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  1. WI: George Canning lives ten years longer?

    How long would his government last? Could he hold his coalition together? What would his government do differently while it lasted? Would he have done more or less to delay electoral reform than Wellington did?
  2. WI: Three possible Chickamauga outcomes

    IOTL, General Rosecrans of the Army of the Cumberland was doing pretty well up until the Battle of Chickamauga. Then one of his officers screwed up, reporting a gap in the Union lines that wasn't really there. Rosecrans redirected some units to try to plug this imaginary gap, creating a real one...
  3. TLIAW: She Who Must Be Obeyed

    Friday, November 15, 1963. 12:33 p.m. As the limousine entered Dealey Plaza, three shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository. Two of them missed. The third struck the left side of President Kennedy’s throat, severing the carotid artery. The President died on the scene. Lee...
  4. AHC: An Orient Express to… "the Orient"

    Can we have, by 1900, an international railway service that goes from Paris to a city in China or Southeast Asia? If so, how? (Bonus points if it goes all the way to Beijing.)
  5. AHC: Western khat

    Under what circumstances would khat use become popular and widespread in Europe and/or America before 1900?
  6. The Dead Skunk

    Comments go here, in the development thread. It has more art. “There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere...
  7. WI: George IV dies in the first two weeks?

    While doing some research for my own TL, I came across something interesting. It seems just after the death of George III, George IV came down with a case of pneumonia, which was treated (or rather, made worse than it needed to be) through the usual bleeding and cupping. If George died from...
  8. Fascists vs. Fascists?

    Has there ever been a TL in which two fascist states went to war with one another? It seems like something that could happen pretty naturally. We've seen communist states fight each other (the USSR v. China, China v. Vietnam, etc.) in spite of their rhetoric of international brotherhood and...
  9. WI: Spencer Perceval lives?

    Either John Bellingham decides what happened to him wasn't the Prime Minister's fault, or else he shoots and misses. How does this affect: • The Napoleonic Wars? • The War of 1812? • The economic troubles leading up to the Peterloo Massacre?
  10. WI: Deindustrialization as a tool of domination?

    You all know about the Morgenthau Plan, I assume. One of the many reasons it was rejected was that Germany couldn't feed itself on its own land without industry and trade. It occurred to me that deindustrialization might be used in other contexts, on countries capable of surviving as subsistence...
  11. AHC: Wank the Kingdom of Nanzhao

    See if you can get a Nanzhao successor state speaking a Tibeto-Burman language in Yunnan (with or without its own alphabet) surviving to the present day, with a strip of southern China giving it access to the sea. Bonus points if you can give it the Sichuan basin. It's okay if the Nanzhao...
  12. The First Fleet: What's the worst that could happen?

    The First Fleet was the fleet that carried the first British transportees to Australia. It consisted of eleven ships (two naval vessels, six ships carrying convicts and three carrying supplies). The flagship was the HMS Sirius, a 16-gun converted merchantman. The fleet left Portsmouth May 13...
  13. An epidemiology question

    What sort of mutation would allow the Marburg virus to turn into a global pandemic in the second half of the 20th century? If the virus were given a longer incubation period, so victims could spread it without showing symptoms, would that be enough?
  14. WI no Jane Jacobs?

    Would the Lower Manhattan Expressway have been built? How long would '50s-style urban renewal have continued, and what form would resistance to it have taken? What would our cities look like today?
  15. WI: CSA a Cotton/Tobacco/Oil Banana Republic?

    I know the last thing we need is another CSA thread, but I've had some ideas going around in my mind about how an independent Confederacy would turn out, and as I started typing I realized the scenario I'd imagined was a little too involved to dump into somebody else's thread. At the same...
  16. The Dead Skunk
    Threadmarks: For Want of a Skunk (1)

    “There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more...
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