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  1. WI: Star Trek, a '50s TV show?

    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.

  2. POD(s) Help: The US be colour-blind in terms of race

    Bacon's Rebellion succeeds?

  3. Plausibility check: Seljuk migrations into Europe

    Isn't that sort of what the Pechenegs did?

  4. A multilingual British Isles

    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...

  5. AHC: France remembered as a country of warriors

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

  6. AHC: Spanish Hawaii

    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.

  7. Why don't more languages have clicking consonants?

    The Salishan languages of the northwest coast have 60+.

  8. If bronze was cheaper...?

    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.

  9. Indonesian Exploration of Australia?

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

  10. New York without New Netherlands

    Nouvelle-Angoulême?

  11. AHC: Central Asia Remains Indo-European?

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

  12. WI: The Americas discovered in the Middle Ages

    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...

  13. AHC: Buddhist Crusade?

    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.

  14. AHC: Make any non-existant language plausible

    • 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...

  15. WI Nicholas II's assassination leads to an earlier Russo-Japanese War?

    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.

  16. Plausiblity check: Mongol North Africa

    North Africa is doubtful as there is not enough grassland to keep their horses fed. It was also why they never really expanded much beyond Persia into the Middle East.

  17. Norse Greenland Death: One Big Crunch vs. Slow Grind

    This one is probably the most likely. Say an average of ten people a year leave Greenland starting around 1300 when the climate started to deteriorate. Over a hundred years over a thousand people are gone, out of a population of probably 3000 or so. (I know this is an oversimplification) Also...

  18. Could an Atlantis have existed?

    Atlantis is probably an aggregate myth. There are lost cities the world over so it's not that uncommon. So take the eruption of Thera, maybe throw in a little bit of Tartessos, some Egyptian details, the Antikythera device, medieval traveler's tales, and a bit of utopian moralizing and poof...

  19. Neanderthals and Cromagnons in the Americas

    One possibility is instead of Neanderthals, have Denisovans come over the Bering land bridge sometime during the Illinioan glaciation (300,000-130,000 years ago).

  20. AHC/PC: Surviving East Germanic Populations

    Maybe a surviving population of Vandals in the Atlas mountains.
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