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    AHC: Independent New England Defeats Old England in a War, as Early as Possible

    Here’s a fun one. What scenario would allow New England, the geographic area to (a) become an independent state called “New England” and (b) *as early as possible* defeat England/Britain/UK/etc. in a war. Bonus points if New England, the area or the state, is somehow central to the conflict...
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    The Eagle and the Bear (Or, What if Paul I Survived?)
    Threadmarks: CHAPTER 1: A Warning in the Night (PoD)

    THE EAGLE AND THE BEAR Chapter 1: A Warning in the Night (Our Point of Divergence) Paul I of Russia The Warning Approaches It was the 12th of March, 1801, around 10:00 at night. Paul I, Emperor of all Russia, was winding down for the day, trying to sleep despite his insomnia. His bed faced the...
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    AHC: Largely Liberalized and Independent India by 1900

    What it says. How would you go about this? Ideally at least a handful of “Indian” states would be liberalized to some degree (whether that means enlightened despotism, elite republics, nominally liberal military rule, or something else entirely. Nationalism isn’t necessary. Bonus points if...
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    Latest Colonization of Japan?

    What is the latest Japan could have been colonized by a European power? Let’s say that for whatever reason, the Meiji Restoration doesn’t take off— maybe victorious (or just not defeated) Taiping rebels send shockwaves through East Asia causing local power structures to become even more...
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    WI: William Jennings Bryan Wins (1896)

    IOTL, Bryan ran a campaign committed to bimetallism (he was big on silver as a means to help the economically struggling rural class), as well as Christian Evangelical virtues and more generally radical (for the time) populist positions like being anti-imperialism to a certain degree. He didn't...
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    AHC: Earlier Fingerprinting in Criminal Justice

    In some parts of the world like India, fingerprints dipped in ink have been used for generations as a type of signature for documentation without needing the signer to be literate. However, it wasn't until around the turn of the twentieth century that *dusting* for fingerprints took the...
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    The House of Washington: A History of the American Warring States
    Threadmarks: Introduction and Chapter I: Pitchforks and Bloody Murder

    Introduction What if the Constitutional Convention— and the United States— fell apart? I know it's a question that's been covered to death, but that's only because it's so fascinating. So what if the nation descended into a violent sort of chaos? What if, in the frenzy, the more traditionalist...
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    WI: The Mensheviks Don't Support the War

    IOTL, one major reason for the collapse of popular support for the less radical Mensheviks was the Menshevik support under the leadership of Irakli Tsereteli for continuation of the war. Though the Mensheviks did not want annexations, they also weren't willing to lose vast tracts of Russian...
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    Elizabethan "Musicals"

    So I was saw Something Rotten today. I think anyone familiar with the show knows where this is going now. If you aren't familiar with it, it is, keeping spoilers to the minimum, the story of how a down-on-his luck poet creates a musical to combat Shakespeare's fame and fortune and maybe secure...
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    Considering the Panic of 1857, would Pres. Frémont have caused a Civil War?

    What it says on the tin. The Panic of 1857 briefly collapsed the industrial Northern economy and left the South comparitavely untouched, boosting the South's feelings that the North would be crippled without them and would give in more to their demands. So would a President Frémont have caused a...
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    WI: "Real" Toledo War

    In case you don't know, the Toledo War was a boundary dispute between Michigan and Ohio upon Michigan's impending statehood. Due to some weird surveying, a strip of land including Toledo was claimed by both Ohio and Michigan. A team of self-proclaimed diplomats was sent (I forgot which state...
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    AHC: Indian Bourbons on a European Throne

    So, wild, probably nigh-impossible challenge: get an Indian Bourbon on the throne of some European kingdom, whether it be France or not, sometime after the fall of the Bourbons IOTL. For those who don't know, the Indian Bourbons are a branch of the family (or at least claimed branch of the...
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    No Nation-State?

    With a PoD after the founding of the Roman Empire, is it possible to prevent the concept of a "nation-state" from arising? What I mean by that is preventing ethnicity-based, well-defined states becoming the global norm, like they did after Western conquest IOTL. Please educate me if I...
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    WI: No Soft Drinks?

    What if soft drinks (cola, ginger ale, root beer, etc.) had never been invented. For the sake of the thought exercise, let's say that once soda water was invented, it was still used "medicinally." However, different spices and nasty tasting medications were put in it at first, tarnishing its...
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    AHC and WI:- Surviving Newhaven Colony

    In 1638, on the tail end of the other New England colonies being established, an extreme Puritan colony called New Haven (capital New Haven) was founded without a charter in order to attempt an even closer church-state relationship than in Massachusetts Bay, which was famed for its religious...
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    AHC: Canals in Washington, D.C.

    Okay, so hear me out. Keep in mind, these are not the grand plans for a Potomac canal system for goods-shipping that I'm talking about. These are not the vast, continent-carving canals people on this site have wet dreams about. This is in a much smaller scale. This is like Venice. So, I was...
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    Not Quite a Monarch: A Semi-Dystopic Timeline
    Threadmarks: Chapter One

    Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my very first timeline! I thought it might be fitting for the 4th of July to start on my first timeline: an American one. The format for this TL will be a mixture of dryer, more textbook-like pieces to move the story along and smaller, more personal narrative...
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    A World Without Firearms (FOR LONGER)

    The idea of exploding your gunpowder inside of a metal tube to propel a small piece of metal at your enemy is not exactly the most obvious way to use it. The most obvious use of gunpowder, and the one that the Chinese used for centuries, was rocketry and flame-throwers. I believe that if Europe...
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    WI: Kato Svanidze, Stalin's First Wife, Lives On

    "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." - Joseph Stalin, on the death of his first wife, Kato Svanidze. What if Svanidze lives a full life instead of dying of tuberculosis? It seems that, while Stalin had already met Lenin and...
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    Question About Gunpowder Plot

    Would a successful Gunpowder Plot, which blew up the House of Lords and the King, cause the idea of similar tactics to become more widespread in Europe and its colonies? And not just in political situations, but also in churches, mosques, schools, and the like? In short, do you think a...
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