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  1. Caribbean Hansa ?

    Speculation: I was reading about the Hansa league the other day. And what caught my attention was their war against King Valdemar IV of Denmark, which went quite well for them. In 1368 they captured Copenhagen and forced the King to flee. He appointed Henning Podebusk to negotiate, and Podebusk...

  2. Winter War question

    Not sure if this is the right forum, feel free to move. I could have sworn I've read in discussions here that despite their stated aims of adjusting the border, the Soviet Unions actual aim was the (re)assimilation of Finland, and that they actually had a puppet government ready to install. But...

  3. "Luke, I am...your morther!" A different Star Wars

    The first Star Wars trilogy has been a hugely important cultural phenomenon. Its financial success also spawned a massive number of sci-fi movies and franchises. It was influential to the point where I hear that movies with sci-fi elements had to insert the word "star" in the title to get...

  4. Social democratic Russia

    Is it possible to have Russia develop into something similar to the Scandinavian social democracies? I.e. the biggest Nordic Model nation on earth? I realize this is kind of pushing up against the 1900 limit because very early PoDs would probably butterfly the Nordic Model totally, but a PoD...

  5. Kill the Internet!

    What kind of legal and possibly technological changes would it take to stop the internet from developing into an entity like the one we got IOTL? In other words, keep it as a curiosity for researchers to exchange data, mainly a university thing, etc? What kind of commercial and cultural...

  6. How badly can we Balkanize North America?

    Just speculating. Any POD after the Norse really. OTLs North America is a continent with only 3 nations, ranging in size from "massive" to "ginormous". How many nations can we have in North America? I mean in a stable or at least somewhat stable setting, not a mess of warlords.

  7. Domesticated Killer Whales/Humans

    OK, not totally domesticated, but a good start: The killer whales of Eden Apparently this is quite well known, and I never heard of it, or saw it mentioned on this site. Have I just missed it totally? A pod of Killer Whales herding whales into a bay for whalers to kill, helping the whalers to...

  8. The man who saved the world

    I think the PoD is obvious...in fact, it sound more like we are the ATL. "it was just luck that it was me on duty that night..." The man who saved the world

  9. Enjoyable little AH webcomic

    I found it quite an interesting, self-contained little story :) Webmasters

  10. On-scedule Ice Age ?

    Today, I came across this on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16439807 Basicically, todays best estimate is that the current interglacial period was due to end within about 1 500 years, and Earth return to its Ice Age setting. But carbon dioxide emissions are throwing...

  11. Nuclear detonation in US city -secondary effects

    I have been wondering about what would happen if a nuclear explosion took place in a US city. Not in terms of the immediate death toll, counterstrikes, war and invasion etc, but the knock-on effects. Cleaning out nuclear fallout would instantly become a growth business. How would the health...

  12. Mexico and Canada bordering fractured USA

    Just had a thought....how would Mexico and Canada develop if there was no overwhelmingly powerful USA on the North American continent? Might change the culture and politics quite a bit. Assuming the the original colonies rebelled, but did not manage to make a fully successful union, maybe we a...

  13. The Marvel Mutant Multiplication

    Here is a subject for discussion: Early on in his career, old skeletons-in-his-closet Charles Xavier realized that mutants were doomed if they tried to match human numbers. This was during the first X-men, when Angel was considered quite a good mutation. Power levels were not high, and humans...

  14. The Wild Cards universe

    I am utterly convinced that Leo Barnett is a byblow of Tachyons!

  15. Hybrid Iceland

    You know, the thread about Roman Iceland made me think of a notion that kicked around earlier. An Eskimo settlement of Iceland, with some later consequences. I had the thought that a Dorset Inuit settlement of Iceland would do quite well. The climate is milder than Greenland, but the climate...

  16. Ethics of Timeline Creation

    I have no real idea of where to put this thread, so I guess here. Problem: If you came upon a time machine that would allow you to go back and forth in time (before your own birth only) and the knowledge that a sufficiently large alteration to the past would create a new timeline -how much...

  17. Forgotten Empire of the Sands

    I just came across this: http://www.archaeology.org/0403/abstracts/sands.html First off, I'd just like to say that the image this conjures...an large realm that lasted well into christian times, worshipping acient egyptian gods, and raiding for slaves like desert vikings... the people living...

  18. Dead-end domestications?

    I am not sure if this should be in this section or the "Help-feedback" one, but...I just made this post on a differnt thresd: "reading up on the Reindeer/Caribou development have made me think that the domesticable/not domesticable distinction is a false one. To me, there simply seem to be...

  19. Challenge: Russonorwegian nation.

    Is there any way a Russonorwegian speaking nation could develop in the north of Scandinavia/Northwest Russia? Said nation must be terriotrially secure, without holding territory south of Trondheim.

  20. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    We got posters from all over the world here, I think. How do you think your local/general region would do in the "Dies the Fire" scenario?
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