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  1. Solar Dreams: a history of solar energy (1878 - 2025)

    Other place where it may be used are some industrial, narrow-gauge, or metro railways -bulkyness: its easier to put large reservoir and turbine into ral engine than into automobile -turbine being less responsive than piston engine also would have less negative effect when driving on tracks than...

  2. AHC: Wank the Tomcat

    In addition for other "USMCats" scenarios, some other possible points: 1. Navy push on developing Sea Phoenix for carriers and smaller ships and Land Phoenix for Marines: AIM-54 gets more development and economy of scale, getting down it cost. Also Marines having F-14 with Phoenix and Land...

  3. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    Self-propelled artillery can scoot. But it was planned to use "general use" SPGs, specialized units like soviet A-222 Bereg, or scandinavian fixed positions mainly in anti-landing role, shelling beaches and landing crafts at approaches to them.

  4. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Dnestr? River being pre-war border between Romania and USSR? Was Dnepr, river flowing through Kiev already crossed and south-western part of Ukraine with Odessa already liberated?

  5. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    Apollo 12 site would propably also give some interesting insight into long-term decay of materials, if samples for Surveyor and LM Descent Module, or Apollo leave behind experiments were taken.

  6. 2021 Turtledoves - (Closes (2/21/21) - Best Map Nominations and Seconds

    I second nomination for La Transsaharienne 1982 by @TheKutKu and @Reagent

  7. 2021 Turtledoves - (Closes (2/21/21) - Best Map Nominations and Seconds

    I nominate Best Map: The Folly of the Sun; Aurantiacis

  8. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Hold your horses here. Weren't this posted not so long ago on AH.com as a alternate history poster/flyer, with whole backstory? https://www.deviantart.com/marsby2024orbust/art/SLI-The-European-Confederation-2059-865740927 Here it is...

  9. What Do Most Professional Historians Think Of Alternate History?

    I think that proffesional historians approach to AH is very different case to case, and for every one that is saying "we care about what happened, not fantasy" there is someone who is using it as a analysis tool. For example, naval historian from Kingston University, whom videos I've posted in...

  10. England Expects More....

    He literaly worked himself to death. Historian, who is trying to "bring Henderson into spotlight" due his importance to Tribal-class destroyers and Unicorn carrier designs, and also have a nice YT channel: said, but propably not in this video, that there are Henderson letters in archives, about...

  11. England Expects More....

    On case of convoys, and their usefullness, certain commander may appear in this story due his report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Henderson

  12. Improve US Combat Rations both in WW2 and After

    USA had specialized jungle and moutain rations, both were acording do wiki treated by soldiers as better than K-rations both in taste and nutrition. But both of them weren't more widespread due need of industrial capacity for K and C rations production...

  13. Map Thread XX

    PoD of this map is a different course of the Mongol conquest, as a result of which the Ruthenian principalities are not completely subordinated to the Golden Horde. The following centuries were marked by the Ruthenian-Tatar wars, as well as internal conflicts, the development of Cossack...

  14. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Thai travel guide. And a original map source: https://www.deviantart.com/followbywhiterabbit/art/Map-of-Poland-B-273315238

  15. Map Thread XVII

    OTL Bismarck Archipelago. ATL Poland (surviving "congress kingdom") participate in 1870 war on french side, get sea access an later colonialism take a bit different turn: Germany still get colonies on east coast od Africa, but Poles are active on Pacific, and made their "copra and malaria...

  16. Map Thread XVII

    Map of "New Pomerania": colony made by surviving Poland / different Congress Kingdom with acces to sea in late XIX century. I've tried to copy style of polish school atlases from first half of XX century, created by E. Romer: http://incb.net/incb/nbs/nbs1042.html, to make it look like it would...

  17. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    That globe was first used in internet political comedy series, as a element of Jaroslaw Kaczynski office. When series became quite popular, well... it spread. Take, a look, youtube have english subtitles for this.

  18. Would there be much more immigrants in Eastern Europe right now if it wasn't for Communism?

    This: we must remember that Poles had quite large presence in coal mining communities of Rhur, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium up to interwar period, and worked as a seasonal agricultural workers in Eastern Germany (East Prussian farmers even gave polish language advertisements in newspapers looking...

  19. Map Thread XVI

    It's fictional area, intended to be "sort-of" ukraininan steppe with names that are inspired by polish language, but without real meaning.

  20. Map Thread XVI

    My entry into MotF 163
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