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That clause is interesting, and it makes me wonder if there are any bizarre circumstances where a state might voluntarily relinquish (probably partial) senate influence for some consideration or other.

Given that there's no mechanism for it in the constitution, I would be intrigued as to how it would work. At least with secession you can go "we're independent now, try and make us stay".

Yeah, proving it could be done, and proving it was done are two different things.

He'd be a decent semi-hipster choice.

That's the obvious way for it to happen.

IIRC it's been suggested that there may have been Roman "contact" with S.America that way. Obviously very speculative and difficult to prove at this point though.

A lot of them come from telegrams anyway.

Ive always liked the idea of a longer lived Edward VI of England. The path of the Church of England without the issues caused by Mary becoming queen is interesting, as is the lack of James VI of Scotland getting the English crown. Other people taking the place of Columbus is also an interesting...

Its certainly an interesting idea. It requires more miniturisation than phones though, doesnt it?

And is then replaced by Katie Price.

There's a meme that goes "Oh shit waddup", it's a play on that.

Lindisfarne and Glastonbury seem as good a places as any to be seat of Archbishops.

I understood that reference.

With no forward pass I think youd probably just end up with 3 codes of Rugby, not 2. I think you need an earlier PoD tbh.

Well that just raises more questions!

No problem. It's very cool so far.

The irony of course being that the OTL BBC is ... not exactly short ... of lesbians.

At this rate it looks like this world's version of Oscar Wilde is probably going to be channeling Hunter S. Thompson.

I know that everyone sane knew it was a nuke, I just wasnt sure if the source was ever confirmed.

Fair point when it comes to the US. In the UK thats probably less of an issue because of better public transport and generally smaller distances between places.