Recent content by Mikestone8

There'd be at least one more. His other wife, Darius' daughter, was pregnant when he died, whereupon Roxana promptly killed her. I think I read somewhere that her foetus was male.

Not necessarily. His father Philip was also a heavy drinker yet lived a lot longer. Also, various of his generals - Pompey, Seleucus , Antigonus and (iirc) Craterus led equally eventful lives yet survived to their seventies or eighties. So if he avoids that arrow in the lung which he suffered...

Perhaps Harald III comes out on top in 1066 and decides to assert his sovereignty over Iceland. As king of Norway *and* England, he might be strong enough to make it stick. Were this to cause thousands rather than hundreds to move west, Vinland might be in with a chance.

A "Greater Saxony" Either John George of Saxony accepts the Bohemian throne in 1617, or he dies childless in the early 1610s (as did both his brothers OTL), and Saxony reverts to the Ernestine line under Johann Philip of Saxe-Altenburg, and *he* accepts it. You now have a Bohemian crown that...

There will certainly be some kind of 14A, if only to repudiate the Confederate debt. I also suspect that Section 2, which reduced Congressional representation in proportion to how many men over 21 were disfranchised, would still be adopted. For the rest it really depends on how the South...

Well, at the very least it removes one major obstacle to it. AIUI the Dems relied a lot on the "race card" to scupper the Populists.

And don't forget that ridiculous "Abraham Lincoln" legend. Born in poverty, rises to rule a nation, is way too good to be true, has his greatest triumph on Palm Sunday, only to be martyred on Good Friday. Obviously the invention of some national mythmaker blatantly plagiarising the New...

Has Armenia been absorbed into the SU? If so the Turks might indeed join in Barbarossa.

When I was around 14 or 15 I started a yarn where two time travellers went back to the Battle of Gettysburg and accidentally changed its outcome. Returning to their own time they found the Confederacy still existing and the map of Europe totally different. However I think that was as far as I...

If Lincoln lives, the VP's opinions won't make a diddlysquat of difference - especially in his case, given his embarrassing performance at the inaugural. Lincoln will pay no attention to them unless they happen to coincide with his own. One amusing thought. Could Johnson actually be taken up by...

Fair enough. But can we then agree that any such measures are going to be pretty limited, and that, as OTL, the vast majority of freedmen will still be farm labourers or at best sharecroppers, rather than owning land, and that any massive redistribution, such as Stevens wanted, almost certainly...

Further thought. He might also have pushed for Section 2 to include a proviso that anyone over 21 who had served in the Union Army or Navy should be entitled to vote regardless of race or colour. This would probably have satisfied most Republicans, before their battles with Johnson radicalised...

Probably because the Republicans saw this idea as having been superseded by the 15th Amendment, and, later, that falling back on it would be too embarrassing a confession that the 15A was unenforceable. Such a proposal *was* included in their 1904 platform, but the Democratic landslide of 1910...

That's why I said one or other version. I think it distinctly possible that the original one would have gone too far for Lincoln as well as Johnson. But Lincoln, unlike Johnson, almost certainly *would* have signed the later version. Incidentally, how much land would be involved? There's an...

Why would Lincoln want more radical measures? His big job now is to rebuild the Union. He'll do what he can for the Freedmen, but at the end of the day reconciling the South to reunion will have to come first. I quite agree that he'll sign the Civil Rights bill, and one version or the other of...