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There is also The Third Pistol by Meepy which dealt with the same subject.

Well, the early pictograms from which cuneiform was derived may have been logographic. The classical cuneiform script used in Sumeria, Akkad, and elsewhere was syllabic.

I doubt it could have survived in its original form...i.e. a syllabic script intended to be written by impressing a reed stylus into clay. Syllabic scripts just about always lose when alphabetic scripts are introduced. Alphabetic scripts are just more easily learned, more adaptable, and...

While I agree with Don Lardo's general point, the example you gave is not the best one which could be offered. Germany's ability to fight the Second World War was, historically, severely handicapped by its lack of oil reserves. That's why they built synthetic fuel plants and, indeed, pioneered...

I had the opportunity to read in the Congressional Record, at the time they were going on, the debates regarding the Energy Security Act. The primary focus in the short term was going to be on coal liquefication and gassification, combined with conservation and fuel efficiency efforts to control...

Your argument might make sense if in fact there was any danger of the loss of the Gulf oil due to Saddam's takeover of Kuwait. But there was none. Saddam had no interest in imposing an oil embargo...quite the opposite. He was out to make as much money as he could by exporting MORE oil...that's...

On June 30, 1980, President Carter signed the Energy Security Act. consisting of six major acts: U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act, Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act, Renewable Energy Resources Act, Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Act and Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank...

Not sure, but you may be talking about this one, which is the predecessor to Historia Mundi.

Actually, they did use him, or considered doing so. He was almost sent to India with Cornwallis to command the cavalry there in the years after the Revolution, but his politics (he was a Whig, and the government at the time was a Tory government) caused the appointment to be rescinded. He was...

Well, you'd have to start with doing something about the Inquisition. Spain became the "boogeyman" not because she was the most powerful country in Europe in the 16th century, but because she was the most powerful country in Europe AND was fanatically pushing the agenda of the Roman Catholic...

Agreed. Indeed, especially if Tarleton ends up replacing Isaac Brock and Brock goes onto a European posting as he desired, it could well be a disaster for the Brits. Tarleton was nowhere near as good a general as Brock. He was far too rash and prone to charge into situations without doing...

Well, Brock was agitating for a European posting at the time Tarleton would have been assigned to Canada in this ATL. So perhaps Brock is transferred out as Bloody Ban is transferred in. That puts Tarleton in complete and uncontested command of forces in Canada (which he would have had...

I agree that the area shown on the map is not really accurate at this period, if we're talking political control. However, if we are talking areas where trade and influence were going on, then it might be. Although obviously the area should extend farther south to encompass the region around...

They Mycenaeans did indeed have settlements...or at least one known settlement...on the coast of Asia Minor. Miletus, known as Millawanda at the time, was a Mycenaean city. However, there really aren't any others mentioned by the Hittites, IIRC. If there are, I'd be interested in seeing the...

The Denyen and Ekwesh are thought to be the Danaeans and the Achaeans mentioned in Homer. The other tribes are thought to originate from Asia Minor, Sicily and Sardinia.

What if General Banastre Tarleton, the "Bloody Ban" of Revolutionary War infamy, had been appointed to command of British forces in America shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812? --Might we see a more energetic campaign by the British from an earlier date, Tarleton being fond of...

This thread has almost 200 views and NOBODY has read this book? Wow.

I was browsing on Amazon and came across The World Hitler Never Made by Gavriel David Rosenfeld. Has anyone here ever read it, and what do you think of it?

From: The Black and the Gray Initial WI: WI the Confederacy lost the War of Secession? POD: President Davis successfully supresses the Cleburne Memorial. TL Name: Union and Liberty? This timeline postulates that President Jefferson Davis successfully suppressed the Cleburne Memorial in January...

You might want to read this.