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  1. Gukpard

    Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    What about someone from the 1950? Maybe electing Walt Disney since he is a artist, but when he takes power he notices that he screwed up.
  2. It's The North. They're different up there: A British TV TL

    " The merger of Granada and ABC rocked the industry to its very core. Questions were asked at the time as to 'why'? That has never been answered satisfactorily but one theory was that the Bernsteins had heard that the ITA were going to abolished the weekday and weekend licences across the...
  3. AHQ: was Greece destined to be the cradle of European civilization?

    As far as I can see most of the high medieval translations came from Greek versions though, people make it seem like the bulk of it came from Arabic sources when in reality the Greek versions were often available. Even early Arabs themselves were very confused about Aristotle and what exactly...
  4. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    The problem you would run into is that Russia doesn't have the population that China has to man the factories and transportation infrastructure,
  5. AHC: American President of Hungarian descent

    This is a great question. I'm imagining Paul Simon, the singer, becoming a Governor from New York or something like that. (Maybe he does a huge benefit show for David Paterson or something and uses that to get into Hillary's Senate seat.) Then, he decides to run for President at some point. (His...
  6. Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    I don't know. I just feel like someone like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, or Ann Curry would work. (Although Ann Curry has plenty of journalistic experience that might come in handy.)
  7. Socialist revolution in a European empire; what happens to the colonies?

    I think the most important specific to know is whether Socialists take over the state apparatus in a relatively peaceful and legitimate way or not. I mean, do the colonial administrators see the new regime as a legit representative of their own nation, or as something else?
  8. Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    Yep, I had the same thought. Sorry, but I'm not gonna touch this without a ten foot pole.
  9. A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I haven't read a lick of Pratchett's literary universe, but even I know that is a stupid response!
  10. Would Beria have been a good leader for the Soviet Union?

    I think Beria had been too involved in the purges to ever be acceptable to the majority of the Politburo. After Stalin there was a strong desire for a collective leadership. All of the members of Stalin's Politburo were mass murderers; it is just a question of how many corpses each was...
  11. Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    Must. Not. Mention. Current. Politics. I could see Willian Jennings Bryan in 1896 having issues but at least he is a politician.
  12. UoBLoyalist

    WI: Japan don't attack Philippines/Hawaii in 1941: how does US react

    I thought there were a few hundred bombers, my mistake
  13. catpop12343

    The Post-Apocalyptic Picture Thread

    A lot of Jakub Rozalski's art fits this category, especially their 1920+ works :D
  14. Papacy Doesn't Feud with Holy Roman Emperors

    Hmmm, interesting. I didn't think of details too much down the line so I was curious. I totally did not know that. I was already thinking if the Papacy gave their blessing to Otto future Popes could end up being puppets of Otto's succesors even before you told me about this. Obviously...
  15. A Shift in Priorities - Sequel

    Human reason is by reason architectonic. (Immanuel Kant) Another drone was due to come down. You couldn’t see the beasts – until they fired their rockets. Not that anyone would stand outside and wait for touchdown. No, shelter was indicated. But it wasn’t worthwhile to shed the spacesuit...
  16. Gukpard

    Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    Brazil had a disaster president called Jânio Quadros. Quadros was not evil on normal therms, he was not racist for his time nor especially corrupt, but he had a government that was a bomb full of political crisis. The reason for this is that Quadros was a political phenomenon, he got elected on...
  17. WI: Japan don't attack Philippines/Hawaii in 1941: how does US react

    35 B-17s is hardly a giant force. As the war proved it thousands of heavy bombers operating over many months and years to have an impact. The sad state of facts is that Japan could bock any reinforcement of the Philippines any time it wanted to.
  18. AHC: American President of Hungarian descent

    Are we talking Magyars, or anybody from the Kingdom of Hungary?
  19. AHQ/AHC: Ideal modern tank design?

    Pretty much going to have to be an autoloader. Fortunately the French, Japanese, and Koreans seem to have come up with a set of systems that are almost as fast as a human even before they've loaded a couple dozen rounds.
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