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  1. Sol717

    Why do you think there is more interest in the Tudors than the Stuarts among the general public?

    Apologies for diverting the discussion, but these folk-linguistic explanations are unsupported by the evidence. Loss of historical /r/ ("non-rhoticity") would have been a proscribed, lower-class feature in the early Hanoverian period; it entered the London standard around 1800, though poets...
  2. Sol717

    AHC: With a POD after 1500, make the Catholic Church to be pro abortion and pro-contraception

    Apologies for my belated response; I'm sure you would've preferred it if I'd either left this alone or replied immediately. However, I feel future readers might benefit from a response to your claims. Technically, no, but some understandings differ to such a degree that one would be unable to...
  3. Sol717

    AHC: With a POD after 1500, make the Catholic Church to be pro abortion and pro-contraception

    Again, you're not quite getting what I'm talking about. Catholics are only one of the three groups I mentioned, and even they have liberals such as Cardinal Marx. You will no doubt make the claim that most Catholics will not adhere to such views; but I have nowhere claimed that such views are...
  4. Sol717

    AHC: With a POD after 1500, make the Catholic Church to be pro abortion and pro-contraception

    I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill Catholic laymen; I'm talking about professionals, whether they are Catholics, secular researchers or members of other Christian denominations and religions (all of these groups will of course have their own biases). I don't think the line between "differing...
  5. Sol717

    AHC: With a POD after 1500, make the Catholic Church to be pro abortion and pro-contraception

    While "doctrine" probably has some technical signification within Catholicism, from my secular perspective, a "doctrine" is simply a teaching that is seen as fundamental and unalterable, so it makes sense for me to use the two terms interchangeably. You can take comfort in the fact that I'm not...
  6. Sol717

    AHC: With a POD after 1500, make the Catholic Church to be pro abortion and pro-contraception

    While that is certainly what Catholic apologists would like you to think, you know full well that most non-Catholics don't have any reason to take this claim seriously (for instance, many secular historians note that the aftermath of Vatican II seems to have heralded a seismic shift in the...
  7. Sol717

    Could the United States have annexed Mexico in it's entirety after the Mexican-American War?

    I don't find American expansion particularly likely in such a scenario. The US will have its hands full trying to deal with the Mexico-shaped millstone hanging from its neck, as it would probably lack the requisite tact to successfully integrate Mexico. Additionally, America's preexisting...
  8. Sol717

    Books on Medieval Germany?

    The point was that having a separate forum would be convenient, even if there wasn't that much of it. For me, sheer quantity of content has nothing to do with it (I understand you might think differently).
  9. Sol717

    Books on Medieval Germany?

    That'd be even better, but is even less likely to happen, as I believe Ian's historically been a bit tetchy about the presence of stuff that has limited relation to alternate history.
  10. Sol717

    Books on Medieval Germany?

    The Help forum is explicitly demarcated as being for "questions about how to use the forum"; I think it should be kept limited to those kinds of queries, because it allows the moderation to efficiently respond to queries without distraction. Threads like this probably deserve a dedicated...
  11. Sol717

    AHC: The Hippie Trails in Eurasia continue

    Another factor that you have failed to mention is the slow decline of the hippie subculture. While most people think of the hippies as a purely '60s phenomenon, they persisted into the 70's with a decent amount of relevance; they only started to really decline in the 80's as the increasing...
  12. Sol717

    A Pet Pre-1900 Scenario You Would Do If You were Smart Enough

    It pretty much is one in OTL. My own ideas: Something involving a stronger Georgian nation, with a post-Mongol POD. East Slavs don't make it as far into Finnic and Baltic lands, leading to stronger Norse influence in the region and the region becoming Catholic. An counter to all the...
  13. Sol717

    Could European Colonialism in Africa Be Hindered by Prolonged Chinese Contact?

    Mongolia is missing from that map.
  14. Sol717

    AHC: Maximum Spread and Usage of the Latin Alphabet

    I don't think that will happen without an explicit project/proposal, and is utterly impossible with increasing nationalism in India. However, the British could make a Latin orthography for Hindi and start a literacy programme that eventually makes the Latin script dominant. This would be helped...
  15. Sol717

    AHC: Diglossia in the USA

    You could argue that it already exists.
  16. Sol717

    Realistic (!) climate map of worlda w/ Africa and South America switched?

    A decent portion of Patagonia isn't mountainous.
  17. Sol717

    AH Cultural Descriptions

    "A Wanderer from Wyoming" is an autobiography written by Mark Lausanne, who fled Wyoming and found refuge in various locations in the world after Yellowstone erupted. What made this book unique is that he was the only person from somewhere so close to make it out; his journey through the former...
  18. Sol717

    WI: Napoleon accepts the Frankfurt Proposals

    If the Coalition doesn't get sick of it, Napoleon will.
  19. Sol717

    AH Cultural Descriptions

    A book by Catholic theologian Werner Görtzer in 2014 about how Satan is rewards his followers with nothing but false promises while God backs up his word with action. The book was soon forgotten as it broke almost no new ground, but it came under fire, as the ultraconservative pope Leo XIV burnt...
  20. Sol717

    AH Cultural Descriptions

    Commencement was a video game produced by al-Qaeda in 2003 as propaganda, after Osama bin Laden decided to 'make America part of the Dar al-Islam'. The game puts you in the role of Mohammed Atta, and is basically a flight simulator where you have to pilot American Airlines Flight 11 into the...
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