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  1. WI - A Non-aligned post-1990 Hungary

    How do you think Hungary would have turned out, if it became a Democratic country in 1990, and had the Soviet troops depart it in 1991, yet it never decided to join NATO in 1998, and join the EU in 2004? What fate would you think the most likely has occured for this country if what was...

  2. WI: More Western MMORPGs had a priestly class of a more explicitly Christian bent?

    In the Warcraft Universe, the faith of the Human race was increasingly retconned into a more "spiritual but not theistic" leaning from Warcraft 1 onwards, eventually resulting in the religion of the Holy Light which is kinda like Unitarian Universalism mixed with Buddhism, but keeping the...

  3. AHC/WI: An alternative Elitist religion for Medieval Europe?

    So let's imagine that for some reason both Christianity and Paganism die out in Early Medieval Europe, and a new religion, with some relation to Manichaeism and Gnosticism comes to be dominant in Europe after the 3rd Century CE. In this religion, there is a whole Priestly caste called the...

  4. AHC: Advance human spaceflight as much as possible with the earliest PoD of 1945

    How do you think would it be possible to have more space infrastructure, possibly more frequent manned space missions, or even a rotating space station, or Moon or Mars bases today with the earliest PoD of 1945? In essence in this TL, much of the hopes for a "space future" as imagined by people...

  5. AHC An extremist group obsessed with the balance of Good and Evil

    So I was playing the old game Diablo 2 a few days ago, and remembered that the Necromancer class is only playable, because according to the lore of that class, Necromancers either help the forces of Good or the forces of Evil depending on which side is losing to keep up a perceived balance of...

  6. AHC Make Eurythmy a standard and accepted part of performance art by our present day

    Eurythmy is a type of performance art, pioneered by Rudolf Steiner, an Anthroposophist, in which people are encouraged to respond to hearing particular lines of poetry, and/or riffs of music, with either contorted or gymnastics-like bodily movements in a group. This behavior supposedly has...

  7. AHC/WI Dacian industrial revolution?

    The territory of the Roman Province of Dacia (roughly present-day Romania) is located in an unusually resource-rich geographical area, with large deposits of metals and salt, and most importantly the Ploiești Oil Fields, from which oil is still easy to extract because of the deposit's proximity...

  8. AHC Make the Cross an unacceptable symbol of Christianity for Protestants in most countries

    In most countries of the world, the unadorned Crucifix is usually accepted as a universal symbol of Christianity, no matter the denomination. In Hungary however, usually only Catholic, Orthodox, and Lutheran believers are comfortable with the Crucifix (even the unadorned simple Cross), and...

  9. Is a combination of ancient aesthetics with advanced technology plausible in OTL?

    In the sci-fi series "Stargate" there are many examples of humanoid alien civilizations which both have ridiculously advanced technology and millennia-old traditions authentically preserved in their cultures and day to day life. For example, one civilization in the series, the Tok'ra, have...

  10. AHC: A Literal Police State

    Some time in the 20th or 21st century, in a country with a high degree of street crime some employees of the local police force decide to establish a party, the PPP (Party of Patriotic Policemen) It is a center-right, generally Conservative party whose core ideologies also include adherence to...

  11. The Paleolithic - Heaven or Hell?

    Traditionally, it is thought that the Paleolithic was the worst time period to live in. Only rudimentary technology existed, people were at the mercy of the elements and wild animals, everyone walked around with weapons, ready to bash eachothers' head in at the slightest provocation, and women...

  12. Technological and Social progress in a continued East Germany

    If for some reason the GDR and the Soviet Bloc continued to exist past 1989 (and Honecker-style hard-line politics remained the norm) how do you think the state would have handled the technological and social changes of the world in the 90s and 00s? Here are some clues from the OTL late 80s...

  13. The Polish-Hungarian Monarchy

    This TL originates from the Hungarian website gyakorikerdesek.hu the poster acknowledged that it was a satire: -The Treaty of Trianon never happens, so pre-20th century Hungary stayed as a whole. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy never came into being, instead we made a new union with the Poles...

  14. Wrenches and Transistors - East Bloc nations hold on to State-owned industries

    How can we get a TL in which Communism falls in Eastern Europe around the time as it did in OTL, but most of the countries that formed the former East Bloc decide to hold on to the State-owned industries they built up during Communist times (particularily in the manufacturing of consumer...

  15. Any TLs about a surviving Pannonia? How do you think this region would have turned out?

    The territory that roughly corresponds to present-day Transdanubian Hungary (the Western part of the country) was part of the Roman Empire and called Pannonia. On the Hungarian website "gyakorikerdesek.hu" I have read about an ATL that describes a fictional continuation of this state as a...

  16. Electricity before the Industrial Revolution

    Do you think it would be possible to discover Electricity, and some simple uses for it, like electromagnetic wired telegraphy before a time of industrialization? For example in Ancient Rome, Ancient China, or in Medieval Europe. For example, sometime around 1300 or 1400, there would be a line...

  17. AHC: Make Unitarianism the most widespread religion in Europe

    I'm not talking about Unitarian Universalism, but the more traditional Protestant religion developed in Transylvania in the 16th and 17th centuries. The main beliefs of Unitarians are: -God is the sole, indivisible creator and master of the Universe. He/she is perfect, omnipotent and...

  18. AHC/WI Video game console propaganda wars in Europe

    I had a strange dream last night about an ATL: Firstly, console gaming is more popular in Europe than it was/is in OTL. In a time period spanning approximately from 1986 to 2004, various European countries start state-owned companies that each develop a uniquely constructed video game console...

  19. AHC: Nation-worship as a religion becomes widespread in Europe in the 20th century

    By 2000, a secular religion develops among European countries that is somewhat similar to Cheondoism in Korea. This religion is Atheistic, but is very similar to Christianity in its practice and organization. Instead of God, it puts its faith into the cohesion and cooperation of the inhabitants...

  20. Would it have been anachronistic to refer to the victory of mind over strength in the 14th century?

    János Arany, 19th century Hungarian poet wrote a trilogy of epic poems about the 14th century Hungarian knight, Miklós Toldi. The last part of the trilogy, Toldi Estéje "Toldi's Night" takes place at the very end of the 14th century, the titular character is an old man, months before his death...
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