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  1. Silent Cal

    WI Somerset hadn't charged at Tewkesbury?

    So I was browsing the wiki-which-shall-not-be-named, when this particular passage caught my eye: So, I was wondering, how would the outcome of the battle have changed, or the war itself, had Edmund Beaufort not gone full Leeroy-Jenkins-mode and assaulted Edward IV's right flank?
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    WI Matilda la Gran Contessa has an heir?

    According to wikipedia, since Matilda died childless and her lands never went to the pope as per her dying wish, for reasons unknown, her lands became a patchwork of city states. So, WI Matilda had a male child, an heir, either from her first marriage to Godfrey the Hunchback, or possibly even...
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    Monterrey, capital of Mexico.

    What POD would be required for Monterrey in Nuevo Léon to be the capital of Mexico instead of Mexico city? My first assumption would be a more northerly Mexican border, which would make sense as then Monterrey would be in a more central position than Mexico City. But what would it take for...
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    ASOIAF WI: Aerys' plot succeeds

    WI at the close of Robert's Rebellion Aerys the Mad's plot to burn King's Landing and the Lannister host with it succeeded? Let's say for some reason Jaime failed to kill Rossart and Aerys, or Aerys has him killed before. With the city in ashes and the Lannister forces immolated, presumably...
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    England-Portugal dynastic/personal union?

    Seeing that England/Britain and Portugal were the best of pals for a long time OTL, would a dynastic union have been possible? Post-Reformation this would be difficult due to England going Protestant, so I assume a pre-mid15th century POD would be needed. So could we see a Portuguese...
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    Works with "United Earth" trope subverted

    I was wondering, since the common trope of sci-fi literature and films seems to be a United Earth or Earth-wide alliance of sorts dealing with aliens and exploring space (the Federation from Star Trek, Earth Alliance from Babylon 5, etc.), are there any works where individual nations, or several...
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    Map challenge: What happened here?

    And here's the map: With a POD after 1900, your challenge is to figure out the changes/divergences from OTL and a plausible explanation as to how they happened. Any takers?
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    WI Harry Truman assassinated in 1950?

    On November 1st 1950, there was an attempt on then-president Harry Truman's life by two Puerto Rican nationalists. It was prevented by poor planning and the heroic action of White House policeman Leslie W. Coffelt. But what if this assassination was successful? What would the presidency of...
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    Fate of Korea after Operation Downfall

    Let's say, for whatever reason, the Trinity test gets delayed and the Bomb can't be made ready on time, Operation Downfall (a.k.a. the invasion of the Home Islands) isn't scrapped. I'm assuming the Soviets, having recently just declared war on the Japanese are going to chip in, but my question...
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    AH Challenge! Naples-Sicily Unifies Italy

    Well, your challenge is to have Naples Sicily instead of Sardinia-Piedmont unify the Italian peninsula. The POD must be sometime after 1500 and before 1800. Discuss!
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    AH Challenge: Norwegian Congo!

    Inspired by zis thread. So how can we, with a pre-1900 POD, end up with a Norwegian Congo?
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    AH Challenge: A-H dissolves peacefully in the late 20th century

    Basically, your challenge is to cook-up a scenario in which Austria-Hungary survives up until the 80s or 90s, whereupon it is to dissolve into several independent states as bloodlessly as possible.
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    AH Challenge: Jewish homeland in Cyprus

    According to Wikipedia (or as some like to call it, Armenian Genocide), Theodor Herzl once proposed, among ideas for a possible Jewish homeland, Cyprus. Your challenge, now, is to make that happen with a POD after 1900. Go!
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    Good Lord...

    Mr. Turtledove surprises me yet again. Okay, I rolled my eyes after seeing After the Downfall on Amazon, laughed cynically when I saw the new Atlantis book, but while browsing on Amazon today, the last thing on my mind was ANOTHER HT book! And this time it's about Rome. Has he no shame?
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    Swiss Jews Challenge

    Something that crossed my mind after reading the 'Hard-Ass Jews' thread. With a POD no sooner than the coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor (800) and the Fall of Constantinople (1453), make it so that either: - One of the cantons (or duchies or provinces or whatever ITTL) of the...
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    Starfleet Marines

    Inspired by some inquieries in the 'Dealing With the Draka' thread and some of my own google-fu, I've wondered why no-one bothered to make a Star Trek show set in the Dominion War, like DS9, but this time centering on ground troops, not the damnable capships. The answer, I think, are the...
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    EU III mod help

    Well, I've been playing EU III for a year now, and the game is good and all, and I've now decided to try some mods out. Problem is - I'm new to this mod thing, I've never used mods for any EU game before. So I ask, how do I turn the mod ON? I'm told I have an option to do this when I run the...
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    A Tolkien Question

    Specifically, a question to the Tolkien buffs: What happens after the end of the Return of the King, since it all seems rather uncertain? Did Tolkien have any writings/plans on the post-Aragorn era? What's the future of Middle Earth from then on? Will the Orcs be exterminated? Will the Elves...
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    WI: No Roxelana?

    In a timeline I've started working on, (you can see a rough map in the Map Thread) I started out with a POD of Roxelana either dying young (or never being captured, dying during captivity, or before she meets Suleiman) or dying during childbirth, but with Selim (II, the Drunkard OTL) alive...
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    AH Challenge: Sorbian state in East Prussia

    Your challenge, whether you accept it or not, is to have the Allied powers (UK, USA, USSR) carve out a Sorbian state out East Prussia (which would have IOTL been transferred to the Soviet Union as Kaliningrad) in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in WWII. (If this is too difficult, you can lump...
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