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  1. Sport POD: (Ice) Hockey Goes Global

    Pre-POD (all happened OTL) 1950-1970s Soviet national ice hockey team dominates international play winning nearly every European and world championships and Olympic tournament. At this time of course the Olympics are strictly amateur. Canadians complain that the Soviets maintain bogus...

  2. Alternate Iraq - Alt History on the Radio

    So the CBC did a series of interview asking people what they though the world would look like in the US had never invaded Iraq. Take a look and the program's outline and then click to listen to the specific interviews. I caught part of it when they were asking academics in international...

  3. No Washington Treaty, renewed Anglo-Japanese Alliance

    In the thread about the “WI no Pearl Harbor” poll, the conclusion seem to be that Japan really should have gone for a continuation of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in the 1920s, and then ally with the Brits against Germany in hopes of getting access to resources and make some Asian territory in...

  4. Real Russian reform in 1905

    After 1905, the Tsar mostly ignored the October Manifesto and the newly minted Duma, and still acted like an autocrat. If he had been cowed into accepting real constitutional government, would there be a chance for real changes? Enough to stave off a 1917-style collapse? Who would control...

  5. Different-WWI: "Spheres" in E. Europe

    It's an old idea, but I think it's one worth revisiting. There still must be some massive war that destroys the old Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires in the East. Now it's time for a new "Partion of Poland" type senario, where newer powers swoop in fill in vacuum. I'm thinking that the...

  6. New France and New Spain in the Age of Rail

    Pick a POD of your choosing, as long as it preserves the French and Spanish Empires in America into the 19th C. I figure that the most of the great states and empires of that era all went into railway schemes. (e.g. Trans-Siberian, Cape to Cairo, Canadian Pacific, Union Pacific, Berlin to...

  7. Help: California, Mexico, Hawaii, Peru, Farming, and Navigation

    Was sitting around thinking about how a powerful agricultural civilisation could have grown up in pre-Columbian California in the fertile valleys, if the right crops could be introduced from outside. The main problem is that the nearest agricultural societies (Mexico and Peru) were separated by...

  8. Kwang-Chou-Wan: the French Hong Kong

    So, what if de Gualle had never agreed to return the French enclave of Kawng-Chou-Wan to Chiang's ROC in 1945 but had held on to it with the intension of handing it back in 1999. How would this have changed the history of Sino-French relations, and the region in general...

  9. America’s Stalingrad

    Okay, you want a difficult challenge? Here’s a real challenge: Produce a war on the American mainland in the 20th C that devastates the USA in a way that can at least be compared to the destruction in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War (WWII). What do I mean? - massive...

  10. Province of New Galicia and Bukovina

    I decided to write a fictional Wikipedia article based on a very different settlement of my home province. Take a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kevlar67#My_Sandbox

  11. the NATO of West Affrica

    So, eveyone clambers these days for a "Marshal Plan for Africa". A big shot of aid to build the continent after years of civil wars and mismanagement. The analogy between modern Africa and 1940s Europe misses a major point however. Europe of 1945 wasn't just ruined physically, it was crushed...

  12. Most Likely To Go Red

    Given all that we know about the history of these countries from 1900 to 1990, which were the most likely to go Communist or hard-core Socialist. Not Social Democrat, but a revolutionary and anti-capitalist forum of socialism. Who came the closest to going red? When where the close calls...

  13. Map Challenge: Divide France by Language

    Okay, because I'm feeling generous, I'll make the POD range huge. POD Between 800 and 1789, produce two nation states in what is now France. In the northen one, which I called France on the map because I'm lazy, the official language is some form of langue d'oïl. The family of Romance...

  14. Challenge - Berberstan

    Create a majority Berber-speaking (not Arab) nation in North Africa. Most likely area is southern Algeria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers#Modern-day_Berbers Bonus points if it has “Algeria” has an Arab neighbour Double bonus points if it has coastline. Triple Bonus points if it has...

  15. Canada's Missouri Compromise

    Background - the US's major internal dispute in the 19thC was over the admission of new states, and whether they would be "Slave"or "Free" states. Canada was similarly divided between French-Catholics and Anglo-Protestant camps. Here, however, the Protestant forces triumphed, and all of...

  16. Challenge: Ruthenia

    Produce a POD witch does not divide the Ukrainian (and Rusyn)-speaking parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (East Galicia, Bukovina, Transcarpathia) between new Polish and Czechoslovak states and Romania and Hungary. Keep them united in a new nation-sate, possibly called Ruthenia. You could...

  17. French still “Lingua Franca”

    English’s rise to global dominance OTL as been the result of the power England to export the language outside her own borders, first to Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and America; and later to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, et all. And later by the subsequent influence of these...

  18. Byzantine British Empire

    Byzantine British Empire was a TL I started in response to a Challenge more that a year ago. I only did one part. Now I've finally completed two more parts, and I'm posting all three together to give a sense of the flow, for anyone who would like to comment. /////////// Posted on Friday...

  19. Greater Canada

    Background This time line is about a North America where Britain cultivates good relations with her French and Native subjects in the New World, rather than trying to assimilate, extirpate, or exterminate them. The British, French, and Natives then become unlikely allies in future struggles...

  20. The Other UN SecCon

    The UN Security Council is a unique and peculiar institution that was shaped exclusively by, and could only have come out of the Second World War. Look at its five permanent members: Two were the principal Western Allies (USA, UK) one was the sole Communist Power (SU), all of whom were...
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