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  1. TimeJockey

    Hitler dies at Nuremberg Rally

    Good question. Are you thinking no WWII, or just that someone else might step in and take the reins while still leading in that general direction?
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    So today is, what.... March 244th?

    So today is, what.... March 244th?
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    They say it's best to take one day at a time. However, lately several days have attacked me at once.

    They say it's best to take one day at a time. However, lately several days have attacked me at once.
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    AHC: Keep Drive-In Theaters Popular

    Well, if you moved them indoors, you don't need to keep individual air conditioning running in the cars (which you really couldn't do without running the engines, as the systems are interconnected in most currently existing cars). You could just air condition the building. As for sound, most...
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    Defcon Infinity

    Defcon Infinity
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    Middle Ages Sources

    What kind of information are you looking for? How people lived? What they wore, or ate, or did for entertainment? Historical annals of who ruled what area in which century? Literature from the period? If I know which topics you're most interested in, I can pick out links for you.
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    Middle Ages Sources

    Sources for what, exactly? I've got loads of stuff, but rather than just dump it all on you to sort out, it might help if I know what you want/need most. :)
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    To Ourselves, To New Paganism

    Oooh, shiny! Hey, if you want a somewhat plausible if completely arbitrary dating point that comes close to coinciding with the BCE/CE split so you can make a case for your particular dating convention, why not use the inauguration of the Forum of Augustus? IOTL that happened in 2 CE, so it...
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    AHC: Arianist revivalism on the XVIII or XIX centuries?

    Well, Unitarianism as a non-Trinitarian Christian sect originated in 16th-century Europe and by the 18th century it had taken root in the New World as well. So all you'd really need is on this side of the pond would be for it to attract more adherents and thereby exert a stronger and more...
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    AHC: Air Conditioning Less Popular

    Likewise in northern Ohio. Of all the rental houses I lived in during my years in Cleveland, only ONE of them had central air. In the rest I relied on the lake breeze (I lived within half a mile of the shoreline), fans, and cold showers. I'm sound-sensitive, so window air conditioners really...
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    Sino-Greek civilization in Dayuan

    Man, I'm envious of your dreams! More, please.
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    The Americas without their discovery by Europeans?

    Ooh! Linky? :D
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    Alternate Names for Australia

    Aha! That explains the reasoning behind something I've known for a while. I belong to the Society for Creative Anachronism, whose members divide the world up into a number of geographical kingdoms in which we play our roles. The kingdom that includes Australia and New Zealand is called Lochac...
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    How do we get maximal religious diversity in post-Roman Europe?

    Okay, but I don't think germ theory was even a thing way back then. So first you'd need to make that happen, and none of this necessarily hinges on religious diversity.
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    Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th C. Europe w/o an extinction level event?

    All vegetation, when it is burnt or otherwise used as fuel (digestion by people, digestion by animals, digestion by microbes) releases its carbon back into the environment. Rotting (digestion by microbes) is the slowest of these, and the rate of carbon release from rotting jungle vegetation is...
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    Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th C. Europe w/o an extinction level event?

    Wait, you said that the disappearance of the forests will result in global cooling, in OTL. We're not burning them off fast in OTL, and we're not getting volcanic-winter type smoke/ash clouds in OTL from burning them. So where's this OTL global cooling supposed to come from, again? The speed at...
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    Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th C. Europe w/o an extinction level event?

    Where do you get the idea that it will lead to cooling? A reduction in the ability to remove excess carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere contributes to warming, not cooling. And replacing forest with farmland is recognized as part of what led to the Medieval Warm Period. The...
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    Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th C. Europe w/o an extinction level event?

    I was talking about the effects of European migration into South America on a much larger scale than in OTL and what they would likely do to the environment there. You are aware, I'm sure, that in OTL the South American rainforests have been cut back to only a fraction of what they once were...
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    Music WI: The "Caribbean Invasion"

    Actually, various streams of jazz and blues got quite a wide reception in both the Northern and Southern US without needing to be filtered through the UK. The "jump blues" style popularized in the 1940's, for example, was in part an outgrowth of 1930's boogie-woogie (urban blues) and swing. The...
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    Supervolcano "wrecking" late 17th C. Europe w/o an extinction level event?

    Long-term, the rainforests would likely be destroyed completely within a century. I wonder what the net result would be of a combination of less carbon-producing industrial development globally offset with the loss of the oxygen-producing and carbon-cleansing South American rainforests and the...
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