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  1. Rognvald

    Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    ᛁ ᛏᚩᚩ ᚹᛁᛋᚻ ᚦᚪᛏᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ ᚻᚪᛞᚳᚪᚢᚷᚻᛏ ᚩᚾ. I could see runes lasting in a ceremonial aspect, since that was where they survived the longest. Perhaps it would end up being associated with funerary traditions/“folk magic,” which didn’t have as much of a negative connotation in Christianity at the time...
  2. Timeline Elevator Pitch: Stuck with The Right Stuff

    I don't think either of these work. A ingle person in orbit for an hour or two is clearly only the first step to EVA, docking, and more that Mercury can't do without effectively total overhaul from the keel up, much of which is rendered much easier and safer by a two-person vehicle which is at...
  3. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    Not really. Languages can either gain or lose phonemes as they evolve. Also, they didn't strictly decrease over time. Runes were dropped when no longer needed, and new ones created when they were.
  4. Sarufiyyun

    What would the Americas be like if the Chinese colonized it?

    I like to think Chinese colonization wouldn't be so much the imperial court sponsoring settlements but more like independent actors migrating into the area and establishing a niche in the New World. I am thinking it would be merchants organizing amongst themselves and founding guilds that would...
  5. Name for a Liverpool/Manchester Megacity?

    Then in that case it would probably be something more... “technical” than some of the proposed Roman or historical names suggested. So Liverpool-Manchester might well be it. Something like this would probably be closer to the mark. Personally, given the number of voters it’d lose, I imagine...
  6. Simon

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

    Using that logic it would seem like a large part of what the federal government spends money should be cancelled. Are you arguing for a blanket ban on programs if it can be shown that there's a state which won't directly benefit from it?
  7. Lusitania

    A Lusophone World

    It is and the Communist block for the foreseeable future will continue split into 2 camps that hate each other as much as they hate the west. But that does not mean they are less dangerous. For China without Mao and his crazy ideas, is developing a strong communist economy similarly to Soviet...
  8. Sārthākā

    Aftermath of a successful Suez Crisis

    Not exactly. The American threats to attack the pound and franc were empty threats otl exemplified by the addition of Macmillan's false economical data. Economic Historians point out that the American economy would have hit a depression if the pound and franc were attacked and no one in America...
  9. WI: Warsaw Pact armies if USSR liberalizes

    Unless that was accompanied with an extremely hands off approach by the Soviet government which would have resulted in Finlandization of Eastern Europe that form of socialism would have quickly become unpopular. I doubt you could get the Soviet government to go along with it and unless that...
  10. WI: Reagan wins the GOP nomination in 76, loses to Carter

    ...and therefore beats Ford decisively, this will weaken Ford's 1980 chances. As for Dole- I don't see why he would be a front-runner. He wasn't *that* prominent until he was chosen as Ford's running mate, and even then his OTL 1980 campaign sputtered out. Bush is certainly a possibility as...
  11. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    Elder Futhark to Futhorc is one example where a rune was changed into 3 to account for new phonemes
  12. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    What is weird is that number of runes actually decreased over time
  13. Name for a Liverpool/Manchester Megacity?

    The potential name is a big reason why cardiff and Newport will want to stay apart in their respective expansions - after who wants to put Carport as their address!?
  14. Driftless

    Alternate warships of nations

    (tosses up a batting practice pitch :biggrin: ) TBD Devastator - which was the bigger problem for the Devastator at Coral Sea and Midway - the limitations of an aging design, the relative skill development of the crews, insufficient fighter protection, the drop limitations and other defects of...
  15. BladeRunner2047

    No G harder then Kenny G

    Great stuff so far
  16. Gracchus Tiberius

    Aftermath of a successful Suez Crisis

    Well for starters, Operation Musketeer's success really depends upon American ambivalence/tacit support of the Anglo-French intervention. A POD I've been working on is Eisenhower dies of a heart attack in 1955, making Nixon, who had been secretly supportive of the intervention at the time...
  17. Gokbay

    Alternate warships of nations

    you would think they would have been able to understand that masts should not be in front of the turrets firing arcs
  18. When the Levee Broke: An Alternate Lincoln Assassination and Beyond

    Love this. You're on the right track, but it's not George Henry Thomas, though there will be a future for Thomas ITTL. Spoiler alert, he is not going to die of a stroke in San Francisco.
  19. WI: Queen Victoria Was Male/King Victor?

    The main impact other than Hanover is actually on all the royal families of a different marriage and different children. Just one example, OTL Wilhelm II not being born could mean Germany liberalising as his father wanted rather than stepping back to its militaristic ways. No Wilhelm and no big...
  20. UoBLoyalist

    Dunkirk disaster and Spain declares war on Britain.

    Oh I meant around this time. The list I found talked about 5 Battleships. I did some digging however, and while they had two battleships in the years leading up to WW2, both battleships were sunk during the Civil War. I personally think their usefulness against Britain would, like the rest of...
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