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@ Nanwe ¿No sería bueno que se comenzaron a emplear en los Ministerios unas gentes que por lo menos supiesen ya leer y escribir? Intrigued: where's your quote from, please?

Hitler and Chaplin were born within four days of each other in April 1889.

Stephen Fry wrote a book on this subject, called Skriva Historia in Swedish* (Making History in English, IIRC): Hitler didn't happen, so, as specified by the Divine Pratchett, a worse dictator came along instead. It didn't end well, and everybody died, horribly. * Borrowed from an IKÉA...

Award Hannover to the British crown? The fact that the kings of England were also the Electors of Han(n)over caused all sorts of amusement in the 18th century. Or, buggerit, just re-animate the Holy Roman Empire.

Shouldn't that be An ghlóir na hÉireann? Euphony...

Me too! My favourite thread, as well. [Signed] A Lurker

Oy gevalt, 'n pogrom!

Well, OTL Yiddish is a dialect of German, and that uses Hebrew characters.

Subscribed...

Just so long as they have Bersaglieri in the parades...

In English and French, yes: but it's Johannes Paulus in Latin, Giovanni Paulo in Italian...

Absent the atomic bomb, one of many options mooted by the Allies to wear down the Japanese (in view of the enormous projected cost in lives of invading the Japanese Home Islands) was to mass-produce the German V1 'doodlebug' and launch them in vast numbers from Okinawa.

Lovely piccie! Doubt that Warrior would want to let Monitor in that close IRL, and given that she could make more than twice a monitor's speed, she could insist on it: but who cares, it's nice!

For a start, look at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Jerusalem

First thing, Harold II Godwínson goes home to the lovely Ealdgȳð Swann hnesce [aka Edith Swan-neck] and they rejoice exceedingly; maybe he even takes his boots off first. Otherwise, depends on where the PoD is: for example, no invasion by Tostig Godwínson means no battle of Stamford Bridge...

And my two favourites are: whisky galore «uisge beatha gu leór»

German used ß 'es-zet' for double-s (think it' s been dumped recently) as in 'Straße' (Strasse), as did English up to the 17th century. Brits (usually engineers) at my work were fond of addressing parcels to Max-Planckstrabe, for example, which just annoys the Germans. I've always felt that...

I've really enjoyed this TL, though I came on it relatively late. The car-parts firm I used to work for dealt with Paykan in Iran: all their telexes to us (yup, still in use then) used to start "IN THE NAME OF GOD..." And, further to your West Germany thing: after reunification we took to...

off-topic I was in a Liverpool pub when the news came on TV that Thatcher had survived the bombing. Somebody said, "F**k, God must hate Britain."

Second that.