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In the spirit of the so-called holiday, I'm going to make a motion at the UN for the islands to be ceded to France. They can test their nuclear weapons there.

Carried over from the previous Map Thread.

Reinstated Lawlessness in Texas grew during the 1920s as alcohol, drugs and firearms cris-crossed the State in every direction. The occupational authority has less success in the Lone Star State namely because of the sheer size of it. Texas could not be sealed the way Arkansas or South...

Gonna try something different with the next addition.

Given that there's a lot more people to purge here than in Cambodia, yeah. I'm not sure if the actual percentage of those killed will be that high.

Yeah, I noticed.

The end of the Songhai Empire.

War over the Air Waves The first commercial radio station opened its doors in New York in 1921. At first, its success was marginal. After all, few people owned wireless sets in 1921. Manufacturers of radios looked towards the Ford system as a means to expand their market. Owners of Wireless...

The New Hollander version of James Cook: Abel Tasman.

Rise of the High Rise By 1925, cities such as Chicago, New York and Boston have ran out of sprawling room. Already, major cities looked to the clouds for breathing space. Buildings towering as high as twenty stories could be found even by the start of the war. During the 1920s, the high rise...

A map thread wouldn't be a map thread without something Dutch in it.

Lost Cause is now a live e-book.

I beg to differ.

I have a Balkan Century thread around here somewhere. I guess I'll put some key points of its origin in the map.

I think it would have worked better if I planned it this way from the beginning. Oh well. The Strange Cabinet With the Election of 1924 going to Congress to decide, Debs’s cabinet was certainly one of the most diverse bodies in the history of American politics. Debs gained the Presidency...

The UBSR in 1938. It needs an inforgraph deal but I don't know what I should put in it. Statistics or history or a brief summary.

Ah, so that's what the pattern of blood vessels in his eye looked like.

What do you get if you drain the Mediterranean? (The whole sea, not just what's on the map) A giant salt desert a couple of kilometers below sea level hotter than the Sahara. I never could figure out why anyone ever thought that scheme was a good idea. They think farmland but what they'd get...

Exclusion Reconstruction had many unforeseen byproducts. With the resources of a nation devoted to rebuilding itself and with millions of formerly foreign nationals abruptly brought into its borders, for the first time in history, the United States closed its borders to immigration. It was by...

It'd be counterproductive to say the least. Yes, I can see what you're saying. I'll think about fixing that. If I had Woods as VP, it could create such a headache as to push the popular vote amendment further along.