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  1. A Nation's History In Its Neighbourhoods- A Guidebook TL

    Thank you for weighting in. I will admit that my choice for going for Wiseman was dictated by my inability in my research to find any other cardinal active in 1855 that seemed to fit the bill of what I was going for... turns out I based myself on the absence in my search of anything indicating...

  2. A Nation's History In Its Neighbourhoods- A Guidebook TL
    Threadmarks: 1- Trieste-Salario, Rome

    Peering inside the basilica of Sant’Agnese, among the images of saints that are sometimes well-known, sometimes fairly obscure, there’s certainly an image that is more striking than all others. It's one of men in uniform and prelates in cassocks among broken support beams and ripped-apart...

  3. Miscellaneous <1900 (Alternate) History Thread

    If the current narrative is that "Piedmont stole all of the Neapolitan gold", ITTL it's "Piedmontese collaborators stole all of the Neapolitan gold". That is to say, the same mistakes that the Kingdom of Italy did in its infancy (not being protectionist enough in the beginning, letting land...

  4. The Second World War, But The Sides Are Switched

    Theoretically, the outcome should also be the reverse of OTL as well (so Axis wins), for the same reason WW2 as we know it was next-to-impossible to win for the Axis. Nothing much to say there, we can list names, but that's it. But let's explore the idea a little more. Are we really sure this...

  5. AHC: Islam dies out during the 16th to 17th centuries

    Does Islam have to reach any specific extent, before the irreversible decline sers in, or not? It could just be averting the Islamic Conquests, or at least have them repelled so that Islam exists only in the Arabic Peninsula, until a not!Sasanid or a Byzantine...

  6. WW I Insanity Options

    Attempts to gain naval supremacy in the Adriatic, in order to attempt a landing in Zara or near Pola, thereby in theory bypassing the Isonzo and decapitating the A-H navy. The reality, of course, is that the area is horrendous for landings with current tech, let alone WW 1-era methods, it...

  7. AHC: Make Quranism a mainstream sect of Islam

    But, to my understanding, sh'aria only using what's prescribed by the Quran is harder, or at least requires more lay law integrations. My comment wasn't about whether Quranism would be more or less progressive, it was more a consideration (which might be incorrect, as I have studied the matter...

  8. AHC: Make Quranism a mainstream sect of Islam

    The way I understand it, Quranism can really only exist in a context where an Islamic community rejects sharia as source of lay law, since the Hadiths are, in effect, the actual laws to the Quran's "constitution", and without it you are left entirely with the Quran's vauguer precepts, assuming...

  9. Worst Founding Principles for a Nation?

    A modernised Spartan state, with its founding principle and "backstory" left in (read: we are very mighty invaders, we conquered this land, and the native inhabitants should suck up to us or/and die) would have a founding principle that most would find impossible to defend and be oppressive to...

  10. WI: Adriano Olivetti survives?

    To my understanding, Adriano Olivetti was a staunch believer in typewriters remaining all-important for a long time, with computers being an important investment for a future he wasn't going to see. He might be swayed by Mario Tcho at a later point, since Adriano could be plausibly still alive...

  11. Shocking camera footage discovered!

    -Tapes from a common criminal, documenting when, how, and where he abused and then killed Emanuela Orlandi. , maybe as a form of "trophy collection", maybe as part of his partecipation in a ring of petty rapists and degenerates. Meaning the conspiracies around it would become the purview of the...

  12. AHC: Entente victorious armistice 6 months or 12 months early

    Capturing Trieste right after this reverse!Caporetto (perhaps, as soon as the success of the 6th Battle of Isonzo is squandered, somebody in the king's cabinet decides that enough is enough, and tries to start a conspiracy to get Cadorna off the position, or kick him upstairs somehow?) would be...

  13. The Death of Russia in other countries

    Death of the United Kingdom... without them engaging in WW3, I'm not sure how it could happen the way the Death of Russia did. I can only imagine the Troubles going from OTL nastiness to "whatever, we're going in full-force ahead again"-mode, to the point Scotland loses interest in keeping the...

  14. What if the Germans failed to rescue Mussolini, invade Italy and establish the Italian Social Republic ?

    Not really, what made the Mafia come back from the brink in Sicily, and later Italy, was the Allied Command's anxieties about the local population trying to sabotage and contrast them if they tried to administer the island directly, thus preferring to grant amnesty/"soft extradition" to the...

  15. Alternate Cinematic Disasters

    The mind boggles on how Chris-chan could get anyone interested and involved in getting it done, since, even beyond the obvious problems of "how does the script gets picjed up by anyone?", the premise of a Pikachu-Sonic fusion ruling a land modeled after Chris-chan themselves is not particularily...

  16. An Alt-Historical Cookbook

    Seamerstress' Wafer: sarcastic name of a small pound cake made with eggs, flour, honey, and silphium, a plant with a tangy flavour... and alleged abortive properties, hence the name. Legend goes that the plant used to be able to grow only on a steep, rocky hill near Cyrene, in what is now Lybia...

  17. Which country could have a cultural invasion similar to South Korea or Japan

    Half of the criticisms are "they are copying old Anglo material, therefore they suck", one quarter is "they aren't TRUE rock stars, they are proposing fake rebellion" (and when the one saying that is Camillo Langone, "man at yelling at clouds... IN A NEWSPAPER!" per excellence in the Fair...

  18. Which country could have a cultural invasion similar to South Korea or Japan

    I don't know. 50% of the pop culture in Italy has been, since the 2000s, a circlehug (to not use the more vulgar term) about a percieved loss of cultural importance and moral fiber, one foretold so much, it actually ended up happening; 45% was entertaiment of little export value, either copied...

  19. Pro-Axis, pro-Nazi, pro-fascist Pope

    The entire point of the Lateran Treaty was to give enough indipendence to the Pope that he'd lift all proclaims against partecipating in Italian politics (and, by extension, supporting the Italian Government at that point in time: that is to say, at that time, Mussolini), there's no way the Pope...

  20. The Footprint of Mussolini - TL

    Unlikely. The way it worked for South Tyroleans IOTL, they were banned from learning their language, and schoolkids using German were punished, but Canadian-style residential schools were never on the table. Slovenes likely get the same treatment. As for the colonial enterprises: Lybia was more...
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