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  1. Can Basque whalers settle down in northern Iceland and secede from Iceland? I just want to see the Basque-Icelandic Pidgin survive

    Basically what the title says. Could Basque whalers, who were OTL whaling in places like Newfoundland, Iceland and Patagonia, survive in Northern Iceland? Perhaps they could first settle down in small boat-building villages, and later expand? How and when could they perhaps become an independent...
  2. Sugarcane is primarily used to make wine

    of course why not? but my question is what if sugarcane is grown primarily for the purpose of manufacture of alcohol and not sugar or the products that we know today. Would people consume the product , whatever the name be, in a manner similar to wine. I am concerned with the health and social...
  3. Warships that survived World War Two and should have been museums!

    If Argentina had let Belgrano stay in harbor instead of sailing during the Falklands war, would the old USS Phoenix be around or would it have been scrapped?
  4. Miguel de Paz and the stillborn daughter of John and Margaret live

    Aragon’s inheritance is pretty complex and is NOT guaranteed who it will go to young Miguel. Is likely who Miguel and Isabel II marriage will be arranged exactly for resolving Aragon’s succession and will be inherited by both jointly or by their eldest son. Is more likely who the crown of...
  5. LordMartinax

    What if the Italian unification failed?

    Well, the 1859 war of unification failing is probably the most likely and interesting one, let's go with that. How do we achieve it? Austrians decide to follow the ideas of their best feild commander and modernize the army (breach-loaders, better formations, a 2 year conscription and so on), and...
  6. Could the USSR work well enought on its orthodox form to be a pleasant place in modern day?

    Trabant was ordered to use an inferiour two-stroke engine, to prevent a situation where a German product would be better than a Soviet one.
  7. DBWI: A totally non-successful Beer Hall Putsch

    Isn't that generally thought to be because the Editor was knocking boots with the Soviet Cultural Attache (A.K.A NKVD station chief)?
  8. Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    Not even that- since the tenth century apparently Latin had been completely abandoned as a language of high culture in favour of classical Arabic, and mozarabic itself had no literary tradition. There are martyrs of the 9th century bemoaning how the church was busy translating all religious...
  9. "Power Without Knowledge...": President Haig and the Era of Bad Feelings

    I'll say it again: this thread was originally meant to help me straighten out lore for a project and I am SO GLAD that it's given me the ability to stretch my legs and explore new ideas. Just yesterday I had a breakthrough regarding one of the future outsider political parties that I hope you...
  10. Sugarcane is primarily used to make wine

    What if sugarcane is grown primarily for the purpose of making wine and not jaggery or Gur or sugar. Like Cachaca of Brazil and Basi of Philippines. Say if the Indians and Chinese too develop their own variety of sugarcane wines. Would such wines be the wines of the tropics and sub tropics and...
  11. Sārthākā

    Prince Waldemar of Prussia made King of Nepal in 1845

    I think they would be more friendly to the British all things considered right now. No they can't. Nepal had a sizeable and pretty modern 30,000 army that could be raised to 60,000 in wartime during this time but those numbers would be minuscule compared to what Britain can throw at the...
  12. AHC: Embarrass the Nazis and destroy their legacy

    Blondie get some bad kibble and has an accident while out for a walk Hitler slips on the reprocessed kibble and falls off a cliff Herman Goering takes over as furor He does not have the the authority that Hitler had the Nazi party breaks down into infighting , Germany grinds to a halt Supply...
  13. The Third Rome - A Byzantine Timeline

    That was really good, I think conquered people under the Ottoman will rally more easily under Antigone considering his father and mother litterally stayed and died in the City along with the people.
  14. WI: Charles I Stuart spared, but imprisoned

    Whether Restoration would occur or not depends on averting Pride's Purge and successful demobilization of New Model Army, rather than Charles' fate.
  15. Miguel de Paz and the stillborn daughter of John and Margaret live

    What if Miguel de paz, the son of Isabella of Aragon and Manuel of Portugal lived (while the mother would still have died in childbirth), and the stillborn daughter of John of Asturias (who would still die as in OTL) and Margaret of Austria both lived? After doing some research, Miguel would...
  16. luis3007

    Galloway and the Plan of Union: A Saga of a British America

    If the Spanish manage to retain the Mississippi as a firm frontier the British expansion will stop cold there.
  17. AHC: Embarrass the Nazis and destroy their legacy

    Well yes, but the point of this thread was to imagine a world where those myths couldn't exist without people flat out making up stories, and the Nazi reputation is more akin to Italy's military performance and the "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" meme.
  18. DBWI: A totally non-successful Beer Hall Putsch

    I still think it's damn near Alien Space Bats that Laventi Beria ended up being deemed the 'Time Man of the Year' for 1946 though.
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