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  1. What could have been some alternate Cradles of Civilization?

    The Mississippi river maybe? Civilization did develop in South america but maybe it could have happened earlier.
  2. Zauberfloete Hall of Cartography or the Hall of Z

    I never asked, but in your "Legacy of Spring“ world, how did Russia annex Tannu Tuva from the Chinese Empire even though they had problems with uprisings as well?
  3. Battle of Fredericksburg WI: Lee Destroys the Pontoon Bridges and Traps the Union Army

    Fire rafts might do the trick better than just logs. Were there any cotton stores nearby? The citizenry of New Orleans sent a ton of burning ships and rafts with burning cotton on them to try and desperately stop Farragut’s fleet. Managed to ground a few of his ships for a couple hours...
  4. No Collectivization in the Soviet Union

    Yeah, I see. A village blacksmith is making a tractor out of pieces of a scrap iron... 🤔 And then the Soviet industry is getting reoriented toward supplying a private sector (contrary to the prevailing ideology) thanks to the all-powerful head of the Cooperatives. The OP clearly defined a...
  5. What could have been some alternate Cradles of Civilization?

    Basically what the question says
  6. SealTheRealDeal

    PDWs as spin-offs from the 'Artillery Luger' in widespread use in 1915-1945

    Given how few nations issued pistol calibre carbines, we're actually replacing bolt action carbines. An MP-40 cost less than a 98k. Generally speaking all the "gen 2" SMGs made from stamped steel were significantly cheaper than their bolt action counterparts, which required much more milling...
  7. AHQ: Stable succession system in Byzantium

    the leo V to michael II did do alot of damage due Leo asssasination according to recent byzantine scholars like John B. Bury led directly to the revolt of Thomas the slav which was one of the most paired rebellions out there thomas revolt nearly killed Michael in fact the revolt allowed the...
  8. What if the Danube valley culture survived to the Age of Classical Antiquity and beyond?

    I have wondered, what would Europe look like if the advanced farming cultures of the neolithic Paleo-European Danube valley of Southern Europe survived into present day as yet another cradle of civilization? What would the culture, migration patterns, religion and cultural development look like?
  9. Lavanya Six

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    On that note, I just stumbled across a reference to just that when looking up a reference to an old World Science Fiction Convention. From this 1996 piece about Worldcons: The kicker is that last line. Like, this is a book from 1996. People knew. (I'd mainly known Breen from the coin-collecting...
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