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  1. The Professor

    The Plantagenet Succession

    There's been a fair different Baron Greys too. Barony titles do tend towards Baron X of Y because there are a lot more baronies compared to earldoms and large families could pick up a few between them. Note that the X part is the family name. Technically nothing is stopping there being an Earl...
  2. WI no Deluge in Poland

    Lack of foreign intervention means that Poland eventually deals with the Uprising on its own, and it probably ends with some kind of compromise similar to the Union of Hadziacz. Maybe some sort of useful reform is smuggled in along the agreement? I wouldnt count on much though. Anyway, the...
  3. Dan

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Lockheed? Are Kelly Johnson and Skunkworks a thing ITTL?
  4. wcv215

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

    Define primary competitor. Because historically all of those religions either offered are either too localized, like Zoroastrianism which never had appeal outside of Persia, too far away from Christianity's central area, like Hinduism and Buddhism, too politically weak like Judaism. Or some...
  5. Alternate Stewart succession of England?

    Good point. I would say that the problems that compounded Mary were similar to those faced by her descendant James VII & II. But by that time, the Stewarts had reigned in England and the Protestants in Parliament were too well-established and entrenched to tolerate any Catholic ruler on the...
  6. Oracle of Sobek 𓆋

    Horus Triumphant - an Alternate Antiquity timeline

    Gotta watch out for those flying bricks... I'm a bit surprised that Argead Egypt happened after all... But given the OTL Diadochi states were hounded by pressure and losses from the east, and that Egypt at this point has a long-standing tradition of rebellion against the "Asian" powers, and...
  7. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Superb work on reaching 2000 chapters @Peabody-Martini. The world’s come a long way since the attack on Souville Hill over half a century ago.
  8. Lascaris

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    The Turkish History thesis is very much OTL of course as was making it part of the school curriculum. But then what is usually forgotten that Kemal's regime back in the 1920s and 1930s was being compared with fascist Italy. Which comparison rapidly went out of fashion after WW2... No comment...
  9. WI British/Italian war in the 1930s

    Guess I got carried away a bit ... on reflection Hitler has the Atlantic Ocean between him and USA, whilst Benny could have the British fleet bombarding Rome (it's within 20 miles of the coast) in the blink of an eye ... I can't see the British getting annoyed enough or worried enough about the...
  10. In the absence of Islam, which religion becomes the primary competitor to Christianity?

    Honestly? None, really. I think Hinduism or Buddhism are likely candidates for being the second-most popular religion, but at such a margin that it's not really a competition. Christianity is going to become dominant in Europe regardless of Islam, and without Muslims in North- and East-Africa...
  11. WI: Syria and Lebanon never separated?

    If you cast a big butterfly net, it could mean that Israel grabs Southern Lebanon along with the Golan Heights in 1967.
  12. alfredtuomi

    Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    now that i have recovered from having the rug pulled out from under me I must admit that you have proven the point that it could and was done but also proves my point that it was a resource hungry process to do so why bother .
  13. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    Yes its hard to do that in a big way, you can make different decisions going forward maybe. That why I was thinking the He177 which never really got going anyway and the HE111 which was well past its prime would be easy targets to stop. The JU88 was probably easy enough to transition to the C...
  14. RedKing

    The Children of Camelot

    I don't see anywhere saying what happens if the son has a grandson. But let's just say Henry VII overturns that act or something.
  15. In the absence of Islam, which religion becomes the primary competitor to Christianity?

    I agree. Without Islam, Buddhism is stronger in both Southeast Asia and probably in northeastern India as well. There's a lot of potential. It could well even spread to eastern Africa via the sea trade.
  16. German completely adopts the defensive September 1942

    Troops that do not fight suffer much less casualties and waste much less supplies (including food) both through spoilage and enemy action. So such German army (even of the same size) would cause much smaller drain on German economy than actively fighting one. Several hundred thousands of extra...
  17. RedKing

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

    Zoroastrianism, it was Christianity's main competitor up until the advent of Islam in otl so I don't see why it couldn't continue to be so.
  18. PC: Where Would the Capital of a Hohenstaufen United HRE Be?

    The correct answer is Nowherere. The Holy Roman Emperors, in the Middle Ages and even later, did not rule from any permanent central residence. They constantly traveled, with their family and court, through the kingdom. The German itinerant regime ("Reisekönigtum") was, from the Frankish period...
  19. in U.S. circa 1990, “nanny state” takes the intellectual space of “political correctness”

    ...So, the timing is right in the mid-1980s for criticism of “nanny state” to become an intellectual topic. * the word nanny has a little bit of a British flavor. It’s a word Americans are familiar with, but per my experience here in Texas, don’t use all that often.
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