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  1. FalconHonour

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

    Well, you'll just have to wait and see, won't you? And yeah, I only mentioned it in passing, but the 1517 Treaty of Rouen, which promised James a French bride was still signed ITTL.
  2. FalconHonour

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

    Frankly, I have never been a fan of Portugal-Spain matches. I understand why they did them, but at the same time, I have always thought that the proud Portuguese should have known better than to entangle themselves in too many matches that endangered their independence, with the Spanish so...
  3. The Forge of Weyland

    Char de rupture!
  4. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Ah, I didn't know that you promised her to Scotland, sorry for ommiting that. I think that if her younger sibling (the one with whom Marie is pregnant right now) is born female - would marry Sig, if he's male - would marry one of Sig's sisters.
  5. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    More Slovenes might study Italian as their second language.
  6. Would SpaceX still exist if NASA replaced the space shuttle with the X-33 and had not spent almost a dozen billion on Constellation?

    ... engineering aspects. It all comes down to one thing: what is cheapest combined with being reliable. All of that said, we should look forward to a real break-through. Whether it is Elon or NASA, we still sit with technology based on a chemical reaction. As even V2 was. The real quantum...
  7. FalconHonour

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

    As @isabella said, Louise has been promised to James V since before she was born. But I am toying with a French-Polish match for one of her younger siblings.
  8. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    He would still have no better alternative to Catherine (and she will not have any good one to him). And Charles this time was FORCED to give up Isabella AGAINST HIS WILL, so John’s wedding to Catherine is the logical substitute.
  9. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    Atm England and France are allies and the idea of marrying Sig II to French princess was toyed with by Bona who quit only bc of Pavia and Francis's defeat. And I didn't say that she'd certainly, 100% marry Sig, but I just said that this marriage is likely.
  10. Would SpaceX still exist if NASA replaced the space shuttle with the X-33 and had not spent almost a dozen billion on Constellation?

    X-33 was a technology demonstrator. The real deal would have been the VentureStar. It was all about money. How to get 'things' into orbit and at what cost. Cost per kg and all done by something reliable (not blowing up on the pad etc). So Lockheed Martin looked at a continuation of the shuttle...
  11. A French New Zealand

    I could see it being Nouvelle Celande, especially, but not exclusively, in a Napoleonic victory scenario in which Zealand is itself French. Remember, France holds New Caledonia for this day, an island named for Scotland. As far as what the state looks like, expect something like they tried to...
  12. Byzantine Survival With the Least Butterflies?

    Declaring themselves Hellenes was a much political as not. If the independent Greek state was "Roman" then the Ottoman Empire was unsafe for as long as it existed, but if it's Hellenic, then, well, they never had the Golden Horn to begin with.
  13. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    Probably not change much if anything. Italy would be pissed while but will be fine with that eventualöly. Slovenia would have longer coastline. Not then sure how it would affect to economy of the country.
  14. A French New Zealand

    only the south or the whole of New Zealand? And for the name why not "nouvelle-guyane"?
  15. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    Trieste was Austria-Hungary's largest port and then it was Italy's (and it still is). I think it would have a big impact on Slovenia and probably negatively impact other cities like Rijeka/Fiume
  16. A Queen Twice Over: Mary Tudor the Elder Marries Francis I of France

    And btw probable spouse for Louise of France is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_II_Augustus
  17. Peshawar Lancers Redux: North America

    The Fall had changed Southern California a great deal. There had been a greal deal of rain and the body of water known as the Salton Sea was massively larger creating a fairly large barrier of Fresh water in the region. Even when the temperature was more stable in the late 1880s runoff...
  18. The Forge of Weyland

    Keeping the straights of Dover open to British coastal shipping will be another motive for Britain try to stop Fortress Holland falling. So basing fighters there will be considered as soon as they think it safe to shift them the UK or supporting the BEF and France.
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