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Would they be allowed to keep Belarus' UN seat?

I presume Mussolini's coup de grâce (killing blow) to the Arabs would be moving the Sphynx from Giza to the EUR district south of Rome.

Remember that before the railroad, it was much easier and quicker to go from Victoria to Hong Kong via the Pacific than crossing the continent by land to Montreal. As a matter of fact, the flag of British Columbia before the 1960s was the Blue Ensign, similar to other Pacific territories such...

Everyone's been talking about what Germany can get out of Britain, which is all fine and dandy since they're both in the same continent and the Germans have some sort of leverage in a CP victory scenario, but what about the Japanese? The Japanese wouldn't probably want a repeat of the Treaty of...

WI the Los Angeles tram system weren't bought out and torn apart by Big Auto?

LOL. Just for the record, Padre Pio's feast day is September 23.

Nice aside. Quite fitting you wrote this on his feast day.

Krakow...if there's still no Poland. Epirus The disunited Arab emirates not named Abu Dhabi or Dubai Goa, Pondicherry, several other Indian princely states... La Nouvelle-Orléans

The easy answer would be Harvard not having that small field in their match against McGill, but that's pre-1900. The next best option is, perhaps, the Ivy League not having a great influence in the development of 'football' in the US side of the border.

You butterflied away 'Plastic Love'?! :eek:

As a coach, playing the defensive style is a safe bet, and yeah, I personally like it too, but to a lot of fans out there, it simply made the game boring. Consider that the Grizzlies, the Super Sonics, the Hornets, the Clippers, the Nets and the Kings were each moved around to different...

In Slavic countries...the Great Slave! :biggrin: ( Hey, minister is a title title of honour in modern times instead of magister)

Lol...Tito must have gone hard-core nationality-free communist to even go as far as renouncing his Slovenian and Croatian heritage and lead Serbia out of all places!

Austria considered Slovenia and Istria as being at the same level as Tyrol and Salzburg. They also invested heavily in infrastructure there since it was their main access to the sea. Yeah, but the Germans had the excuse of being 'one German nation over the centuries' as an excuse. They may...

I think the biggest challenge to keeping Yugoslavia together is not ethnic but economic: There's a big discrepancy between the parts formerly ruled by Austria (Slovenia and Croatia) and the parts formerly under the Ottomans (the rest) + Montenegro. Just before it broke up on the 1990s, tiny...