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  1. Some Problems in Greek History: Three Lives

    My first introduction to counterfactual historical fiction was through the historian Arnold Toynbee, who published two such stories, "If Ochus and Philip had Lived on" and "If Alexander the Great had Lived on," in a book of essays entitled Some Problems in Greek History. To me, these two essays...

  2. Yahya the Renegade, Emir of Angliétèrre

    Day 24 of the Month of the Truce, 601 A.H. The death of Walter Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the catalyst for a crisis of faith. The monks of Canterbury elected Prior Richard, one of their own number, as his successor, and dispatched him to Rome to be confirmed in his new role. After...

  3. AL (Alternate Languages): Surviving Punic

    A) The Sounds of Late Punic Consonants: B /b/: B as in "bravo"; after vowels, pronounced as U (q.v.) Example: bal "master"; D /d/: D as in "delta" Example: iad "hand" T /t/: T as in "tree" Example: tane "set up" TH /th/: T as in "tango" Example: thychleth "expenses" G /g/: G...

  4. Tudor Parfitt: The Lost Ark of the Covenant

    [link] Tudor Parfitt, a Welsh scholar, is the Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. He's one of several scholars who collected the data that proved that the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and South Africa are of Jewish...

  5. And In This Corner... Abdülhamit "The Sultan" Osmanoğlu

    Abdul Hadi pointed this one out yesterday. According to the Infallible Wikipedia, How can we make it so that the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire actually does become personally involved in professional wrestling (which, in Turkey, involves slathering oneself with oil and gripping one another by...

  6. Gentlemen of the Road

    Michael Chabon, author of the Yiddish Policemen's Union, has just published another work of fiction, previously serialized in the NY Times, under this title. It's an adventure set in the Khazar Empire. You can find a review of it in the Village Voice here. While not exactly AH fiction, the...

  7. WI: Earlier Films Based on Video Games

    We're all familiar with this genre - films like Resident Evil, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Alone in the Dark, Doom, Final Fantasy, and so on, based upon best-selling games. An early example of this genre was 1994's Street Fighter (starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia). This is quite a...

  8. Ludwig and Adolf: BFF?

    WI: Ludwig and Adolf BFF? Friday nights I take part in a Wittgenstein reading group. During the last session we were discussing some of the various Wittgenstein biographies (one of which proudly displays the opinion of Ludwig's nephew, who calls the work "a farrago of lies and poppycock"), and...

  9. The Yiddish Policeman's Union

    Click Here From Publishers Weekly Reviewed by Jess Walter They are the "frozen Chosen," two million people living, dying and kvetching in Sitka, Alaska, the temporary homeland established for displaced World War II Jews in Chabon's ambitious and entertaining new novel. It is—deep breath...

  10. The Writer's Notebook: Harry Turtledove

    As acquired by those devious goons at SomethingAwful!

  11. Prayers for the Assassin

    Has anyone here read this? It sounds like it would be up the collective alley of most AH.COM members.THE YEAR IS 2040. New York and Washington are nuclear wastelands. The nation is divided between an Islamic Republic across the north and the Christian Bible Belt in the old South. The shift was...

  12. Assyrian Autonomous Oblast

    At one point the Russian Caucasus was filled with Assyrian communities (that is, communities of Aramaic-speaking Christians). These communities had been part of the Caucasian landscape since the 19th century at the very least, predominantly in the western part of the region around the Black...

  13. Gadsden Purchase POD

    Today is the 152nd anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. According to the Wikipedia article: The United States originally considered purchasing a much larger portion of territory, namely most of the current Mexican states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora as well as all of the Baja...

  14. WI: Petroleum Byproducts

    Among two of them are plastics and synthetic rubber. I suppose that synthetic fabrics and latex paints would also fit into this category. What sorts of things would be lacking in a society without oil (beyond the obvious)? What would an industrialized society without the benefits of oil look...

  15. AH Challenge: Alternate Church Signs

    Inspired by the church signs thread in Chat: how could we get the following signs?

  16. Your Most Popular Attachments

    Browsing through the User CP section of the board, I happened upon a list of the Attachments to the posts that I've made over the years. Each of these attachments indicates just how many times it has been downloaded since I've posted it. Flag of the Bayerische Räterepublik (345 + 505 = 850...

  17. "The Musical 'Popeye' Will Never Be Made!"

    In the late 70s, Robert Altman arrived on the island of Malta, set to shoot the film Popeye on location. Older members of the forum may remember Popeye as the 1980 musical (and box office flop), based on the comic strip drawn by Elzie Segar, and starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall...

  18. APA Never Removes Homosexuality From List of Mental Illnesses

    In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the official manual that lists mental and emotional disorders. Two years later, the American Psychological Association passed a resolution supporting the removal. In contrast, the Chinese Psychiatric Association didn't...

  19. President Bahram S.D. Politicswalla

    Make it so.

  20. Buddhism and Oriental Christianity

    The following exchange occurred this morning among the members of the Hugoye (Institute of Syriac Studies) list: Andrew Criddle: I came across a reference to an account by the Syriac writer Bardesanes (Bar Daisan) about Buddhist teaching apparently preserved by references in Porphyry's 'On...
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