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  1. How Right is Jared Diamond

    Most of Europe was under an ice sheet when the Americas were first being populated - I agree this doesn't seem particularly explanatory.

  2. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    I know this is pretty late but Hitler would probably be happy to sell armaments to the UK for hard currency - Nazi issue was their foreign reserves were running low and they were attempting their full rearmament at the same time. By selling the UK war materiel Hitler solves his foreign reserve...

  3. Plausibility Check: More settler colonialism worldwide?

    @Viriato has talked about this subject quite extensively. You could have had higher number of settlers in Africa had WWI been avoided though most likely it would have been people settling Libya. Why Libya? Close to Europe, had oil and was sparsely populated at the time. Quite possibly Algeria...

  4. WI: Ronald Reagan Privatizes Amtrak

    Gee, that's too scary to even contemplate!!! ;)

  5. Free Territory of Trieste stays independent.

    This is really cool!!

  6. AHC: Richest Possible World

    Hahahahaha That's great.

  7. How effective would the Nazi population growth measures have been?

    Well, if Utah's TFR is 2.5 and if we assume that 38% of non-Mormons have similar a TFR to the rest of America, then Mormon's TFR must be above 2.5 right?

  8. How effective would the Nazi population growth measures have been?

    So presumably Mormons are having more children than non-Mormons. I think its possible they could shoot for 3 TFR and achieve it in the late 20th century.

  9. How effective would the Nazi population growth measures have been?

    I guess the question to ask is how do groups such as Hasidic Jews or Mormons maintain high birthrates in a modern economy? Utah has a birthrate of 17.4 live births per 1000 people (with its high Mormon population at 62%) despite the fact that it is fully integrated within the modern US economy...

  10. AHC/WI/PC: Israel To The Extent of Solomon's Kingdom

    Unless you're actually going to have an actual apartheid scenario with 10-20% of the population being Jewish and lording it over the remainder, this is a non-starter.

  11. AHC: Israeli-American War

    Yah, so long as Israel is democratic this is a nonstarter.

  12. Fate of Tristan da Cunha after nuclear war in northern hemisphere

    What year? If it's before 1963, they will either be wiped out by the volcano or there won't be anyone on the island due to the eruption (1961-1963).

  13. Which end-of-regime leader was "most inept"?

    A strong, parsimonious King could have probably avoided the French revolution - this may mean no American revolution if our hypothetical "Frederick William I" of France decides it would overstretch the treasury. Definitely gone would be the Naval works at Cherbourg Harbour, which sucked up a ton...

  14. What if Arafat had said yes?

    People keep saying that but they ignore that Haredi have the highest fertility rate of any group in the country.

  15. AHC/WI: No Second Industrial Revolution?

    Comet strike on Northern Europe? The Enlightenment Era political revolutions and reforms are not successful and reactionary regimes come to power in America, Britain, Germany and France? This is a hard PoD.

  16. The Boys In Blue: a New Zealand dictatorship TL

    Will this be a junta style dictatorship centered on the executive or an authoritarian democracy like Apartheid South Africa where the ruling party can't lose due to gerrymandering and voter intimidiation but does allow some parliamentary independence and opposition?

  17. WI: The US backed coup in Guatemala failed?

    While the CIA was helpful to the coup plotters, I don't think it's implausible to say that if the US hadn't done anything, the Chilean military still would have intervened. Especially since Allende was requesting help from the USSR to swing the election.

  18. What if Zangara had killed Roosevelt?

    What is his stance on the gold standard? I imagine he would do the same as Roosevelt.

  19. Chinese Demographics Without the One-Child Policy?

    Population of 1.8 - 2 billion with no Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution potentially? TFR of China was 6.0 as late as 1965. If we accept that 50 million people died during this time, and China's TFR declined similarly to India's that's at least 150 million extra people by 1980ish, and an...

  20. AHC: A population of Chinese Americans in the millions by 1900

    I think people are downplaying how radically different Chinese and Western cultures were in the 1800s. Are there any circumstances similar to this PoD that occured in our timeline?
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