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  1. Napoleon timeline recommendations?

    I'm looking for a good Napoleon wank (assuming that's still the term in vogue--I haven't seen it used in a couple of years, come to think of it). Any suggestions?

  2. Japan goes north instead of south in WWII?

    I recently learned that this idea had been floated and ultimately rejected, and also about the speculation surrounding it. (Specifically, on the effects it might have on the Eastern Front. Because Youtube.) The thing is, I think in and of itself this will be of minimal help to the Nazis. The...

  3. AHC: A Better Map of Africa

    Africa and the Middle East's borders are famously screwed up, drawn by European powers with no thought as to who actually lives in these places and their relationships with their neighbors. Say they had been kinder, decolonization done better, and borders had been drawn with the natives in mind...

  4. WI: Gore presidency?

    I have a specific series of events in mind, but they're inconsequential to this thread--the important thing is that Gore wins the 2000 election. How is American politics and the world changed by this? I imagine 9/11 would still happen; as much shit as I gave Bush over his many questionable...

  5. WI: Building a Launch Loop in 1997--political and practical ramifications

    So I've been kicking around an idea for a timeline--it'll be ASB, as it involves scientists spotting a quasar that'll fuck the solar system up in 130 years (incidentally, it'd be nice to know how long these scientists would need to be observing it to make that determination)--involving Clinton...

  6. OTL question: did medical cannibalism happen in America?

    So yeah, in the not too distant past, Europeans were cannibals. There's no word in the article about whether the practice of using bits of dead bodies as medicine ever crossed the Atlantic, but I have to imagine that like most European fads it would have.

  7. If the Confederacy somehow did win...what happens next?

    It's that time of year again when I start kicking around my Confederate victory TL idea, only this time I'm not looking for clever workarounds to make it at least somewhat plausible because, quite frankly, I don't believe it is. So instead we're going the tried and true route of not losing the...

  8. If the Confederacy somehow did win...what happens next?

    Wrong forum, sorry. Please lock thread. Or delete it, preferably.

  9. AHC: No British Empire

    Saw this cool video on what'd happen if the British Empire never existed, but it kind of glosses over just what the POD is. I can't think of one. Can you?

  10. Socio-political and economic landscape of the 80s

    So over in the ASB board I'm making a TL centered largely around how InGen would really have operated...you know, if it had been a real company...and for it I need a clearer picture of what the political and economic environments it would have operated in are like. (I also have a help thread...

  11. AHC: Reuinited Kingdom of the Kongo

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to reunite the Kingdom of the Kongo--though it needn't be a kingdom if you don't think it should be--with a POD, or at least the first major butterflies, happening after WWI. Bonus points if the POD is after WWII. EDIT: I change my mind about...

  12. WI: England wins the second Anglo-Dutch war?

    I'm thinking of using this to give England early possession of the Dutch cape colony for an idea I'm kicking around, but given that my research indicates that it was actually a pretty big loss for England, I imagine that changing it will have a lot of big effects.

  13. Getting desperate for a plausible CSA victory scenario

    So I've had an idea in the back of my head for several years now to do onto Confederate wank what The Anglo/American-Nazi War does onto Nazi wank, but I have a problem: there doesn't appear to be any plausible way for the CSA to win the Civil War, and I'm not willing to simply present it as a...

  14. Sealion succeeding is of course ASB, but what about just attempting it?

    Basically, what I'm asking is, what would need to happen, what sort of misinformation would have to fall into German hands to make the Nazis think that it'd be a good idea? And mind you that this is an idea so stupid that even Hitler got cold feet.

  15. Anyone have a map of ethnic groups in Africa?

    I'm trying to figure out what regions would be more naturally grouped together in a world with a less half-assed decolonization effort.

  16. AHC: Byzantium goes Islamic.

    So, is this a thing that's even remotely possible, or am I just blowing smoke out of my ass? I mean, it seems to be at least vaguely possible on the face of it. It wouldn't be the first time the Roman Empire adopted a whole new religion.

  17. OTL tech question: electron microscopes used in the 80s.

    Say a professor at Stanford is examining protein structures such as enzymes in 1984. What sort of equipment would he have access to?

  18. DBWI: Some serious blows to the Empire...

    Here's a couple of WI's that could seriously damage, if not destroy, the Empire as we know it, especially in tandem. 1) Change the outcome of the First American Rebellion. Either have it never happen at all, or have the fighting continue. Now, you're probably thinking, "Didn't the Americans...

  19. OTL Question: Britain and the slave trade.

    Britain spent the better part of the nineteenth century suppressing the slave trade, and I want to know why. I mean, even if they weren't raging racists at the time (they were), it's not really human nature for a nation to spend so much fortune and so many lives on a problem out of the goodness...

  20. Foundation of Sand: A Confederate "Victory" TL (Development Thread)

    The Confederate aristocracy used to say that they won the War of Succession because God was on their side; that is as good an explanation for how they won as any. It is not (much) of an exaggeration to say that President Davis' generals (esp. the undoubted genius of Gerald Martin Stewart) did...
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