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    (French) Newly published "Dimension Uchronie vol.2"

    Hello all, I don't usually post in this section but some of you may know of my timeline "Hadrian's Consolidation - reboot" in the pre-1900 section, which got the 2018 Turtledove and almost got it for a second time in 2019 (which would have been a mistake because it should not have been on the...
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    SF leads to Space : a literary driven space race

    Some nine years ago on this board I asked a question : As you may know Arthur C. Clarke was not only a writer but also a brilliant engineer while Asimov was, as is sometime forgotten, a biochemist who taught at the Boston University, so they had the scientific credentials to convince people...
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    1812 : Napoleon goes south-east

    I'm no expert on Napoleon, that's about 2000 years too late for me, give or take a few centuries, but I wondered : what if, for whatever reason, the Russian Empire back off from any confrontation with Napoleon after Tilsit. Alexander does not break the blocus and sells to France and its vassals...
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    Eben-Emael does not fall to the initial assault : what then ?

    On may 10, 1940, the German paratroopers attacked the fortress of Eben Emael, on the Albert Canal, and neutralized this crucial pièce of the Belgian defense in only a few hours. A hundred men captured more than 600 (out of a theoretical 1200 men force) while a full division was close by and did...
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    Hadrian's Consolidation - reboot

    Dear AH'ers In order to celebrate the new version of AH.com and because I've long been wanting to improve it, I'm going to reboot a previous TL of mine that I started in October 2013 and shamefully abandoned about one year later despite having had numerous interesting comments by the community...
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    And it all came from a few scraps of bronze : an alternate Spanish colonization

    I've been reading Niall Ferguson's excellent book Civilization, in which he attempts to define six elements that help explain the dominance of the Western world between the 15th and 20th centuries. One of his arguments is the role of the rule of law in the various civilizations, the author using...
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    It all started with a mathematician : a very different WW2

    The first world war had ended with the victory of the western Allies and their friends, with the exception of Russia who had fallen into an awful civil war. The price of victory had been horrendous, and many were saying it may never again happen. Malcontents rose everywhere, with new...
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    Out of the stony desert : a Nabatean alternative

    Late in the year 144 of the Seleucid era. Late 168 BCE. A king, Antiochos IV Epiphanes, wants to uniformize the culture in his kingdom, a shrinking Seleucid realm far from its splendor of some two hundred years before, which he hopes to reinforce. The current target of his policy is a...
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    Hadrian's Consolidation

    Syria, autumn 117 CE As tired as Publius Aelius Hadrianus Buccellanus might be, he knows his day is far from over. He has just finished a tense meeting with his concilium, during which the fate of Lusius Quietus, the untrustworthy legate of Judea, has been sealed. With the orders sent earlier...
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    A meeting of great minds : Clarke and Asimov join forces for a space programm

    Inspired with the idea, suggester in the thread "Truman's satellite" of Truman being stuck in an elevator with Arthur C. Clarke, I propose something slightly different : what if Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke joined together in a massive campaign to promote space travel research and...
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    Sparta's illyrian debt

    In 222 B.C. Antigonos III Doson, king of Macedonia and father of Philip V, had decided for quite some time to intervene in the war between the new Sparta of Kleomenes III and the Achaean league and was trying to confront the spartan army in open battle. The amount of allies Antigonos had managed...
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    WI : Chiang prepare to fight japan in 34

    Here is the idea : in 1934 when Chiang has Mao on the long run to the north he takes some time to look around him and think. One of the things that comes to his mind is that Japan will come soon, is a naval power, can land troops where it wants and that even if numbers will dispatch all japanese...
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    No Mers El Kebir on July 3 1940

    Due to the fear that the powerful french fleet went over to the Germans after the french capitulation the British lauched an operation to take control of every french ship in a british port and destroy the rest of the fleet. The main action of this program was carried on july the 3rd when an...
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    WI US carpet bomb Hanoi during the Vietnam War

    I was looking at 'Full metal jacket' yesterday when a question came to me : what would happen to the NV had the US decided to carpet bomb Hanoi and proceeded to do so. So two questions : - when is the best date for such an action ? - what are the consequences of such an action at various time...
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    WI Leopold II buys Portugal's west african colonies ?

    A question I asked myself as I played a game as Belgium in Victoria was what would the world have been had Belgium somehow bought Angola from Portugal in the 1880's or 1890's ? At that date Portugal lacked money and they were under heavy british pressure, especially in the 1890's when the...
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    WI Athens had not turned democratic

    A lot of the Greek conflicts in the 5th and 4th centuries revolved around the idea of democracy, a new political philosophy born in the late 6th century BC in Athens. One of the main achievement that established democracy as a viable form of government in the eye of many was the victory of the...
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    WI Cunaxa leads to the death of both Cyrus and the Great King ?

    Simple question, difficult answer. What would have happened had Cyrus deployed his 10 000 Greek mercenaries in the center of his line ( despite Clearchus protests ), leading them from the front and getting killed by his enemies as historically but also killing the Great King ? With both persian...
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    Greece buys Creta from Egypt in 1838

    In 1826 the Ottomans asked their Egyptian vassal to provide help in the difficult greek campaign, which the Egyptian agreed in exchange for various lands including Creta. Then the relations between Muhammad Ali and the Ottomans took a turn for the worse, Muhammad Ali invading all of the Levant...
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    Recycling the axis economies

    Both Italy and Germany lacked resources at the beginning of the fascist and nazis rule for their industry, one of those being metals. Yet they had tons of steel rusting unused in their ports, including battleships and battlecruisers weighting some dozens of tons. So let's see what Mussolini...
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    WI Clodius did not revolt against Lucullus during the third mithridatic war

    The Third Mithridatic War (75-65 BC) was one of three Mithridatic Wars fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic. The Romans won the war, and Mithridates committed suicide, ending the menace of Pontus and conquering the Armenian kingdom. Mithridates VI had long been a...
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