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Thank you very much for your input. Assuming that there would be no Argentina-UK dispute over the Falklands and the SGSSI (which iOTL there is), and given that the POD in question is long before the SGSSI separate from the Falklands, which would matter more - Bouvet's distance from the nearest...

In OTL, Bouvet Island was annexed by the Norwegians at the end of 1927 in the wake of the Norvegia expedition, which was the first to make an extended stay on the island. But until then, it was the British who had possessed that island, ever since George Norris (the captain of a whaling...

So then, which Argentine city might become the drug trafficking hub in Rosario's place? Plus, would Juan Galiffi have made some other city than Rosario his mafia headquarters back in the day? I do have to say that even in the capital of the world's most powerful country and of the free world...

But would Rosario still be the drug trafficking hub of Argentina even if it were the federal capital, given its location? Or would being the federal capital preclude it from being the country's drug trafficking hub and some other city would take over that role?

Any thoughts? And I'd imagine that Rosario would have a somewhat bigger population?

The following is from an old thread (edit: the link to that is https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-capital-for-argentina.439186/): On three occasions (in 1868, 1869, and 1873), Rosario was declared the federal capital by the Argentine government, only for the president to...

Actually, on three occasions (in 1868, 1869, and 1873), Rosario was declared the federal capital by the Argentine government, only for the president to veto it each time. In fact, to this day, the main newspaper in Rosario is known as La Capital. In addition, some small towns in that general...

What would it have taken for Lebanon to have a more solid Christian majority (Maronite and otherwise; at least up until the 1930s-1940s), and hence its citizens having a stronger sense of Lebanese nationality, other than having just Mount Lebanon as an independent state (something that wasn't...

If the Falklands War in 1982 didn't happen at all, would Margaret Thatcher still have won the 1983 UK general election, albeit by a much narrower majority - if only because of the improving economy following the early 1980s recession? Or would she have lost, most likely to either Michael Foot of...

I've just read in a new book by the famed historian Peter Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, that if there had been a different set of climatological and ecological conditions in the late 620s/early 630s CE (e.g. no volcanic eruption in 626), then the kaghan...

Is it possible for Mossadegh to be in power in Iran for just a little bit longer than iOTL, such that when the US and the UK help overthrow him in, say, 1954 or 1955 (instead of 1953), he isn't replaced by the Shah exactly, but rather by someone who is allied with the Shah and the traditional...

Any thoughts, re a somewhat less rigid Puntofijo Pact of 1958 ultimately stemming or reducing Venezuela's sharp decline from the late 1990s?

What would it take for Venezuela to not decline precipitously the way it has since the 1990s/2000s, to not have Hugo Chavez and then Nicolas Maduro in power, to more properly manage its oil revenues and so forth (I'm not saying like Norway though), and to keep its relatively high rankings in per...

Oh ok, so perhaps because the Ashkenazim started to migrate in large numbers to Poland and so forth already in the 14th century or so, whereas the Sephardim started to head to the Balkans and so forth only at the turn of the 16th century?!

But many Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews who were kicked out of Spain in 1492 made their way to Greece, Turkey, etc. and assimilated the existing Jewish populations there (aka Romaniote Jews - those speaking Judeo-Greek or Yevanic), though a few pockets of Romaniote Jews here and there survived...