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  1. ModusViv

    Return of the terrible flag thread.

    The flag of Sicily always reminds me of that time the Muppet Show decided to turn the relatively gentle, haunting melody of "Windmills of Your Mind" from "The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)" into a frenetic, fast-paced riot of a song sung by a screaming green thing with three legs (facing us - it...
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    Return of the terrible flag thread.

    Probably. The thing that's really bothering me is that I think the red in the French flag and the red in the rest of the flag are just slightly different.
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    Map Thread XX

    Figures. 🤣
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    Map Thread XX

    I don't have a map. Well, no, that's not true - I do have a map. But it's nothing spectacular. Basically, I didn't think it would be worth starting an entirely new thread. But I thought I'd share. I just stumbled across a website, purely by accident. I didn't know if anyone else came...
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    Flag Thread V

    The flag of the United States of America - 56 stripes, one for each state (14 red diagonal down from left to right, 14 red diagonal down from right to left, 14 white diagonal down from left to right, 14 white diagonal down from right to left) with a central blue triangular field with a single...
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    WI: Jewish instead of Christian Europe

    No bacon double-cheeseburgers. 😭 Maybe just restrict that part to the season of Lent or something?
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    WI: Grover Cleveland won re-election in 1888?

    Well, for one thing, it would make the question of "What number president are we on?" a little easier to answer.
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    Alternate Names for American States

    I wonder if they named it that because it means "good fortune" or did they name it after the Catholic saint?
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    Alternate Names for American States

    Apparently, the most striking thing when settlers landed in what is now Boston was three hills. Not a lot of sources online that say which three, but Wikipedia's entry on the Shawmut Penninsula (where the original settlement was) says they are Copps Hill in the North End, Fort Hill, in the...
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    Alternate Names for American States

    Tremontaine for Massachusetts (or, at least maybe the eastern part?)
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    WI: Mongol States become Drug Cartels and get the Old World addicted to Marijuana and Opium?

    It would explain that bit about the dog-headed men who grow spices.
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    Could the Hussites have sparked an early Reformation?

    Early ones were just a modification of the wine press, if I recall correctly? The principle would probably not be so strange. I think the big problem would probably be paper. People are still using vellum and parchment at this point, right?
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    Potential names for a reformed, liberal Holy Roman Empire in the 19th Century

    Das Raumfüllende Reich? (hopefully Google translate did that right or the joke is completely lost 😆 ) On a more serious note - Danuvia? The river runs through all of the countries involved, right?
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    What Would The French Have Named Places In North America

    Uh-oh. I've been spelling this wrong my entire life ...
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    What Would The French Have Named Places In North America

    Wait! What era are we talking? What about: Napoleana! And then Vancouver could be Nouvelle-Corse!
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    What Would The French Have Named Places In North America

    New York City remains Nouvelle-Angoulême.
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    What Would The French Have Named Places In North America

    Well, there were a few French kings named Philip ... but assuming the monarchy runs sames as OTL the last Philip would have been a really long time before the colonization of North America, and so would be kind of unlikely. And, also, it would be one "l" (Philipines - looks weird written that...
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    WI: Abrahamic Religions were Monolatrist

    What about a situation where the other gods are acknowledged but also seen as inferior (sort of henotheism). If all Abrahamic religions are like this, it would have to start with the concept that the God of the Jews is greater than all of the other little-g gods, but that those other gods...
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    WI: Ancient/medieval pykrete?

    Not sure how efficient this is, but - would it be possible to bring the wood pulp to a higher elevation, or even set up operations in a high elevation (making the pulp out of conifers, say), melt snow and ice (if there's wood for pulp, there's wood for fire), and mix the resulting ice water with...
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    Why is Muhammad a common Muslim name, but Jesus not a common Christian name?

    I was going to make a joke here, like - because it would be weird for parents to be sitting around, chatting over coffee, saying things like "Let me tell you, we had a real challenge when it came to potty training Jesus." Or "We had to ground Jesus for a week for putting a dent in the car ..."...
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