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Umbral has written a sweet story about Hitler who marries Stephanie Isak and becomes a comic artist and later the the man who saves the Weimar Republic: POD: The young Stefanie Isak briefly overcomes her shyness, and goes to a party with friends that she turned down in OTL. At this party she...

Post 1900 POD The "space race" becomes one sided and boring. The soviet never get their thing together and US are the first to send a satellite into orbit and a man into space. A three way sea race happens mostly fueled by America and Japan. The soviets stay in but don't play a major role...

pre 1900 POD The Deep Sea Race happens between Spain and England: Everything starts with Blasco de Garay who gets more money from the Spanish government for his inventions, which (well, at least not a lot) didn't happen in OTL Blasco de Garay (1500–1552) was a Spanish navy captain and...

This could mean that Oleg Losev is not forgotten. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Losev) In the early 1920s Russia, devastated by civil war, Oleg Losev was experimenting with applying voltage biases to various kinds of crystals, with purpose to refine the reception. The result was...

What you describe existed more or less in OTL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus

On 9 February 1939, Chichibu attended a lecture on bacteriological warfare, given by Shiro Ishii, in the War Ministry Grand Conference Hall in Tokyo.[2] He also attended vivisection demonstrations by Ishii.[3] He witness and knew about this: Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection...

Operation Vulture (Opération Vautour in French) was the name of the proposed American operation that would rescue French forces at battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 via B-29 raids based in the Philippines. The French garrison had been surrounded by the communist Viet Minh during the First...

The Fifth Generation Computer Systems project (FGCS) was an initiative by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, begun in 1982, to create a "fifth generation computer" (see History of computing hardware) which was supposed to perform much calculation using massive parallel...

First public video telephone service The world's first public video telephone service was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert and opened by the German Reichspost in 1936 using square displays of 8 inches (20 cm), but which quickly closed in 1940 due to the outbreak of WWII. In that service trial...

Casino Royal POD: An earlier "Tube-Alloy" project started in the early/mid 1930th There are several ways to achieve this. This timeline would go for the solution with the least butterflies. Story: One of the projects scientist was born in Albania but his family immigrated to Great...

History is sometimes made by seemingly insignificant moments that turn out to have been pivotal in hindsight--and sometimes what didn't happen proves to be as important as what did. One such moment came in the Florentine court of Cesare Borgia, when a civil servant named Niccolò Machiavelli...

Donkey Kong Was Originally A Popeye Game Miyamoto says Nintendo's main monkey might not have existed Donkey Kong is one of the most iconic games characters of all time but he may not have existed had Nintendo followed their original idea. In the latest 'Iwata Asks' interview, Shigeru...

I am well aware that i only (briefly) covered the ideological basis for radical enlightenment imperialism in my post. When I came up with the idea this was an obvious problem. They have to deal with the British Empire first if they ever want to go crusading. So they need some better technology...

I was playing with this idea for a while now. There is an interesting way to get enlightened imperialism, have the french revolution succeed and in full on conquer mode and (the already mentioned) Cult of Reason as a major ideological pillar. There are now extremely progressive people in...

This is a potential, borderline ASB timeline that leads to a mostly “atheist” world. Ashoka the king of the Mauryan Empire wants to leave a lasting legacy. He realizes that this cant be done with the current system. His solution is to institutionalize his edicts. Instead of relying on a...

Nobody knows, any ideas?

I was searching for earlier internet threads and found this comment: packet switching We could have built packet switching telegram networks in 1850, using relay logic computers we also could have built. They would have been slow, but much faster than human telegraph...

The catholic church could follow/use the orthodox model. In the eastern churches, ordinary parish clergy are married, but monks, nuns, and bishops are celibates. So big estates are kept as church porperty but a small village priest´s house can be inherited by his children.

The North Borneo Chartered Company successfully run their territory like a nation. They were responsible for taxes, recruitment of police officers, making laws, planning infrastructure and other things normaly associated with a sovereign state. Most interestingly they were also best at...

Giant Japanese air craft carrier submarine: The Sen Toku I-400-class (伊四〇〇型潜水艦 I-yonhyaku-gata Sensuikan?) Imperial Japanese Navy submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the...