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  1. In the absence of Islam, which religion becomes the primary competitor to Christianity?

    I agree. In fact, if most of the Arabs (at least the elites, traders, etc.) would have not been familiar to some Abrahamic concepts and stories from Judaism/Christianism, I think the spread of Islam would have been more difficult and slow than IOTL. We have many other examples of Pagan people...
  2. Name for a Liverpool/Manchester Megacity?

    Well put the two names together and you get Liverchester, who would not want to live in this mega city.
  3. A Difference Of Fate: A Late Roman Timeline

    Well in their defence, Valentinian was still the Emperor and Majorian a caesar, so freeing a emperor who would reverse these laws wouldnt be off the table. We will have to see
  4. WI Larger and better Poland pre ww2 Effects?

    there was at least some speculative talk of a dual monarchy for Poland and Romania, which would kinda, sorta, fulfill the idea of Intermarium? (just IMO, it makes them more of a target for German-USSR?)
  5. John II, The Last Tudor King

    Has the title been changed and if John will be king does that mean the daughters of King John II or Henry VIII of England will be Queen or will there be a series of queens after John?
  6. Name for a Liverpool/Manchester Megacity?

    Very well. I would like to see a football/soccer treatment ITTL. Liverpool and Man Utd probably remain the two biggest teams in the UK, with Everton not far behind. Man City goes into administration and is never bought by the Abu Dhabi group
  7. Aftermath of a successful Suez Crisis

    Assuming that the Egyptian leadership after Suez was more UK-friendly, which I think it would have been, then it is unlikely that it would help the Algerian insurrection. Now I don't know the full extent of post-56 Egyptian help to Algeria OTL given that the French monitored the borders, but...
  8. Competent Austro-Hungarian military command.

    Irrelevant. This is a crippled army from way back and changing the figurehead will make no difference. Pre war a Vienna tram conductor is paid more than an infantry major, the Hungarians make it illegal for Austrian Army officers to moonlight as ushers in the Budapest Opera - because they are...
  9. Some questions about Nazi-Soviet relations.

    there is an odd angle to German-Soviet relations, Stalin unbelievably wanted a battleship fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovetsky_Soyuz-class_battleship the Soviets tried to buy (barter) guns, plans, and completed ships from the Nazis during their brief period of cooperation. Germany also...
  10. in U.S. circa 1990, “nanny state” takes the intellectual space of “political correctness”

    December 24, 1990 I bet it sold more issues than average! It’s a nice, juicy, middlebrow topic. Frankly, the type of topic which can usually really appeal to me.
  11. Name for a Liverpool/Manchester Megacity?

    If were going with that sorta naming if anything itd be Lesser Lancashire, as itd only have the southern portion of the county. And even then, Lancashire gets its name from Lancaster so I'd be weary on including its name in something that doesn't include it
  12. Philby caught in 1939

    Not sure if this fits here but I was recently listening to the audioook on the second world war Alone and read that he interviewed Lord Gort before he went out when he was a reporter for the times. So my idea is what if something in his line of questioning made Gort or one of his staff...
  13. AHC: Stalin Strikes First

    I could see him doing it in a "Blunted Sickle" situation, where France doesn't fall and Germany gets bogged down in France for years, losing resources and hurting both sides. Then in 1943 or 1944, when the Soviets are completely rehauled and ready, they invade a much softer German target which...
  14. AH Timeline: The NHL-WHA merger: A different story

    The Oilers got saved by a local owner, so Houston is out of the equation and another LA team could certainly work, but with the WFA having a team in Anaheim, I don’t know if LA could support 3 football teams.
  15. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    But irrc the ansuz rune sound which changed was due to the Latin ae's influence and not the Norse one.
  16. In the absence of Islam, which religion becomes the primary competitor to Christianity?

    Why should they? He was not presenting those stories in the Qur'an as new stuff, previously unheard of. On the contrary, the Biblical content of the Qur'an has often what seems a very allusive tone, suggesting that the intended audience was assumed to be broadly familiar with the characters and...
  17. LordMartinax

    AHC: Stalin Strikes First

    Frankly, from all that I have read of him, Stalin's first priority was his own survival, as well as the survival of his power/USSR. So what would you need is a situation where Stalin comes to believe Hitler's Germany to be soon capable of destroying the USSR. Perhaps if Britain somehow signs a...
  18. AHC: Stalin Strikes First

    Perhaps if he is more paranoid and believes what the spies claim.
  19. Name for a Liverpool/Manchester Megacity?

    So Liverpool-Manchester United would actually be a derby ITTL (technically it is not, although it is the biggest match in English football). As for the name of the city, probably Greater Lancashire
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