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  1. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Almost like her father did, isn't it? Keeping an eye open for a business opportunity that is, not what his children are into - with him it was what come in and out of Berlin on rail.

  2. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    And maybe more importantly when did the President of the US become the President of the World, in this more multi-polar timeline? After all there is no Cold War as we know it happening, and even then the US claimed only leadership of the 'free world', not all of it. Or is that just Nixon...

  3. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Not sure if I ever called you out on this, but this is a kind of pet peeve of mine: Weather related days off are very, very rare in Germany. See current happening in Munich and region: (relative) heavy snow, public transport basically not working at all. What do the advisories say? We understand...

  4. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    And that absolutely isn't going to lead to accidents, now is it?

  5. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    IIRC Kiki was involved in the Naval Cases, and even before that made observation in LA. (And elsewhere in the US, I think?) And I wouldn't be surprised if she found more of it in Argentina. Wikipedia says the first official case in Argentina OTL was in 82, but there probably were unrecognised...

  6. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Correct. Having a Trauzeuge isn't tradition, it's legal requirement. At least it was until relatively recently OTL. And yeah, sure, a Trauzeuge isn't 1:1 the job a 'best man' or 'maid of honor' does, legally it's just two witnesses for the marriage. But in effect what they do by tradition is...

  7. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    IIRC it was implied that Busse was with Kissinger before he was elected Chancellor. And even then, if this wasn't the case, other people made the actual hiring decisions - not the BND. And that's the big problem with Ed's theory. If we assume Asia managed all that, it assumes that a lot of...

  8. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Unless that dead drop was especially important, that information on suspects was spread this widely, then the sheer scale of the US intelligence community using information should make it easy to find the leak by liberally spreading false information around. It's that old dilemma of burning a...

  9. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    And never underestimate the kind of back-room politics that goes on during a hunting trip either... (There are still parts of Austria where it is a real factor in politics, so I assume the same might be true for Germany too. Then again, most of their Länder capitals don't have the same kind of...

  10. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    It does fit in with the stereotype of the draconian NCO turned teacher that was still somewhat wide spread in the OTL 60s, even if somewhat less so in reality. Authoritarian, not capable of dealing with anyone being out of the norm for any reason... I wouldn't be surprised if some of reality...

  11. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Never a good sign if anyone is exhausted on ascent - getting down takes a lot of stamina. May seemed early for an ascent on a mountain of that height. Then again, after a couple minutes of franticly consulting google, it seems that the most common route runs over the glacier anyway. So they...

  12. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Probably means the student fraternities were clambering for a space in the parade too (and Breslau had a lot of those with it's two traditional universities and having been the most 'catholic' of the Prussian university cities, and very likely retains most of them TTL) - aside from all kinds of...

  13. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Let me get in a comment on a Trinity College Law Degree. While I fully expect her parents to support Marie in whatever decision she makes, someone should point out to her that it might not be as useful as she assumes. Because in the end, it's based in common law, something not used in...

  14. Miscellaneous >1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    The chain of events that led to the OTL Austrian Civil War is very very unlikely without Hitler taking power in Germany. On the other hand, Austrian politics at the time are volatile, so some kind of conflict isn't out of question. But most likely it will be perceived as Germany creating a...

  15. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Deutsche Bahn OTL currently has no problem shutting down entire lines for months at a time. They are more leery about main lines without diversion routes, but still even there you might see months of single track traffic so that the other track can be worked on. Mostly those shutdowns are for...

  16. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Thing is, more than likely it's the city government that cut cost and deferred maintenance/renovations, not the national one. So we're more likely to see Kat prowl through those halls, than the national government falling because of this. Though disaster response and/or iconic photos related...

  17. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    Going from memory here... Disconnected in the sense that there were a couple dozen competing companies - who as in the example of Vienna, built at least 6 terminal stations that weren't connected - though most of them had been consolidated down to the two state railway companies by the war. And...

  18. To the Victor, Go the Spoils (Redux): A Plausible Central Powers Victory

    Over the (international) border, yes. But your own text implies that the Cisleithanian and Hungarian parts of the Empire had different track gauge - when as far as I'm aware most important routes either were built to standard gauge in both parts of the monarchy. The exception were the "Bosnian...

  19. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Don't even have to leave the area or the century: The Armenian genocide might be used as a blueprint. Doing to the Turks what they did to fellow Christians, or something along those lines of reasoning. Don't remember mentions of carriers specifically, beyond those existing. Probably one of...

  20. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Not generally how it's done in Germany. Skipping a grade is rare, taking the Abitur early without skipping one nearly unheard of. If Nan did so skip at one point - even before her last year - she'd still have graduated with her (new) class, just a year ahead of her age group. More so...
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