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  1. AHC/WI Peaceful Liberian Transtion

    Okay, the end of 'Americo' minority rule in the Republic of Liberia did not go well (let us leave discussion as to what external powers were behind the 1980 coup for a later date). MSG Samuel Doe murdered the bulk of President Tolbert's administration out of hand, but proved at least as...

  2. WI: No Hohenstaufen Sicily

    Sometimes, large-scale economic and political circumstances can reduce the center of a prosperous and cultured domain to a backwater. However those things can be accelerated by a single ruler. "A kingdom in the sun, prosperous and peaceful; youth, good looks, and endless wealth; the love of his...

  3. WI: Región administrativa especial de Falklands-Malvinas?

    (nods to one Slime_blob) A longtime complication surrounding the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute(tm) between Argentina and the U.K. is the perception, justified or not, that the former regards those actually cumberinginhabiting the island in question as something to be ignored at best and...

  4. WI: Earlier Democratization in Hong Kong?

    POD: ~1945-50. Between the tail end of WWII and the latest Chinese Civil War the situation in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong was rather... chaotic. However at some point during the drawing up of the Young Plan someone shoved a proposal for a largely elected Legislative Council for the sake of...

  5. On an Indian House of Lords

    I have been mentally fleshing out my pet idea of a Notationally* Extant Raj as a modern power, and come up with details on one facet. One thought is the use of a high-prestige, low-functional-authority level Upper House as a pressure valve/sounding board/sweetener. The "Lower" House where...

  6. WI Tepelenas Greece?

    Ali, Pasha of Ioannina, was an interesting figure. He was of Albanian birth and even correcting for the orientalism of many accounts he was a brigand-turned-warlord who held power in much of western Rumelia during the failed-state nadir of the late-18th-through-early-19th century Ottoman...

  7. AHC/WI: Palestinian National Pact

    POD: Sometime in the early days of Mandatory Palestine (1920s), Zionist factions (including Jabotinsky of all people) sought engagement with factions of the Palestinian Arab Congress and worked out the following deal: Arab property rights, including municipal/collective agricultural lands, are...

  8. Language Development in Non-Partitioned India

    Something to consider about a Post-(or 'Post'-)British India that does not get split up and the biggest mother tongue therein. Firstly, the pressures from the 'periphery' (South India in General, Bengal, & perhaps the Punjab even if "Inner Pashtunistan" and the North-East are small enough...

  9. AHC/WI No Hamidian Persecution, Armenian Genocide, et. al.

    In 1850, it was taken as given that the Armenians were the loyal Christian sect of (at least the Balkan/Anatolian chunks of) the Ottoman Empire. There is no dispute that in the 70 years following things got far worse. I have long toyed with a scenario where during the 1876 mess, rather than...

  10. WI: United Kingdoms of Spain

    POD: Late 1970s (far enough back that this avoids Current Politics status, I must presume). The political coalition that pulled together to break Franco's dictatorship after he keeled over included rather more secessionists, indeed enough that they took the level of federation even further to...

  11. (Historical) Annexxations/Mergers We Would Have Liked To See.

    (As a counterpoint....) I know it is both jingoistic and unrealistic as all get out, but the US granting full statehood complete with don't-raise-the-slightest-bit-of-fuss full congressional representation & possible HoR expansion to places like the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, Cape Verde...

  12. WI: Peaceful Israel/Palestine Partition

    Nope, not the optimal solution. IMO the optimal one presuming a post WWI PoD would have been a Levant not sliced up by Sykes and Picot with religious freedom, a habit of welcoming refugees, and perhaps a municipal/cultural autonomy option. I talked about that one already though. That being...

  13. AHC/WI: No expulsion of Jews/Muslims from Iberia

    Considering how much of things like the Alhambra Decree and the abrogation of the Treaty of Granada were linked to the biases of Queen Isabella and her confessors, the question must be raised as to both how could these confessional expulsions be avoided and what the longer term results with be...

  14. AHC: Prosperous Pine Ridge Reservation

    Yes, by all modern measures the place is a Third World Country. (Yes, I am also well aware that there are primarily White and Black areas that are nearly as impoverished, so please keep that argument out of here) My question is if there is any post 1900 POD which would leave the area of...

  15. AHC/WI Arab Israeli Prime Minister

    With a PoD no earlier than 1950, how do you get an Israeli רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה‎, (Rosh HaMemshala)/رئيس الحكومة‎‎, (Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma) that is a self identified Arab and practicing at least on a show-up-to-the-mosque-on-Eid-level Muslim by 2000 (C. E.). Only other precondition is that the Law of...

  16. WI: Chinese Christianity Survives?

    POD: 840s. Emperor Wuzong of the Tang stays away from the mercury and, while no less devoted to Taoism & Confucianism, is less... thorough... in his efforts to clear out things he regarded un-Chinese heresies. Monasteries Buddhist, Christian, and Zoroastrian alike are still crushed due to...

  17. DBAHC: Less Arabic Israel

    Let's be honest, Herzl's vision of a Jewish state in the ancient Land of Israel does not seem to have panned out. Make no mistake, Israel is a stable democracy, probably the most prosperous state in the Levant, and no vote to recent the Law of Return has gotten more than three votes in both...

  18. AHC Maximum Hellenic Languages

    With a POD no earlier than 323 BCE, how many distinct Greek derived languages can develop with different literary traditions, government usages, orthographies, etc. Think of the various Romance languages for a template. For Example: Obvious bonus points for pushing the POD forward, 1453 is...

  19. WI: Ottoman Papacy

    POD: The invasion of Naples in via Otranto in the 1480s goes even better than planned, the forces of the Ottoman Empire march on Rome, take it.... ... and with great ceremony see to the crowning of some ambitious prelate as Ethnarch of the Latins, Patriarch of Rome & the West, etc. Presuming...

  20. AHC/WI: No Greek Revolt of 1821

    Okay, the question is how to avoid the Uprising/Revolution that (with considerable Western backing) created the First Hellenic Republic? And with this managed how does subsequent reforms/rebuilding of the Ottoman Empire go? Earliest POD: 1718 +500 points: POD after 1770 +1000 points: Absolute...
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