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  1. Southern Reaction to Imbalance in Senate?

    Suppose, say, that the population increase in Mississippi and Alabama was much lower than OTL, so that they would not be eligible for statehood in the 1810s. How would the Southern slave states react to proposals to bring Indiana and Illinois into the Union as in OTL as free states, resulting in...
  2. Artificial Islands

    What's the largest artificial island that could have been constructed using Renaissance/Early Modern technology? Concrete was used in Finland as early as the 16th century, which would make concrete foundations for an island possible.
  3. WI: Richard III Is More Subtle?

    I understand this is a subject of considerable contention, but my opinion is that the evidence suggests that Richard III was behind the apparent murder of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York. The strongest pieces of evidence for this are 1) the fact that when accused of murdering his nephews...
  4. Historian: The Alternate

    24 September 1996: While driving his motorcycle in Chiswick, west London, actor Mark Frankel narrowly dodges an oncoming car and instead runs into a nearby hedge. Frankel suffers minor cuts and bruises, and a sprained wrist, but is otherwise okay. The story receives minimal media attention, and...
  5. A More Personal Union: Who Should Be Elizabeth's Heir?

    Just as the post says: Who should Elizabeth I declare as her heir?
  6. A More Personal Union - Who Should Elizabeth I Marry?

    With the crowns of France and Scotland united under her cousin, the Dauphin Henri, Elizabeth is now under great pressure to marry. Who should it be?
  7. A More Personal Union

    Late 1560: Francis II, king of France, develops a cold as a result of late autumn weather. Initially, his doctors fear the sixteen-year-old may suffer complications, but by the middle of the month he has fully recovered. Francis had always been a sickly child. Short for his age and ugly, he...
  8. WI No Thanksgiving?

    In honor of the holiday, what if the Wampanoag Native Americans hadn't helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth Plantation in 1621, and they had starved instead? What would history be like then?
  9. Terminology: Radioactivity...without radioactivity?

    Today we have a wide variety of terms to describe radioactive phenomena ("nuclear" weapons, "atomic" power, "fallout", etc.) but what would, say, Victorians call radioactive phenomena if they didn't know what caused it (i.e., weren't familiar with atomic theory)? For example, some Victorian...
  10. WI: Early Television?

    What if Paul Gottlieb Nipkow's invention of the Nipkow Disk for image scanning in 1883 (patented 1885) had been widely adopted during the Victorian era? Would it have led to Victorian mechanical televisions, with signals sent along telegraph cables? What would the impact of television a half...
  11. Fifty-Four Forty or Bite! 1852 Democratic National Convention

    So I want to give you all a chance to vote: Who should be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1852 for the 54/40 Bite TL? The Convention is held in Pittsburgh, PA. Vice-President James Polk: Two term vice-president to current president Lewis Cass. Senator Stephen Douglas: Senator from...
  12. Fifty-Four Forty or Bite!

    So I've been working on a TL in which a mosquito bite in 1844 leads to an early Civil War and a Confederate victory. I've got about 6400 words so far and am through the Mexican-American War. Here's how it starts. May 24, 1844: Gideon Pillow, member of the Tennessee delegation to the 1844...
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