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Speaking of Jewish Marxist Globalist Leftist Socialist Zionists...the strongest force in Zionism until the 1970s was socialist (and sometimes even Marxist). A monarchy is going to be a hard sell, even if it's a Jew (and even if it's a Jew whose family donated a lot of money and left their names...

New Caledonia also had two other things which made it so screwed up: a policy of exporting natives to work on plantations elsewhere, and being used as a prison colony

Out of curiosity: why use the word "felaheen" instead of just "peasants"?

Yes; like wood, peat, animal dung, or rice husks. Hay (like the article mentions) was seldom burnt because it was more valuable as animal feed (or mattress-stuffing, or for bricks, or...). Also, as I said, the article makes it unclear if charcoal counts. It has 2 main advantages...

I feel like this question is based on a false premise. People have been burning biomass as a primary source of heat and cooking for...well, since fire was invented. Nor was wood the only thing burned. Peat, rice husks, animal dung, any number of other things...only people living in an...

There's good and bad, but I think probably better, on the whole. Depending on how bad the German and Polish Wars are, but they can't have been that bad since, you know, Europe still exists.

OTL, Fredrick III agreed to crown Charles the Bold of Burgundy as a king. This was based on the precedent of the historical Kingdom of Burgundy, which was technically not in the Empire. Compare the Duke of Brandenburg becoming King of Prussia.

What makes you say this?

Palestine probably shouldn't have the Golan Heights.

I don't think it's all the implausible. All the things you mention seem very reasonable - including the problems involved :p The biggest problem is getting the Young Turks to agree to having a state that's dominated by Turks but not explicitly Turkish.

Do you realize that implementing the 2nd Bernadotte Plan in the 2000s would involve displacing millions of Israelis? Basically, once a few years have passed since the 1949 ceasefire, any boundaries are going to look something like the Green Line, plus or minus (as, indeed, all OTL plans have...

The Statue of Liberty was never actually an effective lighthouse; the torch was far too faint. It was never designed to function as a lighthouse, despite what a few folks hoped.

I think you should still go with Libertas, but include more of the classical accouterments: instead of a torch and a tablet, give her a rod and a squishy hat in her hand (or make it a Phrygian cap if that's still associated with liberty in your TL; I don't remember if you said so one way or the...

This has been thoroughly debunked. Not the sweet potato part, but the human contact part. Sweet potatoes predate humans in Southeast Asia by millennia, and current theory is that seeds were carried by birds or currents. The chicken thing remains, but it's much more controversial.

Hey! I wonder if this could be a way for the US to participate in the war before Pearl Harbor. A bunch of destroyers could be "sold" to Iceland, their crews "taking leave" or "being discharged" and going to volunteer in the Icelandic Navy. Think Flying Tigers, but with ships. The Flying...

I doubt there were enough Icelanders to do this effectively. Iceland's population in 1940 was about 120,000; if it mobilized at a similar rate to the UK, that would give about 8,000 men under arms (compare 3 million out of 46 million for Britain, which is about 6.5% of the population). Typical...