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I bought the first volume because it had a character called Alcuin... then I bought the rest of the trilogy... and now I've bought Kushiel's Scion as well.

Umm, I have thousands of books and my wife destroyed another thousand about ten years ago because the Holy Spirit told her to. I have the What IF, and What Might have been series. Alternate Generals and Alternate Generals II, some Harry Turtledove but can't remember which except they include...

Surely, what Ozymandias did to New York is (apart from the much higher deathtoll) pretty much 9/11 in emotional terms. It's a shame there was no sequel. I'd love to see what happened when people found out.

The North Atlantic Drift would have to flow through the Irish Sea because it couldn't get through to the North Sea. This would give Ireland, the West Coast of Britain and possibly Iceland slightly warmer climates than today. The South and East coasts of England, North and Eastern Scotland...

Some of them allowed friends. Paole Zion did in England (although only in the youth group) as adults the non Jewish members were expected to join the Labour Party itself. I have no idea whether this is still the case.

Regardless of whether she dated Arlosoroff, there's more evidence she was a member of a Zionist youth group. Imagine though if she had dated Arlosoroff and then found that Goebbels had been responsible for his murder.

The French Foreign Legion was so full of ex Wehrmacht that Ho Chi Minh's broadcast tapes at Dien Bien Phu were in German. Besides, I still imagine South America would be the bolthole for most Nazis. Tibet would only be attractive to Himmler's clique or perhaps to Hitler himself.

Interesting. Yes, I can imagine that easily... although he's more likely to INTERFERE with the plots of the Nazis in Tibet than facilitate them.

It would be more interesting if Magda moved to Palestine. She was raised Jewish and in her youth was interested in Zionism. Why would Goebbels quit the Nazis? Oh.. unless of course, Hitler tried to insist he and Magda stay together? Well, given his interst in Buddhism, if he was forced to...

The Netherlands has three times as many people but the Scottish League has more teams. (I think the two divisions of the Dutch league have 36 teams? and Scotland's four divisions have nearly fifty). And as for the old firm, sadly Feyenoord finished seventh this season. Seltic Airdrie is...

But the Dutch League is smaller than the Scottish League and has almost as many teams in Europe as England.

In CM2003 I managed (without cheating) to get Bohemians of Dublin into the League stage of the Champions League in 2004 and make so much money they could monopolise the League of Ireland for ten years. I also managed to get Cowdenbeath into the Scottish Premier League but that required some...

I'm with the consensus. Everybody builds them. Truman builds another, Stalin builds one, Churchill builds one, de Gaulle builds one, Gaddaffi builds one, Castro builds one, Sirhan Sirhan builds one, Lee Harvy Oswald builds one, Charles Manson builds fifty eight, Dylan Klebold builds one, Osama...

The Dixie timeline in GURPS Alternative Earths has Walker's Nicaragua intervening on behalf of the CSA. Although Walker himself was anti-slavery and in OTL Nicaragua did not allow slavery, in the Gurps timeline, Walker had held onto power in Nicaragua despite attempts by United Fruit to topple...

Remember that Cromwell was an East Anglian. I agree that we always want to have a go at the French (ever since Hereward the Wake hid out in the fens and fought a guerilla war against the Normans). But there have always been extremely close ties between East Anglia and the Netherlands. Even...

Those are all part of the reason but the other is the appalling state into which the Haitian environment had sunk in TTL. In OTL, Haiti is suffering from deforestation and soil erosion but in TTL, that is made even worse by the fact of having had to fight a war with the Dominican Republic...

Have Genghis Khan self-identify as a gnostic, perhaps claiming to fulfil the legend of Prester John. Have the Horde identify itself as the Sons of Light, and have them convert the Moslems first and then non-Gnostic Christians. Does that work?

No, that doesn't make sense. They knew the Nile flows into the Mediterranean. Any tributary would have to flow into the river because that's what tributaries do.

Shouldn't that be West to East? Firstly the Niger travels West to East, secondly, it is more likely that he would see a river flowing West to East as a tributary of the Nile. If one was flowing East to West, he'd just assume that it flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.