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  1. Questions about the nobility of children who don't inherit.

    Thanks all for the input! Anyone have any specific details on how France did it? After reading through everything I'm leaning more towards the continental system.
  2. Questions about the nobility of children who don't inherit.

    I'm in the process of writing a historical fiction story and something came up that I'm having trouble finding an answer for. What happens to 2nd and 3rd and so on sons after their eldest brother inherits? I know in most countries the title as well as the land associated with it passed only to...
  3. How would nuclear war affect the development of language

    I don't think it would break down that much as in threads. People would still speak in full sentences simply because the survivors will still be having conversations and speaking. There will probably be a huge decline in literacy though or at the very least many people have bad grammar...
  4. WI: George Lucas Makes Sequels to Star Wars Instead of Prequels in the 1990's?

    If Lucas was smart he would do an adaption of the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. They were probably the best books ever produced in the EU and came the closest to recapturing the feeling of the original trilogy.
  5. Additional *realistic* Lebensraum for various countries after 1800

    Also, at this time I believe populations projections for Libya showed that Italians were getting close to reaching a parity with native Libyans and possibly overtaking them in the following decades.
  6. No Star Wars prequels/sequels-only a reboot

    I don't think you can change it any meaningful way that people will want to see. Consider the special editions. People hated the changes Lucas made.
  7. No Star Wars prequels/sequels-only a reboot

    That would probably be the biggest box office bomb in history.
  8. Was Hitler really talented at anything?

    I remember reading somewhere that Hitler was supposed to interview for a position as a set designer at a theater but was too shy to show up.
  9. WI: Lovecraft lives longer?

    A lot of Lovecraft's racism was also more of a going out of his way to be offensive in certain social circles. Also, it should be noted in his later years his racism was on a bit of a decline. I doubt it would ever go away completely in his writings because too many of his concepts were...
  10. Caesar Defeated at Alesia...But Remains Alive

    Rome will form another army and invade again and be even more brutal. At this point in history Rome did not suffer defeats. They would keep coming back again and again knowing eventually they'll overwhelm the barbarians. It might be the end for Caesar though. Unless he can convince Pompey...
  11. WI: Airborne Units Assigned to the Air Corps/Air Force

    It would probably be a disaster. The air force would need to have 2 sets of officer schools and training programs. One for airmen and officers actually going into the air force and another for the men who are going to be the airborne units. Germany tried this in WW2 when they had the...
  12. Scariest successsor to Hitler

    I concur. Goebbels is probably the scariest option because he will follow Hitler's dreams and Nazi ideology to the letter. He is going to make sure that Germany fights to the last man and that every single undesirable is executed. In order from scariest to least I would rate them as: 1...
  13. Ebola in the ancient world

    Some people die. The rest of the population learns to avoid people bleeding from every orifice. Every few decades an outbreak will spring up. Rinse, repeat. Basically. Ebola hits too hard and kills too fast to be a true plague. Ebola fails at being an efficient virus, that's why it is so...
  14. Scariest successsor to Hitler

    No one considers themselves evil. People will justify their actions for their own self being. They may loathe what they did but they will try to justify it in their minds be it through ideology, religion, us-vs-them mentality..etc. Heydrich though probably had no concept of good or evil, or...
  15. Hitler Invading Soviet Union Right Decision?

    This could have easily happened when you consider that Britain and France were both considering launching bombing raids on the USSR in order to knock out the oil fields that were shipping oil to Germany.
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