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What is the latest possible PoD needed to End up with a world population of 14.5 Billion people in 2013, double what it is IOTL? This might need to be in Before 1900 but ends now so I'm putting it in this one. Saw a thread about how many people could Earth support and it seems like it could...

What if some tiny bit of geography and geology was different so that the area of Vinland (L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland) settled by the Norse around 1000 AD had had and obvious amount of usable Iron? I've read that the reason the far western and later Greenlandic colonies failed was the...

I have no doubt this has already been suggested some time ago, but, what if the spanish flu, which killed 5% of the world population in 1918, hit before, and not after the first world war?

Bashar al-Assad is assassinated by a young rouge soldier only a couple of weeks after "The Arab Spring" begins. Does that stop everything happeing now? Do the Alawites' get ethnically cleansed after decades of rule?

What would have to happen for the English language to still have the letter Þ? English use to have it but at some stage it was replaced by "th" . Also lazily the front of a word they used the "y" from continental printing presses cos continental Europe didn't have the letter Þ. How do we make...

Way back in the day sometimes if someone with no actual claim to a throne had enough soldiers and merchants backing them they could become the "legitimate" king or prince of the realm. Obviously Napoleon became Emperor but that was after a republic, I'm talking replacing one...