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The second Napoleonic wars. No WWI but world is still economically beleaguered in 1920. Britain sees her Empire/Commonwealth and Japan as her salvation, passes big tarriff walls against anyone else. Trade war with basically the rest of the world ensues, lasts thru 20's and becomes real in the...

Wasn't that supposed to be the basis of the Nazi's "Groundhog", the tunnel under the English Channel?:p (it was supplemented, of course, by the Sealions with lasers)

You mean the path of the Numinous Navy? Are Aircraft Carriers and BBS then the Cherubim and Seraphim? Do we have St Elmo the Bearded and St Halsey, the Bull?

Rather ask why they lasted so long You have them ending around 700. Maybe no Magyar invasions? and then Charlemagne doesn't divide the Empire and so the Vikings find Europe too tough and go off to colonize North Am. Effects range from us all immortal in spaceships to none. The High Middle...

WI Voltaire had been the first to preach Marxism, a sort of pastoral communism, with the peasantry subbing for the urban proletariat?

It would eventually go English, one war or the other. However, if it remained Dutch for a long time this could have far-reaching effects. The Dutch system of land ownership, the poltroons, whatever that is, that has some bearing down to the present day, doesn't it?

WI the British push for Anglicans and the French push for Catholic, and then the Catholic becomes a sort of "freedom" type religion, with a "Free the Untouchables" movement being backed by the French.

You don't feel sympathy for River, the ultimate victim?

Yes and no. The best adventures always depict very usual people in very unusual situations. Everybody in Firefly is, even when they aren't from Earth, human. Frex, the captain's right hand man is definitely not to be trusted but he's just too good in a fight to let go, so the Captain uses him...

And you find that GOOD??:eek: no offense, but does the word 'realism' come up much in your reading? No, seriously, most people are uninteresting shlubs with very ambiguous morals whose lives are certainly a struggle but definitely never epic. That's the great challenge of good literature, to...

How, frex, would Canada have fared if Dr What had not become Prime Minister and Dave Howery POTUS? How about if Ian wasn't governor of CA. How about if Pervez Hoodbhoy hadn't overthrown Chavez and now rules only his native Columbia instead of the Grand American Coalition? (all posts are...

Given that the characters and events are prolly a little "exaggerated":rolleyes: how accurate is the overall plot? I've heard opinions from scurrilous slander to dead on. I have read somewhere that at this time the movie was set in, (shortly after D day and just after the Hedgerows , I think)...

...uh...why wouldn't the Soviets intervene? Why wouldn't the Chinese see a foreign war as a good distraction from their internal problems? My way to win it? Convince the Soviets to stop supplying the VC. Maybe give them concessions in Europe, Afghanistan, Africa, all areas that would end...

Wasn't that what I said? The US announces the policy and the RN enforces it. Metternich sends his famous letter about the "upstart" Americans and US diplomats get passed over in ball invites while the rest of Europe is spared another messy war with the British. Everybody's happy.

For the same reason they backed the Monroe Doctrine; the US was the British catspaw in the Western Hemisphere enforcing British interests on the whole area for double cheap. Read The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson, which starts off with the 'special relationship' between the US and UK that...

WI the US and UK had gone to war over the Oregon Territory?

I've often wondered why they just didn't go ahead and make up one of their own. It's always seemed rather silly to me, "here's this machine, you have to put in your own controls." And wouldn't that make the OS a part of the machine for regulatory purposes? you can't fault Ford just because...

I believe the longest running thread in here ever was called "Sheep the Size of VW Camping Vans" so, yeh, a show with millions of followers that made millions of dollars is worth a few pages of our attention.

Now,now, I said Pullman basher(s) not religious people, and in this thread, there were two. However, I see also that my point was largely hashed out there as well, so sorry.:o Strange book, I found the ending very unsatisfying, as if Pullman felt he had to throw in some sort of point or moral...

Just finished the "His Dark Materials"Trilogy, and I have one question for all the Pullman bashers that were on here before. Spoiler Alert Highlight Are you guys really that offended by the fact that a Catholic Church set ENTIRELY IN AN ALTERNATE DIMENSION is depicted as somewhat...