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  1. Lady Visenya

    Byzantines reconquer southern Italy and Rome by 1100, how does Christendom develop from there?

    I think the problem here is a serious case of presentist thinking. "Byzantium fell, and these nations with radically different circumstances didn't, ergo Byzantium had to be like these nations even when the situations aren't the same or even applicable." It's like saying "Every nation should...
  2. Peshawar Lancers Redux: Kingdom of Hawaii Revised

    Among the records that were looked at by the Kamehameha family historian was what was the involvement of Hawaii in the conflict to stop Mexico in the post Fall period. Hawaii supplied the Americans in California with food, Medications, Small arms, ammunition and even some artillery. The...
  3. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    Okay, this is enough. Locking this since the OP hasn't even logged on in five months. Let the dead rest FFS.
  4. PC: Where Would the Capital of a Hohenstaufen United HRE Be?

    Zurich, Strassburg, Habsburg, and Basel seem most likely. Innsbruck would make sense as would Lausanne, but personally I'd strongly consider Bellinzona in modern Ticino, Switzerland. Check out the castles, geography, and general area.
  5. nick_crenshaw82

    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    The fact you had to do this is an indictment of how Americans treat First Nations people. Was it even released during Christmas time ITTL. I was hoping that someone like Spike Lee could have help Eddie Murphy with both the writing and directing.
  6. How long would it take for the Confederates to abolish slavery if they won the civil war?

    Let’s respectfully agree to disagree. Purchasing slaves wasn’t exactly cheap and the master has to continuously provide food, clothing and shelter for an indefinite period of time. It’s going to be particularly costly if you own many slaves. Eventually, paying factory workers will be cheaper...
  7. Guatemalan Nat-Synd

    PC: Where Would the Capital of a Hohenstaufen United HRE Be?

    Augsburg, Stuttgart or Munich are the most plausible options, if Swabia ITL includes Austria and all Bavaria the capital would be Vienna.
  8. Basileus_Komnenos

    Byzantines reconquer southern Italy and Rome by 1100, how does Christendom develop from there?

    I mean the problem is not necessarily exclusive with Autocracies/monarchies. The Roman Republic had basically a century of anarchy and instability from years of bad leadership which led to Augustus. He was an autocrat, but after him no one wanted to go back to the older system. This already was...
  9. WI British/Italian war in the 1930s

    Britain famously left the Gold Standard in 1931, so in fact they could. Of course in OTL Britain floated a series of massive 'defence loans' to fund rearmament (£400 million in the Defence Loan Act rings a bell) without any real problem, so things would have to go spectacularly wrong, for many...
  10. PC: Where Would the Capital of a Hohenstaufen United HRE Be?

    Somewhere in Swabia seems likely no?
  11. Driftless

    Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Were C-54's historically used in Overlord or Dragoon?
  12. Scandinavian alliance 1939

    This is wildly ASB
  13. PC: Where Would the Capital of a Hohenstaufen United HRE Be?

    Supposing the Hohenstaufens manage to make the Holy Roman Empire hereditary (I'm not sure who the most likely candidate for this is), where would the capital be? @KaiserFriedrichIV @The Professor @Jan Olbracht @isabella @John Fredrick Parker @Tonifranz @those knowledgeable about Hohenstaufen...
  14. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    Depends on how and when the thread's topic happens. For example, say it happens and the PCI successfully leverages it in the elections while the Tito-Stalin split happens: now Italy is in a position to attempt something on a non-foolish basis (foolish attempts can happen, too - in OTL 1953 the...
  15. Sports What Ifs.

    If Philly gets Kobe, the Lakers probably don't trade Divac to the Hornets. I think that freed up cap room for Shaq. Without the cap room, Shaq reluctantly stays in Orlando on a seven-year max deal.
  16. For Want of a Word – Stolypin endures

    So I only have wiki to go on, but this doesn't endear me to him: Though I must be honest and agree this is with 2021 hindsight
  17. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Actually what Kiki did to Jim Morrison is a common tactic used in ERs and clinics to weed out the drug scammers by taking them seriously to the extreme and Kiki threating amputation is in that tradition. With Jim Morrison apparently not going in to music ITTL it seems that I am not going to...
  18. BELFAST

    Lincoln Lives: How a failed assassination changed the course of a Nation and a newly freed people

    OTL both the winters of the 1880s and the later dust bowl lead to depopulation of the area and people moving to other states. They should do well until they are hit by the winters of the 1880s and a lot will leave. This will make them venerable to racist attacks in other states. There will be a...
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