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Also, as least as much as Carp has said, the role of women in public life in 18th century Corsica seems to have been relatively restricted. Theodore could probably name Elisabeth as his heir regardless, but I can imagine it causing some trouble - especially among more conservative factions - in...

Could easily be recruited into a British-aligned unit though.

It would not be an enormous POD to have his first son Isma'il, born in 1896, survive infancy. If you have a king who, say, fought in the First World War as a junior officer and wasn't a huge spoiled brat failson like Farouk, you could have a successor who is well-respected and competent enough...

I think it's very difficult to keep the Egyptian monarchy in power for the long term. The country's growing middle sectors will demand economic development and political reform of some kind, and there were multiple strong revolutionary movements active at the time against the country's...

Yeah IDK why we might be a little reluctant to "consider the perspective" of the people who gleefully shoved our great-grandparents into ovens. Germans may not have all be fanatical Jew-haters, but most of them did nothing while they steadily destroyed our civil and human rights and then...

Yeah, they were some of the shittiest people the U.S. ever supported. Just the scum of the Earth. My timeline opened with Tachito dying in the Managua earthquake, so at least we got that revenge. One of these days, I'll have to revive it, with some major tweaks.

First, I want to say that I'm truly loving this timeline, kudos to the author. In my long-dead Central America revolutionary timeline, I hoped to engage with Mexico a bit, but the level of research and knowledge that you've put into this is incredibly impressive. Speaking of Central America...

Which I guess raises the question: how do the Jesuits feel about the various groups of Corsicans, high and low, and including the Greeks and the Jews?

If we go with Richards in 1996, who are her primary opponents? Who is her running mate? And who are they running against in the general? At least for her running mate, I'd say either Dick Gephardt or John Kerry, leaning towards the latter. Gephardt is a Congressional wheeler-and-dealer who...

I was going to say. The best way to make Ann Richards president is for Ross Perot to be the 42nd President of the United States. He'll be buffeted on all sides while also shaking up both parties in a big way. Especially if he wins his home state of Texas, I think Richards has a decent shot as...

Alternately, a Pat Robertson victory in the 1992 primary (with a Perot run as well) would give even a somewhat unpopular Dukakis a solid shot at victory. Perot might even win a couple of states.

Their best candidate would have been Tim Pawlenty, probably with Mike Huckabee or something as his running mate to get the clerico-fascist right out to vote. It would have been a tighter race, although Obama would have likely won reelection anyway.

Obama wins his whole 2012 map, plus North Carolina, and maybe Georgia and Arizona (depending on what third-party bid there is). Democrats win Senate seats in Nevada and maybe Arizona in addition to their regular holds, and probably take the House, meaning we get a second round of stimulus...

I was actually looking up which modern country actually had the first Jewish president or prime minister, and it turns out it was Honduras. Juan Lindo, 1847. Freudian slip!

Honduras being the first country in Europe to have a Jewish prime minister would be honestly pretty cool.

The famous Asphodel Mutiny turning the tide of the Great Columbian War of Independence would be one hell of a plot twist.

With Corsica out from under the French thumb and tilting towards Britain (and with an Anglophile domestic political faction), what are the odds someone in the Foreign Office gets the bright idea of recruiting a regiment of Corsican mountaineers/light infantry? They might find themselves...

The Republic of Québec is the newest country in North America, and one of the newest states in the world. Encompassing the entirety of the former Canadian province of Québec, the Republic is a middle-income country of just under eight million people. Significantly poorer than either the United...

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He would. Funnelling Arabian oil into subsidizing Egyptian state capitalism would be Nasser's dream come true.