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    AHC: Enduring East/West political divide in U.S. politics

    For most of the last 50 years, American politics has shifted from prior schemas to one in which the divide between reliable Democratic and Republican states is, grossly, one of North vs. South (excluding the west coast), or perhaps Coasts vs. Inland. For example, these are the voting patterns in...
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    AHC: Communist Japan

    Without the installation of a communist government (i.e., by the Soviet Union after World War II, or a similar circumstance), how could Japan come to have a communist government? This can be the result of a democratic election or a revolution, and it can occur at any point in the 20th century...
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    AHC: Keep Law French alive

    Law French was an archaic form of Old French/Anglo-Norman used in English courts from around the 11th century (in the Norman Conquest) until the 17th century, albeit in an extremely simple, debased form. Can the tide of decline and obsolescence be halted? Is it possible to keep an archaic...
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    Classical Chinese as a written standard

    Into the 20th century, Classical Chinese was used to greater or lesser degrees in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam as a formal literary standard. However, the use of kana (Japan), hangul (Korea), and Latin letters (Vietnam), which all allowed for the reproduction of each respective language in a...
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    AHC/WI/PC: Soviet-aligned government in Western Europe?

    I have to admit that I'm disappointed with how little I know of communism in Western Europe post-WW2, so what I'm proposing may be implausible. As far as I know, the first explicitly Communist government in Europe to take power outside of the Eastern bloc after WW2 was AKEL in Cyprus, and that...
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    WI: Romans get perspective

    So I've just come back from visiting the Uffizi in Florence, and one of the first things that's pretty incredible to see is medieval painting from the early 1300's, where the painters displayed a poor understanding of perspective and the anatomy of the human body, side-by-side with painting from...
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    AHC/WI: Multilingual nations in the West

    Plenty of nations in Europe and North America have language minorities, to a greater or lesser degree. Even generally culturally homogenous countries like Sweden have small ethnolinguistic minorities that, again, to a greater or lesser degree, enjoy some kind of legal protections to help support...
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    Elizabeth II's marriage options outside UK

    In a timeline that's currently in the formulating stage, Prince Albert, Duke of York flees the United Kingdom after the installation of a Lloyd George government intending to make a ceasefire with the Germans, publicly feuding with his brother, King Edward VIII (who does not marry Wallis...
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