Explain the AH Quote

[The_Persian_Cat]

US dependence on coal began to seriously harm US nature, all the smoke causing many species of plants to become black in colour, leading to them being called "coal plants". This lead to a nuclear weapons disarmament to instead focus on a massive build up of nuclear power plants, however the President took it too far, appearing weak and causing other nuclear powers to attempt a first strike. In the wasteland that followed many of the former "coal plants" mutated into "nuclear plants" due to radiation. The US and most of the civilized world had collapsed by 1999. The last nukes left in the former US are worshiped as idols and are dearly beloved by the general population.

"We drove the white man into the sea, never to return again."

The final verse of the National Anthem of the Great Southern Empire, which was known to the British who attempted to colonise it as "Australia." In response to European colonisation, the Aboriginal peoples formed a united front for the first time, eventually driving the white man from their homeland and creating a centralised state. The war took advantage of the many class and racial divisions within Australian society as well as the rivalry between Britain and Germany, a growing colonial power in the South Pacific in search of allies.

"I don't believe in ghosts or fairies. His Majesty, however, is a bit more open-minded than me."

 

[Comte de Dordogne]

"I don't believe in ghosts or fairies. His Majesty, however, is a bit more open-minded than me."

Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz on the son of the Grand Condé. During the Fronde the branch of the Bourbons had come to a tragic end after Louis Dieudonné and his brother had died in rather obscure conditions with their mother.
The one who won the crown was the Grand Condé, a good general but a mediocre politician. In spite of his victory against Spain he did not succeed in concluding a marriage with the Habsburgs of Madrid.
When the Grand Condé died, he left a half-crazy son (madness inherited from his mother). This son was crowned like Henry V, at night he thought he was turning into a wolf or demanded to be watered regularly on his feet like a flower, otherwise he would wither and die. He also tried to catch the ghost of Louis Dieudonné walking around his room and the butterfly fairies in the corridors of the Louvre Palace explaining that they could change History if they were shaken a little. The most annoying thing was that he also did it in front of foreign delegations.
At least his madness made it possible to get along well with the debility of Carlos II of Spain, this wobbly friendship making all Europe gossip.
The Little Condé as he was nicknamed marked the French decline during the second half of the 17th century, the Kingdom of France would not recover until the beginning of the following century.

"The Ottoman Empire sadly ended that day, no one seeing this Harem burning that day in Constantinople thought that the House of Osman disappeared with it."

 

[CountDVB]

"The Ottoman Empire sadly ended that day, no one seeing this Harem burning that day in Constantinople thought that the House of Osman disappeared with it."

A historicla comment on how the end of the Ottoman dynasty came to be with it and thus, left a power vacuum within the nation as a result. In desperation, the crown was offered to a Timurid prince to help restore order. The death of the House of Osman also caused a massive crisis of faith. However, the rise of the Timurid Caliphate in its place proved to be quick on the rise. They made peace with Europe and even returning Constantinople to Greece, using the freed-up manpower to secure their holds in Arabia, even claiming Mecca and Medina. The Timur Caliph, who was raised in Iran and thus was of Shia faith, led a mass wave of conversions to Shina occurred across the Middle East. The Caliphate continued on, remaining neutral in the Great War and used the money gained from selling access and supplies to develop their oil fields, becoming quite wealthy as a result. Additionally, they exploited Russia's civil war to make the Central Asian breakaway nations joing the Caliphate, thanks to access to the Caspian Sea after annexing the Azerbaijani lands (with help from the Aremenians, who got independence and some land, enough for access to the Black Sea in exchange)

"Will someone explain to me how Aremenia managed to become the main power in the Middle East after World War I?"

 

[Frank Hart]

"Will someone explain to me how Aremenia [sic] managed to become the main power in the Middle East after World War I?"

Iman Yahya of Yemen, commenting on the rapid development of Armenia after World War One. Able to secure control over both Van and Yerevan, as well as the creation of the Cicilian Republic, Armenia created a Armenian bloc in the Middle East, and subsequently developed into the main regional power of Middle East.

You know what a monkey's paw is? That's when the Swiss rejected women's suffrage in a referendum, and the Swiss government responded by taking away the voting rights of the people.

