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  1. Explain the AH Quote

    The closing statement to Boogie Nights Forever, a rather odd film that came out in the 1990s that has been derived as a "bizarre piece of nostalgic pandering". The film was on the conflict of Disco as a musical genre clashing against the rising of the punk genre though one shown to glamorize the...
  2. Could USSR attack Germany during Battle of France?

    There was a thread lest year on this idea, might be worth looking at
  3. WI Napoleonic France one century earlier

    I think you made a slight mistake in your OP with 1799 everywhere when I think you meant 1699 ( Louis XIV dies in 1699, etc...) Maybe a correction would prevent any confusion.
  4. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    "What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." V.K. Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior to General A.N. Kuropatkin, Minister of War, on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War "The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the...
  5. FleetMac

    Fear Nothing But God: A Graphical History

    As a navally-minded person (hence the name), I can vouch for this usage of 'gun' in an AH context, as that word tends to be used for ordnance-level weapons instead of small arms (at least in the USN, and presumably the RN). 'Musket' seems odd at first from an OTL point of view, but it was also...
  6. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    ...some kind of simple, honest, uncorrupt workers paradise where all those dachas got built by Purehearted Patriotic Socialist Labor(TM)... Hell, *southern* Italy is better off than anything Russia has. Even Sicily, the poorest part of it, had a GDP per capita of €18,100 in 2018. No part of...
  7. Whiteshore

    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    The Rajputs or a Tamil Kingdom, I assume?
  8. DrakonFin

    Could USSR attack Germany during Battle of France?

    This was mostly because Stalin underestimated Finland severely, planned poorly, and had the Red Army attack the Finns in difficult terrain during a winter that proved to be the coldest in living memory, without even bringing the equipment needed for a winter campaign longer than a couple of...
  9. What if the U.S. outsourced manufacturing to post-Soviet Russia instead of China?

    I think the thing with Mexico is that it's a lot bigger than it looks sitting next to the US on the map (geographically, politically & culturally) and the worst of the narco stuff is in the north and closest to the US. So we concentrate on it more. But the reality is even if you wanted to...
  10. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    One important thing to take into consideration. The Kiwi Bob Semple Tank was an example of improvisation. The Australian Sentinel was an example of an experienced French Tank Designer and ended up pretty darn good. Also if the Bob Semple had a layer of concrete 30 cm thick added it would be...
  11. American Chernobyl: The Grand Forks Nuclear Disaster of 1980

    P.S. I don't have time to work up a timeline on this. But I have absolutely no objection if someone decides to take a crack at it making use of any of this.
  12. Map Thread XX

    Is Song industrialization even possible? They don’t have a well established scientific tradition as 18th century Britain, and didn’t really had a need to innovate because they had a large and cheap labor pool. Perhaps they were the closest, but I don’t really buy it.
  13. American Chernobyl: The Grand Forks Nuclear Disaster of 1980

    ...and a very sizable chance of a Really Big Nightmare. Trevithick walks through each one: 1. The Dirty Bomb Nightmare We start out with the *minimum* bad nightmare that would have unfolded: If this had happened in the 1980 accident, the rocket motors in the SRAMs, as well as the conventional...
  14. Could USSR attack Germany during Battle of France?

    Yes they could. Hitler was however more worried about another scenario. In this citation from Hitler in 1942 it is clear that Germany could not simply move troops from France to the east fast, even after the battle of France. “I always feared - that Russia suddenly would attack...
  15. As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
    Threadmarks: The State of the Animation Industry as of 1986 (Part 1)

    The State of the Animation Industry as of 1986 Muppet Babies, Gummi Bears and The Wuzzles each delivered on the promise of a new era at Hanna-Barbera. But will Fluppy Dogs be the next addition to the recent hit parade? We will learn this coming fall. On the big screen, look for The Aristocats...
  16. wcv215

    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Roughly (Christian) Europe is a bit ahead of where it was OTL due to better a generally better economic situation. The Romans are the biggest power in the West, and more powerful than any of the individual Chinese states. The Romans have roughly three hundred thousand men under arms, sometimes...
  17. 1217: a Marshal Monarchy

    Considering he was already happily married to the formidable Isabel de Clare, who would have kicked his backside from Striguil to the gates of hell if he tried dumping her after she had borne him ten children - and also that any divorce would have meant him losing the Earldom of Pembroke, which...
  18. Cakebear

    AHC: Greg Lake is the only consistent member of King Crimson (No ELP lineup!)

    Whoops wrong subforum. I reported my post to the mods and I’m currently waiting for my post to be moved to after-1900.
  19. Cakebear

    AHC: Greg Lake is the only consistent member of King Crimson (No ELP lineup!)

    The master Guitarist Robert Fripp has been the only consistent member of progressive rock band King Crimson for about 60 years and has been in that band since the very beginning. Since he was the de facto leader of the band, he would often disband the band and reform it to suit a new style. So...
  20. McPherson

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    HyperWar: Always Out Front: The Bradley Story [Chapter 5] I note sourly that if the "schnell bomber model", or British night bomber model of B-17/B-24 had been adopted, the 2 tonne bombload at maximum reach would have been 4 tonnes. (Subtract 6 machine guns and a tonne and a half of human...
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