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Okay, my apologies. The United States is actually here the evolved name for the United Provinces. (Actually, it is one of the many, many, many interchangeable terms for the Netherlands in the actual early modern era, I think it just fell out of favor for obvious reasons). But in this timeline...

Yeahhhhhh. I was reading about Javanese naming conventions to make sure I got the residents of Nieuw Bali and Peppertown right, and saw that. I was like, "am I really going to let this go to waste? I think not." ;)

Nationalekrant Charpentier Synthtranslate * Engels * August 6, 2013 Today the police announced their hunt for the violently mentally ill person who has been terrorizing the streets of New Amsterdam has ended. Jef Piotrowski, an entrepreneur who had made a name for himself as a major supplier...

By the way, I just want to say that I am enjoying the family-tree madness going on here. It's only going to get more and more out of control until the First General War, at which point I think the effect is going to be pretty dramatic. Also: I don't think we're at the point where we need a...

Ooooh, I read Massie's Catherine the Great book last year and this seems really fun. If I were to play the provocateur here though, it would not be to say that the idea is silly or ASB, but to say that perhaps Peter has suffered unduly from the myth-making that has grown up around Catherine. You...

Keeping Up With the Wettins--The Family Tree as of 1567

Antonis Mor, Margaret of Palma, as Maria Eleonora, Electress of Saxony, (c. 1580's) Marie Kilgrave, Consorts and Concubines: The Companions of the Electors and Dukes of Saxony, and How They Shaped the New Realm. That consummation so devoutly to be wished, which is to say the long-sought, and...

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, by Sofonisba Anguissola Elias Mukhumbeni, The Age Between: The Diplomatic History of Saxony, 1560-1612. In November 1562, having freshly seen off the regency, the Elector Alexander traveled to Frankfurt-am-Main to vote for a new King of the Romans. The entire...

Precisely. Alt-twentieth century Russia is complicated. But these are the key analogies. Either these people are being treated according to a policy that does not correspond with what's in the law books, which can be cited and challenged in courts, or the laws themselves do not have to be...

The question of the RCR's constitutional structure and how it responds to Returner's is really fascinating. And I think Nyvis's train of thought is different from mine, but at the same time not wrong. As the update suggests, the policy is just barely enacted, and in an atmosphere of profound...

He was 16 when the war started, 21 when he arrived in Spain, he stayed until he was 27, and the war ended when he was 30. And any training he would have received in Austria would have assumed the availability of institutions like the Council of the Indies to execute his policies, rather than...

Also, shoot, I had no idea the Bourbon flight to Louisiana, and a legitimist kingdom there, was an alt-history chestnut. While I've seen Bonapartist scenarios along these lines, I thought my twist was fresh as a daisy. So, who out there stole my idea retroactively? ;)

For me that's the rub. Administration and defense of the colonies are a huge undertaking, logistically and otherwise. The Council of the Indies has the cumulative experience and institutional expertise to do this, and to go on doing this, no matter who sits in the palace or how competent they...

Oh, you're thinking Spitting Image. I was thinking something with actors, silly and over-the-top like The Young Ones, but done in skits. Not Monty Python, because this is more topical and direct, but definitely not the same tone as, say, Saturday Night Live.

from The Encyclopedia Pro Publica Returner's Curse See also Congo Curse, Mesman-Lefebvre Syndrome. Returner's Curse constituted one of the worst pandemics of the modern era, as measured by loss of life, economic cost, and social disruption. During the peak years of the disease, 1928-1946...

"Easy Money" from Paper Realm: The Rise of Saxony, 1533-1676, by David X. Haller When the Elector Alexander took the reigns of the Saxon state in 1562, he found the electorate in trouble. His father's educational foundations were proving more costly than forecast, and though Saxony itself was...

Yes, a very consequential one, that might even happen during the peak years of the Habsburg ascendancy in Europe. Maybe a butterfly from this same event means that Henry dies when the floor falls beneath he and Henry VII at Richmond Palace. The throne is thrown into doubt. If Margaret inherits...

Well 1499 is immediately after the Perkin Warbeck business, Scottish involvement in which is what leads to the Treaty of Perpetual Peace between England and Scotland, which is sealed by the marriage of James IV and Margaret. Peace with England is important to Louis's plans for Italy, he...

Airing from 1956 to 1980, the Scottish imagebox show The Non-Children's Hour aired skits parodying the leadership of the RCR, most especially its chief judges, whose supposedly fearsome noms de guerre and coarse manners became a running joke. The following is a list of some of the chief judge...

Vespasiano Gonzaga by Bernardino Campi as the Elector Alexander I of Saxony Olivia Rosen, Transformer: A Life of the Elector Alexander. From "Chapter 4: Funeral Games" On the surface the investiture of Alexander with the electoral dignity was the smoothest transition of power Saxony had...