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  1. Middle East without Christianity or Islam

    Syncretism is probably the wrong word. What I mean is that while Islam and Christianity do absorb aspects from other religions, the concept of a single all-powerful god who doesn't share any power with any other being in existence makes it very difficult for they themselves to be absorbed into...
  2. Kantai Kessen

    WI: Gneisenau on Operation Rheinübung?

    I know that. However, she will be sortieing from Brest as an independent raider, NOT as part of Lütjens' force. This will disrupt the Royal Navy's plans; for example, Force H may not be sent to chase down Bismarck. Also, bear in mind that if Gneisenau effects a successful rendezvous, her extra...
  3. Dunkirk Disaster causes Spain and Soviet Union to join Axis.

    Once Hitler gets enough planes for air supremacy over Britain he will nuke the Soviets somewhere around 1948.
  4. WI/AHC: Viceroyalty of Rio Grande

    Forgot to mention this "Spanish interest in colonizing Alta California was revived under the visita of José de Gálvez as part of his plans to completely reorganize the governance of the Interior Provinces and push Spanish settlement further north.[11] In subsequent decades, news of Russian...
  5. Effects of both Hurricane & Spitfire designed to carry Oerlikon FF 20mm cannon from start

    The number of different variants of the Oerlikon FF, all with different rates of fire, weights, and cartridges can be confusing. However, the 1935 version, the original FF, also known as the FF F (as opposed to the FF L, FF S, MG FF, MG FF/M) was only 24kg, or 53lbs rather than 150lbs. i.e. one...
  6. Vivien Leigh succumbs to tuberculosis in 1944

    The actress Vivien Leigh died of tuberculosis in 1962. However, it turns out that she actually contracted it much earlier and had to be hospitalized. What happens to the film industry if she dies in 1944? If the movies she starred in in the future were still made and had the success they did...
  7. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I kind of just thought as a general guideline of potential PODs. All YouTube what if channel scenarios are a bit of a stretch but I figure it’s just the nature of balancing “entertaining” and “plausible”.
  8. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    Non-comprehensive list of things the Soviets could have reasonably done better post-WW2 1. Implement rotation of Politburo members as suggested by Kruschev- this alone would do quite a bit to stymy the development of the gerontocracy in the Politburo which would itself (hopefully) make the...
  9. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    MacArthur viewed the conflict in Korea like he did Japan: a war of conquest under a US declaration of war . Unfortunately Korea was a war of containment under a UN charter (albeit a brand new type of war). Mac could have ended the whole thing after Inchon, without Chinese intervention, if he had...
  10. Until Every Drop of Blood Is Paid: A More Radical American Civil War

    I'd much rather have Benito Juárez defeating the puppet emperor, like OTL, while something that happens in the following years prevents the rise of the Porfiriato. Maybe Manuel González Flores wins a second term in 1884, while Díaz is politically marginalized.
  11. WI/AHC: Viceroyalty of Rio Grande

    California is Could be made something similar to Río de la Plata. I mean a settler colony based with a ranch export economy. "The Spanish and later Mexican governments rewarded retired soldados de cuera with large land grants, known as ranchos, for the raising of cattle and sheep. Hides and...
  12. AHC stabilize Mexico in starting in 1820s

    Avoid the Centralist coup that undermined the Mexican constitution and leave the Federalists in charge. The Centralist coup touched off revolts in a number of Mexican provinces, most notably successful ones in Texas and the Yucatan.
  13. Effects of both Hurricane & Spitfire designed to carry Oerlikon FF 20mm cannon from start

    Oerlikon FF was very light, under 60 lb. Trade off was low muzzle velocity, not greater than 600 m/s. Merlin precludes the gun/cannon firing through the prop, but at any rate we can have 4 of these cannons in the wing. Benefit of a working full-cannon armament will be faster killing of German...
  14. Oh, okay. How are you doing?

    Oh, okay. How are you doing?
  15. "If They Want It They Can Have It": Ulster's Tragedy.

    You did get sent to the nicest places, all on the Government's dime. 😱😱😱
  16. WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    You mean Challenger, that’s the shuttle that exploded
  17. If Nazi Germany had had industrial parity in WWII, would they have won?

    Difficulty here is the "how". The Allies, particularly the U.S. had enormous internal resources at hand (oil being first on the list), without some sort of ASB level intervention Germany is never going to match the Permian Basin (not even mentioning the other readily accessible oil basins across...
  18. AHCWI: Milanese Italy

    Well, Gian Galeazzo was also turning his widespread domains into a centralized state, creating a bureaucracy and a revenue office: if he succeeds, and giving another 10 years should be a clinch, the Milanese state would not be hurt too much by his death (and his sons would be of age, and...
  19. Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada

    Changing the membrane isn't going to make that much difference. OTL desalination costs as little as 3kWh/tonne of water, and the theoretical limit is 1kWh/tonne. So cutting costs by half should be possible, in theory, but that doesn't get anywhere close to cheap enough for many uses (e.g...
  20. Antonio Ferrari

    The Mare Nostrum doctrine: an alternate Italian Empire

    It was one of the names of Morocco
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