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  1. Plausibility Check-Llamas introduced to Mesoamerica

    I understood mainly from this thread itself that tropical humid climates would distress and then weaken and kill Altiplano llamas pretty quickly, so that I suspect the secret of Empress Josephine's little pet project to bring some to France might have only partially been being able to choose a...

  2. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    It wasn't so much the Hail Mary Pass nature of a plan to fight a sacrificial delaying action to allow the allies to come avenge the leader's death that put me off thinking something like that. It is mainly that the British are still a bit low on force and the USA is entering this war almost...

  3. Red Poland, White Russia?

    Well I was surprised to see Polish Eagle of all people suggest such an outcome. I suppose you are probably correct that they can't be radical Bolsheviks mainly because it is my impression Poland was a lot less industrialized than the Russian heartland. To be sure, Russia being "industrial" was...

  4. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    So having read a bit more about Torch, first of all I was surprised how very late in 1942 it began, in November in fact! I guess the late autumn/early winter weather in northwest Africa is not nearly as forbidding as elsewhere--which raises the question here just what the seasonal conditions are...

  5. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    Personally I'd be most pleased to see the whole idea of Spanish monarchy die a long deserved death (though I suppose I ought to credit the man who was king in the aftermath of Franco's death OTL with help in making Spain decently democratic today). But just how many serious contenders for the...

  6. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War

    I find this TL fascinating for reasons others have given--a very neglected POD, with major (though in a sense limited) consequences to divert WWII considerably for one thing. Perhaps more factionally and controversially I certainly have a strong sentimental wish that the Loyalist/Republican side...

  7. the Southern Sea

    Watched, hoping for more. Like, clarification of just how far "suthers" this island is--I am guessing, pretty far south of Newfoundland, but not so far south as Bermuda. It is in range of trade or anyway friendly visiting contact with some Native American Atlantic coastal people, on the...

  8. Alternate Name for Florida

    There was a TL going pretty recently, in the past few years, about Florida winding up remaining in British hands after the ARW, but it was not called "Florida" but rather Palmera. IIRC because of a butterfly in the Spanish exploration that had the first sighting and landing on its shores happen...

  9. Portuguese conquest of the Incan Empire from the East

    I thought "east" meant "from the OTL Brazilian core colony" via the Amazon region too, and I think this has more potential actually. We have recently rediscovered the various civilizations of the Amazonian region, and it is evident enough now that these collapsed due to diseases spread by early...

  10. What other countries could have been 'Koreanized'?

    How about the other way round for China, in several steps: 1) lose Chiang at a suitably crucial early point and have someone else better taking over the KMT eventually; 2) ...in time for American and other Allied aid in the mid-war to be more effective, the better performance and morale and...

  11. WI: The United States invades Sweden in the 1970s?

    We'd have to imagine an ATL where by some date in the 1970s Sweden had become a feared and despised pariah nation. This is even with the USA meanwhile also going down a parallel path of outright dictatorship, to shut up the vast numbers of American citizens who would have quite a bit of sympathy...

  12. Idea on how to name Russian America

    Mind, an ATL that could somehow plausibly supply the flow of settlers and keep them supplied, obviously via a much more massive Russian presence on the Russian Pacific coast including a substantial regional-domestic shipbuilding capability and lots of local sailing in the region making the reach...

  13. In the Center of the World: An Etruscan Timeline.

    A treasured memory of mine is visiting the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in the very early 1990s and finding on display an Etruscan tomb. Atop the tomb is an amazing sculpture. The man robed in funeral garments sitting partially up, reclining with torso slightly elevated, and gazing at what is at...

  14. In the Center of the World: An Etruscan Timeline.

    Watched! I am guessing that one way or another, Roma is assimilated as an integral part of the greater Etruscan system. One question being, on what terms? I went down a lot of contradictory speculative trails as to how it might evolve from there, but best I see what the author has in mind...

  15. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    That was much more likely in OTL with England going Anglican though, particularly since Anglicanism immediately became very diverse and polarized between High Church types who basically carried over Catholic practice just with Henry VIII and successors serving as the pontiff too, to a whole...

  16. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    Looking at the map, I am curious about whether Bohemia and Ireland are already significantly in a different situation than OTL. Certainly looking forward, if we project a very different general situation in both their regions, they must surely react differently in those different circumstances...

  17. WI: Long-Lasting Division of England

    Yes, I did admit I was not very familiar with English geography especially in the north. I was just looking at the topography and thinking it looked like a bowl that would be defensible, with a northern and southern "gate," the former onto territory Harald makes it clear will remain English--a...

  18. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Yeah, I do have to wonder if France really ought to fall if they have better luck than OTL during this Blitz. But it certainly is possible enough that even doing substantially better than OTL they are doomed anyway, and it seems evident that decision has been made by the author already. Still...

  19. WI: Long-Lasting Division of England

    Well the Normans in retrospect, at least in popular culture and probably I think for very good reason, have a particularly ruthless reputation. It would be terrible to be an Anglo-Saxon of some rank under the Norman yoke, and I was mainly thinking of such people being the ones who either stand...

  20. WI: Long-Lasting Division of England

    But in this scenario, I think even wiser than playing off all three against each other would be for the loose cannon AS aristocrats to simply offer their allegiance to Harald. Some of the AS bigwigs would be achieving blocking the Normans from setting foot on their land, but the Normans are...
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