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Star Trek also came along right when New Wave Science Fiction was getting started. New Wave Authors such as Theodore Sturgeon, Norman Spinrad and Harlan Ellison all wrote episodes.

Bacon's Rebellion succeeds?

Isn't that sort of what the Pechenegs did?

A few PODs to consider: - James IV doesn't die at Flodden and Gaelic culture could have received royal support longer. - Somehow avoid the Prayer Book Rebellion and Cornish could well have gone on to achieve a status like Welsh. - Have Denmark hold onto Shetland and the Orkney's longer to...

Hence there weren't that many Frenchmen to fight WWII.

The Manila galleons were crossing the north Pacific from the mid-1500s to the early 1800s. Any one of them could have gone off course enough for a landing in that time.

The Salishan languages of the northwest coast have 60+.

Main problem with bronze is that it requires copper and tin. Not too many places had both which means trade and long supply routes. However, it would mean Cornwall becomes a lot more influential.

The top map is accurate showing language families, not individual languages. The Pama-Nyungan family covers most of the continent.

Nouvelle-Angoulême?

A more powerful Sogdiana with greater control over the Silk Road?

I've been playing with a timeline like this, but there is a large settlement movement with the Famine of 1315. I agree with you about Metis-ization and the developing resistance to diseases, although I think there are areas, (Great Plains and/or Great Basin) where the population densities...

The problem with a Buddhist Crusade is not the (debatable) pacifism of Buddhism, but its tenant of impermanence. All things pass away, including the "holy lands" of Buddhism. To try and reclaim them would seem absurd.

• Surviving Elamite/Khuzi. The geographer Istahri wrote in the 10th Century of an unaffiliated language spoken in Khuzestan (ancient Elam). I'll assume this is a survival of some form of Elamite. The Khuzis adopt Islam, but a different branch from the rest of Iran (possibly Sunni or maybe one...

Alexander III would still be Czar until his death in 1894, or possibly sooner given his poor health and the loss of his son. Alexander would probably be succeeded by George, although he was in poor health as well.