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  1. WI: Hebrew goes extinct

    What would have happened had Hebrew gone extinct say by the year 200 AD or so? The Jews have survived in exile and are using Greek, Aramaic, and Latin versions of their religious texts derived from the Septuagint and other sources.
  2. Dan1988

    AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    The problem is that most of the NEC route (including the one bit where the Acela can go at its designed top speed) is already heavily used for passenger traffic - commuter, inter-city, and (near-)HSR - and much of it is not double-tracked. IOW, there's no good way to get the New England portion...
  3. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Enterprise really is looking long in the tooth. Are there any plans for a refreshment in train with the launch of some new modules?
  4. Archduke

    Ottomans defeat Nader Shah

    Historically, Topal Osman Pasha defeated Nader Shah outside of Baghdad in the Battle of Samara, what was Nader Shah's only real defeat. However, after that battle the Ottomans stripped Topal's army of many of its experienced, veteran units and replaced them with low-quality rabble. As a...
  5. Changundramon

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Allied bombing of civilians is a feature of their viciousness. Vietnam cannot be compared to Nazi Germany, yet Americans did worse things to them than to the actual Nazis. WW2 had no good guy faction. I call Finns and the Poles good, but they weren't a faction, just victim nations.
  6. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    We can have all the surplus hydro and nuclear power we want. It still does not solve the problem of what to power the cars until/unless the batteries (in a required capacity) are cheap, and that will not happen before this century.
  7. God Owes Phillip II Twenty Bucks

    Ah, I see, so the mention of Henry IV being crowned by protestant priests is really confusing, as far as I understand - Henry IV is still Huguenot, crowned himself, uses Huguenots to back up his political position, but the majority of France is still Catholic?
  8. Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    I can think of a few things that enhance the ties between the Balkan Entente countries in TTL. Greece controls the access to the Black Sea. I understand that the Straits are demilitarized and Constantinople a Free City, but nevertheless, Greece is the Power that has the biggest influence over...
  9. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    Would it be worth taking some of the smaller islands near Crete like Kasos and Karpathos as examples mainly to deny the Italians possible locations to strike from as well as giving the Greeks a morale boost as well. Also could be useful testbeds for developing amphibious tactics. If Crete is...
  10. AHC: The US with a high speed rail system as prolific as in East Asia or western Europe

    Right, as Devvy pointed out, 25 billion for track improvements and reducing bottlenecks allowing for 125 mph speeds or so would be a huge improvement in the NEC and a success, and that’s still not shiny Shinkansen (which we don’t really need in the end)
  11. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    Are there any stories with a powerful African or Native American or Aboriginal Australian empire?

    Personally I think that one goes over the pale when it has the crown prince convince his father to allow Protestant missionaries into his realm around year 1600, himself convert around 1621, and then convert the entire empire around 70 years afterward. Suffice to say, I wasn't pleased with how...
  12. Age of migration though experiment

    :Jan Olbracht Do you think the slavs could go that far west? OTl the Wends were a stones throw away from Hamburg.
  13. GrahamB

    Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Ah, life aboard a station increasingly close in age to its occupants. Consolidating Enterprise's media library brings back memories of doing the same when I worked at a library, finding multiple copies of an item when you were sure there was only the one is a very common occurrence. I can only...
  14. AHC: Defend the Falklands

    Of course the RN is quite capable of attacking port Stanley airport which was done the morning of the Black Buck raid would still be possible and with the place packed with a fair % of Argentina's finite supply of Interceptors would make it an even more tempting target and interceptors or not...
  15. marathag

    AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    What industry would that power? You need to electrify the country first. If you build it, they may not come. The demand needs to be there first, otherwise it's a white elephant.
  16. Hitler incapacitated on 1 june 1940 (stroke/aphasia)

    The SS was powerful but not that powerful in 1940.
  17. Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    my speculation, around a worse Dunkirk scenario, is that the Vichy regime and the Soviets would be more cooperative, not join the war formally, that does not seem implausible if the Soviets refrain from making some of their more onerous demands and the French agree to some clandestine refueling...
  18. marathag

    WI: Atari 7800 released in 1984

    Plenty of decent 400/800 games around in 1984 that looked good, and the 800 was already a known platform for developing and porting. It's just that the 2600 should have been stopped at that time, rather than still selling new units, and with games that worse and worse each year, and the 5200...
  19. Socialist/communist USA, is it possible, and likeliest time period to arise?

    Land ownership was very different in China and Russia before collectivization. More than 80% of land was owned communally by small villages, and often their plots were miles away from their village, in small plots, unconnected. Collectivization was seen as a means of improving efficiency and...
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