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  1. The Professor

    Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    And the midway point (corners being 3/4 of the stripes)
  2. The Plantagenet Succession
    Threadmarks: Vive La France - by Eglantine Delacour.

    An excerpt from Vive La France - Published January 9, 2004, by Eglantine Delacour. According to the diary of Anne of France, Duchess of Bourbon, regent for the twenty year old King of France, her brother died on 7th June 1491 while having sex with his mistress. Even in Anne's diary, the...
  3. WI: Alexander the Great lives to 75?

    Honestly, by the time Alexander dies, assuming he is a competent ruler on top of being a conqueror, which considering his efforts to co-opt the existing Persian power structures and fusing Macedonian ones onto them I believe he is, we can do as your previous post has said and look to empire both...
  4. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    One thing to note, from what I can tell Dream Chaser similarly appears to have no body flap protecting its engines, just small aerodynamic flaps that don't extend beyond the back of the main body:
  5. Sapa Inka Wiraqucha

    What if Rome sends a Navy to conquer India

    So let me get this straight. The Romans get buttmad that they actually have to pay for expensive goods, and instead of doing the usual thing (banning that good), they decide they want to live dangerously. Instead, they decide to punish the source for its impudence, leaving aside the innumerable...
  6. WI: Bush Appoints John McCain Ambassador to France

    Why? McCain wouldn't want the position. France is also a "plum" position that goes to major supporters or favored former Administration figures. It isn't the Court of St. James, but it is damned close.
  7. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    The presence only 50 km from Britain of a powerful and extremely dangerous army? Yes, it appeared that the English Channel and Royal Navy formed an impregnable defense. Though at the time Britain and its leaders were genuinely worried by the threat of invasion, as shown by the very extensive...
  8. WI: Bush Appoints John McCain Ambassador to France

    I don't think McCain would have any interest in being Ambassador.
  9. WI: Bush Appoints John McCain Ambassador to France

    So, what if Bush appointed McCain Ambassador to France?
  10. Greece came close to become nuclear power

    The only way I see countries like Greece owning nuclear weapons is that they exist in a world where concept of a nuclear umbrella does not exist and countries scramble to get their own nukes lest they be caught flat footed in a crisis without them. Of course the more countries that acquire...
  11. After Spitfire: what should Supermarine be doing to remain relevant well until 1960s?

    A Vickers Supermarine Arrowhead in 1952 scrambles to intercept a Soviet TU4 Bull north of Scotland. Image from https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=45014.0
  12. BELFAST

    WI bigger Panama Canal

    The problem was the dock gates. They were made as large as the technology would at the time and built to fit a ship of Olympic class the size of the Titanic. There is also the issue that larger locks would use more water and could result in the canal be closed or limited its use in droughts in...
  13. WI bigger Panama Canal

    In terms of military designs, the only one I would expect to be significantly affected would be the Iowa class battleships. OTL, they were designed to just barely fit through the locks of the Panama Canal, with the (planned but never built) follow-on Montana-class BBs significantly exceeding it...
  14. Timeline Elevator Pitch: Stuck with The Right Stuff

    It's an interesting idea, and actually I've kicked around similar ideas in the past, but have you read On the Shoulders of Titans, the official NASA history of Gemini? The thing is that it was pretty clear from the beginning that Mercury was only a stopgap spacecraft to get up ASAP that would...
  15. What if Russia invested more heavily into American colonization?

    Responding cold to the OP alone: The big problem Russian colonization had OTL along the exact lines they followed--using their appropriation of the far northwest Pacific coast to get a sideline in Alaskan fur trading--was that they had terribly slow and tenuous communications between the...
  16. Entrerriano

    Entre's Little Map Thread
    Threadmarks: Romae Absentia

    This one is one of the most detailed QBam's I've done. It depicts a world where the City of Rome never existed.
  17. Entrerriano

    Entre's Little Map Thread
    Threadmarks: War Plan Red

    Another map with an unfinished key! This one involved an Anglo-American War in the Interwar Period that left both superpowers in ruins after the Market Crash in '29.
  18. WI bigger Panama Canal

    What if the Powers That Be decided to look a bit further ahead on the future of ships and had a much wider canal built? I’m assuming the engineering capabilities existed at the time. Would the US and other countries have moved towards larger aircraft carriers? How would freight shipping be affected?
  19. Entrerriano

    Entre's Little Map Thread
    Threadmarks: A Carolingian Timeline

    I actually have some stuff written for this, I like the concept so I want to develop the TL in a future. For now, enjoy what I have: Prologue Charlemagne had four legitimate sons to survive infancy. The eldest, Pepin the Hunchback, became a monk after rebelling against his father, dying in 811...
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