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  1. Islam in SouthEast Asia?

    Simply question. Why did Islam take off in Indonesia, but fail to penetrate into the wider Burma-Thai-Viet peninsula of SE Asia?

  2. WI: Napoleon Victorious

    Alright, say Nappy pills it off and somehow for a on to dominate the continent for a couple of decades, then his heirs keep at it for a couple more decades, managing to hold it together until the usual 1848 ish revolts.... What next? Let me be clear, I do very much mean Napoleon more or less...

  3. TripleA

    It's a neat free download Axis&Allies thingy. I felt the need to share this. Because Operation Sealion is a bitch. The scenario is New World Order, a WW2 1939 scenario before the invasion of Poland. I decided to go Schlieffen on this one and let the Russians invade Poland to burn their frontline...

  4. Vietnam War query

    It strikes me that most depictions of the Vietnam War indicate that political decisions trumped war prosecution. Now, however it happens, how does the war change if the generals are given free rein to "get the job done," assuming they know how and the politicians dictating their moves are...

  5. Hindu Holy War?

    I'm not terribly (at all) familiar with most eastern religions... Or much of the Western actually, but is there such a thing in the Hindu faith (in its many forms) that might be similar to a Crusade or Jihad? Just curious...

  6. AHC: President J Edgar Hoover

    As it says on the tin. I once heard he was the most powerful man in the country and, well, power corrupts. What happens if the man behind the FBI decides he ought to prop his shoes in the Oval Office?

  7. Thande is Evil

    Get your attention? It's just this silly thing I found while planning a D&D campaign around the *Norman Invasion of England. I was looking for "Evil" names and used some random fantasy name generator. And this is what I found. I must say, however, I have nothing but respect for Thande. I...

  8. No President Washington

    So I've been piddling with this little project of silliness for a while, the objective largely being a multipolar early 20th century, including a rather... well, not weakened, but retarded USA. The goal was a heavy divergence from the "liberties and freedom" of OTL to a bit of a more Holy Roman...

  9. Collaborative TL Hunt

    I remember finding a collaborative TL years ago for the 20th century. It had such highlights as a highly motorized eastern front in WW1 and a Sigmund Freud who never abandoned his neurological study instead of psychoanalysis. I can't seem to find it though... Does anyone have a clue which one...

  10. China in WW2

    I'll admit, I'm not the most savvy on Pacific Theater details when it comes to this conflict, but I almost never hear of anything that actually happened from the Chinese side. Flying Tigers... that's about it. Otherwise, it's the British actions in Burma or Merrill's Marauders. Nothing really...

  11. AHC: Vegetarian Superpower

    As the tin says, I'd really like to see some scenarios where a superpower (any/all) can be made to be almost entirely (let's say at least 3/4) vegetarian. NOT vegan, but vegetarian.

  12. Historical Sources - Help?

    Perhaps because I'm an American, stumbling through the marriages, alliances, and various titles of European nobility is, well... cumbersome. Especially when I don't know where most of the fiefs are. I have this map of France, but sifting through who owned what territory at any given time is...

  13. WI No "Holy" Languages?

    We all know one of the issues of the Protestant Reformation was the simple fact that the people of Germany wanted to be able to pray and/read the Holy Scripture in their native tongue. Most were ignorant to Latin beyond your Hail Marys or somesuch. Meanwhile, Islam required the Koran/Qur'an...

  14. Charles I, Duke of Savoy

    I've been poking about for my TL and this fella dies in 1490... but I can't find out how or why or where. Anyone have a clue?

  15. Axis&Allies Inspired "1901 Domination"

    Alright, so I'm taking inspiration from The Kiat's thread on the Pacific Theater of Operations II. A friend of mine a while back came up with a very interesting anachronistic scenario in which the world is plunged into crazy WW1-type warfare around the turn of the century complete with batshit...

  16. Northwest Passage WI

    Alright, this one is going to take some pretty open-minded thinking, so please don't immediately call "ASB" and dismiss the discussion. What would be the impacts upon colonial efforts/trade/politics c.1500~ if there were in fact a navigable year-round Northwest Passage?

  17. Plausibility Check: The Columbian Plague

    We all know that upon the arrival of Europeans smallpox and other very deadly diseases spread with great speed throughout the Native American populations. According to some sources, the pre-Columbian population of natives in the Americans varies between 25 and 125 million, and within a century...

  18. The Long Road - An Exploration TimeLine

    I'd like to take this opportunity before I begin to thank Thande for his dedication to his Look to the West Timeline as it gave me the inspiration to undertake my own TL. Likewise, I want to bring attention to the author Jasper Fforde for writing his Thursday Next books - and my fiancée for...

  19. Polling for a TL

    Its still a relatively new year and I've been a member on this site for something like two. I've bounced around various ideas for TimeLines, but have never sat down and begun. I think its because I can't convince myself to concentrate on one alone. So, in between my increasing schoolwork, I...

  20. Asian Population Information

    Just wondering if anyone might know a good research resource for worldwide population figures, particularly that of Asia. I'm trying to find something suitable for the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia... and just not happening. Anyone know a good source?
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