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  1. (DBWI) AHC: Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope

    Those who even casually observe Argentine politics are, of course, aware of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Never a serious candidate for the Presidency, he nevertheless was characterized as one of the few Federal Peronists who could work with Nestor Kirchner, and indeed was his last Minister of...

  2. WI The Hon. Ted Bundy

    We've seen explorations of PODs that let to Bundy becoming President of the United States, and one of him becoming a talk show host. But what if Bundy somehow makes it through law school, say, joins the DA's office and eventually becomes a judge somewhere in Washington, maybe eventually becoming...

  3. Jackson Crawford's "The Saga of the People of the Tattuin Valley", or Star Wars as Icelandic Saga

    I have had the delight of getting to read online Dr. Crawford's work, which is, as so entitled, an adaptation of the Star Wars saga (with a literary agent hypothesis that it is a synthesis of two MSS, with the Prequel MS being worse than the Original MS, as well as an OHG poem on the matter...

  4. Suppose Vikings invade and set up a polity in 9th Century North Africa - linguistic implications?

    Yes, I know that the conditions are somewhat implausible outside of CK2 - this is chiefly for a little worldbuilding exercise. Basically, the scenario (lots of handwaving here) is this - Vikings serve as mercenaries in North Africa from some Muslim potentates in the area, don't get paid, they...

  5. AHC: Casus Belli Song scenario

    You challenge, should you accept it, is to have, after 1648 but before 1830, a war where Russia, Denmark and France are on one side, and England or the UK is on the other side. Bonus points if a) it is started by England/UK's actions in the Holy Roman Empire, and/or b) the war causes a...

  6. DBWI: Plausibility Check: What if Pope Benedict Resigned Last Year?

    So I had this idea for a TL. Sometime in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigns for reason of wanting a quiet reitrement. He is replaced by a Jesuit, say, that guy who came in second in 2005, Bergoglio, wasn't it? And he takes the name Francis. So, plausible or not?

  7. DBWI: Non-democratic Rhodesia

    Now, as we all know, in Africa today most of the countries therein are one sort of dictatorship or another, or otherwise essentially an electoralist authoritarian state. The exceptions today are Cape Verde, South Africa, Basutholand, Bechuanaland, Mauritius - and (Southern) Rhodesia. Your...

  8. WI Ferdinand Marcos overthrown by military coup

    Now OTL, the 1986 coup attempt by anti-Marcos officers, led by Lt. Col. Gregorio Honasan, was discovered, and the only reason they didn't end up in front of a firing squad was because they got some last-minute support from the Church, sparking the EDSA Revolution. But what if their coup was...

  9. AHC: Chicano FLQ

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to with a POD after 1949 have a Chicano terrorist group have a similar impact in the United States as the OTL FLQ had in Canada. Bonus points if their height of notoriety includes the year 1968.

  10. American politics without the McGovern Commission

    Say we handwave away the Democratic Party's McGovern Commission in 1968, which basically meant that conventions in '72 and after become filled with less blue-collar delegates and more of the urban-white-liberals and minorities that the Democratic base essentially is today. What would the...

  11. WI Marcos' Finest Hour Never Happens

    Apparently, in the 1986 Philippine Revolution, for a while, General Ver, the Philippine Armed Forces Chief of Staff, was advising Ferdinand Marcos to attack the protesters. The Philippine Marines, as we know, refused to fire on what they saw as a crowd of students, priests and nuns. But Ver...

  12. Alternate terrorist groups

    So, since we have an alternate political parties thread and an alternate broadcasters thread... Frente por la Liberacion de Aztlan Founded in 1972 as an extremist splinter of the Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Aztlan, the FLA is an extant terrorist organization seeking the establishment of...

  13. Bergoglio in 2005

    Say Joseph Ratzinger announces in Conclave he would refuse the Papacy if elected, and the Sacred College elects Bergoglio instead, eight years ahead of OTL. Assuming he takes the same regnal name, what changes from OTL?

  14. Edward VI dies earlier

    As we know, Edward VI died in 1553 after a fever that may have been TB which found an opportunity after a bout of smallpox the year previous. But let us say we shift these illnesses towards the beginning of his reign. Say he gets a bout of measles and smallpox in March 1547, a month after his...

  15. DBWI: Lefebvre refuses regularization

    I know intra-Catholic squabbles are a little boring, but what would have happened if Marcel Lefebvre, instead of signing the Ratzinger declaration on the SSPX, had consecrated multiple bishops without Papal approval, instead of Fellay being consecrated as Lefebre's tentative successor?

  16. AHC: Significant Catholic population in Japan

    With a POD after 1549 (the arrival of the Jesuits), the challenge isto have at least 10% of the Japanese population at least self-identifying as Catholic in 2000. Bonus points if it is 15% or higher.

  17. AHC: Achieve this map.

    As it says, achieve this map for the 2016 Presidential election campaign, with a POD no earlier than the day after the 1960 election. Bonus points if the Republicans remain a center-right party.

  18. DBWI: Pope loses Leonine City, too

    So, there was talk of the Italians in 1870 taking all of Rome, instead of de facto allowing the Papal States to retain the Leonine City. In light of Pope Benedict having recently agreed to recognize the de facto reality as the de jure situation, what if the Kingdom of Italy had taken Pio Nono's...

  19. WI Petain acquitted?

    In OTL, the judges at the Petain Trial recommended acquittal on all charges, but the jury convicted him by one vote. What if the juror in question had gone the other way? What would the consequences be for Petain? The newly installed Republican government? The narrative of France during the war?

  20. AHC: Keep Sachsenring in the car manufacturing business

    The challenge: with a POD no later than 1985, have Sachsenring, the makers of the Trabant, remain in the business of automobile manufacturing in 2010. Bonus points if this occurs in a reunited FRG.
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