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Thanks, Ed! Of course one answer only whets the appetite for others! What a fascinating world - modernity without hegemony. I love the Shanghai-set alt-Casablanca idea, perhaps it could be the movie Franco was talking about doing in China...

Hong Kong and Postwar Asia Dunno if Ed's still answering questions on this magnificent TL, but one thing I've wondered about is the ongoing status of Hong Kong and the other European concessions and treaty ports in China (Tientsin, Shanggai International Settlement, Portuguese Macao, British...

Yes, and if the politicians would have untied the military's hands, the US would have won in Vietnam :p. I suspect that it was easier in public for the generals and admirals to displace the blame onto a departing politician (technically the overall Commander-in-Chief) while quietly reforming...

One of the strongest tailwinds Reagan got upon entering office was the release of the Embassy hostages in Iran on the day of his inauguration. At a stroke, the Iranian regime removed the most blatant source of negativity (among many) that hobbled the late Carter administration, and freed up...

Eh, no great loss. I always liked Knott's Berry Farm better...:D

Galt? That's the porn name he chose for himself? As if my esteem for JER couldn't get any lower he turns out to be a Randroid...

Well, doing things George Lucas wouldn't do sort of seems to be the point of this thread. As far as Calamari sunburn goes you could have Obi-Wan offer him some drawn butter in place of sunscreen :p, or you could have them go to a non-desert planet (Ord Mantell? It's just a name in Empire, so you...

It's a Trap In general, I agree with the older-Anakin/no-midichlorians/kill Jar-jar consensus; the following are just some ideas I've had kicking around since RotS came out and I realized that this would, in fact, be it. I don't care anything about pre-existing canon, but just with the movies...

Hmmm, with all the death and destruction, a gloomy genre like grunge would probably never have caught on, so the few remaining survivors would still be listening to C+C Music Factory.

Agreed that losing the BEF doesn't mean the RAF and RN are going anywhere. Still, nothing anyone has written has convinced me that Dunkirk wasn't Germany's most realistic chance of knocking Britain out of the war.

Quick and dirty - could the German Wehrmacht have overrun the BEF and prevented any large-scale evacuation across the Channel? If so, would Britain sue for peace, and if not, could she fight on? Would the diversion of forces and the glut of prisoners affect the front against the French...

Well, the OTL continuity of Flashman had him dying in 1915, and as his DOB was 1822-3, it would be highly unlikely he'd make it to the (19)'30s.

I read most of "The World Of..." last night so this is fresh in my mind. I believe British land forces in the Great War were mostly tied up attempting to scoop up the German colonies in East Africa and Annam, then fighting a losing war against China to hang onto Burma, Kashmir, and Vietnam (the...

Haven't you ever heard of The Queen's Latin?

What is the status of Armenians and Kurds (won't independent Turkey encompass all of non-Persian Kurdistan?) What is the postwar border settlement like between Turkey and Russia?

Ix-nay on the etcon-ray.

So was Formosa ruled by China or was it an independent republic? What happened to it after the War of the Dual Alliance? I was looking over FABR the pdf, and couldn't find out what had happened to the French. Also, were the Japanese able to hold onto it after the Great War?

16 different flavors of awesome. I imagine the former trans-Amur Japanese will become a sort of despised minority in Japan a la the Pontine and Smyrno Greeks OTL.

I guess he stayed on in Liverpool. I'm having a worrying suspicion that when/if TTLs Beatles equivalent rolls around, their moptops won't be their most striking hair feature...

A "Tom" Lawrence was Minister for Security (don't remember the exact title) in Winston Churchill's last government (it was in the original post). He seems to have turned out rather nastily, arranging assassinations and the like. My guess is he winds up either as "Lawrence of Katanga" or up...