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  1. United Scandinavia

    Yes but I posit that a genuinely succesful peasant revolt in Denmark, would do away with a lot of the oppressive systems that held them back compared to the Swedish peasantry. Skipper Clements army of commoners would hold a lot of sway in this ATL scenario. I don't consider it implausible that...

  2. United Scandinavia

    But what if Count Christoffer winning the feud would not result in Christian reassuming the throne? In my oppinion that would result in Denmark having a regent as accomodating to burghers and peasants as Christian II, but without the baggage of the Stockholmian bloodbath. He would be better...

  3. United Scandinavia

    I agree that the Oldenburgs have to go for the Danish crown to be able to hold on to a Scandinavian empire. I think the best way to do this is have Count Christoffer and Skipper Clement win the Count's Feud in Denmark, and not have Christian II get his throne back, instead crowning Christoffer...

  4. PC: Danish Colonialism, Post Great Northern War

    If Denmark was to somehow end up on the side of the British during the Napoleonic Wars, could it be that it would be rewarded with a couple of French or Dutch holdings in the Caribbean? Possibly St. Barthélemy, St. Martin, or even Guadeloupe and Martinique(though they might be a bit big). Siding...

  5. A world without Sept. 11th, the little changes

    ups, I guess you're right Wendell. I just read up on it, and it was indeed used long before 2001. And with financial and sports news already using it, it would probably not be long before the news channels would incorporate it as well. So 9/11 wouldn't change that a lot.

  6. A world without Sept. 11th, the little changes

    The News Ticker* might not have been invented, as it was improvised by Fox News on 9/11 to cope with the many little scraps of information coming in on the morning of the attacks. *The steady stream of information that glides by in the bottom of the screen on 24-hour news channels.

  7. Black Republicans

    In my opinion the black vote started to turn its back on the GOP even before the Depression. Teddy Roosevelt made some big mistakes in his relations to the black population, and even though this didn't matter that much at the time, as blacks were largely disenfranchisied in the beginning of...

  8. Favorite WWII Generals?

    Orde Wingate He's by no means the most efficient or succesful leader, and his views on Palestine are controversial. But have to include him for forming the Gideon Force and the Chindits, and for his excentricity.

  9. What would a Kerry presidency have been like?

    I do think Kerry would have handled Katrina much better than Bush. Maybe Kerry could have scored some points on that account towards 2008.

  10. Political effects of a successful Reconstruction

    I think you're right that we should never underestimate anti-Union sentiment among Southerners in the wake of the Civil war, and land offerings might not be enough to keep them from taking their frustration out on the Freedmen. I believe that with a more thorough effort from Washington, a...

  11. Political effects of a successful Reconstruction

    If the redistribution of land is carried out in a way that would accomodate both freedmen and poor whites, I think the South would definately be much better off. The key, as many have pointed out, is to win the poor whites for the GOP, so only the Southern aristocracy remains Democratic. If the...

  12. Count's Feud with different outcome

    In 1585 a formal meeting was held between representatives of of England, Holland and England at the Court of Queen Elizabeth. The representatives agreed upon an unequivocal recognition and support of the free Provinces in accordance with the Act of Abjuration. The English claim to the Shetland...

  13. Count's Feud with different outcome

    While the King exerted power over the Baltic trade, and Peder Oxe amassed huge wealth at the cost of tenant farmers, another historical made his entrance on the stage in the early 1580's: Christopher Valkendorf. The ever mercurial nobleman had served in Norway, but had been the treasurer of...

  14. AH:Challenge President Edgar Allen poe

    still enjoying it

  15. Count's Feud with different outcome

    In the period after the capture of Riga and the conclusion of the Russo-Danish trade agreement the maritime burghers profited from the trade with Russian furs and Livonian grain and other agrarian products. And due to the Livonian conflict, and the situation in the Netherlands there was less...

  16. Count's Feud with different outcome

    Struggle for dominance of the Baltics While Magnus II's privateers waged a pseudo-war on the Spanish on behalf of the House of Orange, and adventurous burghers of Aalborg realized the commercial potential of the West African coast, the focus of ruling elite turned to the east. With the gradual...

  17. Count's Feud with different outcome

    Once again your in-depth knowledge of Danish/duchies affairs is of great help :) I'll be sure to include those changes and try to account for the Schleswig history as well as the Kingdom's I just got caught up in detailing the international impact of alternate Denmark :) Could we perhaps see...

  18. Count's Feud with different outcome

    Dutch war of independence continued(the 80 years war progresses almost as in OTL, I'm focusing on the Danish ATL perspective) The Danish support for Dutch independence was unequivocal throughout the struggle, but never manifested itself in anything but privateering and Magnus II(at the request...

  19. Truely good people

    two of the best revolutionaries: Toussaint L'Ouverture and Giuseppe Garibaldi L'Ouverture refused to expel the white population from Haiti. Even though the (white) Civil Commisioner Sonthonax advised him to cut ties with France and the white aristocracy, L'Ouverture never wanted to harm any...

  20. AH:Challenge President Edgar Allen poe

    that's a really nice timeline, I think, boreham. I especially like the "raven" part being atributed to something completely different from Poe's poem.
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