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  1. Why was Hitler so charismatic?

    I don't think Hitler was as popular as people think. Most of his public images were well staged by his publicist and his propaganda department. For example: Nazi party had never gained more than 38% of popular votes prior to his appointment to Chancellor. That was not very impressive if we...
  2. Fuzzy Dunlop

    Have Space 1999 be more successful

    Lew Grade!!!! . . . that money grabbing so and so!
  3. List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    KAISERREICH! Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland What if the Central Powers 'won' the Great War* 1914-1917? 1916: David Lloyd George (Liberal led wartime coalition) [0] 1918: Arthur Balfour (Conservative) [1] 1921: Arthur Balfour (Conservative) [2] 1924...
  4. AHQ: Would (or could) the Avro Canada Jetliner have displaced the Boeing 727/737?

    You hit the problem on the head pretty well... The jetliner as it existed was too small and too short ranged to be more than a niche product. It could well have been developed into something better, by that runs smack into the reality of being Avro Canada, with all the foolish policy and lack...
  5. Have Space 1999 be more successful

    IIRC from reading Jerry Anderson's autobiography, he Sylvia Anderson and Reg Hill made it as a favour to Lew Grade.
  6. Do you agree with this assessment of pre-gunpowder armies?

    Well it's not fully accurate the Roman method of rellying of heavy infantry could hold its own against catapharcts and horse archers but new tactics had to be devolped like making the lines deeper to avoid the parthian catapharcts from just simply punching trough and but horse archers were a...
  7. WI Jesus was Executed by Sawing

    He actually only said slaves. Not Jewish nor Hebrew slaves. In addition, the pyramids were not built by slaves, but by native religious believers. And Josephus is supposed to be writing a history of the Hebrew people. Adding in myth at all does not lend itself to the validity of the history.
  8. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Fantastic job! Boldly Going is certainly a timeline which can live up to it's forerunners. Looking forward to that Shuttle II render!
  9. Have Space 1999 be more successful

    One of the things that gave Anderson's series a similar style was Barry Gray's music. I thought he was on top form when he wrote the theme tune & incidental music for Series 1 of Space: 1999 and one of the things that makes Series 2 worse than Series 1 was that theme tune & incidental music were...
  10. Metropolis45

    Do you agree with this assessment of pre-gunpowder armies?

    This from a writeup comparing the Roman army of 100 AD to that of 1025. Basically it argues that the Byzantines were too mobile, too well armored, and too good at piercing shields for the ancient Romans to beat. The numbers advantage would be irrelevant as the Byzantines could levy armies in...
  11. Forgotten No More: An Ode To John

    1840s libertarianism is criminally underused in AH!
  12. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    IOTL Henry Kissinger was considered to be one of the leading Sovietologist in the United States as he was consulted by the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, was the chief foreign policy advisor to Nelson Rockefeller before joining the Nixon Administration. ITTL he is probably the leading...
  13. Basileus444

    Do you agree with this assessment of pre-gunpowder armies?

    I was responding to the claim that 'medieval cavalry' would destroy a Roman army. Note the lack of any supporting units. Just cavalry. If cataphracts are not an insta-win against Roman infantry, medieval cavalry won't be either for the reasons I listed. At best it's a toss-up with the outcome...
  14. AHC: State-owned enterprises more widely accepted in USA

    It has a whopping 4% profit while the bank has a whopping 2% so its real return (that is after inflation) is probably zero to negative. As a publicly owned company the state picks up the costs and gets a small profit instead of taxes. A private company picks up the costs and pays taxes on top of...
  15. at U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787, northern states engage in brinksmanship and get deal on phase out of slavery by southern states

    The Upper South would most likely have been fine with some sort of compromise like gradual manumission in ~40 years. The center of the abolition movement was in the Upper South until the 1830s OTL. It'd be Georgia and the Carolinas that'd get worked up over this. But they could end up outvoted...
  16. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
    Threadmarks: The Winter Soldier (1987 Film)

    The Winter Soldier Released by 20th Century-Fox on July 1, 1987 Production Companies 20th Century-Fox Marvel Films Silver Screen Partners II Distributor Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Based upon characters created by Jack Kirby Joe Simon Stan Lee After decades in suspended animation...
  17. WI: Wilhelm II is a pacifist

    It must be told that France also had their own interests in the events unfolding in the balkans and many french officials considered a general european war started in the balkans, favorably. I recommend "France and the Origins of the Great War" from John Keiger. The book is really good to get...
  18. The German Century

    Thanks for the info, I've reworded the part just now.
  19. Ottoman Empire embraces "Dualism"?

    You're pulling this straight out of your ass dude
  20. Do you agree with this assessment of pre-gunpowder armies?

    so much so that the romans had to adopt their own heavy cavarly to compete with the sassanids who handled the Romans defeat after defeat but there were instances were they did fine like you said but assuming the commanders are equally as competent Nisibis with been a bloody stalemate but...
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