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  1. Were Pirates Really So Much of a Threat That Even a Military Genius Like Julius Caesar Had to Be Sent To Fight Them?

    Ships need maintenance as well, and the accompanying facilities for that. Also, turnover in crew is an issue. From what I remember reading, the two deadliest jobs for slaves in ancient Rome were mining and galley rowing.

  2. WI: University of Michigan placed in Detroit rather than Ann Arbor

    I don't know enough about Detroit's geography to comment on it, but in Chicago a big part of the issue with race relations and crime is that a lot of the problem areas are concentrated in the south and west of the city, while the wealthier and whiter communities to the north and east are...

  3. Were Pirates Really So Much of a Threat That Even a Military Genius Like Julius Caesar Had to Be Sent To Fight Them?

    It varied a lot, but there were some situations in history in which pirate fleets just grew larger and larger until they became navies unto themselves, and even developed state apparatuses to support themselves. The most famous of these were the Barbary States in North Africa, but another...

  4. The Tzars war: what if WW1 went differently?

    When a new* member responds that harshly to the slightest scrutiny, I’d have been more surprised if the warning had actually been the end of it.

  5. WI: Native Americans and Meso Americans Armies Develop Pike/Spear Formations?

    We should also consider that pikes fell in and out of fashion even in places where they saw use. They weren’t a weapon for all seasons, by the look of it.

  6. United States taking the initiative in the Pacific War

    I understand you want to skip ahead to the question of what happens next, but it bears mentioning that Congress wouldn’t support a declaration of war without a more direct provocation than had been seen by April 1941. And as lionhead says, the US Navy wouldn’t be ready to go on the offensive...

  7. WI: Cleopatra and/or Antony escape to India?

    I'm guessing there's a reason most famous explorers weren't royalty, though. If you're going into exile, you could at least try for a safer and more comfortable one instead of trying your luck with the unknown.

  8. The second biggest one-hit wonder group or individual? (other than Zager & Evans or the Starland Vocal Band)

    But nothing else that constitutes chart success. Starland Vocal Band had three other songs crack the Hot 100 besides Afternoon Delight. If anything their claim to the status is weaker.

  9. WI: Cleopatra and/or Antony escape to India?

    For the same reasons the British ignored Socotra despite its strategic location, I’d imagine. The island is barren and has no good anchorage.

  10. The second biggest one-hit wonder group or individual? (other than Zager & Evans or the Starland Vocal Band)

    That would be Clayton Summy. Thing is, that was back in the 1890s, before there was such a thing as a record industry. Calling that song a pop hit in the modern sense seems wrong.

  11. The second biggest one-hit wonder group or individual? (other than Zager & Evans or the Starland Vocal Band)

    How do we define big? Going by sales, I'd say one major contender would be Celtic folk singer Loreena McKennitt, who hit number 18 on the Hot 100 with The Mummers' Dance in 1998. Over the course of her career, she's sold 15 million records.

  12. AHC: A Breton William the Bastard

    A longer campaign seems undesirable given Odo’s age and precarious situation at home.

  13. AHC: An anime as popular as the Simpsons in the US

    Not just the Beetles. Popular music in general is something where the US imports a lot from the UK and Sweden and sometimes from elsewhere on the continent as well, while Japanese stuff crosses over very rarely.

  14. AHC: An anime as popular as the Simpsons in the US

    From what I've seen with Pokemon and other dubs having to deal with a truckload of puns and references that only make sense to a Japanese audience, I think the fundamental problem here is that anime is written for that specific audience. You can't have an anime be as big in the US as the...

  15. Marche Consulaire: A Napoleonic Timeline

    I'll want to find some books that are more specifically focused on the history and development of southern and western France when I have the opportunity. Everyone knows about the coal and iron issues France had IOTL, and I knew or at least had an inkling about how France's Atlantic ports kind...

  16. Marche Consulaire: A Napoleonic Timeline
    Threadmarks: Chapter Fifty-Seven: One Step at a Time

    And we're back. I'm sure by now my apologies for slow updates have themselves become quite tedious, so I'll keep quiet about that from here on out. It is what it is, and hopefully I'll be able to get these out a bit faster now that I'm committing to writing just 100 words a day, a modest enough...

  17. US gives the Ok to Britain, France in the Suez Crisis

    That was quite unclear. I thought you were saying the exact opposite, that the ones that didn’t go red IOTL never would, therefore additional reputational damage for the West in the Middle East would be costless.

  18. US gives the Ok to Britain, France in the Suez Crisis

    And yet you think the region's other monarchies are bulletproof?

  19. US gives the Ok to Britain, France in the Suez Crisis

    Also, the venture is likely to fail even without the US opposed. For starters, it won't depose Nasser because marching into Cairo to remove him was never part of the plan. The idea was that the bombing campaign and the loss of the canal would lead the Egyptian people to overthrow Nasser...

  20. Northern Victory in 1862 Peninsular Campaign

    what happens when a stoppable force meets a movable object
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