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  1. Goddard works for the Navy

    Lets say Robert Goddard starts working for the Navy in 1917, instead of the Army. How would his research be affected by the different sponsorship. Would the Navy be more sympathetic to his goals and ideas? Will more progress be made with the Navy? Heres some ideas I want to spitball. Earlier...

  2. AHC: "Steuben, we are here!"

    How do you engineer a situation were the US joins a war on the side of the Germans, after 1900?

  3. Royal polygamy for Henry VIII

    Considering he broke with Rome anyway, why didn't he simply declare his divine office equivalent with the Old Testament prophets, thereby granting him the right to take multiple brides. You could even let Catherine remain as Queen, being succeded at her death by a younger wife. It would also...

  4. Anglo-French intervention in the ACW

    So lets say Shiloh goes terribly wrong for the Union. Perhaps Beauregard goes AWOL before the battle and Johnston is forced to stay behind and direct his troops from the rear. (I'm not claiming Johnston was a great general, just looking for away to change the battles outcome). Sherman dies in...

  5. Getting rid of the Electoral College in 1969

    Does anyone know how this could have succeeded? Heard about it in political chat, and that about 80% of the House was in favor. Was Nixon in favor of it?

  6. How succesful can the Romans be against the Persian/Parthians?

    Alexander did it, with luck no doubt. Is there any specific timeframe the Romans could have succeeded in their struggles against the east? Maybe a temporary conquest or thorough devastation.

  7. How would Edward Braddock surviving change things?

    He was kind of in a unique position being the first person really in charge of British North America. Would he be the type to recommend the changes needed to avert the ARW?

  8. Ready Player One

    Not neccesarily alternate history, more future history, but I highly recommend the book. Hard to put down. A future obsessed with the 80's, what can't you love :o

  9. The second term of George H. W. Bush?

    What would the next four years of his presidency look like? How would he have handled the first bombing at the World Trade towers? Would the Republicans still manage to take the House in '94?

  10. AHC: Industrialize the American South

    With a pod not before 1789 increase the rail network, cotton and steel mills in the south. Bonus points if more than half of all cotton produced in slave states is processed and spun in slave states.

  11. Burgundian age of exploration?

    What are the chances of the Dukes of Burgundy supporting a explorer before 1476? Where there any organized Dutch or Flemish merchant houses that might lead a venture?

  12. Francis I marries Renee

    Got this idea from "Now blooms the Tudor Rose". Renee, the younger sister of Anne of Brittany marries Francis, the presumed heir of her father Loius VIII instead of her sister Anne. Renee was an outspoken Protestant sympathizer. With a Protestant wife and sister, Margaret of Navarre, would...

  13. Prevent NASA

    the first thing that comes to mind is keeping Eisenhower out of office. what would a military run space program accomplish?

  14. Get the Irish to Quebec?

    If Quebec were to gain its independence or become part of the US after the ARW, is it possible to get the government (state or federal) of Quebec to actively encourage the Irish to settle in 'Canada'? I guess the challenge would be getting enough people out of Ireland to alleviate the famines...

  15. No Indian Removal Act or a President that enfoces Worcester v. Georgia

    I know the most likely candidates are Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. My real question is how they would have gone about doing it (supporting the Indians). Considering the time span, is this another potential trigger for a southern war of Independence?

  16. USCW: Can New Orleans be saved?

    How can the Confederacy maintain control of New Orleans longer?

  17. 4 contenders POTUS election 1912

    I was reading up on the POTUS election of 1912, and the divisions in the Democratic party that year. If Champ Clark had managed to wring the Democratic nomination, how likely is it that William Jennings Bryan might decide to pull a Roosevelt. He knows the Republicans were split and he might...

  18. The Great Wall of Egypt

    I have always wondered why there never was a wall built roughly along where the Suez Canal now lies. I don't think it would have been that hard to build, there are other walls of that size built in the Roman era and I would think that it would have been possible before. Now the question is...

  19. 1066: The year of the Comet

    Some my say this belongs in the ASB forum, but I think that it is within reason to believe that in the chaotic nature of the universe, that Haley's Comet could have had its orbit shifted just slightly so that it impacted the Earth in the year 1066. What would be the effects? I assume it's not...

  20. How do you get Vichy Franze into the Axis?

    Now I know that Vichy was for all purposes a vassal state of Nazi Germany, but how do you get them as full-fledged allies? Could Operation Catapult (the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir) gone horribly wrong for the British, to the point the French were actively in a state of war with the UK? I...
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