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  1. Protestant Poland: how does this affect Polish culture?

    The only scientific study that I can remember off-hand was done in New York and found that Protestants had a statistically significant, controlling for all other factors, higher incidence of depression. The authors hypothesised that because Catholics had the practice of confession, they were...

  2. WI: Operation Vegetarian is executed and succeeds?

    Yeah, I think that the whole white powder Anthrax circus has made people drastically overstate the deadliness of Anthrax. Anthrax was weaponised because it's spores can be safely and easily be warehoused for years in bombs and artillery shells, so it fit well into the military logistics chain...

  3. WI North Korea turned out like Cuba.

    Wrong forum.

  4. When did the Roman Empire technically end?

    Not true. Under Justinian the system, culture, language, etc... was the same as under Diocletian. After the re-conquest of North Africa one could walk from the Red Sea to the Atlantic without noticing anything too different. Sure, Europe was totally different, but Africa and the Levant were the...

  5. WI: No Deluge?

    The PLC was structurally fucked in that a foreign power had had to buy just one nobleman on parliament to gridlock the entire system(every MP had veto power), that even if they got lucky once, someone else would be along soon. Considering that the nobility considered this their god given...

  6. What if the Islamic world hadn't abandoned the wheel

    Of course, it's over now with the arrival of cars, but this is something like 16 centuries we're talking about.

  7. What if the Islamic world hadn't abandoned the wheel

    Very interesting article that I came across on /r/history: I wonder how history could have been changed if someone thought up a good Camel harness earlier, they don't seem to be too complicated:

  8. Aircraft and Automobiles without World War I

    Yeah and after WW1, it was only the sea based empires that any economy to spare. Without the war, Russia and Germany would be amongst the big boys,so even less need for seaplanes.

  9. Better Greco-Turkish relations post-WWII

    Wow, that was harsh.

  10. Better Greco-Turkish relations post-WWII

    What was the wealth tax policy?

  11. Aircraft and Automobiles without World War I

    Well, the original air-line concept operated with the Tsar's patronage, so I guess it's kinda a mix of both.

  12. Aircraft and Automobiles without World War I

    You're a bit wrong here, the Muromets first flew in 1913, but wasn't scheduled to go into service until August 1914 on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route until August 1914, just as the war broke out. But yes, airliners in service from 1914, would have arguably led to greater progress in...

  13. Other Locations for Jewish Homeland

    Depends on who wins WW2. Before they started losing the war and decided on extermination, the German were keen to send all the Jews to Madagascar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan Uganda of all places was favoured by Zionists for a while.

  14. Books and resources about Byzantine History?

    Not strictly a history, but this book: really deepened my understanding of the reasons for the history. Grand strategy of the Roman empire was also very good.

  15. AHC: Russian Immigration Wave

    You're wrong there, the Russian empire was always mindful of the fact that they were under-populated and made immigration difficult unless you were undesirables like Jews. The vast majority of poles and Ukrainians who emigrated to America and Canada before ww1 were from Austria Hungary (and...

  16. Japanese figure out their goose is cooked before Midway

    It's not just the raw tonnage lost, it's the initiative, with a total US navy wipeout at Midway, they could have taken a lot of strategic objective, maybe even Hawaii, that would have been hell to dislodge them from afterwards.

  17. WI (possible AHC): Mass Drivers for Space Launch

    The maximum acceleration a fit young male can walk away from is 32g, this was tested by the US airforce and is used for acceleration limits on ejector seats. Even for a straight 15km track(maaaybe be possible using Kilimanjaro and a lot of tunneling), 30g(I used it for ease of calculation) will...

  18. An Age of Miracles: The Revival of Rhomanion

    Have you considered having the Romans invent compound bows? It would be a really good fit for this type of timeline and extend the lifespan of horse archers by centuries. I've always liked the idea of horse archers.
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