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  1. How much of the Balkans's backwardness can be blamed on the Ottomans

    A lack of strong, stable states. This was the mutual desire of the Houses of Hapsburg, Romanov, and Osman. Serbia, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria were, I believe, granted independence by Ottoman Turkey with the full intent to reconquer them when Turkish society had been successfully reformed and...

  2. What was the best world war two rifle?

    I'll go with the Sturmgewehr. Way ahead of its time. But even the Garand rendered bolt-actions obsolete as service rifles. For the average infantryman, nothing matters more in a weapon than the ability to kill your opposites in the greatest numbers possible. With firearms, that means firing the...

  3. Maharajah rates national emblems

    I think he's keeping to Westphalian states. In other words, U.N. members and the Vatican. It's his thread, so his rules. Also, each nation has it's own rules on heraldry, if nothing more than outlawing it due to imperialist/aristocratic/capitalist/Christian/Europeanness-in-general connotations...

  4. Tanks that never should have entered service

    Comment from a know-nothing lurker: I'm not even a casual expert in military hardware, but I've noticed, while only a handful of states design their own combat aircraft from the ground up, almost everybody designs their own tanks only taking a few pointers from the heavies, if that. The only...

  5. Linguistic Maps

    Most linguists now reject Altaic and consider Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic to be distinct families with no provable relation. Thai and Lao belong to a family called Kradai or Tai-Kadai. Korean is the sole survivor of its own family, making it an isolate amongst living tongues. Japonic is a...

  6. Flag Thread II

    Wait, since when has Black Bart Roberts been a Southern hero? :confused:

  7. WI: Republican Spain wins Civil War

    Only to be a part of the post-war negotiations a la Turkey. Even then, I think the only thing a Spanish Republic would be interested in is Gibraltar, and they're simply not a strong enough ally to warrant that. We're assuming that the Liberals/Socialists win the post-war dust-up against the...

  8. New 1984 Theroy

    I've heard that bandied about on this site as well. Edit: I'm responding to Norton.

  9. BRITONS TRIUMPHANT: An Alternate History of Dark Age Britain

    Wow, I thought you'd quit this. Heh, heh, IT LIIIIVES!! :p One problem, though. Domestic animals are as much, maybe more, germ factories as cities. The pigs the Narváez expedition brought and lost to the Southeast (the origin of the razorbacks) carried the smallpox plagues that shattered the...

  10. A Flag Thread

    Just in case anyone asks, the following states possess an emblem rather than a coat of arms: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Brunei (it's called a crest), Cameroon, Cape Verde, China, Comoros, DR Congo, Djibouti, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France...

  11. A Flag Thread

    Any Communist government would shoot you for calling their emblem "arms". Heraldry is worse than capitalist, it's downright feudal. The quite non-Communist French do not officially have a state arms or seal. What is usually called that, IIRC, is simply a monocrome stamp put on passports and...

  12. What nations would've survived an 80's WW3?

    Sorry, due to the Anzus Pact and New Zealand's possible worth as a naval base, any nuclear exchange involving the US and the Soviet Union will result in Aukland and Wellington's total annihilation at the least. Hell, you may have Russian missiles pointed at you right now, given the Kremlin's...

  13. Map Thread V

    Not sure the nations would be as-we-know-them. Possibly some offshoot of Mississippian culture. Or maybe a Caddo or some other Wichitan analogue. I look forward to a more detailed TL, Hawkeye. But please read Guns, Germs, and Steel first. This world can't look anything like our own other than...

  14. Map Thread V

    Iberia makes my eyes hurt.

  15. Map Thread V

    Ah, senseless prejudice between virtually identical states. Sigged! :D

  16. The US Navy Keeps its Big Guns - the Battleships stay active

    They weren't. All four still have ye olde oil burners right where they each sit. Actually I worry if Mann is underestimating the cost and difficulty of switching an oil burner with a reactor in a ship, especially a battleship (these things weren't modular). I'm certain he's overestimating how...

  17. Leaders of Fascist Europa?

    Yowza! I would say it sucks not to be a white guy, but really it would suck to be anyone. :(:p Four alliances?! Gawd Awmighdy!! Erhem, seriously, who amongst fascists can really make the Nazis look like a lesser evil. With the exception of the Romanian Iron Guard (psychos of the highest order)...

  18. Map Thread IV

    Considering the Romanians called themselves Romans (do they still?), and the Byzantines sometimes referred to their territories as 'Romania', any Vlach empire can call itself the Roman Empire and get away with it if they can secure the city of Constantine. Hooboy, AH Pasha would have kittens to...

  19. Map Thread IV

    I could fathom the US doing it, the stupidity would be half the point, but the UK is smarter than that. Or are the Tories government ITTL?

  20. Map Thread IV

    It's called the Large Hadron Collider. CERN operates it. Sigged nevertheless. Assuming the mapmaker didn't find them online somewhere.
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