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I don't know if this question was asked yet, but in any case: The 1994 Northridge earthquake was already very destructive, registering at 6.7 on the Richter scale, and causing billions of dollars in destruction, along with the deaths of 57 people and injuries in almost 9,000 more. Though it's...

In 1984, for the Mayoral Election, the race came down to two Republicans, Incumbent Mayor Roger Hedgecock and former news anchorman and savings-and-loan executive Dick Carlson (who is also the father of Fox News Anchor Tucker Carlson). A major issue in the campaign for mayor saw that Hedgecock...

An Introduction; The 16th and 17th Centuries Synopsis This is the Earth of Timeline-1001, a timeline where the country of Kingawa sits on the western coast of the continent called Hesperia, which we call North America. A timeline where, two hundred thousand years ago, one last species of...

I'm a big fan of westerns like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Even if it his historically inaccurate. So I'd like to create a challenge to make an ATL in which the events shown in the film would be more plausible. The major inaccuracy is how the Civil War is portrayed in the film. The plot...

Good folks, I genuinely hope I'm not causing trouble. I'm going to try and rework my old Kingawa timeline, cutting away the bits involving a major shift in Eurasian history (the Glass Empire of Rome ruled by Emperor Christ being the main one) and focusing on making North America into something...

This is in regards to the idea of a California somehow developing with the in-power class of the early 1840s remaining in power and guiding the development of the area over the next few decades, rather than the US goverment, newer immigrants, or even the power players in Mexico City. I'm not...

The Mexican-American War was obviously quite influential because it expanded the United States at Mexico's expense, and in this land large states such as California and Texas (which had already declared independence but did not fully control it's present-day territory). What if somehow the...

High On The Mountaintop (source https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-beehive-church-stained-glass-1916530620) Formatting Shamelessly Stolen from KingSweden24's Cinco de Mayo Collaboration with @Tyche Table of Contents Section 1: Come Come Ye Saints (1837- )

I - PROLOGUE A moment ago we had a decision to make José. We could negotiate with the Tyrant, or ensure the flag of independence flew forever. It seems the decision has been made for us. Now there's nothing left to do but fight. Viva California! - "President" Juan Bautista Alvarado after being...

In a world where California was not colonized by Spain, instead it was colonized by Britain, as a second crown colony. Post American Revolution, immigration picked up, leading to a large, young population in the colony when we hit our POD. In 1810, Napoleon was in complete control of Europe...

This is a scenario I would like to explore after watching Alternate History Hub's video on the subject. The summery is that before the American Civil war a bill to divide most of Southern California into the new "Territory of Colorado" almost passed but was ignored due to the secession crisis...

IOTL, Spain had had camel populations since the 11th century, brought over by the Arabs. After they began colonizing the New World, there were limited introductions of camels in the 17th and 18th centuries but nothing large scale. So, what if the Spanish had gone through with earlier large...

In OTL, the Centralist Republic of Mexico once formed, faced various revolts and secessionists, like in the Zacatecas Rebellion of 1835, the Texan Revolution, the Republic of Rio Grande, a Alta-California Independence Movement in 1836, the New Mexico Revolt in 1837, a rebellion by Federalists in...

Alright, so the bone of this postulation is extremely unlikely, so much so that divine intervention isn't entirely out of the question. However, for the sake of the discussion, let's say that plausibility is somehow waived and everything that could go right does go right, but no actual Alien...

OTL Mexico obtained independence in 1821, the government characterized by instability leaving it ill-prepared for a major international conflict when war broke out with the U.S. in 1846 [Wikipedia]. The Mexican-American War of 1846 lead to the loss of Texas, California and New Mexico, thus...

The Hetch Hetchy Valley lies towards the northern end of Yosemite National Park. Formed by the Tuolumne River, which flows from the glaciers of the Sierra down into the Central Valley of California, it resembles nothing so much as a smaller version of the famous Yosemite Valley itself. There’s...

in the period surrounding the American Revolution, the new world colonial empires largely collapsed. The French had lost it prior to the revolution, the Portuguese and Spanish destroyed by napoleon, and Russia was barely a player in the arena. Only the British remained, and even they struggled...

Your challenge is to come up with a POD that would reverse the political orientations of California and Texas, and have the former be solidly Republican and the latter strongly Democratic.

If California was not discovered by the Spaniards first, then what would've California, and it's regions been called instead? By english explorers? By Russians or Japanese? Did the natives of California have a name for their homelands? (Also looking for alternate place names for regions such...

What if, through 1861 to 1865, there were multiply uprisings in both the Union and the Confederacy? The Uprisings in the North are sponsored by Confederate Agents, Copperheads, and Southern Sympathizers, while the ones in the South are either local, or sponsored by some other power. List of...