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  1. Without European colonization would India ever unite?

    Given its hodgepodge of cultures, languages, beliefs, etc, I've always been impressed that India remained united after the British left. It seems to me that the concept of a modern India was imposed on the subcontinent from outside, and it's curious that modern "Indians" retained the idea. I'm...

  2. Cato's Cavalry

    Excellent! [/FONT][/SIZE] As an earlier Cato said: “Britannia Invicta.”

  3. DBWI-Wreck of the USS Alaska Found

    Y'know, I would love to see a really good account of that last battle. Has one ever been published that can be recommended?

  4. Roman Printing Press

    True, but not among the general population. He established schools to create a literate clergy, and it's fair to say that even then his efforts were a brief flutter of candlelight amid a general gloom of illiteracy of those times.

  5. Roman Printing Press

    That would require a major shift in philosophy by the Church, since its control over access to and interpretation of the Bible was part of its power. Increased literacy among the general population and the availability of personal copies of the Bible in the local language were contributing...

  6. Cato's Cavalry

    Hmmm, trouble in Rome? It's the perfect time for Aemilianus to declare Britannia's final independence. Otherwise he'll be pushed to declare support for one side or the other in the brotherly conflict ahead. And something sinister is happening in Gaul, a set-up for regime change that would put a...

  7. Cato's Cavalry

    Welcome back, sir! So very sorry to hear about the upsets in your life, though. Freelancing can be very rewarding -- did it myself for almost eight years -- but demanding at the same time. You are no doubt receiving all sorts of advice about your wife's osteoarthritis. The best I can offer is...

  8. WI: The printing press invented in Ancient Greece?

    Papermaking was an artisanal product for centuries as it slowly expanded out of China and into the Islamic Middle East and North Africa before appearing in Moslem Iberia. The first small water-powered papermill geared to an "industrial" level of production was built in Portugal in 1411...

  9. WI: The printing press invented in Ancient Greece?

    What would be the incentive to invent a printing press? Where would the inspiration for it come from? Was literacy widespread enough in Ancient Greece to make mass book production worthwhile or necessary? Most accounts I've seen take the opposite route -- that large-scale paper production got...

  10. April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean

    Great updates. Looks like the Japanese will get more than they expected, and not in a good way. BTW, you have HNLMS Isaac Sweers as both a light cruiser and a destroyer above in the list of ships in Force A.

  11. Cato's Cavalry

    No surprise. Dream jobs often turn out to be oversold. Sorry it had to happen to you.

  12. Cato's Cavalry

    Might that arrow be used to -- oh the irony, for we know who the archer is -- protect Beliatrix from the coming attack? Excellent chapter. I really like how you present scenes from different viewpoints. [/FONT][/SIZE]

  13. How did the pork taboo come about?

    Thanks. I didn't know that. Interesting.

  14. How did the pork taboo come about?

    The taboo, at least in the Jewish tradition, isn't absolute. They are allowed to eat pork in extreme circumstances, when the alternative is death by starvation, for example. There were cases during WWII when rabbis lifted the ban on pork in the ghettos during times of food shortages. Perhaps...

  15. Cato's Cavalry

    Don't forget the foreshadowing that Cymraeg gave us two chapters earlier. Sounds like this might not be a battle as easily won as it first appears.

  16. Zipper not invented or invented at a different time

    IIRC some military uniforms still use button flies. My first sets of fatigues in 1972 had button flies, but then they probably dated back to WWII if the fit was any indication! Certain types of Levi jeans had button flies in the 1960s, including a pair my then-girlfriend wore. (I swear they may...

  17. Cato's Cavalry

    Hopeful bump?

  18. Why was slave labour permitted in Britain after WWII?

    About a dozen Italian POWs who were crew members of an Italian submarine that surrendered during the war married women from the Italian immigrant community in Portland, Maine, and stayed on after the war. The POWs pretty much had the run of the city as long as they obeyed their curfews. Even the...

  19. Plausibility Check: 580 kg HEU Goes Loose from Ulba, Kazakhstan

    The version I heard was a New Mexico high school student using public domain material, but then I assume there was a lot of deliberate misinformation circulating around that incident. It provided the plot line for several TV shows. Point being that the necessary information was out there decades...

  20. A Blunted Sickle

    There's a saying that keeps bouncing round my head: No revolution outlives the revolutionaries. The national unity and shared agony of World War II gave Soviet communism a second life. Without Barbarossa and all that followed -- including the new generation of Russians committed to the ideology...
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