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I agree that an armistice similar to what happened is most likely, It's been a while since I read To Lose a Battle, but the French political collapse is remarkably swift. My point was that with a non-hostile Italy, the military situation itself is not quite as bad, IF the French get a de...

In our timeline, the Japanese walked into French Indo-China without any opposition from the Vichy aligned government or Vichy France itself. In any timeline with a single French government-in-exile (as what happened with the Dutch) the excuses the Japanese used do not exist. The Japanese...

Geekhis, How closely does this follow our time line? I can see things remaining roughly the same in May of 1940 regardless of the actual German plan used. The French command and military are simply not prepared for the Greman attack. June however could be different. I'm assuming some sort...

That's putting it mildly, the entire Mediterranean naval war is gone. While their may be coastal skirmishes, but the Med will be an Allied lake. The Royal Navy and Regia Marina can contain any German threat and the French fleet, which may just bolt for North Africa anyway. Not to...

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Almost impossible. Since 1917 Puerto Ricans are American citizens. Free access to the US eliminates any need for Puerto Ricans to go to the UK. To do this you would need a POD in the 17th of 18th century where the UK gets control of PR. With PR in the Empire, you would see a lot of Puerto...

What would be the effect of several large Passenger Pigeon flocks on Commercial and General Aviation in the Midwest US? Not to mention driving conditions in and around a town where a flock decided to land.

It's a short line...

Maybe it's because I don't speak Italian, but that is the strangest thing I have seen this year.

Damn that pesky real life! Doesn't your employer know you have an important thread to update on the internet? They need to rethink their priorities...;).

Superintendent of The US Military Academy? West Point might have been a good fit and he would have a lot to teach young officers.

It will be a much more strict constructionist court. He will probably raise the bar on intellectual arguments both in oral arguments before the court and in the writing of opinions. He will have an even more important role in the interpretations of anti-trust law. He does not have an...

"Say hello to my little friend..."

Judging by the quality of the the partial first season, Firefly would be considered a classic, as good as Babylon 5. Heck, it may be there already.

We actually do, just not in the form you have in the UK. As I stated above there are non-commercial rest areas on most major interstates and the vast majority of exits from an interstate will have one or more gas stations, restaurants, truck stops (a combination of gas station and restaurant...

Those are service areas on the Kansas Turnpike (I-35, I-335, and I-70) and the several turnpikes (I-44 has at least two sections that are turnpikes) in Oklahoma. According to the Kansas Turnpike Authority website, the "rest stop" in question is probably the Belle Plaine Service Area at...

It's a little more complicated than that. Interstate highways (which, while mostly financed by the US government are owned and maintained by the All 50 States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Alaska and PR both have unsigned interstates that are financed as part of the system but...

Abortion was not "legalized" in 1973. Abortion was legal in some states and not legal in others. What Roe did was elevate the procedure to a Constitutionally protected right, which means that no state can prohibit it. Without Roe it remains a state level issue. Liberal Northeastern and West...

Because an armada of armor plated battle Zeppelins is by definition COOL. The "Rule of Cool" trumps physics and rationality. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool

He Is the Greatest by the Rev. Cassius Clay DD, LLD. The most famous of the Christian apologetics written by the prodigious Reverend Clay. It is both an autobiography and an apologetic. It details his life from being a world famous boxer, to serving as a soldier in Vietnam, and the...