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  1. FalconHonour

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Avoiding the jousting accident would definitely do that for him. He's a typical sportsman...gets used to eating loads of calories while he needs them and doesn't stop when he can no longer do the exercise he used to. But I doubt he'd live massively longer even so. He was already in his fifties...
  2. Ulyanovsk

    WI: Anarchic Japan

    Definitely grounds for a dystopian novel or something to do with Japan if you don't have lore for them in your own alternate history story, but totally ASB in real life. Painfully sadistic for no good reason, a waste of materials and resources for no tangible gain, would not be tolerated...
  3. wcv215

    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Pretty much. Similar to how modern historians or programs might use Octavius or Octavian for Augustus Caesar before he got sole power, but Augustus after. And also because if I’d used his actual name throughout then it would have been too obvious how things would have turned out.
  4. An Imperial Match: Anne Boleyn marries Charles V

    I'm sure George could find himself a good position in Spain.. Perhaps as say, Viceroy of Sardinia or Catalonia, as well as finding a local noblewoman to marry..
  5. WI no Deluge in Poland

    There was a fundamental problem with them being “left alone”: Tsardom wanted back the territories lost during the ToT and the first failed attempt (Smolensk War) happened well before the Deluge. After that failure Michael and then Alexey had been engaged in a serious military reform with the...
  6. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    As you say usually in a WW2 tank battle the side that wins suffered considerably less tank losses while the side that loses pretty much abandons (or 'scuttles as they retreat') disabled tanks. A great example is the daily loss rates of panthers at Kursk - its sort of very few, very few, very...
  7. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    Russia have a different climate and soil than southern and western Scandinavia.
  8. Ogrebear

    A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Other thoughts on 'No Great Matter' if Wife No2 produces the heir(s) and Henry avoids that jousting accident, and maybe watches his weight he will probably live a bit longer too. Can he get a wife that will keep an eye on his sugar and fat intake please?
  9. The Forge of Weyland

    They'll be ramping up damn quickly and there is a fairly large reserve stockpile already. It's one of the things the RAF did right.
  10. Why wasn't Runic script adopted more widely

    I don’t mean no specialization, but I think people need to think of Pagan Germanic Europe as a society which had the same “tech” level as the civilized world, but lacked the sophistication of it. They simply lacked the more specialize artisans and the service economy which was found elsewhere...
  11. Ogrebear

    WI: The Enterprise completes its five year mission (Star Trek survives for 5 seasons)

    Nice Emmy win there Star Trek and Kelly. Teasing Shatner must have been fun... If Nixon can get the USSR and China to not supply the North and American is gone from the south - which Vietnam side wins? You could cover the Star Trek novelizations, comics, games, toys and technical manuals to...
  12. What if Russia invested more heavily into American colonization?

    What would they be eating? In OTL the settlers did not manage to create any agriculture worth mentioning so why the new settlers would do better?
  13. The Forge of Weyland

    Remember the massive British fighter productions surge of OTL Summer 1940 hasn't happened yet.
  14. BELFAST

    Economic effects of less Spanish colonization of the Americas?

    If Spain does not get south America then Portugal might get the Inca silver instead.
  15. Electric Monk

    PopCulture History Question: Dr No

    Hong is mostly uncredited at this point which is still better than Mako. Could certainly see them see one of them getting a role, although maybe more likely some British Asian actor I don’t know, say a producer who says “let’s cast some real Asians to show up the Americans” or I dunno, if we...
  16. What if Russia invested more heavily into American colonization?

    Russian empire tried few times to establish the whaling business both in the Arctic Ocean and on the Pacific but without a noticeable success. RAC was doing it for a while bit the. fave up and concentrated on fur business. The industry picked up only in the Soviet times. It seems to me that...
  17. How can Roman republic be saved?

    I might add that in the last century of its existence the Republic was unable to control its military arm. As Rome started to go on the ofensive,the mandate of its generals was prolonged mainly for strategical reasons and the structure of its armies was changing as the soldier citizen was unable...
  18. Euro airplanes

    Typhoons and Rafales can do air to mud well enough. All that's missing from Europe's aircraft portfolio is a long range heavy bomber and an oceanic patrol aircraft.
  19. in U.S. circa 1990, “nanny state” takes the intellectual space of “political correctness”

    Prevent America from becoming so dependent on cars so that seatbelts and drunk driving don’t become such big issues. Prevent leaded paint and gasoline from being invented so that crime doesn’t become such a big issue. A more recent POD could be if Reagan doesn’t appoint Elizabeth Dole to be...
  20. Disaster at Dunkirk and German invasion of Russia in August 1940

    Respectfully I think your hanging this on several thin threads. 1st: From the point of view of the French it doesn't matter if the BEF, and the French 1st Army are in England, or a POW camp, what matters is they were out of the fight, their not going to surrender faster one way or the other...
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