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  1. Mackensen class battlecruisers in WW1

    I hate to be the one to strike up the familiar song of "Yes, but what DON'T you build instead?", but there's no way around it. If you look at postwar pictures of the unfinished capital ships of the HSF, you'll note they all lack belt & barbette armour, not to mention their main artillery...
  2. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    Problem would be that them trying to do so would make them vulnerable to larger counter-arguments, especially when this ordeal snowballs with actresses and actors accusing some of their fellow actors and directors into making them with such things and so on. It would not be a backlash , but...
  3. James the AH Fan

    The Quarter-BAM project

    Don-Kuban will be removed too.
  4. Papal Assination: a POD proposal with an incapacitated Pope

    Good article here from 2005 when Pope JP II was unable to speak https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/catholic/2005/03/what-happens-if-the-pope-becomes-incapacitated.aspx Not aware that later popes have "plugged the loophole"? 2013 article implies not...
  5. An Arthurian Empire of Britannia discussion

    We don't know if king Arthur really existed it's commonly believed that he was of Roman Britannic descend or he was a figure who was in fact several individuals. The Anglo-Saxon conquest is believed to have taken over 60 years of fighting and the conquest would it be completed until the rulr of...
  6. AHC: Polish-American President

    Chuck Hagel is partly Polish. "His father was of German heritage, while his mother was of Irish and Polish ancestry." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel (He was rumored to be a possible running mate for Obama in 2008, but I think that was very unlikely. Still, if nothing else, as...
  7. How much different would cancelling operation Barbarossa make on WW2

    Yeah, the T-34 was going to become a beast. Heck if all the did was work out the kinks & mechanical flaws, it would still outmatch everything up to & including the Pz IV/50mm; even the model with 75mm would be hard pressed. But yes, I do believe the germans would find out. By mid/late 42 there...
  8. Not James Stockdale

    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    I was talking generally about Soviet 3"/40 field guns like the M1902/30, USV, and Zis-3. They are slightly longer than the French 75 mm C97 but use newer technologies and weigh slightly less. In the early 1920s, a lighter field gun on a split-trail carriage for motor towing would probably weigh...
  9. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    It's certainly not a surefire method, but it works just fine if your interest is establishing an ethnic hierarchy. And it can work. For every Breton, Kurd or Basque still proudly speaking their ancestral language, theres a descendant of Wends or Occitans who doesn't. This will be a painful...
  10. Galloway and the Plan of Union: A Saga of a British America

    Probably not as quickly as many "Yankee Dominion" timelines do it, especially with the land south of the 36°30′ north line still being here and serving as the major cotton belt just like OTL. I can buy the UAC going along with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 but not so sure...
  11. The Decade of Disaster: What if the Franco-Prussian War Escalated? (relaunched)

    ...the areas with the predominantly Catholic or Muslim population. With Bulgaria and Serbia this was at least a byproduct of the Panslavic hysteria (*) but both of them had been Slavic AND Orthodox and Bulgaria, as a “Black Sea” country made certain geopolitical sense as a satellite. Even OTL...
  12. Mina-van-Mako

    WI French capital isn't Paris

    Clermont Ferrand is a pretty late city by French standards, a fusion of two cities in the late Middle Ages. Plus it's in the mountains so the advantage of centrality is offset by the difficult terrain, which makes it suboptimal (bit not impossible). Bordeaux is a strong contestant as it was on...
  13. piratedude

    An Arthurian Empire of Britannia discussion

    Why would that seem unlikely? The two sources we have on riothamus are from gaul, talking about/to him in a gaulish context
  14. Sārthākā

    South Africa restores the monarchy after Apartheid

    The SACP were a part of the ANC and still are. The other parties such as the DP and IFP mentioned support for the proposal in 1993. No. Natal was not irrelevant. The Oranje had massive stakes in Natal and the Bantusian system relied heavily on the natal elites. It was not irrelevant. The SA...
  15. DBWI: Make the Republicans “the party of the right” and the Democrats “the party of the left”?

    As we all probably know, as part of successful Reconstruction, the Republicans became the party of economic development and union rights. Whereas the Democrats basically became the party of the status quo. And Republicans were generally the first to support women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Aspie...
  16. What were the biggest tech and weapon mistakes and missed opportunities of Germany in ww2

    If they were as blithering incompetent as all that they wouldn't have lasted 12 weeks , not talking 12 years. It isn't like Hitler and Goering would personally design it , it would probably go to IG Farben who had plenty of good chemical engineers. I have stated more than once I think that...
  17. RedKing

    AHC: The House of Beaufort ruling the Kingdom of England

    Not exactly, I remember reading that they withheld Richard Duke of York from inheriting his titles for a brief while in fear of his arguably stronger claim.
  18. WI: Elisabeth II and his family die in 1947

    But in this timeline he was waiting for Elisabeth in London, so he wouldn´t die in accident.
  19. AHC: The House of Beaufort ruling the Kingdom of England

    I quess that's because Lancasters both were quite busy with securing their their own succesion and overstimated the threat of eventual Beaufort rebelion - plus did exactly the opposite in case of Yorks. To be fair, Henry IV had four living, adult sons - I assume that nobody was expecting to...
  20. ImperialxWarlord

    No 1991 August Coup

    Interesting. But certainly the new USSR couldn’t have been worse off than how things went in the area IOTL?
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