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  1. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    This was the character that popped into my head every time she came up! I am glad it was intentional. Does that make Stephane Clement Jijibo? He is less crazy but certainly as vicious.

  2. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    I am glad our conversation lead to Irish alt-Mormons! The addition of Reginald Pole as Pope was inspired.

  3. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Ah good to see Morrison being declawed before his farmer-supremacist nonsense destroyed the UFO movement. I take it there will be no early fall of government due to refurbished coal scuttle, so they will get proportional representation. I hope that you ensure that the UFO government gets as in...

  4. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    Oh, I hadn't even thought about the polygamy aspect. I mean, there was a very brief bout of it in the end stages of the brief Radical Anabaptist Münster rebellion, but it did seem to be the idea of one particular unstable guy who took over after the first leader was killed before it was crushed...

  5. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    Well, the English Protestants liked to make the point that they were just returning to the original precepts of Insular Christianity before it was shackled by Rome, etc. I can definitely see any alt-Irish *Protestants going the same route, especially since it fits the milieu even better. Among...

  6. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    I don't recall if this has been raised before, but how would music have developed in the early 20th-century Cincoverse North America? Ragtime and jazz as we know it likely would not exist, or at least not to the same extent. I imagine a lot of Civil War era songs (Battle Hymn of the Republic...

  7. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Phew, managed to finish catching up with this timeline just before the year's end! Really amazing work! With Hughes being President, I was wondering what is going on with Frederick Banting and his insulin discoveries, as Hughes' daughter Elizabeth was his first American patient in the early...

  8. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    How did the last years of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera's life go? I imagine he was quite happy to see the Burgundian councillors run out of Spain, whom he saw as the cause of all of Spain's problems. In his very gossipy letters, he derisively called the Lord of Chièvres the very appropriate nickname...

  9. Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    Terrific update to a terrific timeline! Lots of setbacks for Charles V, but at least he is consolidating direct control over the Low Countries and eliminating a lot of border gore up there. It's just Liège left now as a major technically independent entity in the region, right?

  10. Bicentennial Man: Ford '76 and Beyond

    Oh yes, I remembered the Bijedić bit but forgot that it was in the context of that. Hopefully, Marković can temper his economic reforms not to crash the industrial sector while modernizing, though threading that needle will be tough.

  11. Bicentennial Man: Ford '76 and Beyond

    Excellent stuff! Now that we've hit 1980, I imagine Marshal Tito passes on schedule. Here's hoping for a less grim future for Yugoslavia.

  12. Development of the French state if Henri, Count of Chambord, dies before 1870?

    Following the collapse of the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War, the royalists became a majority in the National Assembly and, with the Orléanists agreeing to support the Legitimist candidate, the crown was offered to Henri, Count of Chambord, who refused to bend on keeping the...

  13. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    Given that it's colloquial speech in the context of a quote, overly prescriptive grammar is not really necessary and takes away from the realistic speech pattern of the individual, and I say that as someone who edits transcribed speech for a living. I have discovered so many fascinating 1970s...

  14. Texas Two-Step: Nixon nominates Connally as VP in 1973

    If it's Udall, no need for a clumsy portmanteau; just a hyphen is needed: Mo-mentum.

  15. King Theodore's Corsica

    Please attend to the one rule:

  16. King Theodore's Corsica

    I'm hoping for Montecristo, with family of Theodore's old servant Montecristo being ennobled as its count. A shame it is Tuscan.

  17. King Theodore's Corsica

    I mentioned the possibility of the island of Gorgona just north of Capraia. It is currently owned by the Carthusians, who sold it to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold, in 1770s. The other islands in the Tuscan Archipelago might be tougher to obtain, given that they were mostly controlled by the...

  18. King Theodore's Corsica

    Playing too many Paradox games and dreaming of a Corsican blob.

  19. King Theodore's Corsica

    Indeed. One need only look south to Sardinia, where its "kings" left it to languish and imposed Italianization upon it while enriching their Alpine realms. Corsica in particular, given its origin story after centuries of Genoese occupation, would certainly be wary of too many continental...

  20. King Theodore's Corsica

    Personally, I would prefer Corsica remain its own thing separate from Italy. It seems like its uniqueness would be washed out by the much larger population and cultural dominance of peninsular Italy. I do hope it does get Bonifacio back eventually, though, just to neaten up the map, and maybe...
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