and it turned out he wasn't that hard. Now, I shall make it tough on you. Franklin Pierce was the single most unpopular man to ever hold the office. After his time in office was up, his OWN PARTY were making campaign signs reading "anyone but...

The title says it all; can you collection of whackos, weirdos, unmedicated mental patients, and a couple of people in their mother's basements (just kidding, guys:D) make Grover Cleveland a serious rival with the likes of Lincoln and Washington for the Greatest US President? Go.

I did a search, and I can't believe that nobody's done one of these. Or at least, if they did, they didn't file it under keywords conducive to searching. At one point, Mexico owned a fair amount of land in America, including California. Their biggest hurdle in my mind has always been one of...

This bit was inspired by a dinner conversation with my mother's boyfriend. An ardent American, when we got into a discussion about this, we couldn't find a way to agree. I brought up the idea of the US sending the army into Russia to fight against the revolutionaries that turned Russia into the...

Okay, this has always interested me, so I figured I'd subject myself to posting outside my home territory of ASB. We all know who the hippies were. We also know, most of us, how they fell apart. So, tell me, would it be possible to have a viable hippie movement in 2008? Not a couple of guys...