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Been reading about the Russian Revolution of 1905. It looks like there was a brief period where there was a legislative body, before being quickly undermined by Nicholas II. What if Nicholas (or whoever the ALT leader should be to make this work) did not give himself the title of "supreme...

Hello all. A couple of MCU PODs - Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man goes through. It’s a major hit instead of middling. - Joss Whedon doesn’t wholesale quit the MCU. - Sony does not provide the rights to Spider-Man to the MCU. - Ike Perlmutter stays in charge.

As it says on the tin. Apparently Che wanted to engineer a second and third Vietnam and saw his chance to do so in Bolivia. Of course things ended up going different, but what if he had succeeded?

Instead of an Ameriwank, it would be interesting to see a "wank" type scenario revolving around slave rebellions being more successful. For example, something like the Haitian Revolution but happening on either of the American continents, or a more successful maroon society?

Another minor piece of the puzzle - apparently the Star Wars purchase negatively affected the marketing budget for John Carter of Mars.

Well I was hoping more to avoid going the monopoly route. I was reading recently that a lot of semi original IP got dumped because Star Wars and Marvel were such guaranteed cash cows. Could Lucasfilm conceivably buy Marvel and stay independent? Might be an intriguing combo.

What if Disney did not buy Star Wars? Would it lead to pretty big changes to pop culture history in the last decade? What if they didn’t buy SW OR Marvel?

FWIW Robert Merry’s biography on McKinley has the Japanese, American, and native Hawaiian population circa 1890s as “roughly equal” with an unspoken number of Chinese not advocating for political rights.

What if the United States did not take over Hawaii? I would guess Japan might do the same. Would be interesting to see how this flipped the dynamic of power in the Pacific during the 20th century. More immediately, might it also make a US invasion of the Philippines less likely?

Any timelines out there regarding a successful Lin Biao?

Reading about Alexander wanting to sail around Africa and later conquer the Western Mediterranean. I know it's kind of crazy, but... could the Macedonian-Greeks have discovered the Americas, if things played out just right? Or was naval tech too far behind?

Watching S1 right now. I like it! Glad Gordo is getting put in his place for being such a douche. :D

What if public domain actually got to be 50 years? So like Mickey becomes public in 1978, Superman in 1989, etc.

Probably won't happen. But it does become more likely the smaller you make the pool. I could see something like Napoleon's exile to Saint Helena, but with infamous members of the Confederate high command. Any good islands lying about? I don't suppose there's any good source breaking down the...

Inspired by this thread (but perhaps a bit easier to accomplish): What if ex-Confederate disenfranchisement was held onto for much longer? Probably avoid Andrew Johnson, for one. Or have him stick to his earlier pardon policy rather than shifting to conciliate Rebs to support him against...

WI Friends, but Martin Lawrence as Ross and Lark Voorhies as Monica.

Think there would be any interest in building an alternate history around the TV show Severance? It's definitely some kind of ATL but I do not think it would be that hard to achieve the culture and corruption shown by the Kier Corporation in that series. There also appears to be alternate states.

In poor taste IMO.

Got it. The wiki was kind of confusing as it used "Mexican" & "Spanish" interchangeably. Maybe something like "Declared independence from the Spanish Empire... separate from Mexico."

Outside Mexico City, Late 1821 "The closer we get, the more it seems like a bad idea." Benjamin Milam said from his spot across the fire. The flames highlighted the tired lines on his face, the smoke from his pipe easily joining with the general smoke of the campfire in front of them. "No, the...