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The Komnenian Restoration was, for those who don't know, was a period in the history of the ERE/Byzantine Empire where for 104ish years the Komnenoi Dynasty basically saved the Byzantines from total extinction. They pushed the borders forward and gave the Empire precious time to catch its breath...

A quote in Robert Kirkman's Teutons at War six part docuseries documenting the so called Northern Crusade against the Slavs of the East on APB. The docuseries focuses on a historical oddity, Charlemagne a former King of Francia exiled after a revolt against his rule led to the shattering of the...

Satilite Image of Rikers Island, 2015 News camera still of the Prison during the riot An artists rendition of the end of the riot The Rikers Riot of 2006 was a prison riot in the infamous Rikers Island Correctional Facility in the State of Long Island. Expanded during the Browder regime...

I know some things are inconsistent with lore in the game, I did it for story purposes The logo for Amnesty International AI founder Sir John Stanley Amnesty International is the largest human rights organization in the world behind the Red Cross. Founded in 1949 in the aftermath of the...

As it says on the tin, the UK must lose the Falklands Conflict. In OTL it goes without saying that the UK won the 'war' in just over two months with not even 2k dead on both sides. It was a good, quick war. Just make it not that. Bonus points for length and casualty count because who doesn't...

A quote by Duke Halifax, one of the members of the Last Republicans, to Lord Sir Winston Churchill after the Kings Day bombings that killed dozens of people including Churchill's youngest the six year old Wilhelmina. While sympathy for Churchill and the Imperial League buoyed the rapidly falling...

Sparta in popular culture is seen as the creme of the crop for ancient Greek armies and while no doubt that was true for some time, they were eventually beaten and broken by the late 300s and were later conquered by the Romans. Even as top military dog in Greece they were not especially powerful...

Yeah, the canon additions made in Fire and Blood had been put in

What if, after the Yom Kippur and Six Day War(s) Israel kept the Sinai Peninsula? It would obviously end any immediate hope for Israeli-Arab peace because Israel took the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. However, how long could Israel hope to keep it? Would international pressure force them to...

The term for a specific punishment given to the people who fell out of favor of the government. They simply invalidated their Purchase Pass keeping the criminal from buying or paying for anything which frequently led to the collapse of that persons life. Most came begging for their Pass to be...

A story about FDR's term as Governor of NY. The TL talks about how FDR builds his term based on lies and corruption, works with the early mafia to gain more power and intimidate opponents and finally get impeached after a highly publicized trial in which FDR walked out of the room revealing he...

Empereur Louis-Napoléon IV de L'Empire Français Kaiser Wilhelm III (Middle left) looks at a statue of Maurice Gamelin, Lion of Marseilles, 1941 Kaiser Wilhelm III. Des Deutschen Reiches The Treaty of Lyon is the name given to a series of treaties signed between the French Empire led by...

Story of the development of what was called ITTL the Volga Trade Corridor roughly following the Volga River. It began when Viking traders frequented the river as a shortcut to the markets of the Middle East rather than go around Europe and Spain. Eventually Muslim scholars began to follow the...

A movie collaboration by Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo Del Torro announced in 2001. Starring John Travolta as the male lead and little known Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi. Filming took place largely in Southern California for the urban scenes and Northern Japan for the forested ones. The...

Black rioters in the Autonomous Community of Baltimore, 2011 Rioters flee a burning police car in Chicago, Late 2011 Black Shirts come out in force against rioters in St. Louis, early 2012 The American Spring protests from mid-2011 to late 2012 were a series of peaceful protests and riots...

A ASB TL where Caligula becomes immortal and continues his despotic reign for four centuries. It ends with Caligula finally getting the immortality he gained sucked out of him by a vaccum and he instantly turns to dust. The next 14 updates cover how the world descends into a despotic hellscape...

I for one like the changes. While it does make the war harder regardless of your choice I think the Standoff phase does make it feel more organic as states decide over a month rather than in a hour at midnight.

Rohm and Hitler were good friends weren't they?

In the early days of the Nazi Party the SS and SA were two competing organizations within the Party for the role of party security. In the end Rohm, who led the SA lost to the SS and Himmler and during the Night of the Long Knives Rohm was killed and the SA decimated with its shattered remains...

Riding a wave of popular support after FDR's New Deal is neutered then killed in Congress populist politician Huey Long is made President in 1940 after a hair-thin race. The TL follows him as he attempts to redistribute the wealth by raising the taxes on the rich (which failed) and started the...