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  1. DB Challenge: Topple Tudeh

    The Iranian Tudeh Party is one of the strongest political parties in the world, having held almost incontestably the leadership of the Iranian Republic since 1944 and being probably the most globally influential political party next to the CPSU. So your challenge is to mess that up, and...

  2. Ninebucks' Cross-Time Traveller Q&A Thread

    Hello. I have been sent on a mission to explore divergent timelines, and I'm interested in learning as much about this universe as possible. In the interests of reciprocity, you may use this thread to ask me about my own world.

  3. Claudia Jones returns to Trinidad

    This is inspired by a film I saw tonight at the Venezuelan Embassy, about, amongst others, Claudia Jones. Claudia Jones was Trinidadian, and highly active in the Communist Party of New York. By highly active, I mean she was holding rallies, in which as many as 14,000 would be hanging on her...

  4. League of Nations re-established after WW2?

    The structural problems of the League of Nations are often, unfairly in my opinion, blamed for the outbreak of the second world war, (whereas I'd say Germany and Japan were so hell-bent on war, no international organisation could have stopped them). So how could we have it so that a stated aim...

  5. Red Germany and Gay Rights

    Say, following WW1, Germany, and not Russia, experiences a revolution and becomes the world's first major socialist nation. What would Red Germany's position of homosexuality be? What it be in line with the scientific consensus of the time, (that it was a mental disorder), or would they have...

  6. DB Challenge: Delay the Collapse of Levellerism

    Your challenge, keep the Levellers in control of England after 1848. Is it possible?

  7. Another Star Wars Divergence

    What if the prequel trilogy was made immediately after the original trilogy?

  8. WI: Dominant East Pakistan

    In OTL, the movement to create the state of Pakistan was strongest in the north-west corner of the Indian Raj, and so as a result, when the nation did separate itself from the rest of India, its centre of power was in what was then known as West Pakistan, and what we know think of as just...

  9. WI: The Millennium Dome Was A Success?

    The general consensus in the UK was that the entire Millennium Dome project was a flop, and that the dome itself was a bit naff and underwhelming. This inevitably ended up embarrassing Tony Blair's government. But I would argue that most of the reason why the Dome failed was because people...

  10. Arabia Berberised?

    In OTL, the Berber identity, as it existed in North Africa, was gradually eroded with the expansion of the Arabs. Yes, Berbers still exist, but the majority of the descendants of people who two thousand years would consider themselves Berbers, are now linguistically, and culturally Arab. But...

  11. WI No Slovak National Uprising

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising What if this uprising didn't take place, or failed early on without achieving very much? How would Slovakia, a nation that, (under a puppet regime or not), had been on Hitler's side during the war, be treated without the partisan...

  12. Challenge: Most Anti-Family State Possible?

    In OTL, the USSR toyed with some radical anti-family policies but later abandoned them. Indeed, in most states throughout the 20th Century, the trend has been to idealise the family, and focus on it as the most basic building block of any society. But how far could this go the other way...

  13. Plausibility Check: Spanish Written in Arabic?

    How plausible is it that the Spanish language would continue to be written in Arabic script after the reconquista?

  14. Challenge: Glasgow capital of Scotland

    With a POD before 1707, (but, y'know, not too far before 1707), make Glasgow the capital of Scotland.

  15. DBWI: No Eiffel Terror?

    What would France be like today with no Terreur d'Eiffel? OOC: Yes, this DBWI is here just for the pun, so I'll leave it open for someone else's interpretation.

  16. DB: Christianity and Wine

    Perhaps some of you have seen this map floating about, the thick blue line is an estimation of the northernmost extent of vineyards, (and, conversely, the southern border of the lands where beer-making is predominant). The thin red line represents the political border established in the 1639...

  17. DBWI: Why are there so many aliens?

    Perhaps some of you have heard of the Fermi Paradox? It essentially relies on a mathematical equation, that allows you to add in your own estimations of how common stable stars are, how likely life if to evolve, how likely it is for said life to become sentient, civilised, technological, etc...

  18. WI: Red Denim?

    What if denim, when first invented, instead of being dyed with indigo, was dyed with some red dye? How might this effect history?

  19. Gender-segregated Penal Colonies?

    What if some major colonising power, (/the major colonising power), decided to establish penal colonies for only men, or only for women. I'm particularly interested in the latter, how economically sustainable would such a colony be, if it consisted of a population of founding mothers that had...

  20. Challenge: >10% of American Population Monastic

    Your challenge is, with a POD after 1777, to have at least ten percent of the American population as members of some kind of monastic order. Which order is up to you...
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