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  1. DBWI: Scramble for africa?

    What would have happened if the european powers had not written africa off as a disease filled primitive land and had colonized it?

  2. Maximum alteration of technology in any of these years

    so what is the maximum possible amount of technological change(whether positive or negative) that you think could happen to a wolrd diverging in any of those years? 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

  3. Maximum alteration of technology in any of these years

    so what is the maximum possible amount of technological change(whether positive or negative) that you think could happen to a wolrd diverging in any of those years? 1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890\

  4. The boll weevil reaches US soil in 1820

    So what happens if the boll weevil arrives on US soil in 1820. Presume someeon brought it back from a trip to latin america. So what happens in the 186 years between 1820 and now?

  5. Majority christian lebanon in 2006

    your challenge if you choose to accept it is with a post 1900 POD to create a world where lebanon is majority christian. Bonus points if you manage it with Syria too. So what is the world like by now with a majority christian lebanon(and syria if you so choose)?

  6. Britain uses South africa as a place to dump convicts

    So what happens to the world from the late 18th century onwards if Britain uses South Africa as a place to dump convicts on the same scale as Australia? Does this impact sout african politics or do we still see the afrikaners holding on strong nearly to the end of the 20th century?

  7. Why do people foolishly insist that US/CS reunion is possible?

    Ok, people US/CS reunion is *not* even remotely likely. I'm serious ASBs, chuck norris and spdier man descending down from the heavans and crowning me god emperor of the galaxy strike me as being much more likely than the prospect of US/CS reunion because of the following reasons. 1 The...

  8. Longterm effects of a Confederate victory

    Presume a CS victory in the civil war/other method of winning independence and that they manage to get at least the 11 seceded states with kentucky, indian territory and mew mexico all being negotiable. So how does north america and the world develop? How do the rump United States and the newly...

  9. Larger world population in 2006

    Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to somehow get a world with double the population of OTL. Bonus points if its a post 1800 POD(I'm more interested in recent PODs obivously)

  10. WI Different interpretation of darwinism... or an earlier gay rights movement.

    Presume that sometime in the mid or late 19th century we have some nutcase come up with the idea that the 'inferior' are self selecting themselves out of the gene pool with homosexualtiy and therefore homosexuals need to tolerated in mainstream society in order for them to not be pressured to...

  11. Christian Democratic Party of the US

    Your mission if you choose to accept it is to make an america where one of the two major political parties follows the morally conservative, fiscally liberal(in the US sense. As in leftist) paradigm of Christian Democracy( go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy if you don't know...

  12. For the Kingdom of Heaven or The Skoptsy in America

    Genesee County, New York, 1822. A failed merino sheep farmer from New Hampshire named Benjamin Johnson is reading the New Testament -- specifically, Matthew 19:12: "For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of...

  13. Totalitarian united europe with a post 1800 POD

    Your challenge if you choose to acccept is to have a world where by the 20th century europe is united in a totalitarian organization. The catch is that the organization needs to be a pan-european organization on the lines of our world's european union but under a totalirain organization.

  14. Challenge: Speed up technology by 20 years

    Your challenge is to construct a scenario where technology is at least 20 years above the real world's technological level and explore the political/economic/cultural effects of a faster advancing world(as well as the consequenes of the POD)

  15. DBWI: The coup of '34 fails

    What kind of america and wordl woudl we get if the coup of 1934 didn't happen? We all know that from 1934 until the late 60s the US was a de facto dicatorship... wat woudl be the effects on a world where the US retains stable democratic government in the depression insterad of losing it for 30...

  16. Napoleonic victory world 2006

    What kind of world in 2006 would we get if Napoleon had won his wars and brought Europe under his rule in a stable form at least until the end of his life? What effects does a napoleonic victory world have on political development, technology and society?

  17. Question regarding technical development with an extended WWII?

    how would technology have developed in an alternate WWII that starts with roughly 1942 level tech and ends with 1949 level technology? I need some help on that particular area of development for a TL I'm doing..

  18. DBWI: Avoid the Grand slam

    Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to avoid the Grand Slam(also called Great Depression II) of 2011-2035. Would it be possible to somehow POD away the mounting US debt issues, peak oil problems and trade imbalance or was the Grand Slam inevitable?

  19. AH challenge: get to this list of presidents

    pre-1844: same as OTL 1845-1849 James K Polk(D) 1849-1857 Zachary Taylor(W) 1857-1865 Stephen Douglas(D) 1865-1873 John Fremont(R) 1873-1878 Edward Tolliver(D) 1878-1885 John Collier(R) 1885-1889 James G. Blaine(A) 1889-1897 Adrian Mahan(D) 1897-1901 Alexander Lee(R) 1901-1909 Conner...

  20. The Ostend manifesto suceeds

    In the mid 1850s a group of US diplomats came up with a proposal to attempt to threaten Spain into selling off cuba, and if Spain didn't cooperate take Cuba by force. This plan was naturally called the Ostend Manifesto( www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostend_Manifesto for more information on it). What...
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