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  1. Lusitania

    AHC make it hard to colonize North America

    Sorry but that is not correct. Technology was only part of the issue. We had numerous discussions on this arguing this till we blue in face. Norse colonization will either lead to continued earlier contact with Europeans and same result in terms natives dying off. It was not that the Europeans...
  2. What is Greater Poland

    So the term "Greater Poland" can refer to a modern province in Poland. But it has an older useage. The term Polonia Maior appeared in 1257. So in the 1300s to 1600s, it refers to an area that might not correspond with modern boundaries. If someone was in those times on a horse, when would he...
  3. Driftless

    Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    "Oh brother, somebody going to kiss the donkey."
  4. AHC make it hard to colonize North America

    People here in the forum sometimes suggest that the Mississipi-Ohio basin could have sustained a large "China-esque" civilization if it had developed agriculture earlier. IIRC, the argument is that this region is immensely fertile, and mostly plain, and thus would allow for the formation of...
  5. Flashman

    AHC make it hard to colonize North America

    An earlier colonization that is less able to capitalize on the virgin field pandemics, allowing the natives develop immunity and repopuolate well before the arrival of peoples better prepared to take advantage of virgin field epidemics.
  6. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2
    Threadmarks: Story 2560

    Off the French Rivera, 0709 May 16, 1944 The French battleships and cruisers started to fire again. Their heavy guns were firing in support of a regiment from Algeria that had seen yet another German counter-attack attempting to form up and force them off of the heights that guarded the...
  7. Flashman

    AHC make it hard to colonize North America

    This, except I would reverse the importance.
  8. List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage

    POD: Henry IV of France doesn't get assassinated in 1610 Henri IV of France (b.1553: d.1619) m Marie de Medici (b.1575: d.1642) Issue: Louis XIII of France (b.1600) m Nicole of Lorraine (b.1608) Elisabeth of France (b.1602) m Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (b.1600) Christine of...
  9. The Last Hanover: The Life and Reign of Queen Charlotte

    Good! There's no such thing as too many tiaras!
  10. nick_crenshaw82

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

    Just because Ringworld start as revenge against Paramount doesn't mean the show wasn't done in good faith by the show runner during its production.
  11. SpaceOrbisGaming

    For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    I hope it'll be a fairly bloodless one at that. So far it has cost the life of one American astronaut and a window. If that is all that is lost I would be grateful. Of course, things will likely get worse before it'll get better as is the norm for the sort of thing. But hot damn was it a great...
  12. WilliamOfOckham

    AHC make it hard to colonize North America

    ...and discover America via Brazil and Canada rather than the rich and mild Caribbean. European interest in the New World is significantly delayed as *”the Indies” have less of a reputation for warm beaches full of friendly primitives, and more of a reputation for wasteland jungles and forests...
  13. 99 Red Winged Balloons: A hockey TL
    Threadmarks: 1992 NHL Draft and Off-season

    Two new teams enter the league this year, the ottawa senators and the milwaukee admirals. The two expansion teams will therefore pick first and second in the draft, as per league custom. The admirals wins both the coin toss and the 1st overall pick, and they would select czech defensman roman...
  14. TL-191: After the End

    Hi! I have 3 questions: Does this TL have a Socialist International-like group? Does the SPD abandon Marxism in this TL like it did in OTL with the Godesburg Program? What did Pierre Trudeau do in this TL?
  15. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    Will add one thing, I think Connally might pick Ford as his VP. Ford will immediately help Connally’s relationship with Congress and won’t be alienating to one side of the party as someone like Reagan or Rockefeller. The other option IMO is Baker but I think at this point in time Ford is the...
  16. Umayyads manage to take Rome and Constantinople. Could the Umayyads take the title of Roman emperor

    Oh. Ha ha ha. Actually looking back, this makes many of their actions make a lot of sense.
  17. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I agree. I'm not 100% convinced working on this netsite is doing his mental health any favours. Ringworld does seem a hell of a mess out of which a good(ish) show emerged despite the producers and not because of them. I can see a lot of speculation about how much better it could have been if it...
  18. McPherson

    'Sanity options' for the Italian army, 1935-42

    Gun on the Verdeja is competitive against the British cruiser and German mediums of the era. It is about as machine gun and artillery splinter resistant at 7 tonnes as the British cruisers. The A9-10 actually was not that much better in protection and the 2 pounder is not DP like the Boehler or...
  19. Communist Sudan: What Would It Look Like?

    Interestingly enough this is incredibly likely to change the 1973 Israeli war if the USSR has a base in Sudan and is willing to help, even say something like two thousand troops near the Egyptian border can actually cross it and logistical support, if things like air bases and heavy support is...
  20. The New Kratocracy: A Boulanger Coup TL

    So America has North New Guinea, the North Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, all of Samoa ... but not Hawaii. That's interesting. I don't think that sort of situation can last though - Pearl Harbor is too important to the United States. Slight correction need with respect to note 5. OTL...
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