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Vichy France was led by some odd turncoats if you think about it. Petain was a national hero whose claim to fame was smiting Germans. Laval was a former Socialist - though admittedly, he perhaps he was as ambivalent about it as Mussolini was. Wang Jingwei and the Reorganized National Government...

If San Fernando was its own city how would the regional politics be different between it and L.A.? Would it be anything resembling the relationship between San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area in general, specifically San Jose or Silicon Valley? Or is that more like the relationship...

What if Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, opposed UDI to the extent of ordering the arrest of Ian Smith? There was a previous thread that discussed British military intervention in Rhodesia in response to UDI. As part of the discussion, I found this thesis paper that is focused...

The Barbary Wars have always been fascinating to me, it's just extremely ironic that the young United States' first big foreign conflict after independence was against Muslims. (It also had a bunch of domestic conflicts against tax revolters, which also sounds very appropriate both in terms of...