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    Who would be the King of Poland in 1918?

    As you note historical legitimacy is probably going to count for very little. Whichever candidate gets put on the throne, and it's going to be Germany making the decision, the criterion will be that they rule as they're told. Would they? Austria-Hungary already had enough issues, trying to add...
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    How early a functional nuclear weapon could have been produced?

    Apparently Ida Noddack correctly criticised Fermi's 1934 paper, suggesting what would become known as nuclear fission four years early. It was theoretical and she didn't have any proof so it was mostly ignored. If she, or someone prompted by her paper, had done some experimental work that could...
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    This forum will continue to operate

    It's a bit drastic, but if we need to ban Dom for spreading support for West Ham, well…
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    AHC: Have Japan Surrender before Germany does in WWII

    Alongside holding part of Malaya recognising that if Sumatra is conquered it makes the colony and Singapore redundant whilst some troops coming into the region go to reinforcing Malaya a number of units are sent to the island. Not capturing the oil fields and refineries around Palembang would...
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    AHC: Have Japan Surrender before Germany does in WWII

    Have the Japanese capture of southern Malaya and Singapore delayed, or even stopped altogether, so the Allies are able to make an effective defence of Burma along the Salween. The Burma Road continuing to operate sees large amounts of small arms and materiel being shipped into China allowing the...
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    Meta: Slavery in different British North America scenarios

    Transportation/communication issues and cultural differences make me think that without an outside unifying factor, such as a Revolution, you're more likely to see regional groupings of colonies. We already had the short-lived Dominion of New England, similar ones for the Middle Colonies – with...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    IIRC he had his underlings charge the state a fee for using his likeness on postage stamps. The Disturbances, the Troubles, the Emergency, the Rebellion. All seems perfectly logical to me.
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    British Antarctica

    As everyone knows things are always improved when more of the map of the world is painted imperial red. [Err, check this –Ed] With that in mind I was wondering how do you get Antarctica to be wholly owned by the UK? Its been discussed previously at the Other Place but this article about Scott's...
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    Just what type of fight did Hitler feel "robbed" of when Chamberlain made him negotiate peaceful acquisition of Sudetenland at Munich in 1938?

    Churchill?
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    What if Spain never joined the 7 Years War/French & Indian War?

    Possibly not, IIRC whilst the Mississippi was okay for shipping smaller high-value goods southwards various obstacles meant that it was fairly bad as a transportation system heading north until the advent of steam.
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    Pacific Stock Exchange

    This one is admittedly a bit niche. Reading a newspaper article about a proposed Texas stock exchange reminded me of something I wondered about a few years back. Prior to the various exchanges in New York and Chicago coming to dominate there were a number of different ones located around the US...
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    What if NASA had used as much existing Apollo hardware as possible for the Space Shuttle?

    Sound like it might be the introductory post of the already mentioned Eyes Turned Skyward.
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    Singapore stays in Malaysia

    The approximate demographic numbers I had for the Kingdom of Sarawak are pre-WWII Malays making up 19% of the population, Iban Dayaks 35%, Chinese 25%; when it joined Malaysia in 1963 the Malay population had dropped to 17%, the Iban Dayaks and Chinese made up 31%, Bidayuh Dayaks and other...
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    Singapore stays in Malaysia

    I want to say it was majority Dayak but can't be sure, I'll see if I can dig up the numbers again.
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    Book Nook: If It Had Happened Otherwise

    Conversely I always on first glance mistakenly read the popular shortened version of Hobbes famous quote about life as being 'nasty, British, and short'.
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