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    The Real Deal? A Kerry Wins TL
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1: 2004-2005

    The Real Deal? A Kerry Wins TL Chapter 1: 2004-2005 NYT breaks warrantless wiretaps On Oct. 18, 2004, the New York Times broke that President George W. Bush had authorized a secret warrantless surveillance program. [1] The president defended the program as necessary to save American lives...
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    New Alternate History forum on Sufficient Velocity!

    Today, the administrative staff of the Sufficient Velocity forum have created a new Alternate History sub-forum! Within one day, this new enclave has already seen over 1000 posts and counting, with 45 new members including map-making luminaries like @ToixStory and wikibox wizards like...
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    Televised war game: Edmund Muskie plays as POTUS, real Cabinet officials (1983)

    "In the war game, former Senator Edmund S. Muskie takes the role of the President. James R. Schlesinger, a former Secretary of Defense, appears as the Secretary of Defense. Clark M. Clifford, another former Secretary of Defense, is the Secretary of State. Gen. Edward C. Meyer, who recently...
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    Sabot Cat's Infobox Repository

    This thread is a repository for all of the infoboxes I've made! https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes.202133/page-397#post-9621897...
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    Victory for Chinese Democracy (A Global Wikipedia-Style TL with Daily Updates)

    VICTORY FOR CHINESE DEMOCRACY A Global Wikipedia-Style Timeline with Daily Updates PART I: 1947-1952 Regional Focus: Eastern and Southeastern Asia Chinese Revolution of 1947 The Chinese Revolution of 1947, named the Thirty-Six Revolution domestically because it occurred on the 36th...
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    AHC: Make most electoral maps look like '76

    With a Point of Divergence no later than July 12, 1976, make most U.S. presidential election maps (here used figuratively to describe the way states actually go in the election, to preempt a snarky literalist response) resemble the one from that election, and to a lesser extent, the election...
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    How many terms would Nixon get?

    If Watergate and anything like it was never discovered, and President Richard Nixon was somehow able to ram through the repeal of the 22nd Amendment (not too implausible in all honesty), how many terms do you think he could be elected to? For reference, here are his approvals (the long downward...
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    AHC: USSR with top-tier GDP per capita and low Gini coefficient

    With a Point of Divergence no later than 1954, your challenge is to make the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) have a GDP at purchasing power parity per capita comparable to Norway, Switzerland, the United States or Canada in our timeline, and a Gini coefficient lower than 30, both by...
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    AHC: The U.S. Vice President casts tie-breaker vote in their own impeachment trial

    From the U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 4. "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." Article I, Section 3. "The Vice President...
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    WI: India liberalized in the 1970s

    What if India liberalized their economy in the 1970s, before or a little after China did? Would their GDP be higher? What of the quality of life? What are some likely PODs for this?
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    WI: Insubordinate US official during Rwandan Genocide (April 1994)

    What if, in April 1994, a United States government official decides that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan people is more important than their job and leaks memos regarding the planned or ongoing genocide to the media, before publicly calling for action, e.g. through jamming of the...
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    WI: The Republic of China vetoes PRC membership in UN?

    What if, instead of leading a walk-out protest, ROC Representative to the UN Liu Chieh vetoes United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, which recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China in the United Nations? The Republic of China had previously...
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    WI: FBI Special Agent Nixon

    In 1937, Richard Nixon applied for a position as a special agent in the FBI. The agency reviewed him favorably, but dropped his appointment because of either budget cuts or competing scheduling from the California Bar exam. But let's say circumstances are slightly changed, and we get Special...
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    Questions on 1914 France

    I have several questions about France as of August 1914, and would deeply appreciate any answers to them: 1. How many Senators were there? 2. What were the party affiliations of the Senators? 3. How did the Council of Ministers relate to the legislature and the presidency? 4. Is the President...
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    WI: USSR provokes war to increase oil prices

    Would the Soviet Union provoke war between other oil-producing nations to increase the price of oil during the 1980s oil glut? My specific scenario is that shortly after Saudi Arabia increases oil production in September 1985, the USSR dispatches false flag operatives to bomb Saudi Arabian...
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    AHC: Libertarian Socialist country

    Your challenge is to devise a plausible sequence of events wherein a country adopts some school of libertarian socialist thought in a superlative fashion. Guidelines: 1) There must be political pluralism if applicable, although the principles of libertarian socialism can be entrenched in the...
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    A Year of Terror: The 2001 Inaugural Attacks

    A Year of Terror: The 2001 Inaugural Attacks PHASE ONE: REASSEMBLY PART I: 01/21 HIJACKED JETS KILL PRESIDENT, CONGRESS, AND THOUSANDS MORE CAPITOL AND TWIN TOWERS DESTROYED From the New York Times Published: January 21, 2001 Hundreds of thousands of Americans...
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    The Year of the Inaugural Attacks: 2001

    THE YEAR OF THE INAUGURAL ATTACKS: 2001 HIJACKED JETS KILL PRESIDENT, CONGRESS, AND THOUSANDS MORE CAPITOL AND TWIN TOWERS DESTROYED From the New York Times Published: January 21, 2001 Hundreds of thousands of Americans huddled around the platform built along the West Front outside the...
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    The Dakai Dynasty: Rise of the Heavenly Kingdom

    The Dakai Dynasty: Rise of the Heavenly Kingdom Preface: Stagnation and Struggle in the Qing Dynasty's China “More than fifty years have passed since the founding of the Qing dynasty, and the empire grows poorer each day. Farmers are destitute, artisans are destitute, merchants are destitute...
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    The Inaugural Attacks (01/20/2001)

    THE INAUGURAL ATTACKS HIJACKED JETS KILL PRESIDENT, CONGRESS, AND THOUSANDS MORE CAPITOL AND TWIN TOWERS DESTROYED From the New York Times Published: January 21, 2001 Hundreds of thousands of Americans huddled around the platform built along the West Front outside the United Capitol...
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