Recent content by dean6294

A better solution is to "improve" or enlarge the breech so a large enough opening will permit weapons (i.e., archers, gunfire, canon) to inflict casualties.

Interesting story here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Eagles http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/ Watching Patrick Stewart play Lenin is fun.

I could see a post-1900 scenario. Consider a WWII that goes much worse for the Allies in the Pacific. Japan manages to occupy New Zealand as naval base before ultimately removed by an eventually victorious West. In the battle to recapture NZ, because Allied gunfire and Japanese "scorched...

I recall some discussion of a possible US mandate in Constantinople following the end of WWI. Given very fortunate turns of events, this could have become something very interesting.

Consider that English history over the previous few hundred years was filled with violence and instability from: The War of the Roses Catholicism and the English Reformation English Civil War, Cromwell and Puritanism The Glorious Revolution (Tories and Whigs), etc. They viewed these conflicts...

So - no Wilson presidency. U.S. under Roosevelt (or Taft) enters WWI earlier as an ally to UK, France and Russia. Constantinople is established as an Allied protectorate (in response to the breakup of the Ottomans) and ultimately evolves into true U.S. territory. Piece of cake.

Perhaps the word "racist" didn't exist, but I haven't seen many European ruling houses marrying into African or Indian dynasties.

Everyone is responding with Industrial examples, but what about an advanced economy based on trade and financial services? It wouldn't take much to knock a country like the Netherlands over the top. Given all the right breaks, I could see a wealthier Switzerland or Luxembourg. A modest very...

I think (at least with the English Protestant immigrants to NA) that they considered their colonies as "their" place, where they could FINALLY practice as they choose (especially after being prosecuted by the Crown, having relatives imprisoned by Cromwell, etc.). They couldn't even tolerate...

I think you'd need a different English Reformation (or at least some different components, such as a much less zealous Archbishop Laud.

Two words: Tax haven.

I can't see significant investment in infrastructure until after the Revolutionary War is over (consider development of manufacturies after Britain's economic controls and restrictions ended). Possibly sometime in the 1790s, but earlier is very unlikely.

One thing I would suggest including in a future post is that there would be large parts of the US who went about their business - perhaps after a bit of tsk-tsk about the nightly news coverage. These uprisings would be considered something that was being done by, "those people".

Pumping water from European mines was the economic incentive to start developing steam-powered pumps. The fledgling textiles industry came when water power (and later, steam) was leveraged to power mills.

One outcome from the First World War was the firing tables developed from all of those artillery rounds fired.