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  1. WI: Cromwell pulls a Washington

    Not all natural deaths are entirely natural, a few winter months in a cold damp cell should do the job nicely. Or he could die in his sleep with a pillow and a couple of burly guards pressed to his head. Also every English schoolboy knows how Edward II got it in the end. So long as the body...
  2. Chocolate Raines

    Best of Both Worlds: An IndyCar Timeline
    Threadmarks: 1995 Pole Day

    1995 INDY 500 POLE DAY (TIME TRIALS DAY ONE) Most of the day it was raining, but by the late afternoon it had stopped and they were able to dry the track. Only a few cars were able to go out and make runs in the hour and fifteen time left (4:45-6 PM). None of them were waived off and a...
  3. at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    How did New York and New Jersey, which still had legal slavery at this time, want slaves counted for population-based tax assessment and representation? On the general idea of the north engaging brinkmanship in 1787 and getting a deal or letting the south walk that year, did all northern states...
  4. ETGalaxy

    Man-Made Hell: The History of the Great War and Beyond

    Yep, four phases. "Juche phase" is also a pretty apt description for what's in store for Germany. I can't reveal where exactly the Great War will expand to next, but you're right to guess that finding new allies to open up new fronts will be important going into Phase Three. The Entente and the...
  5. Have Space 1999 be more successful

    I think at some point they should have had the Moon enter a stable orbit around an inhabitable planet. The Alphans then have to both take up subsistence farming and try to maintain their modern way of life. They slowly realise that they are not alone on the planet and are being watched and...
  6. Treaty Ports (Ireland) in WW2

    Yes, mainly to piss off the British who continued to try to stop it and every other attempt by the Free State to develop international relations, also that's irrelevant. My point is they witnessed the US Senate refuse to accept the LoN Treaty and it to be a basically powerless entity, I don't...
  7. AHC: Make Canada more heavily populated

    The population crashed in the 1890s along with the rest of the Maritimes, but from my understanding (tl;dr railroads west ensured the Maritimes were eclipsed and people left) this would take a pre-Confederation PoD to fix. It's not very densely populated and has a good climate so 75-100% more...
  8. Caught between the Bear and the Rooster (Stalin invades Germany 1940)

    Assuming you can get them to the railheads without being shot up it will still be necessary to shorten the lines somewhere, That is a considerable amount of combat power. That represents about about 15% of the entire German force deployed. Even if it is one of the Strategic Reserve Armies that...
  9. The Grey Revolution
    Threadmarks: Chapter 28: Battle for Delaware

    Chapter 28: Battle for Delaware By June of 1861 General Beauregard had done miracles of fortifying strong points to help defend the small state of Delaware. Beauregard focused his time in Delaware while his second in command Major General Robert Anderson handled the Maryland front. Seeing his...
  10. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    Records from within 50-100 years are effectively contemporary, especially given the poor overall survival of records from the time. Or do you think that, say, a mention of Tenskwatawa in a history of the War of 1812 from the 1860s or 1910s would not be useful evidence that he actually did exist...
  11. Treaty Ports (Ireland) in WW2

    Ireland was a member of the League of Nations applying for membership immediately upon establishment of the Irish Free State. My point remains Ireland was largely excluded from the economic growth of the post war period and had it joined the Allies it would likely have participated and...
  12. WI: Cromwell pulls a Washington

    Your right. Also I learned that the Scots opposed executing the King. Scotland might be willing to support deposing Charles I in favor of crowning his son as King Charles II. The Stuart Dynasty would still hold the throne. Of course, Charles I would have to be imprisoned for life on an isolated...
  13. Crazy Boris

    Q-Bam Historical Map Thread

    Kaabu Empire
  14. AHC: Save a notorious flop

    I never saw HTD(because I heard it was so bad)but I’m really getting the feeling the nobody- & man I mean NOBODY- ever bothered to read the source material(the comics)& thus had absolutely no idea what the character was all about.
  15. Aghasverov

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Switzerland didn't even want Vorarlberg after WWI, even though a local plebiscite voted in favour of it....
  16. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Note that the passage doesn't say that nomads are the ones besieging Constantinople, just that they set the events in motion. It could be something like: An emperor sets out with the field army onto the steppe and gets wiped out leaving an unclear succession. Exarchs from Syria and Ravenna raise...
  17. CountofDooku

    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    Land they wanted, I'm not sure if Switzerland would agree to that as it might compromise their neutrality in a possible future war with Germany or Austria.
  18. AHC: State-owned enterprises more widely accepted in USA

    North Dakota is well known for having the only state-owned public bank, but did you know it also had a state-owned grain/flour mill? It is overseen by an attorney general, governor and an agricultural commissioner. There is democratic transparency, auditing and reports released to the overseers...
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