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There is a book about the German plans for Britain after sealion. I seem to remember it was all a bit of a mess. Some talked of occupying only the south east while wales scotland and ireland became independent puppets. Others talked of shipping all adult males to Germany for forced labour. I...

The difficult thing is to work out what the objectives were. I think (but may well be wrong) that the French government wanted to get Napoleon and his loyal army as far from Paris as possible so he would not launch a coup while Napoleon himself wanted to separate himself from Paris so that when...

I always read it as the brits making sure they really did go and did not stay and surrender. Paranoid but in character.

The pendulum standard was realised at the time to be a bad idea as time was difficult to measure accurately and the force of gravity changes with distance from the equator, height above sea level, underlying geology and even tides. In the 18th, 19th and most of the 20th Century the most...

OK The big difference in the metric system was, as you suggest, the idea of a natural standard for the metre. I suggest this was a product of it's time when science and rational thought would throw out old irrational ideas, systems, governments and religions. The choice of a totally...

Hang on I’ve seen it. Hell I touched it. Clearly whatever is there is not the true platonic sphinx but simply something that looks and feels like it of the same name.

I had completely forgotten what the trial was about but as an outsider I don’t think any thing could stop radical antiscience christians from feeling persecuted. Like conspiracy theorists feeling persecuted is part of their memeplex without it they would not be the same.

They gave it up because it cost money and was indefensible and both economically and strategically useless. To keep it we need to make it valuable. No I got nothing.

The obvious way is to marry HenryVI and declare him appointed by God to be true King of France.

I think you are underestimating the effect of technological change. It is not just the direct effects but also more subtle ones. Why did wearing hats go out of fashion? I suggest the spread of central heating and air conditioning combined with the difficulties of mass production of hats. Why...

Also before the war the Suffragettes were a very strong organised force in modern terms a mass direct action organisation. If the women who worked and suffered in the war had not received the vote there would have been violent riots on the streets and most people would have supported or at...

Sorry to go off topic but.... OK. I give up which occupations made a long term profit? Warsaw pact?

We definitely need a sarcasm font. I thought you were serious at first glance.

I have to say the best way is to dump Boney and replace him with some one who knew something about the sea. :-)

Because like Hitler after Munich they considered him totally untrustworthy and impossible to deal with. The last 20 years had ( from a British point of view) proved that peace was only possible after Napoleon had been removed. The escape from Elba had just reinforced that and even rabid peace...

Question? Can RPG predate the invention of the novel? Can they predate Kriegspiel?

The sphinx was obviously carved on the orders of Napoleon as part of his attempt to win over the Egyptians. All the references preceding that were faked in order to create the false antiquity. I mean just look at that face

I think Churchill's "outrage" is over stated. The British expected cities and London in particular to be bombed from the start of the war. The Germans had bombed London in the First world war, Spanish cities during the civil war and Polish, Dutch and Belgian Cities. However the British...

PAX. I already stated I can’t comment on modern religions. I was simply trying to explain the phrase to someone who had not heard it before. I have come across the phrase in several histories but I make no claim to expertise. If you say it was not used after 700AD I won’t argue but I am...

I assumed he came from a non-Christian part of the world.