My other idea was to take the 1870 state borders and just truncate the thing at the Order-Neisse line*, since it would provoke much more funny reactions from you, Dr Nodelescu and Kabraloth, but then I realised it would take too long to make properly and so I went for the cheap laugh instead...
Since it seems to be a theme right now, here's my (hot off the CIA World Factbook) Surviving Weimar!
Still not sure why everyone keeps referring to it as a "republic", though. :confused:
I do like the bland way you put that across. :D "Eviscerating Czechoslovakia is best for all involved. After all, it's not like European countries can safely contain minorities - that's why none of my maps include Belgium, Switzerland, or Romania."
It struck me as a fairly generic one that got an (admittedly fairly imaginative) kick in the pants a third of the way in. The fact that the dragon was Assyrian was pretty nice, though. We need more fantasy that doesn't just take English names for its characters.
Pffft, it's merely R^2. ;)
I'll put out a word for War of the Flowers, because we don't have enough industrial fantasy. And also because the approach to science is awesome. ("Why don't you make like a human and fly to the Moon in a magic ship while you're at it?")
Yes, it would have been significantly more difficult.
...To be slightly more serious (although that is a perfectly good explanation, IMHO), modern techniques are better at finding buried fossils via eg "subterranean sonar"-type devices, which means you don't have to just wait to find bones...
Uh... that's my sig. It's a joking reference to this
notorious comics panel (I don't think Roberto would ever be that insulting on his own, and I certainly wouldn't have sigged it if he had). It appears at the bottom of all my posts, so it's definitely not specifically directed at you. :o
Not really - it's more like calling Canada Canada. Sure, it only refers to one part of the country, but a) it's the largest, richest, most populous part, that took over the rest and what's more important b) it's the country's actual name.
Krases is making my eyes itch.
No. Maybe some of the interior might join the US (although, it would more probably take conquest by the US in a war) but the Maritimes aren't "the bit separated from the rest of Canada" in 1820, they're "the bit still connected to the motherland".
(Also...
My personal feeling is that it would have lots of knock-on effects, but is hard to do: arabic numerals are so patently superior to roman ones that it's hard to see how this could be achieved with any kind of peaceful east-west contact whatsoever.
Yeah, but it's still a Hero of Alexandria /...
Newfoundland to a first approximation consists of the city of St John's and to a second approximation the Avalon Peninsula (the yellow bit). The part owned by the Newfies in that map has less than 50% of the population and none of the resources, wealth, or strategic value.
Your doing it wrong. :mad: I have no particular problem with piracy - I'm on a Mac, for God's sake, eight year-old games still cost 65$ - but I don't pirate Stardock and I don't pirate Paradox because I like their games and I want them to produce more. It's pretty simple.