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RE: the Franco interview. How does Spain manage to hold on to Porto Rico in 1898? Or was referring to it as "the Spanish island of PR" referring to culture rather than ownership?

The Madness version or the ootly-tootly old timey one?

USA UK France (To be fair, it's the only song in French that I know):D Ireland (Obligatory)

A world where antidisestablishmentarianism fails?:eek: This is indeed a disturbing universe.

In Breakthroughs, Morrell commiserates with his CS opposite number after the Great War cease-fire that US military fatalities were over a million men dead, while CS military fatalities were just under a million. It's hard to tell whether the figures are overall or whether they only account for...

I dunno...French with an Australian drawl might make a sexy combination. Koalas wearing berets, Kangaroos smoking Galoises...:p Plus the wine industry might have taken off sooner...

The media industries are where the internet exercises its most visible influence. In the US at least, newspapers have been consolidating or going out of business for the past decade. A similar dynamic exists in the music industry (legal and illegal file sharing). In the wider economy, the...

The South seceded in large part because the accession of non-slave Western states and the concurrent rise of the Republican Party threatened their dominance of the US Senate, thereby foreclosing their desired policies in the West, and threatening them with having an end to slavery railroaded...

A different 4 Corners, I see. This looks like it might be the result of a no Civil War TL - the East-West rather than North-South split between AZ and NM was IIRC because Jefferson Davis had drawn up a North South map before the war and then tried to annex the southern half ("Arizona") to the...

Actually, it was a very interesting coincidence that Prohibition and the vote for women occurred nearly simultaneously. From what I can extrapolate at nearly ninety years' remove, the urban male working-class drinking culture (only men went to bars/saloons before Prohibition) was pretty...

It's been a while since I read them, but I think there was a mention (during one of Roger Kimball's infiltrations of the Chesepeake?) of the North taking it over in the Great War.

Good. More for me then!

In fact, I feel the first ticklings of a TL involving the Soviets, British, Turks and Greeks where the post-war Balkan settlement is upset by the Straits issue. As I recall the situation OTL was a patently ridiculous and unworkable "percentage" system between the British and the Soviets, where...

If Turkey joins the Axis, say (its own POD, but it's after 1922) I could see a reverse-Gallipoli grab for the Bosporus as the war swings against Hitler.

Assuming a CSA-wins scenario without foreign intervention (no Trent incident war or TL-191 style UK-French mediation to end the war) both US and CS remain Atlantic powers. For the rest of the 19th century, that means both countries will remain tied to British (and to a lesser extent, French and...

Dusan - when is that supposed to be from? Was that friend Tamerlane or some other Timur?

I remember the Mad Magazine spoof of it ended rather similarly to Dr. Strangelove.

The first point is debatable, but if you asked a hundred people to name books of the bible, I bet these would be the two that came up most often. Maybe Exodus might displace one or the other in the lead, but apart from church a lot of people read Exodus up to the Forest of Begats, then skip to...

Worse?! How could it get any worse?

The two most-read books of the Bible are probably Genesis and Revelations, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega (a figure pinched from Revelations, BTW), and a canon which spelled out the beginning of the world and not the end would have profound effects on subsequent Christian...