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It's a fair point, but they do have earlier battery technology too to store power and smooth out the supply. Also, there are high populations in the better-watered areas so hydro power will be preferentially adopted there; wind power maybe less so though. There will be some use of steam...

OK, looks like way to many problems for lemon juice to be much of a runner at such an early date. Instead, perhaps Lancaster's and the EICs efforts spur rediscovery of the properties of the boiled needles of the arbor vitae tree (Eastern White Cedar) discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1536 on the...

A fair point. I don't know whether lemons will grow anywhere in Britain or not; if not this is indeed a problem. 'Lemon Wars' anyone? :) Well, my point here is that it worked for Lancaster, and he was a successful captain with a good reputation, so what he discovered could have spread more...

Alfred Russel Wallace came with the idea of evolution by natural selection independantly of Darwin, and his communicating this to Darwin prompted the publication of 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859, in a relatively short, populist form. However, suppose Wallace was not around, having perhaps...

I've recently been reading 'Nathaniels Nutmeg' and from it it appears that, among others, James Lancaster used lemon juice as a cure for scurvy in 1601. This was reported to the Admiralty, but nothing came of it, and the curative power of lemon juice was not widely known until 1747 and not...

Apparently, in 1831 when the Beagle arrived at Salvador in Brazil, Darwin had a serious disagreement with Robert Fitzroy, the captain of the Beagle, over slavery and was banned from his company. In OTL Fitzroy got over it and apologised, but what if he did not, and Darwin left the Beagle at...

One word: Money. Without the exploitation of India Europe will have less of it, which will have an impact.

Hard! And probably not do-able, because a lot of the growth of Europe, the UK in particular, came from exploiting India. Keeping the Mughals strong means more money staying in India and less flowing into Europe, even if the Mughals keep up trade with Europe. Which is going to have an effect...

Gurkani Alam for you...

Sounds like the Culture to me...

More from the Atlas of True Names...

So what were Crockett's political views? What kind of a Texan politician might he be I wonder?

Bumpov! And here's another race for your enjoyment, the Ekrratki...

Suppose during the Texan struggle for independance from Mexico, there is no battle of the Alamo? Texas still gains its independance, but now various people who died there, like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, are still alive. How does their survival affect events in the future? Davy Crockett in...

<Madonna> Living in an Imperial world And I am an Imperial girl You know that we are living in an Imperial world And I am an Imperial girl </Madonna>

Another very fine entry. Looking forward to more. You've obviously put a lot of thought into it - it all works together in a very plausible way. Couple of typos there though - 'Fedbruary 15', 'Fort Haixi which lied' should be 'Fort Haixi which lay' and similar lied/lay typos in a few other...

Yes, I think that's exactly what it does according to the friend of mine who wrote it. And it doesn't take into account things like tides etc. Have a look at the about page...

Gukani Alam for you, I think...

Nothing in the red oval for me, because in the other two the helm and cannons are too fiddly, too small for the size of the flag...

Bah! I was enjoying it. Write more. :(