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Why is this line of thought so popular? I mean it is ASB, since it goes against how sperm decides the sex. "Sperm cells come in two types, "female" and "male". Sperm cells that give rise to female (XX) offspring after fertilization differ in that they carry an X-chromosome, while sperm...

To answer the question on Greek Ships, Greeks did have river vessels. There was quite a bit of down river activity for farming production to send down river in some rivers both on Pineios in Thessaly and in Asia Minor. Not a lot, as none of the rivers are great for commerce, but a place to start.

You might be interested in the Alans society, an arm of which threw its lot with the Vandals (and disappeared in North Africa with the loss of that kingdom). Specifically, the Alans set up a kingdom of sorts around the early Byzantine period, if memory serves. It was located on the delta of...

Lots of scenarios, but earlier the better since that of logistics, unless you write in seeding of trees near the waterways: "For reasons that are still unclear, it appears that some tree species declined drastically in the early centuries of the first millennium AD. Elm had been...

Those who get divorced or widowed, must remarry or abstain or some other limitation, too. Maintaining control is what it is all about.

The only way personally seen to avoid the Oklahoma 'best scenario' might be to have a treaty allowing immigration, but only to those who are married to a native person and maintain their good character, 50% being recruited over in Europe and brought over. 10% are women, all being recruited from...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine#.22Rollback.22_replaces_.22containment.22 1977 We win they lose statement. Anyway, not much is to be gained with invasion to Cuba. The world had gotten used to it and hell would have to be paid with respect to the balance of power. The world has...

A little. Lee Atwater told a hesitant campaign worker that the goals of RR's presidency were to defeat utterly and completely communism, primarily by economic and arms. War was to be avoided, and this is the same that was later put into presidential orders and private statements, most famously...

9 years with Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, 1852-1861 he was the European correspondent, paid 5 $ per article.

http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3677 If you choose to accept, just as the title says, as Marx had at least some options. Instead of being a sole reporter for one newspaper, he could have branched out, though the man was never much of a businessman. He was paid 5$ an article...

Yep, and how brother plus then some. Not saying it is good, bad, or indifferent, but when asked what was next after the Cape to Cairo railway, Rhodes was to have said "Annex the Planets". True story, or at least that is what was in a history book. It was a direct quote, too. No piker he.

Mozambique was a difficult case. The Portuguese really mishandled the guerilla war post 1965. They had a good general or two, but were rotated out I think. In the end, it was the bad strategy pushed the Army of white Portuguese to mutiny in the Carnation Revolution over having been on an...

If the Lombards have already assimilated, as they did IOTL when the Franks came, then no way would the Pope be in trouble. Only Napoleon really at all sparred with the Pope as part of the flock at the gates of the Vatican (at a distance could be dangerous too, though Henry the VII and some...

Obviously there is not anything certain. Nixon was an enigmatic character, who had some deep flaws and outstanding strengths. Much of what we can piece together from biographies and other tidbits, as well as what happened IOTL, shows a tragic layer. That being said, here are some thoughts...