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I haven't finished reading this yet (listening to it, whatever), but this book might be useful for this thread:

I'm looking for a good Napoleon wank (assuming that's still the term in vogue--I haven't seen it used in a couple of years, come to think of it). Any suggestions?

The timeline is of course stupidly convergent with ours, with the breakaway Anatolian/European kingdom doing the things Byzantium did IOTL and *Gurjara's conquest of northern India happening at the same time as Gurjara's. It then converts to Islam and takes the historical place of the Delhi...

I had a fairly frivolous idea about a "migrating" Roman Empire: After the fall of Rome, Byzantium conquers the Sassanid Empire. The Byzantium-Sassanid Empire then loses its European, Anatolian, and North African territories but conquers Sind and Gurjara in northern India. A butterfly net...

*headdesk* I just sort of assumed there was, based on this being something that was seriously considered by a nation with such an obvious oil problem.

I recently learned that this idea had been floated and ultimately rejected, and also about the speculation surrounding it. (Specifically, on the effects it might have on the Eastern Front. Because Youtube.) The thing is, I think in and of itself this will be of minimal help to the Nazis. The...

I believe the name of the style I'm looking for is QBAM....

Looks awesome. Now lets make it into a patch for whatever this site's perferred map is named and also figure out which areas are most likely to form EU-style economic unions.

I was under the impression that SA was also sort of a state by the end of colonialism. Also, not sure about having people moving around so much when the explicit purpose is a nicer, more economically prosperous post-colonial period.

Well, one does not need to be setting out to make ethnic states per se to have thoughts like "let's not split this community between two states" or "if these two tribes are bitter enemies with centuries of traditional enmity behind them, perhaps we shouldn't force them to try to work together."...

Africa and the Middle East's borders are famously screwed up, drawn by European powers with no thought as to who actually lives in these places and their relationships with their neighbors. Say they had been kinder, decolonization done better, and borders had been drawn with the natives in mind...

Appreciated, but right now I'm more concerned with selling it to the American people. Though, the ballooning costs would put an arrow in the quiver against Gore... The obvious counter-argument is that the technology won't be there unless we make it. I mean, manned space flight hasn't really...

I have a specific series of events in mind, but they're inconsequential to this thread--the important thing is that Gore wins the 2000 election. How is American politics and the world changed by this? I imagine 9/11 would still happen; as much shit as I gave Bush over his many questionable...

So I've been kicking around an idea for a timeline--it'll be ASB, as it involves scientists spotting a quasar that'll fuck the solar system up in 130 years (incidentally, it'd be nice to know how long these scientists would need to be observing it to make that determination)--involving Clinton...

Well, what drove Spain to explore?