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  1. Independent North as distinct as Scotland or Wales

    I'd forgotten I'd posted this. But I was reminded after I read 'The Marches' by Rory Stewart who looks (without much success) for a 'Middleland' that's been subsumed beneath later English and Scottish identities. He spends a lot of time uncovering those cultural deposits (to use David Jones's...
  2. FRG withdraws from NATO

    Sure, they became allied/NATO forces after Paris. But they were still called occupation forces in daily life (across the politcal spectrum), but not necessarily regarded as such.
  3. RedKing

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    I hope Mary knows what she's getting herself into. Also poor Katherine, you deserve better than this!
  4. To the Victor, Go the Spoils

    No Vaterländische Front yet, it's still the Christlichsoziale
  5. The_Most_Happy

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Ooooh, Mary is a poisonous little thing, isn't she? She better give Henry a prince soon, before he realizes just how vile she is. Amazing update, as always.
  6. WI Germany breaks Typex code after Dunkirk

    The Nazi's created a Brain drain in the 30s by emptying its universities of undesirables (Socialist, Jews etc many of whom ended up in the UK and USA) and massively reducing the number of students and shifted the syllabus towards a more martial 'bent' and by 1938 effectively prevented women from...
  7. Possible Alternate Jet engine pre-WWII

    ;) that is the dream. I think it is more complicated than just throwing money at Whittle in 1930 though. I could maybe see something like the Derwent V/Nene flying in 1942 and fielded in 1943 though.
  8. Sphinx

    WWII: German Victory in Battle of Britain, could USSR win alone?

    I think your too anti-Wermacht here. True, the wermacht wasnt as powerful as people may think, but it was certainly strong. you make it sound like the germans sent babies to the front and the Allies committed suicide. The German army was incredibly powerful, and probably had the best generals...
  9. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    This is really going to come back and bite them all in the arse isn't it?!
  10. Dutch retain Taiwan

    Yeah, the Qing received Taiwan back from Koxinga's grandson, but didn't really want it. They offered it back to the Dutch, who didn't want it either. The Emperor was finally persuaded to occupy it by the argument that if it was left to its fate it would become a haven for Japanese and Chinese...
  11. FalconHonour

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France
    Threadmarks: Section XLII - July/August 1522

    Many thanks to @Tudorfan for writing the first part of this chapter for me! Plymouth, July 1522 "Hear ye, hear ye!" announces the herald, stepping up to the newly enacted plinth at Plymouth Docks. As the crowd waits with baited breath, desperate to hear the Pope's ruling, he unfurls an enormous...
  12. WWII: German Victory in Battle of Britain, could USSR win alone?

    Also worthy to mention that it is often suggested that the Wehrmacht did get those victories against numerically superior enemies, while in almost all cases they actually had locally at least parity, but in most cases superior numbers (and with locally I mean the numbers participating in that...
  13. Peshawar Lancers Redux: North America

    President Roosevelt had spent federal Money widening the Rio Grand River and turning it into a canal capable of allowing shipping as far west as El Paso Texas. It was a great undertaking and would not be completed until 1912. The Brooklyn Naval Yard was now planning the construction of the...
  14. FRG withdraws from NATO

    DKP was absolute fringe in the 70s and 80s. Also, it doesn't matter what the DKP thinks - it is the SPD who even a bit more left would not form a coalition. That was an absolute no-go, any attempt and the SPD would loose its moderate and centrist voters (the bulk). It was a different world and...
  15. DBWI: Market Garden Instead Of Scheldt Battle

    I don't disagree with what you point out - simply that a successful MG would have been worth the subtle delay and potential harder fights in the Beveland area with the pay off that the fighting would be easier elsewhere as a result and the entire 15th Army likely in the bag While it would have...
  16. Better 20th Century for France?

    Avoid WW1 in the first place and gracefully accept that Germany is superior for now. Whatever France gained by obtaining land that had not been hers for fifty years, it absolutely was not worth the price paid, the lost of her colonial empire, occupation for four years, and millions of deaths.
  17. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    That makes me think of Hot Fuzz.
  18. Gokbay

    Osman Reborn; The Survival of Ottoman Democracy [An Ottoman TL set in the 1900s]

    Has Japan avoided an OTL WW2 situation I wonder, allowing it to keep more land and internally reform into something other than the Empire of Japan.
  19. No Kriegsmarine cruisers or modern destroyers

    That reminds me of the Type 1938B Z-boat which was armed with four 127mm guns in two twin mountings and eight 21" torpedo tubes in two quadruple mountings. As you wrote there's nothing to stop the Germans building a destroyer like that instead of the OTL Z-boats, T-boats and F-boats. From an...
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