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  1. Challenge: Make Berber languages fare better

    Pre-islamic conquest, was the bible translated into Berber? So, at time of islamic conquest, there is an extant literary (religious) tradition? Where were the Donatists? Too far east? They retreat to the hills, convert locals? Or the Arian Vandals convert locals? My history of this area is...

  2. Major League Cricket

    With a similar level of animosity? Would one game try to get the other game banned or ban players that play the other game? Would fans of one do things like put broken glass on the pitches of the other sport etc.?

  3. Constantine and The Rise of Polytheism/Henotheism?

    Er, no Nicean creed!

  4. Rejection of All Things British in Post Revolution America

    And how could folk become fluent in one of these languages quickly enough that they would be able to use it for every day communication. I suspect few of the founding fathers were fluent, it was just a romantic classicist idea.

  5. Survival of Mesoamerican Writing Systems

    Mayan or such develops a hieratic then a demotic version. Perhaps the demotic version could survive?

  6. Why did Baseball spread worldwide, and not Gridiron Football?

    The other problem for American football is timing of the game. I know a lot of people who find the endless breaks a complete turn off while actually enjoying the game play. It's a cultural thing, if you grow up with team games that are continuous (football, rugby league) or fairly continuous...

  7. Why did Baseball spread worldwide, and not Gridiron Football?

    Well there is the issue of cost. To play football you need something that passes as a ball and anywhere bigger than a few square yards. To play American Football you need a ton of kit. The reason that it won't take off around the world is that it won't get played in schools cos they would...

  8. WI: Zoroastrian China in the 4th century?

    I suspect you would see some syncreticism with traditional chinese beliefs.

  9. The Worst Musicals Never Performed

    "Marcel Marceau - the no musical" "Nanking - the Chinese Opera Musical" "Max Mosely's Nights of Fun!" "The Satanic Verses - the musical"

  10. Terra Preta de Maya

    Would this up the native population density? This would make a difference, might lead later to a much stronger native identity and more political clout.

  11. US Sports 2 Cricket

    As Englishman I have to say I am completely bemused by my compatriots' interest in cricket. It has to be the dullest sport in the world. Also, it is one of those sports where when you ask people what they like about it, a large number talk about the peripheral aspects and not the game itself.

  12. No Anti-American Bias

    One person's bias is another person's truth. Americans only have to look at their news programs to see how the same basic facts can appear completely different. One thing that strikes a non-US citizen is the sincerity of the belief of many US citizens in the inherent goodness of the actions of...

  13. WI Turkey Goes Communist?

    Hmm. Cyprus....WWIII?

  14. Penicillin discovered sooner

    So "super-bugs" appear around 1950? Or just in time for WW2?

  15. No football, more futball!

    It is just word. In the US it means one thing in other parts of the world it means something else. Do you object to the Americans calling what a Brit would call an aubergine an eggplant. I mean, it doesn't contain any eggs. In fact, it is the original English word for that vegetable and we Brits...

  16. No football, more futball!

    The problem with watching games you don't know is that most of the time you miss a lot of the skills. Although still not my favourite sport, having watched American Football with American housemates a few years ago, I can see aspects of the game that I was missing before. This disjointedness...

  17. Richer Indonesia

    Somewhat happier and more confident population? Less on a appeal for radical Islam? A model modern, democratic Muslim state?

  18. Fascism without Nazism

    No. Go and read about fascism. Spain was a right wing conservative Catholic nationalist establishment regime. Fascism is anti-establishment.

  19. Fascism without Nazism

    A clear distinction needs to be made between fascist and ultra-conservative establishment regimes. Spain was the latter, with a light fascist veneer.

  20. No football, more futball!

    I think if aliens that had sports landed on earth I think they would quickly work out how football works. However, I think they would struggle with both codes of rugby (more with union than league) and American football. They would be utterly flummoxed by Aussie Rules. It used to be televised in...
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