This was the character that popped into my head every time she came up! I am glad it was intentional. Does that make Stephane Clement Jijibo? He is less crazy but certainly as vicious.
Ah good to see Morrison being declawed before his farmer-supremacist nonsense destroyed the UFO movement. I take it there will be no early fall of government due to refurbished coal scuttle, so they will get proportional representation. I hope that you ensure that the UFO government gets as in...
Oh, I hadn't even thought about the polygamy aspect. I mean, there was a very brief bout of it in the end stages of the brief Radical Anabaptist Münster rebellion, but it did seem to be the idea of one particular unstable guy who took over after the first leader was killed before it was crushed...
Well, the English Protestants liked to make the point that they were just returning to the original precepts of Insular Christianity before it was shackled by Rome, etc. I can definitely see any alt-Irish *Protestants going the same route, especially since it fits the milieu even better. Among...
I don't recall if this has been raised before, but how would music have developed in the early 20th-century Cincoverse North America? Ragtime and jazz as we know it likely would not exist, or at least not to the same extent. I imagine a lot of Civil War era songs (Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Phew, managed to finish catching up with this timeline just before the year's end! Really amazing work!
With Hughes being President, I was wondering what is going on with Frederick Banting and his insulin discoveries, as Hughes' daughter Elizabeth was his first American patient in the early...
How did the last years of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera's life go? I imagine he was quite happy to see the Burgundian councillors run out of Spain, whom he saw as the cause of all of Spain's problems. In his very gossipy letters, he derisively called the Lord of Chièvres the very appropriate nickname...
Terrific update to a terrific timeline! Lots of setbacks for Charles V, but at least he is consolidating direct control over the Low Countries and eliminating a lot of border gore up there. It's just Liège left now as a major technically independent entity in the region, right?
Oh yes, I remembered the Bijedić bit but forgot that it was in the context of that. Hopefully, Marković can temper his economic reforms not to crash the industrial sector while modernizing, though threading that needle will be tough.
Following the collapse of the Second Empire after the Franco-Prussian War, the royalists became a majority in the National Assembly and, with the Orléanists agreeing to support the Legitimist candidate, the crown was offered to Henri, Count of Chambord, who refused to bend on keeping the...
Given that it's colloquial speech in the context of a quote, overly prescriptive grammar is not really necessary and takes away from the realistic speech pattern of the individual, and I say that as someone who edits transcribed speech for a living.
I have discovered so many fascinating 1970s...