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  1. Clandango

    King Charles Gay?

    I expect he would still get married. After all, it was just How Things Were Done. Though people would be concerned or mock Charles if it did ever come out, using old stereotypes of homosexuals (when not being predators) as being effeminate weaklings. Mostly just ends up as more tabloid fodder I...
  2. Clandango

    How would a NATO invasion of Warsaw Pact go?

    I would suggest having individual countries doing the invasion, but besides for Germany very few had territorial claims in Warsaw Bloc countries. Hell, even if you have revolutions in some countries, it would be difficult for countries to get around Germany to invade or help anyone. As people...
  3. Clandango

    What exact economic system would Che Guevara implement if he became leader of Cuba?

    I know very little on this I admit, but what would he think about tobacco? Sure, he smoked cigars and Cuba exported it to the Soviets, but did his time in Argentina (though later followed by time in Mexico and Guatemala) give him a picture of how it was leftover from the days of plantations, and...
  4. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    @Aichi72 I had so many questions about the British isles here, and Germany, but your explanation in the test did cover that. Mostly. Are Man and the Channel Islands directly annexed to Scotland and England, or are they staying in personal Union? Always possible the Germans took them as bases...
  5. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    I for one look forward to the mystery where they discovered who murdered Butler Black in what room, and with what weapon, followed by either no one caring or the murderer getting extra votes during the next election.
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    Map Thread XXII

    I always knew the Mormons, Survivalists, Ecosnobs, Sioux, and Norwegian-Americans were in on it together.
  7. Clandango

    Can industrialization happen without causing democracy?

    It varies. The “Sun King” centralized authority by spending huge swathes of money on a dirty palace and then refusing to listen to anyone who did not live there with him, scoffing at them and making comments to that effect. It was a bit like in Japan for a while, when the Shogunate kept loads of...
  8. Clandango

    Can industrialization happen without causing democracy?

    Though for both countries the long communist history (after the shorter democratic history they helped undermine) based their entire purpose of existence as being states where the common folk were in charge and elected candidates to represent them. Though at least with Chine, there were...
  9. Clandango

    What if Anglo-saxons migrated to Scandinavia instead of england?

    Not really a wealthy area and less room for expansion. They would need to deal with mountains all the time, rather than flat land.
  10. Clandango

    Can industrialization happen without causing democracy?

    Unlikely, since I assume we are aiming for the level of comfort we currently have in the West. You can get plenty of industry with unbalanced democracies with swathes of the population being ineligible for the franchise, but if their is not a large amount of people who can buy consumer goods not...
  11. Clandango

    What if Hungary won the 1848/49 War of Independence?

    There is also of course the Danube. Really, it depends what they are exporting. might be they need to focus on that, though it would require going a loooong way around if they do not export directly to Austria. The Austrians are likely to put up a lot of custom barriers for Hungary, though...
  12. Clandango

    What if Hungary won the 1848/49 War of Independence?

    Let us just assume the Hungarians do get independent, even if they end up losing Banat, Slovakia, Croatia (wasn’t even their at the time, not really), and parts of Transylvania (which had been an independent Magyar state longer than Hungary had been after over a century of being split up and...
  13. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    Almost surprising we don’t have people trying for a Disney Channel styled map. It would be so easy to expand Monaco into Nice and have Princes and Princesses come from there.
  14. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    They really missed out on the opportunity to have West Florida and South Florida. Also, I can see former California getting some sort of San nickname for it, given the state and capital names. An unfortunate flag for Coronado, as it seems to be one of those sorts of flags used these days when...
  15. Clandango

    Map Thread XXII

    Come to think of it, this would lead to financial problems in China, as the silver mines in Spanish America are split between factions here and piracy would be bound to pick off the ships ladened with silver moving to China. Hell, they probably all have to use one or two ports to reach the...
  16. Clandango

    A Small Change for Hanover would be big problem for Bismarck?

    How feasible is a Prussian invasion of Holstein if the Hanoverians occupy (on Danish request) Lauenberg like they did in the First Schleswig War? I think London would be unhappy about involving themselves in the affairs of mainland least they might want Germany from unifying. Especially here. I...
  17. Clandango

    What would have happened if a random commoner had addressed the British monarch by their first name?

    That I am missing? When you were originally quoting me you cut out the remainder of the paragraph where I mentioned how he was also referred to in different ways, including to how he would be referred to with multiple honorifics in the same text.
  18. Clandango

    What would have happened if a random commoner had addressed the British monarch by their first name?

    He was the first English King to have himself called Your Majesty. It was usually Your Grace before then. Dukes were referred to by Grace and, once again, he wanted to make sure people knew he was not just first among equals...
  19. Clandango

    What would have happened if a random commoner had addressed the British monarch by their first name?

    I should think so, as there would have been no real reason to call her those names. I don’t think any had been used in her patrilineal family for at least five or maybe nine generations. Besides, the royals have culturally British since George III, with a small stop for Victoria. it would be...
  20. Clandango

    What would have happened if a random commoner had addressed the British monarch by their first name?

    Indeed, I feel that random commoners would not get to close to the English (unless we are only focusing on Stuarts and Hanoverians) unless they were at onenof those events where the king was touching people to cure them, since people used to think kings were a bit holy. I expect if a person...
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