 

[Walker2006]

Napoleon Bonaparte commenting on the "Monkey Paw Incident", where the appointed military dictator of the Swiss Governate, now occupied by the French army after a Coalition backed rebellion in 1810, passed the controversial "Regeneration Act", where voting rights would be stripped "temporarily" from the citizens, but would go on to last until the final defeat of the French Empire in 1816. The rebellion was in response to the Governate rejecting to grant women equal suffrage in an already increasingly desperate situation. It was called the "Monkey Paw" incident because of journalists describing the dictator as "swift as a monkey paw to swipe the Swiss of their civil liberties."

On the lands of the Britons a man will rise, and from those lands he shalt go o'er the horizon to establish thy mighty nation that shalt be feared by Europa, and even Rome.

 

[Atterdag]

On the lands of the Britons a man will rise, and from those lands he shalt go o'er the horizon to establish thy mighty nation that shalt be feared by Europa, and even Rome.

A dying British druid prophesying that one day a Briton would lead his countrymen abroad and create a new Kingdom, free from Roman occupation. This would partially come true after the Roman Empire pulled out of Batavia and Germania in the 5th century, the power gap left behind being filled with Briton chiefs, leading to the Celtification of Batavia.

“We all saw the breakup of the British Empire coming, but not like this, not like this...”

 

[Kylia]

“We all saw the breakup of the British Empire coming, but not like this, not like this...”

After losing all their North American and Carribean Colonies to rebels in the 43 Years War (1776 to 1819, though fighting only happened during twenty one of those 43 years, due to several truces and pauses), a popular uprising soon began in southeastern England saw a storming of London and the massacre of the royal family as radical demagogues took control of England - but a surviving cousin of the royal family held on in Scotland. The resulting Wars of the British Revolution, from 1824-1840, saw the British Empire disintegrate, with the Indian possessions becoming an independent hybrid of the BEIC and the local princes united in a confederation, Ireland entering into personal union with Bavaria of all places, and Scotland becoming an independent kingdom led by descendants of the previous royal family, and England was dismembered into 5 small, toothless and oligarchic republics (no nobleman or royal in Europe wanted to be a ruler there after the brutalities that had been inflicted on the previous British aristocracy and gentry) and Northern England down to York was given to Scotland.

The North American colonies became several distinct countries.

The quote is from Alexander Hamilton, one of the last Founding Fathers of the Great American Revolution (and first President of the independent Republic of Columbia, covering New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England as well as parts of the Northwest Territory and Canada) in 1841, a few months before his death. The Aged Statesman had always hoped to live long enough to see the British Empire fall, but not the way that it did, and not with the death toll attached.

When the Polish crossed the border, I thought we were doomed - and then came the blessed news that the French were coming to our aid. God almighty above, I was never so grateful to hear the that damned horrid language of theirs than when their soldiers arrived to relieve the Polish siege.

 

[CountDVB]

When the Polish crossed the border, I thought we were doomed - and then came the blessed news that the French were coming to our aid. God almighty above, I was never so grateful to hear the that damned horrid language of theirs than when their soldiers arrived to relieve the Polish siege.

A German official noted when he got the news that, surprise to everyone, that France would assist the North German Confederation in repelling the Poles, as part of the Great War. Poland, having subjugated the Baltics with help of its allies, went west. Austria, having annexed the southern German states prior to the war, used this as part of their arrangement. However, they did not expect the French to defend the Prussians. While they would manage to lobby the Spanish and Portuguese against the French, this just invited the British against them with other nations joining, including the Ottomans and even Morocco to join in. While France would successfully save Prussia and repell the invasion, the news spread that the Poles' easier access came from traitors, which nearly spawned a civil war between the east and west parts of NGC. It was averted when the eastern part seceded after new leadership as New Prussia.

New Prussia expanded when some land from the Poles and inhabited from Polish freedom fighters and defectors. New Prussia would also be rebuilt and influenced by Russia, one of the few neutral powers, to where the dominant faith was Eastern Orthodoxy by the latter half of the 20th century. the NGC solidfied as Germany and allied with France while the Sudaustric Kingdom formed after a coup within the House of Habsburg, though as part of the exchange, Bulgaria got claim to most of the southern Slavic lands, which in turn, required a deal from Romania (who merely demanded Transylvania from Hungary and Bulgaria to pressure Russia to giving them Moldova, both objections agreed and succeded in.)

