A alternate history where instead of moving to San Francisco Paster Jim Jones moves to Georgia where he finds a significant following among its unions which eventually elect to a high political position and in the 1980s he decides to run for governor but his scandals come out during the campaigns thus preventing Jim Jones before gaining any further power.
In the last days of World War I, facing a revolt by the mostly-secular Young Turks, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire appeals to all faithful Muslims everywhere to join him in a jihad - against the center of the infidels, the city of Rome in Italy!
In a world where the Central Powers won WW1, the Bourbons are restored to the throne in France. Right from the onset, things look tough and damn impossible for the Bourbons. The Communists are threatening to take power in France - democratically or otherwise. Right-wing Paramilitarist groups are spreading terror among the people, riling them up against the Monarchy. Germany threatens to turn France into a puppet, forcing them into its Mitteleuropa. And worst of all, Great Britain has fallen to Communism, joining the ranks of Russia, Spain and Italy in the Communist International, threatening to spread their revolution to France itself.
A timeline wherein Steve Jobs, rather then becoming a Buddhist, instead founds a Greek Revival religion, which centers around veneration of the Greek Gods Athena and Hephaestus, as spirits of innovation, in a romantic relationship, no less. The religion also had some minor focus on Gods like Apollo, Poseidon, and Aphrodite. The religion soon gains several adherents among techies, growing in popularity with Apple itself, particularly since Jobs, in this universe, is never forced to resign, and guides Apple through the 90s instead of founding NEXT. Jobs still invests in Pixar, but here, Pixar joins Disney earlier, with Eisner having been ousted by 2004. Jobs continues to grow in strength, as does his religion, and the TL ends with the swearing-in of the first Senator to be from his new religion.
After the success of the SpongeBob movie in 2004 instead of reviving the series itself they decide to extend to a series of theatrical shorts ranging from 2-5 minutes in length in front of Paramount's kids movies these prove to be a big success and paramount decides to do so with the other most popular Nicktoons they have in their library. Eventually this catches the attention of Disney who decide to resurrect the Roger Rabbits shorts and their classic shorts for their films along with Warner Brothers who bring back Merry Melodies this rivalry goes on for a few years until it leads up to the Roger Rabbit sequel Who unplugged Roger Rabbit where four of them appear in hospital beds selling the injures they took on the job.
In the Timeline where Monday night wars never ended and WCW is still going strong, Bray Wyatt decides to wrestle for WCW instead of WWE. Bray Wyatt, and the Wyatt family is formed anyways, but the member is different. This results in Bray Wyatt being the symbol of WCW, and Vince McMahon decides to counter it with an unlikely candidate.
A TL where the Gracchus Brothers reforms and subsequent deaths lead to a popular pleb uprising against the elites of Rome. The Legions are off on campaign in Spain during the revolt and are unable to quell it before the Plebs seize the Senate and force through a series of severe reforms turning Rome into a Athenian Democracy where the Senate is halved and a equal number of representatives from every class are elected. Led by the Dux Populi, or Peoples Leader, the Roman Republic is able to whether the various trials and tribulations that befall them. There is a few times where a single demagogue is able to take control but the Legions, reformed and instill into the shield of Roman Democracy, are able to depose them and restore Populi rule. The Empire reaches its height in 183 BC with lands stretching from Hibernia to Mesopotamia, from Scandinavia to Africa and from Francia to Germania. In the Epilogue the author hinted at the eventual fall of the Republic and dissolution of its Empire not through strife, but through peace. Increased provincial autonomy eventually left the Dux Populi powerless and the Republic was eventually dissolved. Despite accusations of ASB, especially towards the end, it has still become a massive hit on the site and was even published into a moderately successful book.
