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This is all pretty fascinating - and honestly, I do kind of feel the inadequacy of my American education a bit here. Almost no American secondary school teaches more than one foreign language (maybe really elite private schools, IDK), and the large majority of students in my estimation don't...

This is something that jumped to my mind earlier today while thinking of something totally different - the formation of Great Books curricula. Long background explanation incoming: There is a fascinating thread I saw on Twitter (reproduced at this link) to the effect of: Which brings me to my...

Of course the dominance of riverine shipping was de rigeur for the pre-industrial era, but I'm always a little (too?) surprised to learn how riverine transit and shipping manages to stick around even in a world of railroads, long haul trucking, and airplanes

I will be backing this

I agree with both your points regarding the national minorities vs immigrants comparison - the difference between immigrants and native minorities, particularly in the inherent injustice in native minorities being turned into an out-group in their own homeland is relevant not only here but in...

Historically, yes, this is exactly what happened. Repressive Germanization created stronger Polish nationhood among Prussian Poles where Prussian and Polish identity historically had not had difficulty co-existing before. Before 1870, I would venture to say that you would not have had to look...

Incredible work @carlton_bach! As an aspiring amateur chef I feel like I should get a copy myself.

Random question, which dynasties ascended to which Eastern European thrones post-Russo-German War? I believe only Karl Stephen to Poland was confirmed. Wilhelm Franz von Habsburg, despite having been a noted Ukrainophile OTL is surely too young to become ruler of Wolhynia

A little surprised that the Ottomans straight up annexed Armenia (and Kars, and Batumi, and Tiflis I suppose), but not Azerbaijan and Baku...unless they did I suppose? Since Persia still has Tabriz, that border would look pretty ugly tbqh

Oh this is interesting - in the absence of the World Wars of OTL, does that mean the Balfour Declaration and Statute of Westminster are averted entirely (producing, I suppose, Imperial Federation in its place).

Definitely hearing echoes of Captain Kolchak in this update

small question: Generaloberst Beck == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Beck ?

Very Girls und Panzer feeling

Gotta say, as ship classes go, "Cuniberti" doesn't quite conjure up the same mental image as "Dreadnought". I mean really, imagine the phrase "Space Cuniberti" https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/26493/space-dreadnought-3000 Relatedly, since WWI ITTL doesn't discredit the concept of Empires...

TAR?