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  1. Bouvet Island (in South Atlantic close to Antarctica) not annexed by Norway in 1927

    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...

  2. Bouvet Island (in South Atlantic close to Antarctica) not annexed by Norway in 1927

    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...

  3. alternate capital for Argentina (ctd.)

    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...

  4. alternate capital for Argentina (ctd.)

    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?

  5. alternate capital for Argentina (ctd.)

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

  6. alternate capital for Argentina (ctd.)

    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...

  7. Alternate capital for Argentina

    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...

  8. more solid Christian majority in Lebanon (and stronger sense of Lebanese nationality)

    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...

  9. no 1982 Falklands War - fate of Margaret Thatcher in 1983 UK election in that TL

    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...

  10. no Islam...instead, a more widespread Buddhism in the Middle East, North Africa, etc.

    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...

  11. Iran from 1950s onward goes more exactly like Chile from 1970s onward

    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...

  12. keeping Venezuela prosperous (by Latin American standards)

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

  13. keeping Venezuela prosperous (by Latin American standards)

    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...

  14. AHC/WI: Jews adopt a Slavic language

    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?!

  15. AHC/WI: Jews adopt a Slavic language

    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...

  16. United States of the Southern Cone/Estados Unidos del Cono Sur

    I recently came across a thread that discusses an alternate Argentina that doesn't fall victim to post-independence political instability and civil wars the way OTL Argentina did. The thread - along with an accompanying map/chart - can be found at the following link: According to its creator...

  17. make Karaite Judaism as popular as Hasidic Judaism

    What POD would it take to make Karaite Judaism as attractive among the Jewish masses anywhere in the Diaspora in the early Middle Ages (when it first started) as Hasidic Judaism among the Jewish masses in Eastern Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (when that got its start), such...

  18. British defeat in 1811 invasion of Java

    If the British had lost their 1811 invasion of Java to the Dutch that had already been occupying that and many other islands in the East Indies (present-day Indonesia), what would have happened to the subsequent course of history in Java and in the rest of the East Indies? For example, would...

  19. POD for a more modern/stable, less corrupt Lebanon?

    I've thought of this some more, and a more pointed question might just be: What POD would it take for Lebanon to have a stronger Christian majority from, let's say, the time of independence in 1943 or even before? Maybe lessening Lebanese Christian emigration at one point or another (though such...

  20. POD for a more modern/stable, less corrupt Lebanon?

    Considering that Lebanon - just like Cyprus and Israel - is a small Eastern Mediterranean country with an overall Western outlook (much more than, say, Syria or Egypt or Iraq), and considering that before the outbreak of the civil war in 1975 Lebanon was a pretty modernized country: What would...
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