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How do you get a Utah, or some other state, that is settled and governed by the Watch Tower Society (JWs) instead of Mormonism? How do you get Charles Taze Russell and his students to found their own political entity and a viable, self-perpetuating culture that is powerful enough to survive the...

Most would agree that the Panther was one of the better tanks of WWII--lighter and more mobile than the Tigers, with almost as much armor and firepower, but it was still rather heavy for its armor and weaponry, in large part because it was designed with a rather high, deep hull. The Soviets...

The challenge: get meaningful Stalin worship in democratic Western nations, especially the United States. I'm not talking about the usual group of Soviet-apologist socialists that have always been around--I mean flat-out, literal deification of Uncle Joe with shrines, songs of praise, prayers...

This doesn't strictly have to be after 1900, but I am putting it here because average temperatures are higher now than pre-1900. What would the impact be of a year or two where temperatures remain more or less at summer levels for the entire duration of the calendar year? We all know about...

It is Black History Month, which has me thinking of a really big WI that would have a profound impact across American society and public policy: what would it take to make black health significantly better in an alternate time-line? How do you get black rates of hypertension, diabetes, heart...

Fairly simple WI: what if the Brits are able to deploy the vaunted 20-Pounder antitank gun during WWII--say, right when it comes off the drawing board in late 1944? There are three PoDs where I can see this happening: --the Brits or Allies in general are performing significantly worse in...

Here's a bit of medical AH for you all. I don't know if this has been done before but here goes nothing. How do you prevent the current autoimmune plague that currently feasts upon much of the western world's middle classes (i.e. lupus, MS, T1D, scleroderma, etc.)? I don't really think it's...

I'm not sure where this one was supposed to go, but since I think it would probably require a PoD of prior to 1900, I'm sticking it here (for now). ;) So, how do you create a Western culture that is systematically more oriented towards the personal wants and needs of women in the marital...

EDIT: I posted this in the wrong place. Can this be deleted?

Hello all-- I'm a newbie here and this is my first thread. :) So, kindly pardon me if this is a done-to-death subject like The Forbidden Mammal (I haven't read back all that far here, but haven't seen anything like it). Anyhow, I have wondered about this for years and years: what if there is a...