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  1. DBWI: Alberta 2012, bozo eruptions DURING the campaign

    Oh, please: the day Calgary goes NDP (other than the riding of Mountain View, which contains the People's Republic of Hillhurst-Sunnyside within its borders) is the day I'll eat my hat.

  2. The most likely time for a post WWII military coup in a Western country?

    Why is there no option for "absolutely never", surely the overwhelmingly most likely answer?

  3. AHC: Prevent the decline of the Canadian Soc.Creds

    The easiest way to keep the Socreds relevant is to butterfly away television, multiculturalism, and an open, pluralistic society. Keep people ignorant and scare them with stereotypes and they'll turn out in droves for the Socreds. The foundation bedrock of the party was hatred and...

  4. What if Queen Victoria was a good mother

    Not a particularly accurate one, I'm afraid.

  5. The Tudor in Green: A History of Monarchical Ireland

    Worse than that', he has Anne Boleyn actually committing incest with George before her marriage to Henry (in which case it would lead only to George's execution, but in any case there isn't a historian I know of that believes it really happened IRL); Fitzroy marrying before it was legally...

  6. homosexuality contraceptkon and abortion remain illegal.

    Barefoot, pregnant, in the factory, and dressed to the nines. I was astounded by some Russian guy bragging - bragging!!!!! - that Russian women dressed up to go out to get gas. I didn't have the heart to point out that they weren't wasting all that time and money dressing up, putting makeup...

  7. Hypothetic epic-length timelines?

    I can't think of any timeline that couldn't be drawn out into epic length, even if you had to continue it into future history. The question would be whether it was worth it; writing is harder than it looks.

  8. WI: Pre-Emptive Strike | USA vs North Korea

    You know, when I think of fiction that correctly predicted the future, "The Mouse That Roared" usually doesn't come to mind.

  9. Challenge: Ron Paul Presidency

    It's in the realm of ASB. You'd need to change personalities.

  10. Prince Alfred was the second son

    But why? If he is born the same person at the same time, he's still going to have the same genetic markers and environment that caused him to develop cancer ITTL. If he isn't born the same person at the same time, he's not going to be Prince Alfred but a completely different person named Alfred.

  11. Maps: Would their orientation change history?

    But maps in early Modern Europe were often orientated with East at the top. They changed when the Southern Hemisphere was discovered, but most of that hemisphere was blank. Why would they change to a system where most of the top of the map was blank?

  12. Common and Overdone before 1900 What Ifs?

    Everything about the U.S. Civil War. Everything.

  13. WI Mary and Catherine Grey have queen Elizabeth's permission to marry.

    But how do they get Queen Elizabeth's blessing? She was notorious for not wanting her maids of honour to marry even when they weren't related to her.

  14. Queen Mary I marries Edward Courtenay

    Philip certainly supported the burnings at first, but there's no evidence whatsoever that Mary didn't order them of her own free will; in fact, she was much more zealous than Philip. The best way to have a Queen Mary who doesn't burn is to handwave Gardiner and Bonner out of power. Mary also...

  15. Princess Charlotte weds Prince Charles

    Charlotte will likely have difficulties with pregnancy and childbirth no matter who she marries, given her (probable) porphyria. It's possible that she or the child survive in this timeline, but I think it wildly unrealistic to the point of ASB that she survives four confinements and produces...

  16. Not Prince of Wales

    More importantly, how do you stop Edward I from naming his son Prince of Wales?

  17. Challenge: Socially liberal authoritarianism

    So basically a real life Brave New World?

  18. Never made a peer

    He said that a British peerage would be a step down from a Saxon dukedom.

  19. Never made a peer

    It would have been legally possible, but he was adamant that he didn't want one.

  20. AHC : Universally Legalise Prostitution in the United States as early as plausible

    Impossible. Two forces would have never let that happen: American churches and American organized crime.
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