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  1. Oregon dispute 'detatched Olympic Peninsula' option: Implications?

    Found here, there was a proposal by the British to placate American demands for harbors by giving them the Olympic Peninsula essentially (a triangle around it really). In my TL, I'm assuming temporarily this is the border. In this TL also, the U.S. is not going to end up with California.. or any...

  2. Modern name for Ottoman Empire?

    Suppose the Ottoman Empire endures WWI; either by staying neutral, or perhaps a slightly earlier PoD à-la Abdul's old stuff- whatever. There's no pulling them apart, nationalism is contained or directed more towards the state and it encompasses its historical borders. Now as I understand it...

  3. "The Spanish History" ~ A Midas TL

    I wrote this some time ago, post it and got no reviews/posts (mods can delete it if they'd like, this is similar). I've edited it, re-done and touched up many parts and plan to release it again as a second attempt at it. It will cover the history of medieval Spain, aprox. from 11th to 12th...

  4. Yangtze plate shifting upward (or how to divide the North Chinese Plain)

    Yes, it's ASB, a geological PoD- I know, but I'm going to get a more serious look at the answer here than I am in the ASB forum. If you take a look here, scroll over you can see the Yangtze and Amur sub-plates. These are both stuck against the very old North Chinese Plate. My question is, to...

  5. French Massachusets

    I'll get a link later, but while scouting for a colonial location between 1605-1606, Samuel de Champlain stumbled upon what is now Cape Cod around the area of Chatham, MA. He was dissuaded from settling the area due to the hostile Nausets, according to his writings and named it Mallebar or...

  6. "Here be Europeans" ~ Midas' first TL

    My first TL! Though it is planned as a very long project, I procrastinate often and make promises I can't keep. Let me preface by saying that my TL is undoubtedly, in the traditional sense at the very least unlikely or at worst ASB (though I reject this). I don't attempt to hide or whitewash...

  7. Challenge: A Stable, Strong Pakistan?

    Been awhile since I posted here, (exams.. ugh) but my interest in Alternate History has been renewed! Glad to be back. As the title says "WI: A Stable Strong Pakistan"; but let me clarify. First off I'm part Indian, and partition very negatively affected my family and pretty much ruined my...

  8. Plausibility check: RoC holds Chinese coastline

    Is there any conceivable way the RoC can still lose most of the Civil War, but the RoC ends up holding more of the Chinese mainland- perhaps around the coast? I'm thinking mostly around Hainan, but bonus points if you can work a situation around where they occupy territories roughly analogous to...

  9. 54'40 and fight- The U.S. loses ~ but how?

    Some of you may have glanced over I've posted quite a few threads about Canada over the past while. I'm trying to do a three-part TL that explores the development of Canada with three divergences from roughly the same set of early PoDs (one more different), mostly as a personal pet project. The...

  10. Challenge? A larger Canadian population

    Not really a challenge more like "help". I'm doing a TL for an OOTP league (a sports-sim; I wish I could do hockey but alas no such program exists with the customization options I need..) I plan on starting once school calms down and it'd be fun to rationalize some of the things I planned on...

  11. More Canadas!

    Canada characterizes itself as a 'multicultural' nation- and while demographically it is very diverse, legally it's more of a 'bicultural' nation. I don't want to get into a big debate about ethnicites and cultural relativism, but really a big generalization is there's English Canada and French...

  12. How to: Paganism as a Hinduism cognate in Europe

    As another bit of prep for a long TL I am planning (last thread was on a Greek Antiquity-cognate in the Horn of Africa), I am looking at how to alter religion in Europe. As the title of the thread says, I am most interesting in exploring a "pagan" Europe. I know pagan comes packed with a...

  13. Korean Manchuria

    Is there any TLs or can anyone rationalize a situation where the OTL territories of Korea and Manchuria become country, or at least the territory of Manchuria is recognized as Korean (much as it is now of being part of China)? Preferably the region would have a fairly large Korean population...

  14. How to get a Greek-like Antiquity along the Horn of Africa/Swahili coast

    I'm talking about a sort of rough African-cognate to the romanticized city-states in Ancient Greece. By "cognate" I'm not talking 'there is a Swahili/Somali clone of Socrates' (as amusing and intriguing as it might be), I mean more- could we see coastal East Africa as having such a significant...

  15. How to better preserve German stem duchies

    I'm writing a TL with a PoD at the very beginning of the 11th century. I was wondering if there is any way to prevent the massive decentralization in the HRE, preserve more of the stem duchies and prevent their fracturing? By extension then, is it remotely possible a sort of royal federation...

  16. WI: "Balkanized" China

    Balkanized China gets put in quotations because I'm not looking to forever split China apart. My other PoD is around 1000 A.D., so from then on for maybe 200 years, is there any way anyone can think of to split China into quite a few states somewhat similar to say India or Europe? This isn't a...

  17. More Multinational States/Empires

    I've searched but couldn't find anything up on it. In a very general sense, and I'm looking mostly at Europe/North Africa/Western Asia- with any PoD post-1000ish is it possible to reduce the balkanization of states by nationality or language? This is a really, really broad question and it's open...

  18. WI: Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980-1002) survived?

    Alright, so I fished through a few threads and found a bit of discussion on Otto III. He fits real nicely into my 1000 PoD and I wanted to hear some speculation on the effects of him not dying of malaria, poisoning, murder, whatever. He seems like a very interesting character. According to the...

  19. WI: Anglo Saxons remain in control of England

    Any PoD post-1000 where the Anglo Saxons remain in control of England. Basically two questions: How? and what happens. Just for the sake of it being a thought experiment (wondering what happens in a TL I might do), what would the short-term effects of an Anglo-Saxon elite enduring in England...

  20. How would Canada develop with these borders?

    Yes, AH.com's been swamped lately by Canada threads :D. I made a map earlier since when school finishes I'll have time to do a TL and why not do one including the country I live in. Anyway, as the title says, here's the borders: I superimposed the extent of Canada over modern borders and...
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