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My father-in-law was in the Takasago Volunteers, Taiwan aborigines recruited as scouts for the IJA in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia due to their familiarity with jungle terrain. He served in the Philippines, but he didn't like to talk about it (largely, I suspect, because the issue of...

Here in Taiwan it's the Year 112, counting from the overthrow of the Chinese Empire and the establishment of the Republic of China. Strangely, they date the new year using the Gregorian calendar, with the year starting on January 1.

Vancouver (B.C.): British get inolved in sea otter trade earlier; set up forts down west coast from Alaska (New Caledonia) to San Francisco (Francistown). Americans take Canada in ARW; west coast colonies amalgamate for protection. Victoria (Charlotteville) as the oldest settled colony is the...

All elephants in those cases are tamed, not domesticated. Each generation has to be freshly captured from the wild.

That the Wars of Religion were not about differing versions of Christianity at all, but were all about secular rulers bent on greed and conquest. The World Wars of the 20th C. OTOH (conveniently ignoring WWI), were all about differing versions of atheist ideology (not on the part of Britain...

Two options- 1) Among blacks, but would result in even more terrorising from whites. 2)The poorer class of whites democratically overcoming the planter class, with an even stronger form of herrenvolk socialism. Say, a Huey Long type figure with CSA-wide appeal.

Somehow induced more colonists. There was a thread here abiut the explosive growth even a small increase in the easly number of French colonists would have caused.

Aprops of my very old TL https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/an-intelligent-ocean-species-octopans.76643/ https://www.rawstory.com/the-hidden-world-of-octopus-cities-and-culture-shows-why-its-wrong-to-farm-them/

Some food were assimilated in modified form- curry puffs, for instance.

Plus the effects of the spread of Europen ideas- Metal-working animal domestication blending of agricultures literacy ship-building.

Any "France keeps Quebec in 1763" TLs? Any outcome will do- France wins Plains of Abraham; Britain gives New France back but keeps Martinique etc.

Queen Maria Luisa. I wrote a TL in which Bernardo Galvez becomes Prime Minister, and the actual father of Fernando VII.

Which quotes and refers to contemporary sources Not mentioning coins, inscriptions, entire cities etc.

What is the origin of Tacitus's statement? Did he consult existing Roman government records about executions in Judea in the early 30s? Did he quote existing Roman authorities in his own time about what the Christians believed? Or did he quote the opinions of Christians themselves?