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    William Harper as the Prime Minister of Rhodesia?

    William Harper represented the far-right wing of the Rhodesian Front and was the frontrunner to become PM following the resignation of Winston Field. However Ian Smith became Prime Minister instead. Harper was very much a critic of Smith, decrying everything he did as "selling out" the white...
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    Alternate History written by Africans?

    Does anybody know of any, be it on this forum or professionally published? I can't think of any from the top of my head. Authors can be from any racial background or country, as long as they're from the continent of Africa. I'm particularly interested in how they portray Africa in their work.
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    Disney buys Marvel… in 1962

    Let’s say that rather than licensing their properties to publishers, Disney purchases Marvel from Martin Goodman. How does the comic industry change?
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    Earlier invention of movies, what artists would you like to see experiment with cinema?

    Let's say film exists in whatever historic era of your choice, no matter how likely or implausible. Who would you like to see make motion pictures?
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    DWBI: Hugh Laurie doesn't enter politics?

    Comedian and actor Hugh Laurie was famously elected as a Labour MP in 1997 and eventually became Prime Minister. How do you think his entertainment career would've gone had he not entered politics?
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    Did the the Mfecane lead to a power vacuum that allowed Europeans to dominate Southern Africa?

    I read in a Reddit comment that the deaths and migrations that occurred as the result of the Mfecane made it easier for Europeans to claim Southern African land as their own a few decades later as there was a smaller native population for them to deal with. It's an interesting hypothesis, but I...
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    Islands that lacked indigenous populations?

    I know that a few remote islands were never found by humans until the European colonial era and thus these places never had native populations. Bermuda is one such place, and Reunion is another. Are there any more? Might be interesting to use these isles as places for “original” indigenous...
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    I walked with you once upon a dream…. or yet another Disney film timeline

    What’s This? A Disney Timeline, featuring a different version of their animated canon. Haven’t We Seen This All Before? Kind of. A lot of this is going to be based on the studio’s actual history, but I promise you that there will be unique ideas that you probably won’t expect. This Will Be...
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    President Rockefeller Founds A Department Of The Arts

    Nelson Rockefeller was a big fan of the arts. I've always liked the idea of a President Rocky starting a federal department of the arts that would be devoted to preserving America's artistic heritage and funding the arts. Conservatives would hate it, but I think it would be very worthwhile. Who...
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    An Iberian Israel

    Had this idea in my head for a while, in which rather than expelling the Jews to North Africa in 1492, the Spanish crown rather gives them their own small independent state. Would almost certainly never happen, but it would be a very interesting POD that would completely change world history...
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    Recommendations for timelines that cover huge amounts of history?

    Any recommendations for some good timelines that span centuries or even millenniums in their scopes? I’d like to read something with a pre-1650 POD that lasts until the present day
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    WI: Caucasians ethnic supremacy, as in people from the Caucasus Mountains

    It was once believed that humanity originated in the Caucasus Mountains, something which is obviously untrue. What if the Caucasians built a political movement around this, presenting themselves as being racially and culturally purer than other groups?
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    Realistic independent Katanga

    It is a pretty common trope to have Katanga become independent in a successful dissolution of the Belgian Congo. I'd be curious to see how you'd think the country would be doing today more than sixty years after its secession. Would it be a dictatorship or a democracy? Developed or impoverished...
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    Saddam wins the Iran-Iraq War

    What if Iraq was victorious in the Iran-Iraq war, perhaps having more backing from her strange coalition of allies at the time? Saddam thus conquers Khuzestan and absorbs it, how does Iran react to losing? Could Khomeini be ousted in a coup by the generals and other clerics as the result? It is...
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    No Bantu Expansion?

    Suppose the Bantus, for whatever reason, stay in their little corner of Africa and thus never dominate the Southern half of the continent. What does history look like lacking important ethnic groups such as the Hutu, the Xhosa, and the Zulu? Do you see the Custhics becoming as successful in...
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    Challenge: The African Great Powers

    What would be the likeliest candidates for the modern era (post-1500) African civilizations that could reach the global power and influence of the Eurasian Empires? From Songhai to Zimbabwe, all possibilities are open to discussion.
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    Peter II of Russia Lives?

    What if Peter II (1715-1730) had survived his adolescence, marrying his fiancee Ekaterina Alekseyevna Dolgorukova, and thus preserving the male line of the House of Romanov? How would he have ruled the Empire and the "dark era" of Anna Ioannovna's reign never occurred?
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    Sikh extremists rather than Islamists as the international face of terrorism

    The Khalistan movement has been associated with some scary and violent groups over the years, including Babbar Khalsa the organization responsible for the Air India Flight 182 incident that killed 329 people on a flight from Montreal to London. My question: do you see it as possible for Babbar...
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    Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The World The Neo-Persians Built
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Arash was acutely fascinated by what was occurring in Asia Minor, though the news was always rather slow to trickle in so far away to the city of Ctesiphon. For what had been centuries, Persian and Roman were destined to battle, the two great civilizations of the region competing to dominate the...
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    Which Republican Candidate had the best chance of victory in 1948?

    1948 was seen as the year that the GOP would finally reclaim the White House after sixteen years of Democratic domination. Not only was Truman seen as a weak incumbent, but it was also assumed that Wallace and Thurmond would further hurt him with their third-party campaigns. However, the...
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