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I'd imagine so. Look at all the stuff which happened under the second king of the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty, Minh Mang, and the continuing Siamese-Vietnamese Wars. Particularly the Lao Rebellion (where the Kingdom of Vientiane's ruler, Chao Anouvong, purportedly only began his rebellion and went...

Existing population levels/communities/nations/empires? Probably not- though there are going to be plenty of exceptions (can't see this afflicting landlocked countries/regions too much, at least not relative to everyone else). And at the very least, some people/communities/nations/empires WILL...

Necessity tosses those sorts of considerations up in the air. The British Empire used military pioneers to carry out civil construction projects effectively free of charge, without any extra pay or bonuses to the soldiers/press-ganged workers, as part of their 'military and civic duties', on...

Like I showed in the images above, the paleo-channels of the ice age rivers are still there, under the water. And they'd still combine and run again if sea levels fell once more. The Solent itself's the submerged, flooded channel of an ice-age river, after al- and most of the surrounding sea...

Do these sorts of animal combat-based sports count, BTW? And if it's battles between insects, and other similarly 'non-bloody' animals fighting one another- posing far more of a challenge for us humans to anthropomorphize and emphasize with the suffering of- might it still stay in public...

Oh, certainly, IMHO- with consummate ease. Especially if they went about it in the same way as they colonized India, via establishing protectorates over vassal states first. Look at the rebellions in the Siamese-Vietnamese conflict, including the restoration of the Kingdom of Cambodia (in a...

Doesn't it still have the English Channel River in this TL though? The course of which'd still be mostly underwater? And looking at the map at -50m Sea Level, it's also worth noting that the Irish Sea'd still be semi-enclosed and navigable to a greater extent than the Seto Inland Sea. With...

Obvious answer would be to either prevent the quick initial collapse of Fascist Italy, or have the Fascist remnant state successfully survive and retain control through German support. Let's say that the invasion of Sicily in 'Operation Husky' either fails or never gets carried out. Or...

Another fun little fact I found out fairly recently, in the course of my research for two of the alt-history genre stories I've been working on- the oldest tunnel in the world in our timeline was the Thames Tunnel, today used by the East London Line of the London Overground, and having been...

Earliest? Would the age of steam count? After all, the definition of 'high speed rail' here in the UK, is cited as "train speeds up to 125 mph (200 km/h)". By which definition, the LNER Class A4 did historically provide high speed rail services in the UK, from their introduction in 1935 to their...

If you look at the Twenty-One Demands issued by Japan to the Republic of China in 1915 IOTL though, would Britain's neutrality in the conflict necessarily be enough to ensure Japan would stay out of the conflict as well? Even more so, given that any renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as...

By "his resignation in March 1931, and his replacement as PM by Neville Chamberlain", I wasn't talking about the same event; I was trying to say that Chamberlain initially takes over as leader of the Conservative Party, then succeeds MacDonald as PM instead of Baldwin ITTL. And I went into a bit...

But Bennett seems to have given very little thought to what policies he should implement if he "wanted to remain viable in government", going by all of the stuff that he did wind up pursuing and advocating IOTL. And in an ATL where "Lord Rothermere's and Beaverbrook's United Empire Party getting...

With the 1929 General Election, everything still went as it did IOTL; the Conservatives 'won', but the bias of the system worked in Labour's favour, and in the House of Commons the party won 287 seats to the Conservatives' 261 and the Liberals' 59, with Ramsay MacDonald becoming the new prime...

So, for context, this mentions that the division of Korea would've looked like this then (effectively establishing that same buffer zone between Russia and Japan in Korea, north of the 39th parallel, which Imperial Russia had demanded from Imperial Japan as a prelude to the Russo-Japanese War)...

So, for this hypothetical scenario, let's say that ITTL, the United Empire Party- bankrolled by press barons Lord Rothermere (the hilarously appropriately named Harold Harmsworth, who owned the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Evening News, Sunday Dispatch and several other publications, who was at the...

Let's say that in this TL, Henri Christophe either doesn't suffer that stroke which he suffered in August 1820 IOTL, or that said stroke is significantly milder than it was IOTL (in which it critically weakened him, rendering the entirety of the right side of his body completely paralyzed, and...

I really don't get why people always say stuff like that, most commonly based exclusively upon popular stereotypes/tropes which have about as much basis in fact as "wasn't Britain too foggy to have any chances of forming any naval empire of note?" For reference: Sure, Taiwan may be a bit...

Another weird almost-AH thing from OTL, related to military uniforms. There's a now-ubiquitous item of clothing, more commonly associated with Western civilization, which actually originated in the Sikh Empire, having been commissioned by Claude Auguste Court in his appointed task of modernizing...

The 'Delhi Conspiracy', also known as the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy, was hatched by underground Indian revolutionaries in both Bengal and the Punjab, supported by Indian expatriates, and headed by Rash Behari Bose, with this conspiracy culminating in the attempted assassination of the then-Viceroy...