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The Papal Revolution is not the first Rationalism-adjacent episode that turned violent or resulted in something like a civil war, but it is one of two such incidents that will help ignite it into a pan-European conflict. Part of why the Holy Republic has lasted into the present is because the...

The Papal Revolution By the late 18th century the long, bitter contest between the Conciliarist movement and the Papacy had been concluded for almost a century. The Papacy had lost. Reform had been resisted at almost every step at the way. Nonetheless, the temporal power of the Papacy over...

This really didn't mean to, or need to, turn into a half year gap. Ah well. The Inventorie of Englisch Drama and Estagements, Baldwin-Tychus Publisching 1857 The Warganger of Ald Ingland (1634): In which a tragedie historick. One Harward is borned an sonn to an wajered sword in Norwey...

The '48 War, Part One The ‘48, more formally the 1848 war, or the Styrian War, or the Bavarian War. A nasty, albeit mercifully short, intrusion into the peace that Europe had settled into since the end of the Rationalist Wars. A powerful reminder that underneath the veneer of international...

nb: the Latin binomial system is not the sole such system for classification in use. The most developed alternative is that used in the two Shogunates, in which similar two-part names written in Japanese are coined, and the 'Latin' order of the two components is reversed, i.e the genus, the zoku...

The March of Progress by Ricart de Lesseps, Paris Imperial Censor Office 1863 Typhonids: A Recent History of an Antediluvian Era The thought that life on Earth has existed in a steady progression of forms across a stretch of time, rather than maintaining a frozen array of beasts and boughs as...

With regards to the two shogunates, a major difference from OTL is that there is no Counter-Reformation as we'd recognise it. Whilst there are attempts at Christian missionary activity they are, at least from the Catholic world, considerably less organised and popular than OTL. This is part of...

It's certainly not impossible for folks outside of royalty to imitate these dishes, the main issue in 1:1 versions would be the very expensive international imports such as rice, sesame oil, refined sugar, citrus fruits, or the very expensive internal goods like venison, alpaca meat, seaweeds...

It depends on context. It hasn't come up directly but in Manchu territory the Beijing dialect is similarly dominant to OTL wrt to Mandarin, whilst in Toyotomi territory the 'official' dialect used is Wu due to its prominence in the heartlands of that state.

With regard to Hazen Nyian, that's actually a real regional dish from Hangzhou, albeit under a different name than in this timeline- if you google xieniangcheng then you'll see a fair few pictures and recipes for it. It's quite spectacular looking, and is definitely more along the vibes of...