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    Hobble the Reformation

    Most threads about the Reformation seem to focus on its impact on later events rather than the Reformation itself. It did not come out of nowhere and I don't think you could 'stop' it from happening without major butterflies. So in what ways do you think the movement could have been at least...
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    WI Ford wins in '76?

    The US 1976 presidential election was a rollercoaster in the polls, with both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter seeing their popularity rise and fall dramatically on several occassions. Initially a dead duck, thirty points behind Carter going into the election campaign, Ford slowly clawed back his...
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    UK Leaves EEC in 1975 - How does Ireland react?

    Ireland joined the EEC at the same time as Britain in 1973. Dublin's position was wound-up with London's due to their close economic ties. De Gaulle's veto over British admission into the EEC led to Ireland withdrawing their own application because of this. When Pompidou gave Heath the green...
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    Other religious millets in the Ottoman Empire?

    Part of Ottoman administration was the millet system, a non-territorial jurisdiction designed to oversee the various religious groups so they would be tried by their own laws, look out for their interests etc. Eastern Orthodoxy, Armenian Copticism, Judaism and of course Islam all had a millet...
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    England's Captain

    Somewhere in Gloucestershire December 1946 ____________________________________________________________ Bertie’s leg shook uncontrollably, the heel of his hobnail boot vibrating against the concrete. The dull rhythm cut through the chatter of the room but no one paid attention. No one cared...
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    Whistlin' Dixie - A TLIAD

    Oh what's this then? Shut up. ... Whistlin' Dixie A TLIAD
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    Doomsday

    or, Our Troubles No More
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    WI: Umberto I of Italy assassinated in 1878

    Umberto I was famously killed in 1900 by an anarchist in revenge for the massacre of food rioters in Milan two years prior. He had already survived another anarchist assassin in 1878, only months after coming to the throne. What if he didn't? Victor Emmanuel III had just turned 9 years old when...
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    Photo Mod Request - Indian Kremlin

    I've been at it for over an hour and I can't alter it without the mod being obvious. Could someone please add red stars to the two main towers (like the Kremlin clock tower) and replace the Indian flag with a generic red one. I would be incredibly grateful.
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    Communist Europe: Papacy flees to Latin America?

    Random thought - say France, Italy and Iberia all end up under Communist rule (or just staunchly anti-clerical) and refused to house the Pope, would he flee to the New World or somewhere else? And if he did what would be his most likely new location? Or would a Communist Italy tolerate Vatican...
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    FDR serves a full fourth term.

    How do you think the opening years of the Cold War would have played out with FDR at the helm until January 1949? The man had many health issues, combined with the exhaustion of his job, that led to his death. Two possible health-related PODs are him continuing his health regimen after 1940...
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    Would King Arthur Tudor be Arthur II ?

    Henry VIII's older brother Prince Arthur died in 1502 aged 15. Their father as part of the post War of the Roses reconstruction had used Anglo-Welsh mythology to try to create a unified national identity and naming his first son Arthur was a clear part of that. Question is, if Arthur lives and...
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    Bismarck dead in 1873. Who replaces him?

    In 1873 a militant Catholic attempted to assassinate Otto due to fears of Protestant domination, the bullet scraped his arm (I believe) because of the gunman tripped. The question: if the assassin had kept a sure footing and delivered a fatal shot who would become Chancellor? Were there any big...
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    If Mao doesn't intervene in Korea...

    ...would Stalin have just let it fall? I've read Stalin limited Soviet aid to North Korea in 1950 partly to force Mao to act, to 'show his hand' against the West. But what if Mao doesn't act? Would Soviet 'volunteers' be sent over the border or would Moscow be forced to accept a US-controlled...
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    AHC: US retains the Gold Standard in the 1930s

    The move to fiat currency deeply worried many in America during the Depression. Say FDR gets killed by Zangara leading to a Garner presidency and he follows the financial conservatives' lead, managing to keep the GS through the 1930s. What are the economic effects?
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    Greek Communist Revolution

    I've been tinkering with some ideas about a different Soviet approach post-WWII. One idea was for Moscow to push the popular KKE to contest elections and get involved in politics, as the Venizelist Liberals and to a lesser extent the Democratic Socialists wanted them to do, due to connections...
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    WI: Tito dies circa 1950?

    Tito was the lynchpin of Yugoslavia during the Cold War. During the Informbiro period in the late 40s/early 50s Stalin sent numerous assassins after him for being anything less than a Soviet puppet and they all failed. So what happens if they succeed? Or more broadly what happens if Tito dies...
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    Would Poland negotiate over Danzig with a non-Nazi Germany?

    Bit of specific question but I'm writing up some ideas about an authoritarian Germany (traditional junta) in the 1930s. Ideas such as transport links through Polish territory to East Prussia being floated between Berlin and Warsaw. Could a Germany not bent on annihilating the Polish state come...
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    AHC: President Hearst

    How do we get William Randolph Hearst to the White House and how would he act when he got there? Given Tammany Hall gave him so much grief might it have been better for him to run for Mayor/Governor in California to build up his power base?
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    US Presidents limited to one 6-year term in 1913

    Somebody mentioned it in an old thread and looking it up I've found a little information. Apparently in February 1913 Congress approved a new Amendment that would have limited US Presidents to a single 6-year term. Before it got sent out for ratification Wilson stepped on it and nothing came of...
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