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Lord is a customary title conferred on the Lord-Governor. There are those who sought to abolish the position and undo the neo-medievalism imposed by the American occupation. Those who disclaimed that title (but received it anyway) have that acknowledged.

This is vaguely based on Daphne du Maurier's Rule Britannia - really, just on part of it. Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1945-1953: Clement Attlee (Labour) 1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (National - Conservatives, Liberal Nationals), Sir...

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Looking For Water In All The Wrong Places Above is a map of Mars produced in 1970, five years before first contact. Whilst rudimentary in comparison to modern depictions, it is nevertheless useful to reproduce here, to depict all that has changed. Martian civilisation, long before first...

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Looking For Water In All The Wrong Places Above is a map of Mars produced in 1970, five years before first contact. Whilst rudimentary in comparison to modern depictions, it is nevertheless useful to reproduce here, to depict all that has changed. Martian civilisation, long before first...

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Uncle Magic Monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland / of the British and Irish 1830-1836: William IV (Hanover) 1836-1837: Victoria (Hanover) Regent - 1836-1837: Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn Regent - 1837-1837: Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of...

Interpretatio Romana Dear Ioannis, Saturnalia comes earlier every year! It's become a bit of a commercialised holiday to be honest. People forget that the real reason we celebrate on the 25th December is because its the birth of Sol Invictus. Young people don't have any respect for tradition...

Breaking Wind In The Palaces Of The Mighty 1916-1920: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (Independent - Coalition Coupon) 1919 (Coalition Coupon - Coalition Conservatives, Coalition Liberals, NDLP) def. Ramsay MacDonald (United Socialist Council - Labour, ILP, BSP), Eamon de Valera (Sinn...

okay heres alt-Mumby's cover of this scenario from that timeline 2016-2021: Theresa May (Conservative) 2017 (Majority) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist) With her large majority and the goodwill...

Quick query - is this a TL where COVID happens orr

Turning The Nile Red Heads of Government of Egypt, as recognised by the Union of Socialist Council Republics 1919-1923: Saad Zaghloul (Wafd) [initially as leader of 'wafd' delegation to the Geneva Conference, then as Premier of the Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan] 1923-1923: Hosni al-Arabi...

Iacocca/Gritz is nuts

Reconsidered this scenario a little. ATLF: The Rocketeer - Redux 1933-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) 1932 (w. John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican) 1936 (w. John Nance Garner) def. Alf Landon (Republican) The rather obvious Nazi attack on Hollywood gets played off by...

One of the reasons a second front was delayed (amongst many others) was the prioritisation by de Gaulle's Provisional Government to take Paris in any invasion of France and for the taking of Paris specifically to be a visibly French affair, and by French they did mean white. The Free French army...

An idea I keep having is a different, worse Satanic Panic leading to censorship laws that result in the collapse of TSR and no WOTC buy-out to save DND. DND survives however in 'xerox covens' brewing their own rules until a more liberal government emerges.

I've mulled this with @Comisario before and I think my take is a Tory victory in 1959 - the emergent de facto segregation that had been allowed to persist since Windrush worsens and Labour has continuous ructions that permit a Tory victory in 1964.

I am thinking about writing a 'Renaissance-punk' sci-fi story and this is kind of a first draft at considering this - I like the idea that because the Renaissance is the moment when humanity made contact, it has become a kind of legendary time in human history and just as we in the 21st century...

I've deliberately avoided that as I haven't actually decided! As might be apparent, this world operates on a somewhat Renaissance era understanding of the heavens (and other aspects, see the use of 'microseminal' to refer to disease) - it is possible to breathe in space as it isn't a vacuum...