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  1. ToaKraka

    The Great War of 189-

    This future history book (published in 1892 and updated in 1895) was recently uploaded to Project Gutenberg. Somewhat interestingly, actual historians (Philip Colomb and John Maurice) are included in its list of authors. The story is related in a slightly confusing fashion, progressing for a...
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    Random question - did the Ottoman Empire ever participate in the modern Olympics?

    1908: 1912:
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    Where did all the Big Timelines go?

    DeviantART? Althistoria?
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    Could the Silk Road become relevant again with the invention of trains?

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    WWI-era alternate-future novels featuring invasion of the USA

    A few months ago, I was intrigued to see a book titled The Invasion of America on Project Gutenberg's RSS feed of newly-uploaded works. Published in 1915, it details the disastrous results of a sudden invasion on the US's east coast: It even has 173 endnotes, in which it cites sources and...
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    Feasibility discussion: Discworlds semaphores/'Clacks'.

    Those are mentioned in the OP: The OP is asking about the highly-sophisticated optical-telegraph networks of Discworld, rather than about the simple networks of real life: I could be wrong, but I don't recall seeing any super-complicated optical telegraphs in Look to the West.
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    Required supermajority in legislatures

    Is it at all realistic that the legislature of a successful country could require a supermajority (e.g., three-fifths or two-thirds) in order to pass laws, rather than a simple (one-half) majority? Maybe a group of constitution-writers would want to put checks on the legislature, but without...
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    These United States: the Story of Two Congresses

    Is this supposed to be "Erie"?
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    What borders in Europe are inevitable and which are not inevitable?

    But is having a mountain range as "the spine of a country" actually a benefit for that country, especially before the advent of telegraphy? Wouldn't the difficulty of traversing the mountains impair the movement of traders, messengers, and troops? Or does the defensive benefit of being able to...
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    Black Death kills _% of Europe

    The book The Years of Rice and Salt uses as its premise the idea that 99% of Europe's population died. I don't know how historically-plausible that is, though. IIRC, the eventual endpoint is a division of the world between Muslim and Chinese powers, with American tribes used at first as...
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    Communications lag in a republic--how long?

    I think there are two situations that need to be considered... If a state government requests assistance from the federal entity (due to, e.g., sudden foreign invasion or unforeseen natural disaster), how quickly does that assistance need to arrive before the state government loses control of...
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    Slavin Empire

    But, if you link directly to the images, how are we supposed to give you favorites for them on DeviantART? ;-) 1000 1300 1450 1550 1650 1790 1828
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    AHC: Gustavus Adolphus is the biggest trending internet meme.

    The Europa Universalis series is popular, but Paradox Development Studio makes some major balancing errors, and doesn't fix them. Sweden, rather than France, is the Big Blue Blob in most campaigns of Europa Universalis 3 and 4, often overrunning both northern Germany and western Russia. Someone...
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