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Ah! That film has been brought here a few times over years. While I'm sure the directors and producers have been working on it without knowledge of this thread at all (I believe a movie proposal was made by Hollywood as early as the 1920s), it is amusing to consider them eying this thread for...

IT'S SPAAAAAACE.

Several hours of distraction and back-reading, and the list is now updated! Reading the installment, what Raymie experienced was a tragedy, and no one should've butted their way into his works like George did. I'm also reminded of another installment regarding the Shelterers in West Africa, and...

Speaking of which, I now have to update the list for the new chapter. To the editing link!

Yay! It's so nice to return to a familiar place.

Ahh, Syrian Fire; turning Iranians into crispy tenders since the 300s.

Hello, foreshadowing... Are there any complaints from the Jewish community over this new king?

Even with Óðrism on the rise, there is no stopping cultural exchange and Christian syncretism. XD

Madagascar is a French stronghold, though not for long. The Franco-Hova Wars occurred just as IOTL, and the island's monarchy is abolished though most of the princely families are still around. Despite repeated invasion attempts by the Cape Colony and Natal, Madagascar is protected by a small...

Lil' update since it has been two months since my last post here. The latest installment (the 1906 global roundup) is currently being written, but a combination of COVID fatigue, new distractions, and the challenge of summarizing the complexity of an entire planet - and one that has entire...

Yes! Yes! This is exactly what I thought of the issue, as well as the complexities of approaching it. Paintings such like the View of Constantinople might be seen as a-OK to an Andalusi or an Algravian due to it's style of emphasizing environments instead of people, but absolutely forbidden in...

You remind me of something that I read about this issue a long time ago; in My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, the Ottoman miniaturists were completely against the use of perspective and highlighting, as well as signatures. From their view, doing these things not only places importance and realism...

I'm surprised no one has brought up the very relaxed attitude toward statuary and imagery in Al-Andalus, which could easily be seen as going against the religious prohibition of graven images. Then again, it's not like OTL caliphates and empires were straight-laced on that front. :rolleyes...

As a silent observer of the back-and-forth talks, I'll only say this: all nations have at least some skeletons in their closets, and some nations have bigger closets (and skeleton piles) than others. But just because one nation has a comparatively larger closet full of skeletons does not absolve...

Since everything else I have sought to say, has already been said by everyone else, I'll only offer 2 questions: 1) Despite modern hesitance to such a concept, I wonder if the split of Sunni Islam will lead to divergences in Islamic worship across the Med. The OTL Sunni-Shia split was...

I remember watching a video discussion about oppressed indigenous groups and one commentor pointed out how a fair number of aborigines and indigenous peoples actually live in a post-apocalyptic landscape. With lands, family bonds, places of worship, and traditional culture all but near-wiped out...

One interesting way of having a larger Spanish presence would be to make the Great Powers stymied over dividing Africa and having Spain be a neutral compromise. Bonus points if Leopold II gets killed or dies before 1885. That is what I did for my Rajahs and Hornbills timelime, with Spain...

Honestly, Australians and Americans can answer that better than I. But I should note that French authorities did restrict Kanaks to reservations IOTL and forced them into working the fields and developing the infrastructure; it took decades of activism and unrest for the Kanaks to reach an...

Robert Whitlam, The Farthest Colonies: Fiji and New Caledonia (Queensland Bowen Press; 1991) …the proposal for Fiji to become the new base of British operations in the Pacific wasn’t met with enthusiasm, especially from Australia. This was mostly due to circumstance; the newly-formed federation...

To those of you who are wondering, the latest update(s) are on the previous page. Well, there is still a century to see if gunsmiths could help Sokoto in the long-run or the practice becomes disrupted by modern politics (or wars) like the OTL gunsmithing of the Hmong. Ah, thanks for catching...