Recent content by rcduggan

This is P H R E S H Am I meme-texting right? Also trying to find a list of presidents / leaders in the list thread but am not finding anything, did you post a companion list??

Loving this TLIAW so far - have just been reading a lot about the Taiping rebellion by coincidence so a lot more of the references haven't been lost that might otherwise have been. Seems like Yung Wing is bound to end up in government in most ATLs in this era - I think I recall he was Taiping PM...

So, governor of Kansas J.R. Brinkley in 1930 leads to an attempted military coup twelve years later?! The references to blue armbands suggests some sort of fascist group - and that mention to "Socres" - Socialist Resistance? Social Credit? And what's the M1935 they are referencing and why do...

This is more of a meta-cliche than one regarding events in TLs - but any time I see a timeline with excessive usage of stock photos / Google Image results and NEWSPAPER HEADLINES my eyes tend to glaze over until I've closed the page...

I don't have access to the source itself as I am at work, but I recall reading some western news articles from the period that mentioned that, since the ideological difference between Jiang and Zhang was minimal following Jiang's anticommunist turn, there was no reason why the two could not come...

I've been thinking a bit about this as well. So if Japanese action prevented Zhang Xueliang from consolidating power in Manchuria, presumably one of his pro-Japanese lieutenants would take over the three northeastern provinces - someone like Yang Yuting or Chang Yinhuai - and maintain some sort...

Somehow missed the fact that Arnold died in a duel. My bad. :o And I thought you were hinting at Lee being a figurehead, plus from what little I know about Gates he seems like the kind of person who would want to rule himself, but failing that, would want someone ahead of him to take the fall...

Interesting group of behind-the-scenes leaders. Gates, Arnold, and Conway having power via a figurehead doesn't bode well. Do the different developments in the late 1770s mean that James Wilkinson still is associated with Gates ITTL? if Wilkinson is let anywhere near power I fear for the Union...

Why not Australia, then? It's arguable that Canada wouldn't work out, considering the probably-adverse reaction of the US. But purely from a population POV (going off of info found on populstat.info for UK, Aus, and NZ for 1900), the territories in Oceania had a combined 12% of the population of...

You know you've botched your timeline when the people who made the "classic" TLIADs (Meadow and Lord R) are making snide comments in your thread. Unless US David is indeed making a postmodern / deconstructionist work in which the traditional totalitarian structure, which calls for a single...

With pleasure! Among the various timelines that I am never going to get around to writing is a Taiping victory TL (though with the Hong family still at the helm and Shi Dakai at best a Yuan Shikai figure), so I've got a bunch of notes, sources, etc. lying around and I figure yours is a good...

My first thought on seeing this list is that it was ASB, if only because Blaine lived past 1893...

I'm curious why Mongolia rebelled against the Qing dynasty in TTL - from what I've read, there weren't any uprisings in the same period, and indeed several of the generals fighting against the Taiping and Nian rebels were Mongolian nobility - Senggelinqin, Jirhangga, etc. Considering that they...

In OTL Du Wenxiu was referred to as Sultan by some, but he established a government that was a mix of Yunnan / Hui Muslim officers and Han Chinese bureaucrats, and was officially tolerant of non-Muslim groups in Yunnan- including the various minorities in the province. Since this is all OTL...

Just a small thing that has been bugging me as I read the more recent China updates (still haven't finished to comment on them but I will try to finish quickly), but Ta-ching is not a surname that would be used in China or Taiwan. While there are some examples of two-syllable surnames (Ouyang...