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  1. How long would it take for the Confederates to abolish slavery if they won the civil war?

    De Jure? 1900, give or take a decade either way. De Facto? Never. In this hypothetical where the CSA is around til 2021 I can certainly see slavery still existing but hidden - or "hidden" in that it is an open secret. I can see domestic house-workers for example still being enslaved to the...
  2. WI: Hellenistic Tarim Basin?

    Suppose that either Alexander or another Hellenistic king conquered the cities of the Tarim basin. Perhaps the most plausible would be a Bactrian ruler, as they’d be the closest. Regardless of who does it, the region is conquered by a Hellenistic army well before the Han conquer the region...
  3. iPolytheistic_tsar

    In the absence of George Washington who becomes the first US President?

    Exactly as the title suggests, who’s likely to try for the position and who’s likely to win? Ideally not Adams, Jay, Artemas Ward or Casimir Pułaski as I’ve seen them all used as Washington replacements and I’d like to avoid people who became a President in OTL if possible.
  4. Disaster at Dunkirk and German invasion of Russia in August 1940

    But they did OTL succeed in capturing the Dunkirk pocket - why would this now suddenly remove the need for Fall Rot - there was still 64 French Divisions
  5. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Lots of Allied airborne brigades.... Very few airborne divisions. On net significantly fewer paratroopers and the concept of operation for airborne units is far less ambitious than OTL. Market Garden would not be a gleam in a planner's eye in TTL.
  6. WI: Viacom/CBS/CenturyLink/Charter merger

    Umm, Who ended up as owner of everything? for me have they never split to begin with and them merged with the latter...
  7. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Parts and spares could be requested of Canada as in isolation they would be much easier to produce than completed vehicles.
  8. GameBawesome

    Economic effects of less Spanish colonization of the Americas?

    The Spanish colonization of the Americas, including the conquests of the Inca, Aztecs and other natives brought great wealth and power to the Spanish Empire. However, that wealth was also a disadvantage, as all that silver caused economic inflation in the Spanish Empire. So what if, Spanish...
  9. Icedaemon

    Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    So, they are looking for mine clearing equipment. Mine flails were the most well-known and impressive OTL solution. I struggle thinking of anything better. I am assuming thus that they will be the go-to solution here as well? Also, that's a thing one can put on a tank to make it ever more...
  10. Hearts of Iron IV "Fictionalization."

    Maybe could be interesting using a country like Marley from Attack on Titans for example if you want to look for fictional countries in Animes.
  11. Ogrebear

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Well I guess that conversation was overdue. How do you think she knows Henry? She is your Queen, it is her job to know what is going on around Court! At least Henry is not flaunting it up with No2 right in Katherine's face. Hopefully he will be better behaved until the paperwork is done this...
  12. Maghreb state invades France

    Martin Alhaja, the shepherd who guided Alphonso VIII through the Despenaperros Pass at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, slips and falls of a cliff before he is able to guide the army all the way through. Alphonso takes much longer to cross the pass, and loses the element of surprise. The...
  13. Nuclear energy=nuclear weapons?

    Building a reactor is easy. Building bombs is a bit harder, true. But building a reactor that produces commercial electricity? Note that reactors that produced useful amounts of electricity didn't happen until the late 50s. And ANY reactor you build for power will produce Plutonium, which you...
  14. Amadeus

    WI: Root vs Wilson in 1912

    The POD is TR doesn't make his pledge to not run again in 1908. Accepting the argument that he is only running for his second elective term, Roosevelt campaigns with gusto and defeats Bryan despite the Panic of 1907 and his mishandling of the Brownsville Affair. In his second full term...
  15. WI British/Italian war in the 1930s

    Big dog economical logic could have worked for Britain in 1905 but not in 1935. Economic considerations were a big part of British international politics in the 30s, mostly because Britain was no longer rich enough not to have to ask the price of its actions. In 1914 Britain still thought...
  16. The German Century

    The World on May 9th 1940, the day before the start of World War II.
  17. How long would it take for the Confederates to abolish slavery if they won the civil war?

    I like that scenario, but I'm worried that we put too much faith in people. Even today with supposedly better morals, a lot of people willingly buy shoes or smartphones made with child slave labor. Better scenario for outside pressure is if the postwar North refuses to send escaped slaves back...
  18. The Forge of Weyland

    The bombing of Amsterdam in such a fashion would most certainly be raising the ire of Washington. How that butterfly manifests will be a fascinating plot line to follow.
  19. Hearts of Iron IV "Fictionalization."

    I think you could. That said, wrt a Nazi sucession crisis, you could also have a shoutout to the veterinarian totalitarian with a pragmatic, but still utterly horrific Nazi germany, with Rudolf Gloder being the stand-in for Friedrich Weber.
  20. TheMann

    Go North, Young Man: The Great Canada
    Threadmarks: Part 29 - Damn Your Lousy Excuses, Brownie Points, The Tech Deck And Canadians Are Good At Football

    Part 29 - Damn Your Lousy Excuses, Brownie Points, The Tech Deck And Canadians Are Good At Football By the late 2010s it had become somewhat obvious to those in the world that sometimes the changes in the world create some very unexpected results, and the vast technology growth of Canada in the...
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