"The schism between the Catholics and Orthodox church was so bad that the latter cheered and celeberated when the Rum Seljuk Sultanate joined them in repelling the so-called First Crusade. Of course, the Byzantines returned the favor when the Seljuks were in trouble from the Ilkhanate. This was just the first of various long-lasting inter-faith alliances... "

 

[Walker2006]

"The schism between the Catholics and Orthodox church was so bad that the latter cheered and celeberated when the Rum Seljuk Sultanate joined them in repelling the so-called First Crusade. Of course, the Byzantines returned the favor when the Seljuks were in trouble from the Ilkhanate. This was just the first of various long-lasting inter-faith alliances... "

Quote from a Bedouin tribe leader from Arabia explaining his experiences during the height of the First and Second Crusades. The Split between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches enabled other religious contenders to rise up and take advantage of their power void, especially Islam. The Seljuks sided with the Orthodox to merely weaken the power of the Pope in Rome and increase their own standings. Whatever remained of the Catholic Church in Asia Minor, through the Byzantine Empire, did the exact same thing in opposite when they sided with the Seljuks to take out the Ilkhanate. This cycle, now known as the "Denomination Cycle", would last centuries.

"We will NOT retreat. We will hold this pass and we will either succeed or die trying. This is the only pass standing in the way of those "Yankees" and San Diego. Any objections?

Good. Let's go!"

 

[CountDVB]

"We will NOT retreat. We will hold this pass and we will either succeed or die trying. This is the only pass standing in the way of those "Yankees" and San Diego. Any objections?

Good. Let's go!"

The communication of soldiers as they were preparing to block a passage of the White Mountains to prevent the Texans from accessing to San Diego, a major city in the Republic of California. Born when conflicts regarding the Catholic Church and liberalism led to many Mexican liberals and Protestants fleeing north, making an accord with the indigenous peoples there, creating the Republic of California. Stretching from the San Francisco Bay to the northern tip of the Brazos River, it became a prominent player in the Americas.

The Texans were referred to as Yankees due to the comment of them being an American puppet and their desire to join the Union that have failed. However, the Grand Stand succeeded and repelled them, allowing the Californias to turn the tide and successfully maintain their Texans from invading. The Gold War was starting after the Californians found gold, but kept it mainly for themselves and the Chinese immigrants. Preventing Texan settlers led to the Gold War. Despite backing from the Americans, Texas lost. While it would join the US, it was as part of a deal to defeat the Confederate States of American during the American Civil War. Many of the freed slaves of Texas went to California, who took them in to help further the growth of the area.

"I did not expect the Ethiopian Empire to be the ones to challenge and defeat the Ottomans!"

 

[Frank Hart]

"I did not expect the Ethiopian Empire to be the ones to challenge and defeat the Ottomans!"

The Ottoman Empire in this timeline expanded south into Africa, but expanding along the Nile, it eventually reached a point where the command structure could not sustain any further. This happened to be within reach of the Ethiopians, who wanted to remove Ottoman influence from the continent. This culminated in the Nile War, where the Ethiopians kicked the Ottomans out all the way to Khartoum.

"What happened to the Ambassador of Spain?"
"Ambassador of Spain? Do you mean that piece of shit who murdered the Duchess of Northumberland's children and received diplomatic immunity despite that due to blackmail?"
"Mind your-"
"No, and I will be blunt, your majesty. He was lynched in Newcastle."

 

[ThatOneGuy]

What happened to the Ambassador of Spain?"
"Ambassador of Spain? Do you mean that piece of shit who murdered the Duchess of Northumberland's children and received diplomatic immunity despite that due to blackmail?"
"Mind your-"
"No, and I will be blunt, your majesty. He was lynched in Newcastle."

