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  1. GrahamB

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    I can all but guarantee my parents would be long-time watchers of The Knowledge and Somerset Breeze, given their love of similar shows (Heartbeat in particular). I agree with @Plateosaurus on Sifton's Pilgrims. I'm going to assume it's picked up by CTV, so Road to Avonlea (made in association...
  2. Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    No matter how you cut it the population, the industrial base, the terrain; there was no way Mongolia could be a military power in the 20th century.
  3. WI: Hebrew goes extinct

    Latin technically never went extinct. The spoken varieties slowly diverged from the literary variety (which was Latin as spoken around 75 BC) and became separate languages but even colloquial street French is a descendant of Latin. You could go back generation by generation to the times of...
  4. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    That reminded me of a story that a friend of the family used to tell. He was a retired Senior Chief in engineering in the US Navy. The story he told was that when he first went into the Navy he was stationed on one of the old upgraded Essex class carriers, so one day his Chief decided they...
  5. Count of Crisco

    Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    I have toyed with a scenario with a fractured China collapsing in the 1910s into a several large warring states. In such a situation I then have the USSR support a Mongolian SSR as a buffer between themselves and the chaos of China. Later installing further communist states in Manchuria and...
  6. Planita13

    Al Grito de Guerra: the Second Mexican Revolution

    Now comes the hard part, nationbuilding.
  7. Time Enough

    Everything Has Gone Green: The Consequences of Googling Murray Bookchin
    Threadmarks: Part XII - Comrades In Arms: Socialism in the wake of Kilroy

    Comrades In Arms: Socialism in the wake of Kilroy With Kilroy being branded Labour’s most formidable leader since Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the opposition decided to do what Gaitskell couldn’t; repeal Clause IV of the Labour Party constitution. Common ownership of industry was no longer as...
  8. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    Note that small-scale nuclear fuel cells likely implies thorium salt reactors, which are safer than uranium reactors and cannot be weaponized (at least not easily). Also RTGs (i mean the ones used by IOTL space programs, I forgot what the acronym expands to - Radio _________________ Generators?)
  9. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    If electricity were ever actually "too cheap to meter," you could go with carbon-neutral synthetic gasoline--a Fischer-Tropsch reactor but using atmospheric CO2 as feedstock instead of coal. This is a technology that IOTL was invested in by coal-rich countries under economic embargos or wartime...
  10. Roosevelt

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

    Preventing Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Tsushima could be helpful. Both of those soured the reputation of nuclear energy across the world. Perhaps during the 50s and 60s the U.S. Government makes a push that "the atom is the future!" and funds research into small-scale nuclear fuel cells for...
  11. Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    Ah ok, so (I'm not OP, please don't treat that as canon, I did it for lulz) Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) m. Anna of Austria (2 November 1549 – 26 October 1580) 1. Philip VII of France (4 December 1571 – 18 October 1628). 2. Charles, duke of Anjou (12 August 1573 –...
  12. Se Deus quiser, há-de brilhar! - Uma História do Império Português (Updated 03/18)

    So, young queen Isabel of Sicilia ( daughter of old Fernando's widow Isabel of Castille ) is married to Ferdinand II of Naples? When did they marry? I presume that her mother, Isabela of Castille would want to marry her early ( so allready with 14- 15 years? , to get an alliance with king...
  13. WI: Hebrew goes extinct

    This is basically what happened IOTL, except Hebrew held on via the use in lithurgy just like Latin did - into the Middle Ages when it finally gave up the ghost. I believe what happens is you end up with Aramaic and Greek used in the early common era, and then dialectal languages like Ladino...
  14. Dan1988

    WI: Hebrew goes extinct

    Technically, apart from its liturgical use, Hebrew did go extinct until the Haskalah and then Zionism, when a common language was needed to bridge communication difficulties between the various Jewish communities, in the same way Latin technically went extinct apart from specialized uses (in...
  15. Changundramon

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Vietnam was brutalized worse than Nazi Germany, despite being completely innocent.
  16. Mad Bad Rabbit

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

    No Vietnam but still the oil crisis: NASA decides to seriously attempt Glaser's giant solar power satellites ?
  17. Roosevelt

    WI: Hebrew goes extinct

    I don't think it could be done unless the Romans or Egyptians carry out a total genocide of Jews. It is too integral to Judaism to go extinct.
  18. AHC: is it feasible if the world started diversfying away from fossil fuels much earlier

    Nuclear requires certain technology levels to be safe - it's easier to push early hydro and wind and maybe solar (Czochralski process was invented in 1915). Since both electronics and solar rely on silicon wafers, that are 90%ish the same afaict, maybe earlier/faster interest in electronics...
  19. Revival of Mongolia as a military power

    Most likely the militia would be horse-mounted, given how many of them would be nomadic herdsmen not that far removed from their Mongol ancestors.
  20. UoBLoyalist

    Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    I don't remember the Americans gassing millions of Vietnamese and starving millions of prisoners of war. Oh wait, not the Americans doing worse than the Nazis. I still disagree, but notes vehemently.
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