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  1. Poland in quick CP victory

    Let's say Italy agrees she's bound to the Triple Alliance in the July Crisis, enters the war, the Germans successfully encircle the French 5th Army and win alt-Marne, by early 1915 Paris has fallen and France folds, Russia has lost battles and Serbia is falling too. Both Britain and Russia could...

  2. AHQ: America and Haiti

    Ok, let us posit the following scenario: thanks to small divergences during the ARW, the USA are just slightly less favorable to slavery from inception overall. This US may include Nova Scotia. However, more or less the same people are in charge, slave states are still there (perhaps Kentucky...

  3. Plausibility check: Serfdom in (parto of) the US instead of slavery

    So, in thinking about scenarios about more successful/otherwise better early US (not that I plan to write anything extensive about it, just food for thought) I mulled over the following: a stronger and earlier anti-slavery movement pushes some states (mostly Upper South, but I think maybe...

  4. The Long Peace

    The period between 1870 and 1914 is often considered remarkably peaceful as far as European Powers were concerned. The subsequent decades of horrifying and utter carnage that followed came as an absolute shock to many. Of course, the period can only be called "peaceful" by wilful disregard of...

  5. Pre-Columbian North America Bibliography

    I am interested in knowing more about the Native cultures of North America (as in, everything north of urbanized Mesoamerica). I understand that that local societies lacked writing, which obviously limits severely what we know about their history, but I am also aware that modern methods of...

  6. Question: Nsibidi Script

    From the relatively limited notices I can gather from the Internet, Nsibidi script seems to be an wholly indigenous Subsaharan African ideographic script (its usage being centerd in southeastern Nigeria and thereabouts), or an extremely refined semasiographic system that come very close to...

  7. Successful Nazi coup in Liechtenstein

    It appears to have been an actual attempt to seize Leichtenstein by the local and Tirol-Vorarlberg Nazis (without known involvement from Berlin) in April 1939 (source, thanks to Jonathan Edelstein). What if the attempt succeeded? My guesses: 1) the Nazis appear to even less reliable and more...

  8. AHC/WI: CP China?

    Would would be the effects of China entering WWI in autumn 1914? I understand that there is little chance of this happening, if any. The POD may be in 1912, with a different Chinese government (thoough probably a pretty ramshackle one) that thinks the Germans are going to win and thus choses to...

  9. Aftermath of a short "WWI"?

    The scenario is more or less like this: The earliest stages of WII go better for the Austro-Germans on both fronts. Schlieffen plan works significantly better and Austrian losses in Galicia are milder. As a consequence, Italy, keeps true to the Triple Alliance more or less from the start and...

  10. Question: Austronesian contact with Americas

    There is some debated hard evidence, and more circumstantial evidence, about Austronesian, specifically Polynesian, Pre-Columbian contact with the Americas. The range of this evidence is quite large, but mostly problematic. As far as I know, the chicken bones found in Chile that were originally...

  11. Swastika Days

    (posting here because I am assuming a pre-1900 POD). New York, April, 1973. Five leaders of the Alliance were sitting uneasily in the room. Newly-elected President Louise Kennedy of the United States of America, the Soviet Prime Minister Nikolaj Andropov, the Secretary of Chinese Popular...

  12. Le déséquilibre des puissances - Europe out of balance.

    This thread is meant to host properly the result of a previous discussion that has started developing into a TL. It will be my first true TL here, and it is a shot into a area where some points are quite outside my area of expertise. It was born almost by chance and I am not sure how long I can...

  13. Title

    So, it seems that my idea about France winning the War of the Austrian Succession and destroying Austrian power for good has gone over the top and turned out be the embryo of a true TL where France seems to be set to become a superpower. I'm going to post some material in a thread. But I'm going...

  14. Idea for a Frenchwank

    I've been toying with this for a while, and now I'm throwing it, partly inspired by Anaxagoras "God is Frenchman". At the beginning of the War of Austrian Succession, Austria was about collapse. Maria Theresa later managed to recover, mostly because of the looseness of the coalition of her...

  15. Question about an Austrian Turmoil/Civil War

    I post this here because I am thinking about a pre-1900 POD, though my question is about a post-1900 timeframe. The scenario assumes that less hostility between Russia and Japan avoids the R-J war. A compromise is reached giving Manchuria to Russia and Korea to Japan. This helps a big deal with...

  16. TL idea: Ippolito Nievo lives

    I have no time to develop this TL, so I leave to other members who may wish to (any Italian 19th century expert out there?). I've been working on the Italian writer and patriot Ippolito Nievo, who was the officer keeping the Treasure of the Garibaldi expedition in Sicily. He died in a shipwreck...

  17. AHC/Question: Biggest plausible Russia?

    With any POD after 1054 AD, or later, how big can plausibly Russia get as of 2011? It is required that the country is still recognizable as Russia, in the sense that an Eastern Slavic language reasonably close to Russian is the dominant official language (it is not required that it is the...

  18. Plausibility check: Ottoman Victory at Ankara?

    I've been toying with this idea for a while: was it possible for Bayazid to defeat Tamerlane, better if it is a crishing defeat with Tamerlane himself killed? And if so, what are the consequences? Probably Costantinople would fall in 1403 or so, and the Ottomans would advance farther and earlier...

  19. Khaganate of Appennine Bulgaria (plausibility check)

    After the Fall of the First Bulgarian Khaganate, Bulgarian hordes spread through Europe. The luckiest of them settled the Middle Volga area, where they established the Volga Bulgaria and possibily gave origin to present-day Chuvash (though it is far from certain) and on the Lower Danube, where...

  20. Likely peace demands after early German victory (1914)

    I guess this has been adressed but the search function is not working. The scenario is that Moltke somehow manages to effectively crush the French in 1914 and Italy joins CP after the alt-Marne, thus forcing France to sue for peace, probably with Paris in German hands or hopelessly menaced...
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