A recorded conversation between the King of England George II and Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister in British history, in 1733. It concerned the death of Diego Garcia de la Ponce, Spanish envoy to the British crown. The year prior the Duchess of Northumberland was having an affair with him when her children found out, all under the age of 15. When de la Ponce found out that they knew, he had them killed in a series of 'unfortunate accidents' which were not hard to link back to him despite his best efforts. Before he could leave the UK however an angry mob descended on him while he was at an associates house in Newcastle and literally tore him apart. His head was mailed back to Spain. Spain itself used the murder of de la Ponce to start the 40 Years War with the UK which would end in 1777 when the UK and Spain signed the Treaty of New Castile which freed the American Colonies and gave France all of Canada (for their participation in the latter third of the war).

If I had a nickel for every time a guy named Adolf started a world war i'd have five nickels which isn't much but its weird its happened five times.

 

[The_Persian_Cat]

A recorded conversation between the King of England George II and Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister in British history, in 1733. It concerned the death of Diego Garcia de la Ponce, Spanish envoy to the British crown. The year prior the Duchess of Northumberland was having an affair with him when her children found out, all under the age of 15. When de la Ponce found out that they knew, he had them killed in a series of 'unfortunate accidents' which were not hard to link back to him despite his best efforts. Before he could leave the UK however an angry mob descended on him while he was at an associates house in Newcastle and literally tore him apart. His head was mailed back to Spain. Spain itself used the murder of de la Ponce to start the 40 Years War with the UK which would end in 1777 when the UK and Spain signed the Treaty of New Castile which freed the American Colonies and gave France all of Canada (for their participation in the latter third of the war).

If I had a nickel for every time a guy named Adolf started a world war i'd have five nickels which isn't much but its weird its happened five times.

American war-hero-turned-standup-comedian Bill Adolf, in his standard opening routine. Bill Adolf served with distinction at Normandy and across occupied France as part of the US Air Force, and continued his service after World War II had ended. He participated in the Berlin Airlift in 1948, which led to the breakout of a brief war between the United States and the Soviet Union called by some historians the beginning of World War III. He also served in Korea, where, as a result of the increased tensions in Germany, nuclear bombs were dropped by both sides. World Wars IV and V were his infamous 1956 Christmas Special and his unfortunate appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. He completely bombed (no pun intended) on both of these appearances, but he is a good-natured man who can laugh at himself, and so he jokingly refers to them as "world wars" during his set.

"We are not defying orders. Our orders come directly from Her Majesty. We outrank you."

 

[Kylia]

"We are not defying orders. Our orders come directly from Her Majesty. We outrank you."

When the Marquis de Laffayette was arrested by a group of soldiers dispatched by the Queen Regent Marie Antoinette following the death of her husband at the hands of the Parisian mob, he couldn't believe it - the Queen was saved and the Paris mobs broken thanks to the Flanders Regiment and loyal National Guardsmen, but Laffayette still thought the Army and the National Guard supported him - but his failures on the Belgian Front had cost him all his supporters that he'd had left after his political misstepps the last few years.

Laffayette was spared execution for treason (on trumphed up charges but ones believed by everyone because they hated him so much) thanks to the intercession of President Washington of the United States, and instead Laffayette had all his property confiscated by the Crown and he was exiled to the United States, never to return to Europe on pain of death.

"If the King has told you once, he's told you twice: DON'T! PROVOKE! THE SWISS!"

 

[Plateosaurus]

"If the King has told you once, he's told you twice: DON'T! PROVOKE! THE SWISS!"

Ambassador Thaddeus Kosciuszko berating some soldiers who after drunkenly shooting some Bavarian diplomats started the Polish-German War.

Spoiler: Happy now, Paraiba?

"A cry for help in time of need, await relief from the league
6 days of siege, outnumbered and weak
Sent a message to the sky, wounded players left to die
Will they win the game or will the city fall

Dedication, dedication
New York's scored 15-1
Then the Omaha Hussars arrived
Coming down the aisleside
Then the Hussars arrived
Coming down they turned the tide

Desperation
Desperation
It's a desperate race against the mine
And a race against time

....Cannonballs are coming down from the sky
New Yorkers are you ready to die?
We will seek our vengeance eye for an eye
...We remember
In September
That's the night Omaha was freed
We made the enemy bleed!

