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  1. Hecatee

    WI: NACA Modified P-38

    I'd love to give your guys a budget to actually build this super 100% hindsight P-38 plane, a pity I don't have the money ! You are really nuts (and bolts) in a good way :) but this makes for fascinating reading even for a non engineer guy like me
  2. Hecatee

    In Britannia Salutem

    Thanks a lot for the long ride :)
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    quarantine was known and existed in antiquity, you find it in the old testament but also in hypocratic writings which are the one actually proposing a period of 40 days, 40 being said "quarante" in French, "quaranta" in Italian, where some of the earlier medieval quarantine rules were taken
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    Hard to say as such plagues are now known to have often been linked to climatic events that caused animals in Asia to cause the plague's diffusion to humans... Now it is also true that no mass legionary movements in the eastern part of the empire around the 160's might have limited or slowed the...
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I would think that the fact Poland would have one border less to defend, gain more sea access (so no possibility to cut them from it by just taking Dantzig), and have a compensation for any land lost to Russia which is a nicely fortified area would all make it interesting for everyone but the...
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    A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    I could see East Prussia go fully to Poland, as a kind of compensation for Staline's "acquisitions", this would make a much simpler world after the fall of the USSR...
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    My way of looking at thinks is all about logistics. There is a very good set of maps at Orbis (https://orbis.stanford.edu/) under "gallery" that shows that the limits of the Roman empire are linked to travel time from Rome. Mesopotamia was just too far from where every limit in the empire was...
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    AHC: Alternate High Pax Romana (circa 120 to 160)

    First : thanks for the kind words on my old TL's :) Now to your questions. - Trajan's succession : a big question is who did actually choose Hadrian ? It seems to have be mainly the women around Trajan that choose him : it was set up through wedding and politicking years ahead, and still took...
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    I'll PM you
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    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Actually I'm doing my PhD on technothrillers and Clancy's "origin story" is probably more complex that you'd expect... I've probably found half a novel with another author's name on the cover which may have been written by Clancy, and that other author had the means to make Clancy edited and...
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    Best PoD(s) for an Athenian/Corinthian/Spartan/Theban Democracy/Republic Turned Empire?

    Someone summoned me ? :) Before we talk empire and Greece we have to look at demographics : - Thebes never managed to dominate outside of Boeotia, even under Epaminondas when they beat the Spartans : they first managed to gain their autonomy thanks to Athens' support, and then had only a...
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    Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Actually she might well have to take out her rationing book at this early a date : products such as butter were still rationed in the 50's according to my grandma's memories, the Belgians comming like her to France for their hollidays often brought products such as butter to gift to local friends
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    Alcibiades is tried before the Athenian expedition to Sicily departs and found innocent

    Given the amount of forces Athens brought to bear and the sheer lack of organization the sources describe on the Syracusan part before the arrival of the Spartan commander, I do believe a more dynamic approach led by Alcibiades might well have worked. But I don't see them doing a straight up...
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    Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    With the West being further East than OTL, how much % more of the German tech base have they been able to get ? Or deny to the soviet ? For instance will the soviet have enough for the Mig-17 or modern submarines ? Or to help their rocket program ?
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    WI: Justinian goes East

    On the other hand a stronger ERE at the end of Justinian's rule thanks to no Italian campaign means that there might be enough ressources to more decisively and more quickly defeat the Persians, the two foes not being so equally well matched. This in turn changes the dynamic of the Arab...
  16. Hecatee

    WI: The Conspiracy to Assassinate Julius Caesar Also Went After and Killed Mark Antony?

    I'm not so sure about the consequences. A number of the conspirators had to go to the provinces take their assigned positions, where a number of them would have been in charge of troops who had fought under Cesar and Antonius and adored them both, though for different reasons. So a number of...
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    Where Socrates And Buddha Meet: The Story Of Indica, The Indo-Greek Kingdom

    Debt enslavement was mostly no longer practised in ghe Greek world at this date if I recall properly. For instance in Athens it was banned through Solon's laws if I recall properly, thus about a century and a half if not two centuries earlier
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    Where Socrates And Buddha Meet: The Story Of Indica, The Indo-Greek Kingdom

    Who are most of the slaves in the west at thid point ? Barbarians, from the Balkans or from Gaul for most part. So not much educated... the last wars that made lots of Greek slaves are more than two if not three decades old (A III destruction of Thebes), so a lot of the slaves from that time are...
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    God is a Frenchman - a Timeline (Seven Yrs War POD)

    An earlier (by a decade for its start) and more successful conquest of North Africa combined with a much larger emmigration from France will clearly impact the demography of the region to the point that I can't see a 20th century decolonization in Algeria and Tunisia... But it could also put the...
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    Maximilian rules Mexico until dying in 1918: What does his Mexico look like

    While I don't know enough about Mexico to say much about that, I'd say that it may change a lot in Europe : - France and Austria's collaboration in Mexico lead to greater ties, and possibly a French intervention in the 1866 Austro-Prussian war, either directly or just by preventing Italian...
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