Recent content by davekohlhoff

No War, that's easy If a top-level diplomat had stayed in Britain during 1811 (he had been recalled in early 1810) then it is likely that Britain would have realized the seriousness of US anger. The British were actually willing to revoke the Orders in Council in 1812 if an American minister...

What about Rockhampton? It would be larger than some American capital cities.

The Israelis already had nuclear weapons. If the IDF went into Cairo it would likely end up withdrawing in a bloodbath and dropping nukes on the Aswan High Dam to prevent the Egyptian forces from following. This would drown the majority of the Egyptian population and would iradiate the a few...

In 1692 the Protestants of Maryland divested the Proprietor of his government but left intact his extensive property rights. He used these rights to prevent attempts by Virginia and Pennsylvania to split the colony between themselves. In 1715 the new proprietor had converted to Protestantism and...

'Christianity' didn't perceive poverty as 'godly'. There were many mystic's, mystery religions, and ascetics around before Christianity that held to those doctrines. The position of the New Testament writers was essentially that neither poverty nor wealth had any intrinsic moral value...

There are a lot of differences in this TL starting in the 1830's that would bolster the German population by several million by 1900. I've looked over the borders and my guess is for a breakdown like this: Germany- ~105,000,000 (earlier German industrialization and prosperity, along with...

Frankly I think the only uses for monarchs are tourism and stability in countries that lack national unity. If Russia found a convenient distant relative of the Romanovs and crowned him (Czar Boris perhaps?) it would help tourism to royal locales in Russia. It would also give Russia a...

Brevity is the heart of wit... but you can illustrate this world in ways that force me to continue reading. Good Habit and Daniel both have done good jobs as fill-in writers too. I haven't been able to comment too intensely. Right now I'm researching deeply for a Maryland history inspired TL...

Wow, that's nice. I think you're TL is great.

It's hard to find anyone under fifty that has had a classical education. My Latin might not be wonderful but I can struggle through Caesar, Virgil and Tacititus. It might not have been such a good idea to chunk all the Roman and Greek concepts. Now we just try to teach students what's...

Wow, I'm glad you've been paying attention. Hannover was split in this TL. The northern 3/4 went to Oldenburg and the southern 1/4 went to Prussia. Here is the corrected map:

I think Nova Scotia would be almost impossible to get to as well. The only way I see America taking Nova Scotia is if they have considerable inside help. Otherwise the Americans won't be able to land troops on the island.

Germany Map This is what Germany looks like in FWOAPN in 1875:

[Sarcasm mode] I think a precocious 4th grader found an atlas and thought it was a coloring book. [Sarcasm off]

There is already rumbling... Most of this is directed to the Czech Republic. The Sudeten Germans are a significant part of the German population. Perhaps you can get a united Germany to force Czechoslovakia to return the stolen property of Sudeten Germans and allow other Germans to buy up...