Storm clouds, fire and steel
Death from above, make their enemy kneel
Shining armour and wings
Death from above, it's an army of kings

We remember
In September
When the Omaha Hussars arrived"

 

[Paraiba]

(Dude, if you are gonna put such a long post, at least put a long description too)

A Sabaton parody made by a fan of the popular EU4 mod "After the End", that tells of a post-post-apocalyptic Earth that closely resembles itself during the Renaissance.

"So now i have to dress myself like some XIX century aristocrat when going in public simply because of the new government's lunatic ideology?"
"Uhh... Yeah."
"Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This is so stupid that it makes the Kingdom of New Israel look like a beacon of sanity!"

 

[Alias_The_J]

"So now i have to dress myself like some XIX century aristocrat when going in public simply because of the new government's lunatic ideology?"
"Uhh... Yeah."
"Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This is so stupid that it makes the Kingdom of New Israel look like a beacon of sanity!"

The Ambassador from the Republic of Texas to the ambassador from the Republic of California, about the dress code of the Republic of Victoria under Presiding Minister William S. Lind. As Lind had been an important official in the United States before The Collapse, Victoria had gained the majority of US advanced forces and monetary resources, hence why the nation was tolerated, despite putting the Haredi in charge of Israel with that military, the rampant interference in everyday life (and human rights violations, especially for citizens of color), or the nonsensical economic policies (such as banning PCs and smartphones).

"Dude, if you are gonna put such a long post, at least put a long description too!"

 

[CountDVB]

"Dude, if you are gonna put such a long post, at least put a long description too!"

An exchange occurring in the second quarter of the educational dramedy thriller film Postal, focused on a couple of teenagers who enter the US postal service as a way to get employment, only to appreciate the reliability and uncover a conspiracy. It was jokingly referred to as propaganda for the US Post Office, but was warmly received for tongue-in-cheek humor and bringing attention to how certain factions in the government were sabotagining the US postal service because of stock investments in private delivery companies.

The exchange in question was with the protagonist, the new postal worker, to his buddy, referring to how he put in a rather long postal code (due to it being multi-stop) for mailing his package yet neglected to put much information about the actual package itself. The request was explained that a long descripton would better justify the long and complicated travel.

"We will compromise with the Native Americans! The Mt. Rushmore project will have the heads of their leader alongside George Washington!"

 

[Caravels of Portugal]

"We will compromise with the Native Americans! The Mt. Rushmore project will have the heads of their leader alongside George Washington!"

Gutzon Borglum reluctantly allowing the construction of a colossal structure honoring Native American leaders in the Mount Rushmore project. He ordered the construction of statues depicting the heads of major Native American leaders.

"Richard Nixon told me that he feared Pinochet would turn Chile into a new Cuba, an ally of France and Italy. So the CIA broke Allende out of prison and so began the 1973 coup,"

 

[Walker2006]

"Richard Nixon told me that he feared Pinochet would turn Chile into a new Cuba, an ally of France and Italy. So the CIA broke Allende out of prison and so began the 1973 coup,"

Quote from Secretary of State Harry Kissinger, mentioning a private conversation between him and Nixon. Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Chile in 1970 led by Salvador Allende, and Allende was jailed for life. Nixon had originally intended to contain Communism from spreading in the New World and limit the influence of the Third Internationale led by the French Commune and the Socialist Republic of Italy. The United States however was shocked when Pinochet decided to defy expectations and establish a new dictatorial socialist government.

What made Nixon order the breakout of former President Allende was the March 1973 Summit between the Third Internationale and Chile, which Pinochet discussed the possibility of joining the alliance. This was the last straw for the Nixon Administration. Therefore, in secret on June 6 1973, Nixon ordered the CIA to commence "Operation Bat", the freeing of Allende from prison. The eventual coup succeeded, and Pinochet voluntarily went into exile courtesy of the British to St. Helena Island. The coup however would spark decades of civil unrest and political squabbling which lasts today.

"You don't know the significance of the United States' underground Fascist movement, especially what it means to us as the Axis. If we play it correctly, we can get the strongest nation on Earth to our side."