Recent content by FractiousDay

Unusually, and I suppose quite fortuitously, all the ones I can think of who were legitimately great, not just who conquered a lot of land, are women. Elizabeth I is recognised as 'Gloriana' and Victoria's name speaks for itself. Both are very well known as presiding over unprecedented years of...

Even if it could be done there wouldn't be much point. Bin Laden wasn't actively involved at all toward the end, in fact, if he started telling people not to be terrorists all his Imams and successors would just agree that he was saying it under duress and therefore the testimony is invalid...

Which wasn't the question I was responding to. I said Heyerdal proved it could be done, I said nothing about, and even pointed out what Heyerdal didn't prove regarding whether it was actually done

It's not a theory. He built various boats and sailed them to various places to demonstrate it could be done. The relevant one in this case was made of papyrus and sailed from Africa to America. True his theories regarding whether this was done or not remain unproven given there's little...

Thor Heyerdahl proved the Egyptians could have done it with the technology available at the time, so the Greeks and Carthaginians would have been able to as well.

What a mistaka-to-maka

This is my understanding as well. Caesar did have proper supporters who liked him, not just were scared of him, but I think the whole thing was just so sudden and violent that everyone ran off They were allowed to push anyone out the way apart from Roman matrons. Lictors were also a gateway...

Yea this was my understanding, thanks for the explanation

Fair enough, as I've said I know very little about Romania, but I think in hindsight I was talking more about ethnicity, rather than culture? The quote from the story post was about 'Slavic blood', which I found odd since I had considered Romanians to be Slavic, or rather of Slavic extraction...

Remind us if you would what ITL Romanians consider themselves as? There's the Roman/Trojan thing going on but I generally assumed they are some variation of Slav?

Well you're pretty much the only person doing Romanian TLs on here so its pretty memorable. I even watched the film (well, half of it, till I couldn't remember what's happening and who was who eventually). It also helps that its a narrative driven story. I wouldn't normally read a Romanian TL...

Ah ok, I'd recently watched a video about the censorship of German letters out of the siege of Stalingrad, and the staff of censors, though large, could open only 1% or so of letters, but if there's so few letters, I assume because of literacy rates then that's fine. Hmm, fair enough, I was...

Read the latest updates,however I hadn't been getting the updates for some reason, not sure why. You might want to look into that

I enjoyed this one. A lot of this TL has been pretty fast so it's nice to see something slowing down. I question the viability of a military censorship agency, given historically the massive numbers of letters sent and so on. Romania here has a state post service right? I think it was part of...

Basically my point. As a student of classical history he should know this. Its good characterisation therefore that he's a child and naive