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    WI: Ivy League bans southern students?

    In 1865, tired and traumatized by five long years of Civil War, the Presidents of America's most prestigious universities, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn and Brown, collectively announce that after the conclusion of the war, they will no longer admit any student from any...
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    American Terrorists pull off an alt-9/11?

    Let's say on 9/10/2001, a terrorist group calling itself The Base, under the leadership of a man named Randall Flagg and espousing a particularly brutal strain of apocalyptic Christianity, attacks the WTC, Pentagon and an alt-Flight 93. The attacks proceed as OTL, except the perpetrator is now...
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    AHC: How far into the 20th Century can you keep the Hapsburg Monarchy going?

    Is there any way Austria-Hungary (or Austria-Hungary-Croatia) could survive to the present?
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    "Colonel" Tom Parker is never born, effects on the music industry?

    "Colonel" Tom was, infamously, the manager of Elvis Presley., and made some...poor choices in the management of The King. What would change if Parker had never been born?
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    WI: Diaz and Taft assassinated?

    In October 1909, American President Taft and Mexican President Diaz met in El Paso-Juarez for the first Presidential summit between the two nations. In the El Paso Chamber of Commerce building, Texas Rangers intercepted a man with a palm pistol who was mere feet from shooting at the two...
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    What happens to Switzerland and the European Microstates after a Nazi Victory?

    Assuming the Nazis defeat the Soviets in the field and starve the British out, Fascism would have held despotic sway over all of continental Europe. My question is, what would happen to Switzerland and the small European states such as Luxembourg, San Marino or Andorra in such a scenario?
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    AHC: Charleston, South Carolina is the US's largest city

    As it says, your challenge is to make Charleston the US's largest city, around the size of OTL New York. The POD must be after 1781, and the country must remain unified after the Civil War.
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    Another 9/11

    Ok, so, what if Osama Bin Laden decided not to strike the US on September 11th? What if, instead, a major storm cell developed over DC and spawned an EF-5 tornado that directly collided with the White House? Since Bush is in Florida, how does the nation react to DC being destroyed by nature?
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    WI: Henry VII sponsors Columbus?

    After his rejection by John III of Portugal, Christopher Columbus sent his brother to the court of Henry VII to ask for sponsorship. In our timeline, the Tudor monarch declined, which led to the Italian eventually gaining the support of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. What if Henry, who, like...
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    WI: John Adams wins in 1800?

    John Adams famously became the first one-term President by virtue of his defeat in the 1800 Presidential Election by Thomas Jefferson. However, what if that had not happened? How could Adams win, and what would a second term for John Adams look like?
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    AHC: Georgia Keeps Slavery Banned

    From 1735 to 1750, the Georgia colony had a ban on African slavery. Your challenge is to continue this until abolition spreads across the North American continent.
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    Edward VII- Another 10 Years

    Edward VII reigned for a short nine years following his mother's six decades in power. What if the son of Queen Victoria, the affable "Uncle of Europe" had had another ten years of life? If he had reigned through the First World War?
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    WI: Papal-Mongol Alliance?

    Throughout the era of the Crusades, various rulers of the Mongols and among Western Christian Europe thought of an alliance between the two powers in order to combat the Muslim armies to their south. What if this had come to pass?
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    AHC: Russo-American Alliance

    In history and the present day, the US and Russia are fierce rivals. Yet, under the Tsars, the US counted Russia an ally, and again against the Nazi menace, the Americans and Russians fought together. Your challenge is to create a stable and long-term Russian-American alliance, along the kind of...
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    AHC: University Constituencies in the US

    In the UK, universities used to be constituencies unto themselves. Your challenge is to import this to the post-Independence United States. Bonus points if it lasts to the present day.
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    AHC: President Elvis Presley

    Your challenge is to create a scenario by which Elvis Presley is elected and serves as President of the United States. You cannot use a Point of Divergence after Elvis' return to the United States after his military service, which occurred on March 2, 1960. How can it be done?
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    Sports AHC: Keep the Southern Conference together

    The Southern Conference would be a hyperpower of modern sports if it still existed in its 1930 incarnation. I challenge you to keep it that way.
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    WI: No Wilmington Rebellon

    In 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the site of the nations' first and only coup d'etat when the Republican elected government was deposed. What if this had not happened, and the subsequent black exodus did not either?
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    DBWI: JFK Killed in 1963

    Apparently, there was this crazy guy who was plotting an assassination attempt of Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. What if it had happened and John Kennedy had died in Dallas?
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    No Valvano Cancer

    If Jim "Jimmy V" Valvano had not contracted cancer and died at age 47, how would the history of collegiate basketball change?
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