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    What's the earliest the US can win a war of secession?

    It seems to be conventional wisdom around here that a Civil War even ten years earlier is likely to go in favor of the *CSA, but how ironclad is this? This is in relation to my Shared Worlds Game, where the US has so far elected 1. George Washington 2. John Jay 3. Levi Lincoln 4. John Quincy...
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    Retrospective Election Collab TL

    So, I've mentioned this idea before, but I'm starting an interactive version of the Retrospective Elections, complete with primaries, called "Election Day" -- the idea is to create a legitimate collaborative TL. (As opposed to the original where Nerdlinger used OTL elections and we...
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    AH Challenge: Gaelic-speaking Ireland

    This is admittedly based on a thread that another poster started in a foolish and mildly offensive way, but the question is solid -- Why did Ireland end up with English as it's first language, well-meaning attempts to revive Gaelic notwithstanding? Folks had already cited the fact that...
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    AHC Torture more "moral" than prison

    Inspired from a discussion in Chat (hey, it is good for something other than getting long-time posters banned!) So what POD would be required for this to remain the legal and moral standard in your home country, or better yet, the world as a whole? (To the extent that the *UN routinely...
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    WI: RFK sent to negotiate Vietnam peace treaty in 1967

    From an article on Political Wire this morning, about Ted Kennedy's memoirs: "Kennedy tells of a secret meeting in the spring of 1967 between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy, whose increasingly outspoken criticism of the war in Southeast Asia was becoming a political threat to...
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    Review: Spike Lee's "USA"

    Save your money, people. Okay, when I first saw the movie poster, I thought it was dramatic liscense. (For those of you who've haven't seen them, they show the Yankee rattlesnake flying over Parliament with the dramatic subtitle "They Won".) After all, cover artists are notorious for failing...
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