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Excellent interpretation. The early successes of IJN aircraft in action against Allied P-36 and P-40 fighters, Wildcats, Buffaloes, and Hurricanes had much less to do with the supposed superiority of the A6M Zero than the excellent training and battle experience of Japanese pilots flying Zeros...

“Onward to Israel” Imperial Germany and the Founding of Israel a 4th Level Completion Thesis by Fritz G. Meir submitted in partial fulfillment of a Master of Arts Degree Rhode Island University Zionism, Ashkenazim, the Kaiser, and the Sultan. In the late 19th Century, Zionist...

“Onward to Israel” Imperial Germany and the Founding of Israel a 4th Level Completion Thesis by Fritz G. Meir submitted in partial fulfillment of a Master of Arts Degree Rhode Island University Setting the stage - Zionism, Ashkenazim, the Kaiser, and the Sultan. In the late 19th...

Yes, given its industrial base and the long history of experience with German aviation, the US would probably be largely self-sufficient with respect to both aircraft design and construction by the 2nd Great War. I agree, the CSA's aircraft industry would be uch more likely to be dependent on...

With respect to the naming conventions of the US and CS, I'd expect that they would actually mirror those of their powerful European allies, whose aircraft they build under license. For the USA, that means a heavily Germanic approach, focusing on the manufacturer's name together with a number...

When I read these books, I tended to presume that the USA and CSA probably borrowed much from their powerful, and possibly more technologically advanced, European Allies, especially in the First Great War. I presumed many of the aircraft used by the two North American powers would be...

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“Onward to Israel” Imperial Germany and the Founding of Israel Zionism, Ashkenazim, the Kaiser, and the Sultan. Before the outbreak of the Great War, Zionist leaders, particularly Theodor Herzl, saw Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire as likely partners if the dream of a Jewish...

Well, to reach the Falklands in the first place they'd have to be a seafaring people, probably deriving a significant proportion of their subsistence from fishing and sea mammals. I doubt they would be horticulturalists.

Uh...Following a collapse of social order in the Great Depression, together with the rise of Communist, Fascist, Southern Secessionist, and Nativist warlords throughout the former United States of America, the remnants of the US Federal Government, still with the loyalty of most of the US Navy...

A few days ago, I cranked up my Samsung trans-dimensional search capacitor looking for interesting stuff from the multiverse. After a few dry probes, it came back with a student essay written in 1944 by Midshipman James Carter of the US Naval Academy. I presume this is the same James Carter...

I wouldn't see these as equivalent to the situation in the new world. It is my impression the English didn't settle Ireland as much as they were absentee landlord exploiters, so there wasn't the need to force the Irish to "become English". As to India, the English were ruling over a population...

I really think the "racial" phenotype has much to do with how Europeans would treat the native inhabitants of the new world, unless of course these inhabitants had evolved indigenous civilizations as technologically advanced as Europeans. Presuming they were technologically equivalent to actual...

Several comments. First, as others have pointed out one must ask "advanced compared to what?" Given that we have only one sample to work with, why presume anything about the development of advanced civilizations other than what we can see from the sample provided by human beings on earth. I'd...

In that case, I'd go with the African lion as the best bet. There are lots of them in zoos and their historical range in the old world ranged into temperate steppe and grasslands like the American Great Plains.