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    Rapt Up

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    Expulsion from a Federation

    I rarely post here in the After 1900 forum, so I apologize in advance for any faux pas I may make. Anyway, I decided to post here because the only time a member of a federation was actually kicked out was when Singapore was expelled by Malaysia in 1965, but we can make this topic more general...
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    Japanese Revolution and the Fall of the Shogunate

    Taking place sometime in the mid 19th Century, what would it take for the increasingly powerful merchant classes to topple the Taikun in Edo directly while essentially sidelining the Emperor? Admittedly, I do not have much knowledge about late feudal Japan and the strains that Commodore Perry...
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    Brits defeat the American Revolution but lose the Great Siege of Gibraltar

    Would this be a worse outcome for Great Britain than OTL?
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    Constantinople falls in 453

    No, that's not a typo. What would happen if Attila doesn't die and leads his Hunnish horde to Byzantium and defeat it?
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    Effects of the Mississippi River as an International Boundary

    This is more of a generic discussion than a continuity of my stories in the past. That said, its effects on world trade would be substantial, and probably negative. If the Mississippi is shut down due to a war, a lot of the trade would have to shift to the St. Lawrence basin, with its...
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    Alternate Constitutions

    I'm not sure where exactly to put this thread, but for now it looks like this is the best place, given the start of constitutional theory began before 1900. Let's get started! Right now, I'm still working on a partly written constitution for my Empire of North America, a loose confederacy of...
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    Ancien régime France shatters into much smaller countries around 1800

    Historically, the French Revolution led to a highly centralized, unitary Republic and Empire. How plausible is it that instead, an even more catastrophic ~Revolution or ~Civil War would go in the opposite direction, and form a loose confederation of independent nations resembling the Holy Roman...
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    Different Metric Systems 2: Electric Boogaloo

    https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/different-metric-systems.5568/ I changed my mind. Given my naïveté about how people use measurements over a decade ago and not taking seriously how standards were actually determined in the 1800s, I think that giving my metric system I detailed in...
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    Secession through Succession

    I know that the title sounds like a colossal joke about the common confusion between the words secession and succession, but it was this very thing that established the Empire of Brazil, for example. It is also this mix-up that helped inspire my short story Rapt. Basically, the British...
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    Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power Before the Bomb

    How plausible is this? I think that it would be more probable than something like the Manhattan Project, but I could be wrong. Nonetheless, one of the steps to building the bomb would be making a nuclear reactor pile of natural or weakly enriched uranium, certainly something far easier than...
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    Technology's delays and advances

    Warning: math ahead! When writing alternate histories, developments in technology seem to take implausible terms, usually excessively delayed but sometimes formed too fast. How do we fix this? One way would be a naïve use of statistics, where the delay/jump in invention is a normal random...
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    League of Nations establishes headquarters in Constantinople instead of Geneva

    This isn't as far-fetched as it sounds: Churchill supposedly proposed it to Lloyd-George during the Entente's occupation of the Straits Zone after the First World War. How would Mustafa Kemal react to this? What role would a neutralized Constantinople play in the post-war development of Europe...
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    Harold Godwinson stays away from Stamford Bridge

    Instead of marching north in 1066 to defeat the Norwegian invader Harald Hardrada, Harald stays in the Thames valley and consolidates power there. How would this affect William the Bastard's plans of invading England? What about the Scots and the Welsh? Whither the French? Will the...
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    Let's Make Constantinople Capital of the World Again!

    How likely is it that the seat of the League of Nations would move from Geneva to Constantinople? That said, I don't know of a better location for the World Moot than the Intercontinental City. (And I'm not the only one, see links below.) Certainly, it would give the Entente greater incentive...
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    US House elections from 2000 on under proportional representation REDUX

    I don't know if this qualifies as necroposting, but I'd like to update a topic posted three years ago: What would the US House of Representatives look like under proportional representation? In order for PR to be constitutional, it would have to be installed on a state-by-state basis rather...
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    Surely You're Choking, Mr. Feynman!

    I haven't been on this forum in ages. As far as I know (after doing some searches on this board,) this scenario is original. It begins with the germs that cause pneumonia, and their deleterious effects on one Richard Feynman, who in OTL was a very brilliant physicist: discover of quantum...
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    Stars vs. Stripes, or: George Washington, the Most Reluctant Monarch

    History is changed drastically by the smallest accidents. Take the design of the American flag: the Stars and Stripes. The legend of the Betsy Ross design of the flag is well-known to most Americans; however, it is much less known that George Washington wanted six-pointed stars rather than...
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    The Partition of Utah

    There were proposals to divide Utah between Colorado, Idaho and Nevada. WI this were completed under Lincoln?
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    Alternate Time-keeping

    In one of the allohistories I am developing into a book, based in a TL where Constantine was defeated at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, and set more than 1700 years afterward in *2011 AD*, I have devised an different time-keeping system than ours. It has the peculiar property of...
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