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  1. So Harry Turtledove is a nice guy

    Here's the link. Here's the story: Scifi author spoils his entire book series for terminally ill fan This is both heart-rending and wonderful. Nachu Bhatnagar is a huge fan of author Harry...

  2. AHC: Turkey joins the Axis

    Based off this thread. How far back would the POD have to be? How much benefits would Turkey bring to the Axis in the war?

  3. John Brown starts a slave revolt

    We all know of John Brown and his unsuccessful raid on Harper's Ferry. Let's say that he either chooses another target, or changes his initial plan of attack, and has much more success, actually starting a slave revolt. How would this plan out on the eve of the Civil War?

  4. Happy Cinco de Mayo! WI Mexicans lose Battle of Puebla?

    The Battle of Peubla only briefly halted the French invasion of Mexico, but the Mexicans celebrated the victory and made it a national holiday, Cinco De Mayo. So what if the Mexicans lost? Could it lead to an earlier, more stable Mexican Empire? Would earlier French victory have any effect on...

  5. Soviet mission to Mars

    Sending people to Mars in an enormously hard task made all the more difficult by the fact that you have to bring the people back. Or do you? Mars to Stay is an organization that advocates for sending a mission to Mars that would land and make a small settlement on the planet, that would pave the...

  6. Saddam the Conqueror

    I was reading William O'Niel's "A Bubble in Time" and he talks about how ill timed Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was. If Saddam had invaded tens years before in 1979 following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the USA would have had too much on its plate to care about the invasion of a feudal...

  7. Good Roman History Books?

    I find myself not as interested in timelines around the Roman Era simply because I know little about it. The Roman Republic, Empire, the Byzantines--I know only what Wikipedia tells me! So does anybody have recommendations on books that could enlighten me about them? I'm sure it's a fascinating...

  8. WI USA develops and uses Neutron bombs?

    As it says on the tin, what if Neutron bombs entered development? A POD could be that Carter doesn't cancel the program.

  9. AHC: Japan invades Australia

    With a POD no earlier than the Meiji Restoration, create a Japan that can successfully invade Australia by 1945. As we know, Japan IOTL wasn't very close at all to invading, as it simply lacked the resources, so the challenge is essentially to wank Japan in order to give it the resources to do so.

  10. Internet with a surviving Soviet Union

    Let's say the 1980's go a bit differently for the USSR, and that Gorbachev's reforms don't lead to the collapse of the country. Instead, there is a period of harsh crackdowns followed by very limited economic reform. What this means is the Eastern bloc survives into the 21st century. My question...

  11. WI Luis Sanchez not assasinated?

    Sanchez was a Peruvian dictator in the early 1930's who was about to lead his country into a war with Colombia. Then he was shot through the heart, and the war fizzled out. What would South America look like had he not been shot, and the war escalated? Who would win? What would the geopolitical...

  12. Info on Hispanic nations joining the USA

    IOTL, El Salvador asked to join the United States in he 1820s, but was denied. During the Mexican-American War, the USA didn't annex the heavily populated parts of Mexico. These two instances were due, at least partly, to racism--they didn't want so many Hispanics in the USA. My question is...

  13. French troops in Texas, 1841

    From here: "And in 1840, the Republic was financially broke. Again, de Saligny appeared upon the scene to assist the beleaguered Texans. This time he was to lobby for a piece of legislation known as the Franco-Texian Bill. This bill, properly titled, "An Act to Incorporate the...

  14. Three-way World War II

    Let's say that either the allies intervene in the Winter War or the allies go through with Operation Pike. As a result, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany become co-belligerents, which could easily pave a way for an alliance, as in a few timelines here on alternatehistory.com. However, these...

  15. No third term for FDR

    Lets say either for some reason, maybe health problems, FDR decides not to run for a third term. Who will get the Democratic and Republican nominations? Who will win? How does this effect World War 2? I am just curious because I've always thought that the dilemma faced by the Western allies...

  16. China in WW1

    Let's say that the Qing Dynasty doesn't collapse in 1912, but manages to successfully hold itself together. While there will be some butterflies from that, World War One will still occur for some reason or another; the underlying causes of the war will all still be there. So what role would...

  17. Aroostook War

    Ok, this is that last thread I post in under a minute. What can I say, I'm having an imaginative few minutes! The Aroostook War leads to an actual war between Britain and the USA in 1839. The POD is that the Maine milita actually fights the British forces and get massacred, galvanizing American...

  18. Spanish-American War in the 1850's

    What it says on the tin. The ideas behind the Ostend Manifesto lead to a war between Spain and America over Cuba. For a specific POD, lets put it as the Black Warrior affair. Could it be called the "Black Warrior War"? Who wins?

  19. WI: Reconstruction done right?

    The Alternate Fifteenth Amendment: Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by any party on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate...

  20. McClellan stages a coup d’etat

    “I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask...
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