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Well, for one thing... Probably the most religiously-tolerant ruler in the Mediterranean in the 5th or 6th centuries, and you single him out as a persecutor? He was flawed. He wasn't as tolerant as we would expect of our time. But he denounced pogroms, and took measures to prevent them. And...

They do better than in our time line. They haven't suffered the massive defeats of 1941, and they don't have to rebuild their armies in 1941-1942 with minimal training, so they get to finish reorganizing their forces in 1941. Worst case scenario? Very successful German counterattacks, heavy...

Even larger areas of Russia and China? And constant low-level warfare which gradually discredits the Japanese military?

A tracked mounting for 80 cm artillery, allowing the piece to be switched from the railroad mounting to something less reliable, with the transmission breaking when the engine doesn't catch fire. I'm trying to think if there is any way for them to try to build a weapon based on the principles...

Religious tolerance was not a new idea. Although intolerance has been more common, in the western world, from late antiquity through early/middle modern times, there have been exceptions. Theodoric was noted for his relative tolerance, although somehow he has been listed for supposed...

I think it's important, nay vital, to distinguish between healthy variation and disease. I have asthma. I struggle with it. I have no trouble calling it a disease or saying it needs a cure. I am lesbian. I am just fine this way. It isn't a disease and it doesn't need a 'cure.' I don't know...

As long as there are survivors, they are going to have trouble covering this up. Even if they raze all the death camps, the liberation of other concentration camps, and the discovery of mass graves and other ruins of destroyed death camps will still show the world that the Nazis were ... an...

In other words, I'm not part of "the human race in general." And you're saying I'm only lesbian because of "problems with [my] sex hormones"? And if it were a waste, it wouldn't be so common. Bonobos, some of our closest relatives, have lots of same-sex sex. And we humans have technologies such...

1. There are different classifications. 2. This chart shows Frisian, except for East Frisian, as a separate group, and Dutch as a dialect of Low German. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germanic_Languages.PNG 3. AFAIK, the dialects in question, from Low Franconian to Alamannic, form a dialect...

Who are you calling "we"? Sorry, something of a digression on a possible ritual context for semen transfer.

I think it was mostly about ritual separation, and secondarily, about patrilineage. At different times proto-Judaism tried to distinguish itself from neighboring religions by abolishing practices it shared with neighboring religions. So, many sex acts which were associated with fertility...

Actually, no, there are a lot of ways around that. After all, humans have had some reproductive technologies since before written history; something as simple as semen transfer would work. (And when you consider the Cybelline tradition, and countless similar traditions, it's not hard to...

The Romans fought more wars against other Romans than against any one external rival.

Okay, so how do we get from present-day Juche to far-future Juche-based trading empires, with no sign of military dictatorship or Great LeaderTMship? Like in some of Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution novels? :)

I thought Frisian, Saxon, and English were considered North Sea Germanic, and NOT considered anything-German, while the majority language of the Netherlands and lowland Germany was considered Low German. :confused:

Isn't the majority language Low German? With a minority speaking Frisian? And both languages being spoken on both sides of the border? So if the standard literary language in the Germanies was Low German, instead of tending towards Middle and High German, then it would probably be counted as...

I think Bolsheviks on the periphery would be even more prone to split with the center, resulting in minor Soviet Republics with independent Red Armies. Historically, this pattern continued well into 1919 in the Baltic, Ukraine, and Crimea, and the independent Red Armies were as effective as the...

Fedorov Avtomat. I think the Browning also deserves consideration.

And in the border areas, that kind of policy means the slaves have nothing to lose and a reasonable chance at escaping/winning.

He describes immigration as, in part the product of Roman power and wealth. Basically, that as long as one has an empire, one is going to have large-scale immigration, more into the empire than out of it. And he argues that unpredictable Roman policies, sometimes including trying to enslave or...