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Recent content by Tom Colton

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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I was genuinely surprised none of the xanth- words meaning yellow or xanthin-related substances (Xanthippe doesn't count due to being a proper noun) made it in, but it wasn't really used in English until 1857.
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    Scenes We'd Like To See: Alternate Movies, Television & Other Pop Culture Miscellanea

    I just learned that The Running Man (1987) was supposed to have none less than Christopher Reeve playing the protagonist (unfortunately it clashed with the shooting of, uh, The Quest For Peace.) The screenwriter, Steven E. de Souza, put it politely when he said that the plot had to be changed...
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    Kimkatya in: The Thread That Wouldn't Die

    2006 is in big trouble
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    This forum will continue to operate

    Well done to the admin team, all the best to everyone I’ve enjoyed chatting with over here. Back to my exile
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    That’s surely the exception if anything now since the Yom Kippur War and the 2023 attack were both initiated “the other way round”.
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    Tom Colton's Infoboxes and Other Graphics

    Man am I glad this wasn't a dunk on the choice of Andrew fucking Cuomo in the rest of the mockups
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    Almost-MPs in the UK

    As per what Indicus said, his friend and fellow colonial administrator John Crawfurd ran as a Radical so yes, it’s entirely possible he runs as one or as a Whig. He only ever had condescending views about Catholics and their colonial missionaries though.
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    Almost-MPs in the UK

    Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, butcher of Yogyakarta and founder of the British colony of Singapore, had ambitions to run for Parliament. However, the destruction of his life's work on board a ship returning to Britain irrevocably damaged his health. It seems like all he was able to do...
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    AHC: A closer Anglo-German Medieval relationship, version of 100 years war, that England wins, and greatly influences Germany/northern HRE

    On these points, what is going to be crucial for Richard is establishing a Plantagenet identity for the HRE vs. being a proxy for the Hohenstaufen issue, meaning securing the succession for Henry or Edmund of Almain and in general paying more attention to Germany than he actually did. The...
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    AHC: A closer Anglo-German Medieval relationship, version of 100 years war, that England wins, and greatly influences Germany/northern HRE

    Is Richard of Cornwall (Henry III's younger brother) building an enduring legacy as King of the Germans a good starting point or a non-starter?
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    Wars of the Roses WI: A Portuguese Lancastrian Claim

    This is a bit apples and oranges, but the biggest battle on English soil is alleged to have been the Battle of Towton in 1461, with about 60,000 to 75,000 troops combined between the Yorkists and Lancastrians; ten years later Afonso V conquered Morocco with a force of 30,000 men, so they could...
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    Wars of the Roses WI: A Portuguese Lancastrian Claim

    That's accurate enough, but while clearly interest wasn't enough for intervention IOTL, could it plausibly escalate ATL especially if the Portuguese monarchs think they could get something for their trouble?
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    Wars of the Roses WI: A Portuguese Lancastrian Claim

    Bumping this—at least one person in Portugal (King Afonso V's former private secretary) was interested enough in the Yorkist reign to comment on the Princes in the Tower being done to death in Buckingham’s custody but do we know what the Aviz monarchs thought of England during the period?
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    Wars of the Roses WI: A Portuguese Lancastrian Claim

    This line of thinking was inspired via browsing Wikipedia and remembering John of Gaunt’s role in forging the Anglo-Portuguese alliance alongside that of his daughter Philippa, the Queen of Portugal, in raising the supposed “Illustrious Generation” of that realm. Given that the Beauforts /...
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    Tom Colton's Infoboxes and Other Graphics
    Threadmarks: The Last Cavalier

    Carlos Oda Carlos Oda (カルロス 織田), born Oda Hidenari (織田 秀成, 1589 - 3 September 1651), was a Japanese Catholic Kirishitan samurai, soldier and courtier who lived through the Sengoku and Edo periods, before moving to Spain during the Keicho Embassy led by Hasekura Tsunenaga. Some fourteen years...
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