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The Galena has already been mentioned, so I'd like to nominate another Civil War era vessel - the Casco class monitor: You may notice that this monitor is missing something rather important. Well, there's a reason for that. The Casco class was to be a shallow draft river monitor, designed...

Their delegation to the Paris Peace Conference claimed the state to have the following demographic makeup: 2.5 million Armenians .5 million other Christian (Assyrian?) .5 million Turks, Arabs, Persians, Circassians .3 million Tartars .2 million Kurds .3 million other faiths...

Does the mass death of captured rebels due to horrific conditions while imprisoned count? If so, the numbers from the American Revolution are quite high, with deaths aboard British prison hulks far exceeding battlefield losses for the Patriots. The percentage that died ranges from being...

There was a design study done in the 50s by Panero Engineers, which looked at the possibility of providing blast shelters for Manhatten buried 800 feet deep. The idea was that if this could work in Manhattan, it could be done anywhere. There's a good article about it here. There was a plan...

I'd seriously question the legitimacy of their elections in the period - under the PRI, it was a de facto one party state in the 40s.

The year is 1960. Polio, that scourge that has hounded Man since time immemorial, appears to have been dealt a mortal blow. For years, the wondrous new vaccine for the dread disease has been in circulation, with nations around the globe launching mass vaccination campaigns. But all is not well -...

That's actually an interesting concern, and not one I'd thought of! On the other hand though, wasn't there already a fair amount of irregularity and confusion when it came to the standards for measurements between the states, something that was the very cause for Congress to push for a new...

The Metric system and the United States has been something that pops up with some degree of regularity on AH. As such, I thought it might be worth asking what the global and local effects would be if America didn't use traditional units - but rather than supposing an adoption of the metric...

Fresh from a Smithsonian channel documentary, we get this WW1 map, one that gets more perplexing the more you look at it:

Also, its weighed over 32 pounds.

The Eurofighter is a very respectable fighter, and it isn't French designed - the French dropped out of the program and went on to create the Rafale instead.

The British deciding to designate their Eurofighters as Spitfires instead of Typhoons seems the easiest solution.

Assuming that things go better for the US on Nuku Hiva, and they maintain a presence post 1814? Well, first off, I suspect that Congress will be wary over the idea of such a territory , one fundamentally different from existing territories in the continental US, which were seen more as a mere...

President Quezon did that OTL.

The USS Essex came around Cape Horn in January of 1813 after a failed cruise for enemy merchant ships in the Atlantic, with the intent of attacking British whaling vessels in the South Pacific, and protecting the sizable amount of American whalers plying those waters.

If Jphn Jacob Astor's colony in the northwest had succeeded *, than that region could have potentially come under American domination from the start, instead of entering the muddy joint-control period of OTL. *Not all that unreasonable, even with the War of 1812 - if the reinforcements and...

Actually, the US had a foothold in eastern Polynesia during the early 1800s, when the USS Essex landed on Nuku Hiva in 1813 to make repairs and resupply. The crew of the Essex allied with one of the major tribes in their ongoing war, and emerged victorious. A small fort and naval base was...

Actually, in a lot of tanks, the radio was located in the turret, not the hull - the bow gunner had nothing to do with its operation, which was left to the tank commander.

Dare I ask for elaboration? Given your legendary hatred of the Alaska, there must be a story here.

It was from the book Saddam's Secrets, by Georges Sada. I own a copy that I read many years ago, but I haven't been able to find it. Going over to Google Books gives the following, which roughly matches what I recall: http://imgur.com/a/01g3K Unfortunately, after that, I reach the page limit...