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  1. Was the Emperor of Japan truly powerless prior to the Meiji Restoration?

    Well, if someone has some insight about it, I would welcome it. I don't know much about this period of Japanese history, but if someone can contribute?

  2. Was the Emperor of Japan truly powerless prior to the Meiji Restoration?

    Shinto and the State, 1868–1988, by Helen Hardacre is something I was recommended for the history of the creation of modern Shinto. Apparently, prior to the Meiji, there no such thing as a religious marriage ritual in Japan. In my opinion, they copied idiosyncratically the parts of western...

  3. What could Austria Hungary could of done to fix its Over Diversity and National instability in its Ethnic army, and government.

    A relevant link: "Habsburg Landsturm: Alien Officers and ‘Army Slavic’".

  4. Leinster re-divided along linguistic lines

    I'm having quoteblocks trouble. I want this thread deleted because I can't delete the original post. I'm trying to post it in a more normal format, but I need to delete this thread first. EDIT: it's in he wrong forum anyway, it should be pre-1900.

  5. Leinster re-divided along linguistic lines

    I posted this wrongly and I can't delete it.

  6. Leinster re-divided along linguistic lines

    Quoting John Cowan's comment from languagehat.com https://languagehat.com/duncher/#comment-4562200 Nine, unless someone has changed them while I wasn’t looking; the Six plus three in the Republic. Still, considering that there are four provinces despite the Irish word cúige ‘province’ being...

  7. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    Does anyone know good timelines with no assassination of Lincoln and a successful Reconstruction?

  8. WI Carol I and Stefan Stambolov pushed forward a Romanian-Bulgarian personal Union in 1887?

    That's quite a lot to extrapolate from a single event. I would focus on the immediate consequences -- How do Austria-Hungary and Russia react, and how do Bulgarians and Romanians react. I think some parties in the Bulgarian parliament would be unhappy, but not too much (I think Stambolov might...

  9. WI Carol I and Stefan Stambolov pushed forward a Romanian-Bulgarian personal Union in 1887?

    Romania was switching from Cyrillic to Latin in the second half of the 19th century, even innovating hybrid letters. They had not yet adopted Latin fully at that time.

  10. WI: Romania and Bulgaria united?

    Nitpick - - Romania had just finished the switch from Cyrillic to Latin by the end of the 19th century.

  11. AH Cuisine and Culinary Practices

    Adoption of nixtamalization globally alongside the spread of maize would be a huge diversion from OTL with regards to nutrition. Also what Jürgen said about sugar beets. @ ArcimedesCircle : Silphium seems to have been similar in taste and usage to asaphoetida / hing.

  12. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    IIRC undersea power cables from the Sahara to Europe under the Med were proposed in the '90s. Didn't seem very feasible.

  13. WI Carol I and Stefan Stambolov pushed forward a Romanian-Bulgarian personal Union in 1887?

    Not a united kingdom (and at the time Bulgaria was a princedom (княжество) in vassalage to the Ottoman Empire), a personal union. Bulgaria only became a tsardom in 1908. They'd be separate countries sharing a monarch.

  14. WI Carol I and Stefan Stambolov pushed forward a Romanian-Bulgarian personal Union in 1887?

    He was a Bulgarian banker who, in his will, donated almost all of his funds to constructing the current main building of Sofia University. He also lived, for most of his life, in Bucharest. At the main entrance to the building are statues of him and his brother.

  15. WI Carol I and Stefan Stambolov pushed forward a Romanian-Bulgarian personal Union in 1887?

    It would be interesting how Evlogi Georgiev would react to that. EDIT: or be involved in.

  16. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    I think you mean apoplectic, not apocalyptic.

  17. Holy War in Buddhism

    The Ikko Ikki is the first thing that came to my mind also.

  18. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    Just like any other language, idiosyncrasies abound.

  19. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    To "overlook" means to ignore, basically. To "look over" does mean what you said (usually). It's just that "overlook" means the exact opposite of what ScorchedLight means in that context. If I was ScorchedLight's editor, I would give the same advice you did. I would advise "she saw to".

  20. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    I think you mean "looked over". "Overlooked" means the opposite of that.
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