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  1. Roman Republic endures

    I put this topic out here for those of you who (hopefully) have a lot more knowledge of Rome than I do. I've always wondered if the Roman Republic was doomed to become an empire. Is there a good POD that would have kept the Republic going? If there is, what would it eventually look like...

  2. The Formula

    This novel (Steve Shagan) was a technothriller at the time, but now is AH, I suppose. The novel tells the story of a group of people seeking to gain control of a secret Nazi formula that, when added to liquid fuel created from coal, enhances it by a massive degree, essentially making coal more...

  3. The Alamo is abandoned

    While the fall of the Alamo is remembered as a glorious last stand in US history, it nearly didn't fall out that way. Both Bowie and Travis had been sent there to evacuate the place, but both thought it was too important to just leave, and both evaded their orders by not only failing to...

  4. Spartacus in the American South

    During the era of American plantation slavery, the southern whites deeply feared a slave revolt, and took great pains to make sure there wouldn't be any; they forbade most slaves to have an education, and split up troublesome groups by selling them off separately. Mostly, these efforts worked...

  5. No Slavery in Judaism

    There were two sects of ancient Judaism that, very oddly for the time, forbade slavery: the Essenes and the Therapeutae. The Essene sect is thought to have influenced Jesus and the Apostles (although apparently not in the no slavery aspect, as neither spoke out against it). WI one of these...

  6. No Plantation Slavery

    America had a thriving slave trade since early colonial days, and in OTL, the US was one of the last western nations to abolish slavery. As a POD for this scenario, let us suppose that the European abolishment of slavery happened earlier, in America's colonial days, so that by the time of the...

  7. MIA's found in 'Nam

    one of the big conspiracy theories in the early '80s was that Vietnam was holding American prisoners in secret camps for nefarious reasons, years after the war was over. Let us suppose that this was true, and that the US govt. obtained absolute irrefutable evidence that Vietnam held at least...
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