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    French SLR in 1914/1939.

    By the start of the First World War, the French military establishment had been experimenting for some time with implementing semiautomatic rifles into line regiments. By 1913 they had decided on the Meunier A6, a long recoil operated rifle to replace the Lebel then in service, however extensive...
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    Better NDP Results in 2011.

    In the Canadian Federal Election held in May of 2011, the Conservative Party government went from 143 seats to 166 seats, leaving them in a comfortable majority. More shocking, however, was that the Liberal Party and New Democratic Party effectively switched places, going from 77 seats and 36...
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    No Schlieffen Plan in 1914.

    What changes, major and minor, occur in World War One if Germany does not implement the Schlieffen Plan, but instead attacks only across the Franco-German border, between Switzerland and Luxembourg? This gives them less of a chance (none, really...) to perform a grand outflanking maneuver in the...
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    No Poll Tax.

    The 1990 riots in Britain against the government's intended poll tax played a large role in Margaret Thatcher's resignation of the premiership in November of that same year, after which John Major, her successor, tried to build support again by formally abandoning the policy early in his own...
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    Quayle 2000.

    Let us suppose for a moment that George W. Bush is somehow unable or unwilling to seek the Republican Party's nomination in 2000. He may be ill, uninterested, whatever, so long as he does not enter the race as he did in historical reality. Let us then say that the Republican Party decides to...
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    Scotland Votes Yes: First Forty-Eight Hours.

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to imagine a world in which the recent independence referendum held in Scotland was won by those who favored independence. The result is clear, decisive, and it is quite large enough a margin of victory to be effectively irrefutable. What...
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    Wallace Succeeds.

    In the General Election of 1968, George Wallace ran on the American Independent ticket with Curtis LeMay as a segregationist. He didn't expect to win, but he hoped to deadlock the Electoral College and put Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey in a position where, to gain a majority, they would have...
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    No Panzer Brigades.

    Hitler's orders to create the Panzer Brigades in '44 were strongly opposed by Heinz Guderian and others, who felt it would take large numbers of precious medium and heavy tanks from the already weakened Panzer Divisions, leaving them dangerously short on punch. This turned out to be the case...
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    Cameron & Four Hundred Seats.

    I invite the members of this board to discuss what British politics, both domestic and foreign, might look like compared to OTL if, in the General Election of 2010, David Cameron and the Conservative Party had secured a 400+ majority in the House of Commons akin to that won by Labour in the '97...
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    PVV in Second.

    Let's play pretend for a moment and suppose that Geert Wilders and his PVV manage to come into second in the Dutch elections of 2010, unseating the PvdA while leaving Mark Rutte and his Party for Freedom and Democracy in the lead? How does Mr. Rutte react to this? Is a coalition between Rutte...
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    Tyler Dies. President Mangum.

    On February 28, 1844, during a pleasure cruise/exhibition on the Potomac River, the U.S. Navy's first propeller-driven steamship, U.S.S. Princeton, made to fire two of her guns for the benefit of visiting dignitaries. Sadly, the intended gesture went foul when one of the guns exploded, killing...
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    Primaries and Elections Without the Internet.

    How would U.S. Presidential elections which IOTL occurred after the invention of the Internet have been affected had the Internet not been invented? Would any primaries have gone differently? Any elections? Pay attention in particular to primaries and elections taking place from around 1996 and...
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    Syagrius Trumps Clovis.

    A single point to consider, friends. What if the Franks under Clovis I lost the Battle of Soissons to Syagrius and his Gallo-Romans in 486 A.D., the reverse of historical reality? What if they did not simply lose the battle, but lost it so thoroughly that Clovis and most of his senior commanders...
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    President John Connally.

    Please contemplate the following points. I. Would it be possible for John Connally to be paired with Ronald Reagan as his running mate at the 1980 Republican primaries? II. If it were, and assuming this happened and they managed to defeat Carter, how likely is it that Connally could or would...
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    Speaker Livingston, 1999.

    In the year 1998, Representative Robert Linlithgow "Bob" Livingston Jr. of Louisiana was the chosen successor of Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House, but when an extramarital affair came to light, he chose instead to retire into private life and returned home. He would later go on to found The...
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    Anglo-American War, 1920-35.

    Most people do not know this, but relations between the U.S.A. and Great Britain have really only been as good as they are for a relatively short time. For many years relations were much worse, and at times war seemed just beyond the bend. Even as recently as the early 1930s, when WWII was on...
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    Edward attacks Paris.

    King Edward III of England invaded France in 1346, to regain his rights in France and to improve his European political standing. He landed in France and marched in the direction of Paris, stopping twenty miles away from the important French capital city before turning north towards Ponthieu, a...
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    President Clinton...in 1812.

    DeWitt Clinton was the nephew of George Clinton, who was Vice-President during President James Madison's first term. In the 1812 elections, some proposed bringing him on as Madison's new Vice-President to replace his uncle, whose health was failing rapidly. While not necessarily opposed to the...
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    President Clinton...in 1812.

    DeWitt Clinton was the nephew of George Clinton, who was Vice-President during President James Madison's first term. In the 1812 elections, some proposed bringing him on as Madison's new Vice-President to replace his uncle, whose health was failing rapidly. While not necessarily opposed to the...
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    Tory Majority in 2010.

    Exactly as it says on the tin for this one. How does the course of British government change if the Conservative Party wins an outright majority of at least 326 in the election of 2010, instead of needing to form a coalition with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats? Are there any noteworthy...
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