Most of these posts ignore the mediaevalism of fascism. An old order that no-one living had actually lived in was painted as an age of piety, peace and prosperity, so the question became "who ruined it". To practically every party the answer was Capitalism. Here they differed. To communists the...
New Scillies? The old Scillies would once have spoken Cornish, the language most closely related to Welsh. And there's more than one of them, so the Falklands could be St Mary's, New Tresco etc.
Rugby is a long way off, but given that in OTL animosity between just 2 people were involved, I would like to see some butterflying and for Wales and New Wales to opt for Rugby League in 1895.
Tyr seems to have hit the nail on the head, without naming it!" The internal relationship between the United Kingdom and Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Sark alone is so confusing that extending it to anywhere else is a nightmare!
Although almost forgotten now, A Rubovian Legend was a BBC puppet show for the very young. Like a lot of such shows, it was repeated for decades. The peculiar technology of Rubovia might just have percolated away in the subconscious of various authors, as explained in this Wiki bit...
Texas has an Atlantic coast but not one on the Pacific. So surely it's in the East. Or do their big hats and 1920s mindset with correspondingly low IQ qualify them?
I am currently taking part in the trials of the new stage of treatment by Nivolumab, which has a damn good chance of curing or at least controlling the renal cancer I was diagnosed with three months ago. In the inevitable long periods of waiting around I started to wonder:
1) Suppose an...
Jeb Bush.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/jeb-bush-praises-book-by-notorious-bell-curve-race-theorist-charles-murray/
2016 election is overshadowed by the violence that has expanded over police shootings of unarmed black youth. Jeb Bush promotes The Bell Curve to argue that black people...
Sorry to correct, but Hoodoo comes from Congolese religion, way to the south of the Yoruba culture. The word Hoodoo comes from the Portuguese for "Jewish" because all pre-New Testament practices were regarded as Jewish. Angolan slaves brought the word to the New World. Hudi and Vodun converged...
President McGovern introduces the Act Act, making 20 minute improvised guitar solos based on Dylan songs a compulsory part of every public performance, which causes real problems for the Grand Old Opry. Opposition grows until the election of President J Biafra in 1980. His Star Wars initiative...
Hmm. The last "Christian Communist" I can think of was Jim Jones. I would tell a joke about him and his People's Temple, but the punchline is too long.