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  1. Linguistic situation of Britain with no Saxons.

    The rural elite seemed to be bilingual why would they start favoring Celtic to the point of abandoning Romance?
  2. How early could a horse-bus public transport system be successful?

    The size of the settlements would also be a factor. For most of history, the vast majority of people have lived in little villages, and even cities wouldn't generally be much bigger than a few tens of thousands of people. Plus, lots of these people would be living in what we'd regard as very...
  3. If the Japanese win the Battle of Midway, would Japan be able to invade the US?

    Agreed. for one thing PH made the US panic for a while. The general probably looked at US weaknesses and panicked forgetting Japan's even larger weaknesses. People in a state of panic are rarely logical.
  4. If the Japanese win the Battle of Midway, would Japan be able to invade the US?

    There was some room for real concern here. The U.S. Armed forces were in no ways ready to fight a two ocean war, much less defend the continental U.S. At this point you still had units training with fake grenades and not enough rifles. War time production known before Pearl Harbor as Defense...
  5. Ring the Bell: An Alternate MLB History

    But, who would buy the team to keep them in Minneapolis-St. Paul? The Twins were going through some economic issues at the time and the Metrodome was falling apart. They also got no revenue from most the Metrodome amenities and looked at relocation several times in the 1990s. Sure, Carl Pohlad...
  6. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Awesome work, but I think Yves-François Blanchet would choose somebody other than Philippe Couillard as running mate. He would choose somebody like François Legault instead.
  7. Alternative UK response to the invasion of the Falklands

    Or the UK sees that as removing (their) civilians from a future combat zone and warns Argentina not to place their own civilians in danger by moving them to the Falklands.
  8. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Take a like from me! I think me and many others would like to see more. #Charest2000
  9. interpoltomo

    WI: No Turkic Migrations

    ...borders to OTL Turkey come 2021. Well Romania may or may not have thrace/constantinople depending on how things go -- I could easily see an ATL *greek independence movement in the 1810s or 1820s with some wannabe failed pretender to the purple accepting *british help to break away from...
  10. AH Cultural Descriptions

    1941 horror movie from Universal starring George Zucco and Barbara Pepper. Pepper plays an heiress who learns that the family mansion is being run by zombies controlled by an uncle (Zucco). Boris Karloff plays the local sheriff who assists her in solving the mystery. Slinky: The Musical
  11. Linguistic situation of Britain with no Saxons.

    Would the bits and pieces of Hisperic literature that we have from the ‘Dark’ Ages serve as some very rough guide as to what this kind of British Romance would have looked like? Come to think of it, how accurate is the Brithenig conlang as an indication?
  12. How could the Roman Republic survive into the present day?

    It gives answer on topic starter's question. Byzantium survived and became republic
  13. DanMcCollum

    Linguistic situation of Britain with no Saxons.

    I don't think this is the way it would go. Britano-Romance seems to have been confined pretty solidly in British cities, while the the rural countryside spoke Bythonic dialects. Romance speakers were likely a minority within the nation (if they weren't, there would likely have been a great...
  14. Virginia Liberal

    God Save These American States

    Commonwealth Army deployed manpower breakdown as of summer of from 1841 to 1845: 850,000 men Virginia: 180,500 (50,000 ODCT) Cuba: 155,000 (Integrated) Dominica 150,000 (Integrated) Georgia 125,000 (10,000 GAND) North Carolina 90,000 (20,000 NCNL) Maryland 87,000 (10,000 MCT) South Carolina...
  15. Ring the Bell: An Alternate MLB History

    Have the Yankees also made their moves getting Tino Martinez and Jeff Nelson like they did IRL? That's what they did after they lost to Seattle in 1995. The Yankees remain unusually passive for a team that is owned by Steinbrenner and is close to the top. I assume Orel Hershiser gives them a...
  16. wcv215

    If the Japanese win the Battle of Midway, would Japan be able to invade the US?

    While possible it really should be remembered that people at the time are working with extremely limited information. Its the same reason that an invasion of the British Isles seemed so likely to happen in 1940, even though looking back on it we can see how horribly unlikely it was.
  17. Guatemalan Nat-Synd

    Linguistic situation of Britain with no Saxons.

    ¿The relevant question is where is the new homeland of the saxons and company, did they ended in the Netherlands or where?
  18. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    My understanding is that the Indian Corps was redeployed to the Middle East in WW1 was because the vast amount of supplies they received came from India, so simplifying & shortening their LOCs. I've heard tales the Indians didn't like the cold & wet - will, no-one did, but surprisingly many...
  19. Cinco de Mayo

    That is so kind! maybe it’s time to brush off my old MS paint skills 😎
  20. Alternative UK response to the invasion of the Falklands

    When Argentina responds to the blockade/sanctions/embargo by expelling all the Islanders who refuse to give up British citizenship it takes the wind out of Britain's sails.
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