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  1. Maoist radicalism wins out in China-- How big of a boost for international Maoism?

    There are probably a lot of ways to have the radicals win out, but let's consider a POD where Mao Zedong dies in '68 or '69 and Lin Biao succeeds him as the most powerful man in China. In this case, it is more than likely that there would be no meeting with Nixon, no "reform and opening up", no...

  2. WI: The English-Prussian double marriage succeeds

    Let's say Colonel Hotham somehow gains King Frederick William's trust before the Emperor's agents do, and the the Prince of Wales becomes the double brother-in-law of the Prussian King. We would have a different offspring to Frederick Prince of Wales than OTL's George III-- perhaps someone...

  3. WI "Assignment Earth" gets produced as a spinoff from "Star Trek"

    The last episode of the 2nd season of Star Trek was intended as pilot of a spin-off TV series featuring Gary Seven as a "futuristic James Bond", in case Star Trek got canceled after the second season. However, Star Trek was renewed for a third season and Assignment Earthwas never produced. WI...

  4. AHC: modern day absolute monarchy in Europe

    Spain is the first nation to come to my mind, but what other nations could have become/remain absolutist till 2010? What changes would this need?

  5. Any Modpunk literature?

    There are a lot of fanatsypunk genres, but I haven't seen any based on Early 1960s Style, Culture and Technology in the same way Dieselpunk focuses on the 30s, or Steampunk on the Victorian era. I guess "Modpunk" or "Modernist punk" would be an apt-description for that. Does any modpunk...

  6. Indian government modelled on the USA

    Let's say that out POD is that Nehru studies in America rather than Britain and the American people and American government throughly impresses Nehru, and he begins to see American federalism as a way of accomodating diverse religons and cultures in India. And Let's assume that he can convince...

  7. Challenge: "New Lies for Old" plan sucessful

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn#His_books How Could the Soviet Union enact such a plan? The more conspiratorial-minded would say that it is still playing out among us, but I highly doubt it, as post-communist Russia has tarnished its image, and Europe has moved to the right...

  8. KGB (the 1992 computer game)

    It has to be my personal favorite historical suspense/thriller packaged neatly as a point-and-click game. I love it the most for the excellent recreation of the late soviet atmosphere, with all its seediness and decadent grayness. The plot involving snuff movies, criminals and prostitutes, CIA...

  9. East is West, West is East

    Inspired by the East Asian Vikings thread in ASB forum... How can we realistically make Eastern cultural and political development roughly analogous to what happened in the west in OTL, and vice versa. What needs to change and what would be the closest parallels? And what is the least ASB...

  10. AH Challenge: Red Army Fraktion wank

    How can we get the RAF to be more of a threat than they were in OTL? Is there a way that they can lead to a formation of a pan-European terrorist left? Any ideas?

  11. Challenge: "Christian Democracy" in the USA

    How can we get the U S of A to have a Christian Democratic Party after WWII? They might not name themselves such, but let's say that one of the Major Parties, either Democrat or Republican, have a majority of members that self-identify as Christian Democrats-- so much so that "Christian...

  12. Crusades forever!

    Is there a way we can have the Crusades go on forever, and be seen as "morally right" by all Europeans? It need not be against Muslims and it need not be a war of Conquest. Just warfare for the sake of Christendom and on the behalf of the Bishop of Rome. Would it be possible to pull something...

  13. Liberal Hanover

    How can we get Great Britain's political system / culture transplanted onto Hanover during the union? Maybe the parliament stipulates this to prevent the influence of absolutism on the king (instead of the OTL policy of restricting the King's travels) -- or it is done at congress of Vienna to...

  14. Materialist World

    How can we get materialism to be the dominant metaphysical view before modern times? At the very least, this would imply rejection of an eternal soul or an afterlife, though it need not be completely atheistic (although atheism seems a very logical conclusion) One way I see this happening is...

  15. Challenge: Computer Race

    How could we get the soviet union and the US to compete with each other in computing like they did with space? Maybe starting in the 1970s, a "computer-race" can begin between USA and the USSR when, unlike OTL, the soviets actually invent better computers than the west. Maybe a soviet super...

  16. United Europe as a papal theocracy

    Is it possible to have all of Europe united, more or less under the Pope? I mean, it doesn't have to be centralized-- with a chain of vassals, more or less domestically independent, and it might not explicitly be called a "papal empire/theocracy", but whatever leader/emperor Europe has is a lot...

  17. Post-Unthinkable Society and Culture

    What if, for whatever reasons Operation Unthinkable (the offensive variant) comes to fruition, and the allies succeed in defeating the soviet union in a long, protracted war, restoring a much weakened "White Russia" as it were and liberating all central Asian peoples, Ukrainians, etc. What...

  18. Earliest *Phonograph recorder?

    Inspired by this, what is the earliest a voice recorder (--not a music recorder, mind you, so it can be of very low fidelity) could have been invented? What would be the consequence of an early modern or a renaissance voice recorder have been? What other discoveries will the quest to improve...

  19. Anti-Cliche challenge:Theocratic Empire as the good guys

    I have seen a lot of TLs where the world is threatened by massive Theocratic Empires that generally restrict freedoms of their populace, retard technology, and go on a worldwide conquest frenzy with suicide-bombers as foot soldiers (all while being hypocritical about the tenets of their...

  20. AH Challenge: 70% of the world Christian by 2009

    How can we get 70% of the world be Christian (can be of any denomination, as long as they believe in the divinity of Jesus) with a POD of 1054 after the great schism?
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