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    How possible is it for FDR to lose in 1944?

    How likely barring a freak ASB occurrence is it for FDR to lose reelection in 1944, whether to Dewey or someone else (dunno the other credible GOP candidates)?
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    Dave's Redistricting

    Dave's Redistricting is a very fun and useful online program that lets you make American legislative districts based on both the 2010 and 2020 censuses. Its use in AH is pretty obvious. I've been working on a fun obsession project that raises the House to 619 seats overall.
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    Coiler's Images

    I'll start off with the internet alternate history cliche: Political maps! Made using the excellent Dave's Redistricting site, here's a pair of alternate US House maps. They were made using 2010 Census data and each state has significantly more seats than historically. District partisan ranks...
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    Nuclear War Simulator

    Nuclear War Simulator is a recently released video game/simulation tool (it's not a "game" like DEFCON) that allows you to.... uh, yeah. You can launch nuclear wars of varying degrees, varying targets, and build various ways to make nukes explode and get to their targets. Its engine uses...
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    All Union: My new AH novel

    Happy to announce that All Union, my AH novel centered around the war between the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics and Romania and its aftermath from Kyrgyzstan to New Jersey, is now out. It has mobile corps, supertanks, and oh yeah, these little irrelevant things called "plots"...
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    Earlier NFL unrestricted free agency

    The NFL historically was one of the later American sports leagues to get unrestricted free agency, with it finally happening in 1993 after many long legal and labor disputes. If free agency under the ultimate post-1993 rules (4 years on a pro roster, expired contract) occurred at the same time...
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    Silly divergence: Have a huge community of Georgians (Caucasus) in Georgia (US)

    To make fun of the (English) name similarities, I figure: How do you get a large number of Caucasus Georgians in the US state of Georgia? POD can be any time after American independence.
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    Best case for Zimbabwe post-WWII

    I guess I have these simple questions: 1: What would the best case for Zimbabwe be with a POD after World War II, going to majority rule without the wars or economic collapse? 2: What PODs would be needed for a realistic best case scenario (ie, no UDI, but how would you butterfly away UDI...)
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    Unflown Wings by Gordon and Komissarov

    If you wanted the absolute basics on any never-was Soviet/Russian aircraft project, Unflown Wings is the book for you. The nature of it means basically that all of its authors usual weaknesses are lessened (ie, iffy accuracy matters less when the planes never flew anyway, a slapdash...
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    WI: US keeps Tank Destroyer branch postwar

    Historically, the Tank Destroyer branch was disbanded after WWII as redundant. Yet its original concept (dedicated defensive antitank reserve units) was viable, and the rise of recoiless guns and ATGMs gave specialty platforms a return in a decade. So if for some reason, the Tank Destroyer...
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    AHC/WI: Unified governing body for boxing

    Boxing is unique (and not in a good way) in that it doesn't have a single dominant FIFA esque governing body, instead having several rival "alphabet " ones. Is there a credible way to have it be ruled by one accepted group like almost every other sport, including combat sports?
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    Cage Ring Mat

    In the same universe as The Sure Bet King, Cage Ring Mat has just been released. Enjoy twelve tales of AH fisticuffs, from a title bout in the Palace of the Soviets to a death in the Himalayas.
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    Alternate papal conclave logistics

    Semi silly questions I had regarding papal conclaves in unusual circumstances, and wondering if people know about formal plans (assuming they existed) Pius dies in World War II, especially if it's before the recapture of Rome by the Allies. Was there a specific contingency plan? If the Vatican...
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    Earlier score bugs for sporting events

    In the early 1990s IOTL, score bugs were introduced for sports, soon becoming ubiquitous. The question is: How much earlier could they have been introduced, given the smaller size and lower quality of televisions? If they somehow were in place earlier, could that have any (however small)...
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    Independent Seven Sister States of India?

    Is there a semi-maybe-a-little-plausible way with a late (ie, likely post-1980) POD, to turn the "Seven Sister States" of Northeast India into one or more independent, ideally internationally recognized countries? My gut is saying "likely not", but I don't know nearly enough about the area or...
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    Moving the British capital (and political demographics?) north in an Axis victory scen

    So I've long had this itch for a soft but-not-as-soft-as-some AH where it's the classic Axis victory, but Britain just threw in the towel and had a cease-fire while remaining politically opposed to the Reich. The fear of invasion and attack becomes greater, and England increasingly becomes an...
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    British launch facility in Kenya?

    This is a very soft AH in any event, but what's the likelihood of a Britain with a longer empire and/or bigger internal space program locating a major launch facility in Kenya, similar to France putting theirs in Guiana for similar geographic advantages?
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    Any uses for the Borst railway reactor?

    Are there any practical uses for Lyle Borst's 30,000 KW railroad nuclear reactor, either for its original role of powering a train or for being used as a (comparably) small nuclear generator for another task?
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    The Sure Bet King

    My newest and biggest book about a sports betting tout has now gone live. The Sure Bet King.
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    Surviving "Walkerist" state in Central America?

    Granted this is already in "soft AH that'd be a lot better for a story than claimed as plausible" territory, but I'm wondering just how out-there a sort of "Walkerist" pro-CSA rump state named after this guy in Central America enduring some time after the Union victory in the real ACW would be...
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