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Statehood required a minimum 60,000 people and it took Arizona and New Mexico until the 1910 census to meet the requirement which says quite a bit about how poorly populated the area was.

Many supporting Dreyfus were French patriots who could do the math and realizeed Dreyfus being innocent meant a traitor remained in a very high place in the French military.

trollhole, it really doesn't.:( Japan has no potential arms supplier nor are the American people likely to get tired of the war and there certainly won't be any restraint displayed by the US against Japan.

??? If Edward VIII remains king then who is it to be forced from the throne?

Given how the Allies and especially the USSR would respond to a resistance movement the Germans most likely can't do this.

By convincing the Turks that nothing was to be lost by fighting was the worst mistake made regarding Sevres...and as to whether either France or the UK benefit or suffer from insisting on an independent Kurdistan given their own positions in Iraq and Syria...

The line was so weak that the Germans had to actually check French maps to be convinced that they had actually broken a significiant defense line...

Admiral Hall and the British had already concluded that proving this point was worth the risk to Room 40's operational secrecy. As for denial...since Zimmerman in particular and the German government as a whole never even considered this possible course of action...perhaps due to the...

Jordan did intervene in 1973 by sending units to the Syrian front, only three years after the PLO and Syria tried to seize Jordan.

I'm not sure what Hugh was talking about as there were never orders issued to kill the Duke if he left the Bahamas...as he did many times during the war, including his wife's two trips to Manhattan for medical treatment.

WWII, a war of the egos. It was Eisenhower who said that he studied theatrics under MacArthur. And Churchill who, after receiving a complaint that Mountbatten was intruding on MacArthur's sphere of interest, went to a map and noted that the two men were 6600 miles apart...adding that he...

If Edward actually made himself available as a puppet monarch for Hitler then a death sentence is likely result. I would hate to be in the position of needing a pardon from his brother given the way that relationship had been destroyed by the affair of Mrs Simpson.

Given all the other attacks lined up Japan has no choice but to continue with the operation...

In 1864 CSA agents saw an opportunity to wreck havoc by liberating and arming @12,000 POWs from two camps near Chicago before the Republican National Convention. They went to pro-CSA Midwest organizations with 200,000 members on paper begging for a mere 500 volunteers and never came close...

wd40, Diana did no harm to the royal family and since Andrew's girls remain royal princesses just what would they need to be reinstated as according to that link which somehow imagines Charles would prefer a smaller royal family meaning more work for himself and his sons?

Meanwhile the chances of one man in an obsolete tank doing more than 100 billion dollars in damages is nil.

Why would France enter the war because the Russians somehow convinced themselves that British fishing boats in the North Sea were the Japanese fleet lying in wait? More likely Russia sues for peace soonest and pays the price.

Food, fuel, clothing...plenty of items Russia will need and the Allies will have a surplus of...much to blockaded Germany's rage. For the Entente the question becomes what they can offer Greece or Italy if Ottoman territory is not on the table...or Romania if Bulgaria stays out also.

Not to mention the money made by the Ottomans as an endless parade of ships with aid to Russia pour through to the Black Sea and back...

The Italian army was much smaller until Mussolini decided that he needed 60 divisions and achieved this by splitting up units so that every Italian division was suddenly 60% of an Italian division before Mussolini had his little yearning.