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    Effects of earlier development of sugar beet based production of sugar in Europe?

    Extraction of sugar from sugar beet is discovered in 17th century France. In OTL Olivier de Seres discovered you could extract a sugar syrup out of beets in 1575 but did not push with his discovery, It was not till 1747 that Andreas Margrraf in Prussia proved you could extract sugar from beets...
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    The eagle's left head
    Threadmarks: Part 1

    Nymphaion, Asia Minor, March 25th, 1255 Theodore II Lascaris, Faithful to Christ the God, basileus of the Romans, looked at the new complication before himself with some concern. For ten years nothing had come of the marriage of his father with that little German. Or should he say Italian...
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    Independent Bavaria with a post-1939 POD?

    What it says on the tin. How can you plausibly get an independent Bavaria in the aftermath of ww2? There was some not inconsiderable support for this within Bavaria in the late stages of the war and in its immediate aftermath, the pro-independence Bayernpartei had received 20.9% of the vote in...
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    French aircraft industry without Dassault?

    In 1944 Marcel Bloch was arrested by the Germans and carried off to the Buchenwald concentration plan, from which he was freed in April 1945. At the time he was barely 70 pounds and it's hardly inconceivable that he would have died in the camp, apparently when he returned to Paris doctors told...
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    DBWI Former Greek prime minister Tsochatzopoulos dead at 82

    Akis Tsochatzopoulos 1939- August 27th 2021. An alumni of Technische Universität München, member of the resistance against the the colonels junta, minister in all PASOK governments between 1981 and 1996 and prime minister in 1996-2001, Tsochatzopoulos holds the dubious honour of being the only...
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    Algerian policy of a Gaullist 4th republic?

    Something I don't know as much about as I would like but still are intrigued about. Lets assume De Gaulle manages to secure power in 1946. The alt 4th republic gets a strong presidential system, not unlike that of OTLs 5th. But leaving aside other changes to France or for that matter European...
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Part 1

    Paris Gare de Lyon train station July 30th 1920 (old calendar)/August 12th (new calendar) Eleutherios Venizelos, prime minister of Greece was on his way to Marseilles. In Marseilles a Royal Hellenic Navy warship was waiting to bring back the prime minister in Greece. Venizelos was, not without...
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    Military/space technology effects of Nixon in 1960?

    What it says in the title really. Just a few things of the top of my head. 1. F-111 remains solely a bomber project, no TFX. By extension it is likely won by Boeing. By further extension does this bring out of the military business General Dynamics. 2. A separate naval interceptor project...
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    A couple of invasion of Cyprus PODs

    Just a couple of PODs A. The one favouring the Greeks on the field. Greek junta under someone not blindly trusting low level CIA contacts like Ioannidis. Say Papadopoulos takes the advise of certain of his cohorts and removes him in time for example, but otherwise things up to the coup against...
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    NPT treaty scuppered or significantly delayed?

    Question of the day... how do you get a failure or significant delay of the NPT treaty? Naturally both superpowers had an incentive to get the treaty going. OTOH significant US allies like Germany and Italy were at least dubious to the treaty, while the Soviets were less than enamored by NATO...
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    The Egyptian invasion of... Cyprus in 1978

    What the hell they've gone and done POD of the day... Egypt invades Cyprus in 1978. Well if you want to get technical Egypt DID invade Cyprus in 1978 when it landed commandos from Unit 777 in Larnaca airport, ostensibly to help out with a hostage situation involving Egyptian citizens. Then said...
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    Papadopoulos killed in 1968

    Greek dictator George Papadopoulos blown up sky-high by Alex Panagoulis in August 13th 1968. OTL Papadopoulos survived by mere seconds as either Panagoulis slightly misjudged by a few meters the distance of the dictator's fast moving cars or the detonator slightly delayed. ATL Panagoulis is that...
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    The ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople... in Thessaloniki

    The ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople, moved to Thessaloniki and Mount Athos as part of the treaty of Lausanne in 1923. This actually came rather close to being, by December 1922 Turkey was insistent on the patriarchate going, Ismet proposing himself that Mount Athos could serve as it's...
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    A CENTO only Turkey?

    Lets go back to 1951-52 and the negotiations for Greece and Turkey to join NATO. At the time there was apparently significant British pressure for Turkey to join instead only what was to become the future Baghdad pact, CENTO instead of becoming a NATO member as well. In the end British...
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    Fate of post New Union Treaty Soviet Union?

    The August coup never happens and subsequently the new union treaty is signed on schedule turning USSR to a union of sovereign republics. The Baltics, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova are out right away. Now the rest is still supposedly in one piece but the treaty and proposed constitution were...
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    Yrigoyen killed in 1929?

    Hipolito Yrigoyen assassinated by Italian anarchists in December 24th, 1929. In OTL an Italian anarchist Gualterio Marinelli fired 5 shots at his car before being killed by the president's guards. Somehow the assassination attempt instead of causing sympathy for Yrigoyen caused further...
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    Israel & Arabs sans the six days war

    It is early May 1967 the Soviets do not bother with false information of an imminent Israeli attack on Syria and Nasser decides to leave well enough alone for the time being, he has that bothersome Yemeni affair to deal with as well after all. Egypt does not send her army in the Sinai, the...
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    Post Arrow Canadian Aviation Industry

    To this day Canada has a significant aviation industry, Bombardier group claims to being the third largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, but with the notable exception of a military aircraft industry. Which as some of our Canadian members are likely to point can be blamed, to the CF-105...
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