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  1. WI: The Simpsons characters had aged in ~real time

    My impression is that the age of Mr Burns started reasonably as "someone who should have retired from running his own business some time ago, but hasn't" , but the jokes about his age ( and his health / lack of vitality) are too easy a target to resist (such as showing him in the "Little Lord...

  2. WI: The Simpsons characters had aged in ~real time

    I agree with Ned Flander's age. There is a flashback episode in which he is befriending the not-yet-married Simpsons and he is depicted as slightly older. The age of Bart's children depends totally on his character development and if his often reckless attitudes translates into his sexual...

  3. WI: The Simpsons characters had aged in ~real time

    I asked myself the question several times. I am quite fond of the (usually futuristic) episodes which deal with grown-up Bart/Lisa/Maggie and aged grown-ups. To me it seems, that several writers yearn for such a development as I am under the impression that there is a growing tendency to depict...

  4. Demographics of a surviving German Empire

    My calculation: 107 million plus post-1910 immigrants and their offspring. I based this guestimation on Switzerland. The country coming closest to Germany without having undergone either World War. Well-off at the start of the 20th century and only growing richer since then, as Germany would...

  5. Road Less Traveled: WW1 negotiated peace in 1916/17

    I see Alsace-Lorraine actually as one of the toughest nuts to crack. For the German side, losing it defines a lost war. For France not winning it means admitting the impossibility to win against Germany and to accept that Alsace-Lorraine will have to be forever given up (which the repulic mostly...

  6. Earliest possible Allied victory?

    I know that there will be many reasons why this can't happen, but among the many improvable battles and campaigns, one incident strikes me as so far undermentioned. This is the action, in which OTL Italian leadership was hell-bent to top all their previously shown incompetence: their regime...

  7. WI US allowed free immigration of Jews during 1930s and WW2?

    This is an interesting question. We have to think of the German jews at first, as the pressure on the increases right in 1933 and becomes unbearable by late 1938. OTL, due to this long escalation during peacetime, a good deal of them could escape Germany at least at first (notable example...

  8. Could an alternate Iberian union conquer North Africa?

    I think they certainly could, at least for a while. OTL, there is Charles V's successful Tunis operation in 1535 which shows the Spanish ability to wage war south of the Mediterranean. Possible PODs? Butterfly away Henry the Navigator or at least Columbus expedition opening up the Americas...

  9. AHC: Prevent the Fall of France in 1940

    I refered only to potential US land lease in the case of a prolonged war. Yes, I agree any American involvement would boost French morale. However I doubt German morale would be shattered by this more than by the actual belief in the field. Germans believed the still almost won WW1 despite...

  10. AHC: The US with a separate head of government and head of state

    I feel this task gets easier if we clarify that to adopt the system which is e.g. used in (Western) Germany since 1949 is not necessary. In Germany, the election of president and chancellor are effectively not linked to each other. The presidential election occurs (using American terms) by an...

  11. Economy and political situation of the German Reich in a best case scenario.

    Well, I always had the impression that Britain threw itself under the bus with the AGNA. Allowing the Germans a surface fleet they couldn't even build within decades but be lenient on submarines, the most dangerous weapon Germany could direct against the British Isles. "In February 1932, the...

  12. Economy and political situation of the German Reich in a best case scenario.

    1. Saarland - the plebiscite was down the line anyways, IIRC. 2. Eupen-Malmedy is actually not worth bothering. Belgium gave the Germans living there minority rights quite early on, so no reason for complaints. 3. Memelland. Again, this is secondary. Hitler pressured Lithuania just because he...

  13. AHC: Prevent the Fall of France in 1940

    It IS that simple. Manstein's concept was a daring gamble that works on the roll of a 5 or 6. Similar to the Schlieffen plan in 1914, the Wehrmacht went with it not because it was that good - but because all other options led nowhere. I very much refer to Frieser's book "Blitzkrieg-Legende"...

  14. WI a coalition of African nations invaded Apartheid South Africa?

    Just throwing it in, do you overlook the South Africa occupied Namibia and operated within Angola?

  15. WI: both Italy and Ottoman Turkey remain neutral in WWI -- who benefits the most?

    IIRC, Austrian defences on the Italian border were very thin, only after negoatiaions with Italy ceased reinforcements from Serbia were brought in which saved Trieste in the 1st Isonzo by the nick of time.

  16. AHC: Renaissance somewhere else than Italy

    It should be. It was under Venice's control all the way down towards Ragusa / Dubrovnik.

  17. AHC: Renaissance somewhere else than Italy

    The former is important and the latter even more.

  18. AHC: Renaissance somewhere else than Italy

    Hungary was more powerful than many remember around 1500, considering that even before the Habsburg takeover they were in a union with Bohemia. However, in that region, Prague rather is the intellectual powerhouse. Hungary lacks urban centres back then. In order to pull that off, they'd not only...

  19. AHC: Renaissance somewhere else than Italy

    My two Lira on the chances and hindrances of this idea.... plus a general comment. While the pinnacle of the Renaissance is the time when historians let the Middle Ages end around 1500, we need to take into account that the start of the Renaissance in Italy is set in the second half of the 14th...

  20. WI: Third Reich Falls/Wehrmacht Launches Coup in 1936?

    In 1936, Hitler's government was generally seen as a success due to the apparent swift recovery from the Nightmarish depression. While a good deal of the population enjoyed the authoritarian style of government and everyday life , in 1936 it was easy to turn a blind eye towards the crimes of...
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