This is a pop culture related question but I don't think it warrants a full thread yet.
What if the Beach Boys' Smile was delayed, but not shelved? Let's say it comes out late June/early July of 1967, so around a month after Sgt Pepper came out. To keep things simple, let's use the track...
Ian Khama, former President of Botswana, has English ancestry from his mother.
There is a hypothetical timeline where Boris Johnson could have become POTUS due to his birth in the United States.
There's a lot of factors on why Japan has a relatively good reputation here despite around three years of war crimes amid occupation.
* Most of the generation that experienced those horrors firsthand are already dead, so we're largely left with secondhand accounts at best. My maternal...
Ooh, I like this. While Spain was certainly zealous during this time period - one could argue that their early colonial empire had a crusader bent to it that the later, mercantilist empires of England and France among others didn't have - it wasn't to the point where pragmatism couldn't win the...
There are several ramifications if George III only has daughters.
* First off is that Britain and Hanover split earlier - at George's death rather than at William IV's death. Realistically neither side would view it as a huge loss - there was a faction within Britain that thought Hanover was a...
A good thing would be what the Latin-influenced parts of Europe would name their days. Naming Saturday and Sunday after the Sabbath and the Lord would be out of the question, so would we see them stick with Saturn and Sol?
The funny thing is that it's perfectly possible for the European days of the week to be almost exactly like in English in this AH. In the Romance languages (at least in French and Spanish) the days of the week are named after Nordic deities whose identities were conflated with Greco-Roman...
Another thing to note is that since Europe doesn't seem to have a Charlemagne counterpart, him being instead an Arabian Ebionite ITTL, there's no Carolingian Renaissance that jumpstarts a counterpart to OTL scholasticism and learning. Not saying Europe is bound to languish, of course, but it...
The OTL Crusaders were borne out of a very specific circumstances that aren't here IOTL. For one, the Turkic invaders are Christian here. Second, unless I'm mistaken the Levant is gonna remain in Christian hands at least for a while since they're part of Abu Yusuf's conquests. Third, there isn't...