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Now, that's just weird. Kinda hard to see most modern presidents putting up with it. May we end up with a greater "telegenics" problem in American politics (and you all know what I'm talking about).

You know, I've always wondered how a German WWI victory would affect ol' Adolf. While it is tempting to see him becoming just another postwar artist, there's just something about him that suggests that he might find a way into power. Granted, it may be much harder than in OTL, but with Hitler...

Any idea what the Arab/Turkish reaction would be? Might the Turks get enough of a self-confidence boost that they decide to go after Constantinople itself some 400 years early?

Say, the Great Wall was essentially useless, wasn't it? I dimly recall that early Han China had constant problems with the Hsing-Nu, who had set up shop SOUTH of the wall, and throughout Chinese history barbarians (and Turks) seemed to come and go quite easily. By the way, why did Hadrian...

Not bad. Weird scene when the guy's hand is erased from history (like stop-motion food spoilage). (Hot damn! 100th post!)

You sure? I thought there was an election, possibly with Chamberlain winning.

Now, I may be an idiot for asking this, but in order for steam power to be useful on a large scale, aren't you going to need experience with casting very large metal objects as well, for boilers, furnaces, and so such, in order to get it working? Would you need the sort of knowledge you could...

No, but I have a feeling, with Britain just experienced a nasty bout of Fascism, they will be more likely to step on Hitler for any transgressions. Hitler and Mussolini will have two major problems. First, a profoundly anti-Fascist Britain taking an interest in continental affairs, and...

General Questions Somewhere near the middle, there was a scene where a man who "allowed" several of the protaganists escape was executed by beheading with an axe. Is it just me, or does that seem a little too tacky to be believeable? The Nazis never went at anyone with axes. (Nooses and...

I just finished this book by Guy Walters entitled "The Leader". Right now, this book is only available in the UK and Canada (and maybe a few other Commonwealth countries, I don't know). The POD for this book is 1936, when King Edward VIII decides not to adbicate his crown, leading to the...

You may also need to change the nature of Italian Fascism itself. In OTL, Fascism was something of a veneer on the Italian character that could be easily shucked off. If Mussolini begins reorganizing society to a degree comparable to Hitler reorganizing 1930's Germany, then Mussolini might...

As far as I can tell, the Congreve was a small personal rocket used by the British army in the Napoleanic Wars. After the wars, the rocket design spread throughout the world, even deep into Central Asia by the mid-19th century. Curiously, very little is heard about these weapons, and by 1914...

I was reading a short biography of Bismarck, and chanced across a mention of the "Holy Alliance" between Russia, Austria, and Prussia. When the Crimean War started in OTL, both Austria and Prussia stayed out of the conflict, Austria because the Russians were making a beeline for the mouth of...

Well, is there any way to keep the media from turning the whole proceedings into a three-ring circus? IIRC, there was near constant reporting on the case on all the major American networks, almost to a sickening degree.

The Towers really shut down (more or less) at night? I was under the impression that they were more or less open 24/7, so there would bound to be quite a few people inside, just "burning the midnight oil". By the way, what about the Pentagon?

Does anyone care what happens to the locals? While I don't think they will react in the same way the Palestinians have to Israel, I can't exactly see them being terribly pleased about this deluge of immigrants. Say, how does the Israelless Middle East develop? Less killing?

During the 1930's, an alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany was anything but certain. The Nazis had numerous reasons to dislike the Italians, such as their membership in the 'most degenerate' European race, as well as grumblings about Italian control of some Austrian territory. Italy...

Some more questions... How likely is it that the Red Russians will be victorious over the Whites in this TL? While the Whites are in disarray from a lack of Allied supplies, I can't really see any German government putting up with a new 'Soviet Union' on its borders. Also, what'll happen to...

I recall reading this scenario about WWIII in 1957 at CTT, and one of the author's main points was that, if the war were to happen in the 1950's, nuclear weapons would not be much of a problem. After all, the only way to transport them was the bomber. After 1960, we start marrying these...

Well, without a strong Germany in the late 19th century, things will begin to get a little dicey for Britain. IIRC, the British tended to play France and Germany one against the other in the prewar years, probably so neither gets a swelled head and starts hunting for colonies. Without...