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  1. WI: Looming seventeenth-century French succession crisis

    Assume the following: 1) Louis XIII's streak of stillborn offspring does not abate in 1638, and he dies childless. 2) This does not butterfly away the battlefield death of the Count of Soissons. 3) The Grand Condé has a daughter rather than a son in 1643; he and his wife, as IOTL, have no...

  2. Edgar, Duke of Cambridge lives to adulthood

    This WI is, honestly, prompted by my discovery of a historical figure who would have ended up directly in line for the English throne but whose name wasn't used for such a monarch in modern times. IOTL, Edgar, for the duration of his life the only legitimate son of the future James II and VII...

  3. WI Carlos, Duke of Madrid, were married to Maria Theresa of Austria-Este?

    I don't have any reason to believe that this was close to happening. But they were both Catholic, of very noble blood, both born in the late 1840s. What entertains me is the opportunity to unite the claims of the Jacobite and Carlist pretenders.

  4. Easy Spreadsheet Formulas for Various Apportionment Methods

    The following formulas assume that you have electorate or constituent numbers filling cells in a column, stretching from cell B2 to cell B#, with any parties or regions not meeting the threshold for representation already removed. They should be entered as written in cell C2 and copied down to...

  5. I Huffman-coded the 50 states

    So the exercise here was to devise a scheme by which each of the states was assigned a binary string, none of them appearing in any other at the beginning, that would minimize the number of bits required to specify the average resident's state (based on the 2010 census). There's a well-known...

  6. WI: Russia vs. Ukraine at the 2014 World Cup

    The premise: Ukraine beats France in the last round of UEFA qualifying in 2013, making it to the World Cup. Then (being the team moved from Pot 4 to pot 2), it's drawn into the same group as Russia. Let's say it's group F, as well containing Argentina and Iran, and Russia and Ukraine face off...

  7. Uniform Logarithmic Swing

    Definition: The logarithmic swing from party A to party B is equal to ln ( (A1 * B2)/(A2 * B1) ), where A1 and B1 are the parties' respective initial vote shares and A2 and B2 are their final vote shares. In the event of a small swing where a gain by one party is matched by a loss by the other...

  8. The Patrimony of Goar: Extracts from the Universal Biographical Dictionary

    GOAR (fl. 406-411) was a leader of the Alans. He entered Gaul as part of the great Rhine crossing of 406, promptly allying himself to the Romans. He and his followers settled in the vicinity of Aurelianum [1]. Goar was a supporter of JOVINUS's imperial reign of 411-413. After his death...

  9. (British) Throne Succession Oddness

    Two scenarios here: 1) The senior heir to Sophia of Hanover (Alice) is Catholic, so someone from a younger line (Bob) inherits the throne. Then Alice converts away from Catholicism/has a non-Catholic child. Does Bob have to give up the throne immediately? If not, has Alice's line forever...

  10. PC: Plantagenet-Valois partition of France

    I don't want to tie this discussion down to any particular point in time, but the closest OTL got de facto to the scenario I'm envisioning was probably in the early 1400s. I'm wondering whether a treaty dismembering France, so that the Capetians keep a rump kingdom while the Angevins get to...

  11. 2014 Turtledove Poll Other Artwork (2 of 2)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... Austro-Hungarian light cruisers 1 - Franz Josef II Austro-Hungarian light cruisers 2 - Franz Josef II Austro-Hungarian pre-dreadnought battleships 1 - Franz Josef...

  12. 2014 Turtledove Poll Other Artwork (1 of 2)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... CGI Artworks for Eyes Turned Skywards - nixonshead Olympic Airlines Wikibox - Gryphon Drawings for FOR WANT OF THE HAMMER - Grouchio Propaganda posters for "What...

  13. 2014 Turtledove Poll Flag (3 of 3)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... Celestial Horde - RomanNumeralII Vasconia - Richard IV Flag of Chad - Iserlohn Flag of the Commonwealth of Virginia - Iserlohn Flag of Costa Rica - Iserlohn Flag...

  14. 2014 Turtledove Poll Flag (2 of 3)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... Republic of Guyana - black_0 North American Treaty Organisation - ah-sue Federation of the Holy Cross - TheseusDeuteros New Australian national flag 1 - 11gm1 New...

  15. 2014 Turtledove Poll Flag (1 of 3)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... Communist Spain - Goldstein Arab Communist Party - Lapsed Pacifist Democratic Republic of Cascadia - Lapsed Pacifist 100th years of Kingdom of Estonia -...

  16. 2014 Turtledove Poll Map (3 of 3)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... Election Map of the French Empire - Pischinovski Angola - Reagent Mozambican Civil War and Aftermath - Reagent Acadia Bank Premier League - Rubberduck3y6 Map of...

  17. 2014 Turtledove Poll Map (2 of 3)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... Aegean Reference Map - Daeres Vae Victis - Milites Freehaven in 1908 - Pischinovski Map of the Former Austria-Hungary - sketchdoodle Map of The world in the year...

  18. 2014 Turtledove Poll Map (1 of 3)

    PLEASE READ BEFORE VOTING This is an approval voting poll. You may vote for as many options as you like. And the nominees are... SoaP New Orleans - Ares96 Olympic Airlines Travel Map - Gryphon Height of the German Empire - Nymain1 The Expansion of Prussia - Blomma L'Afrique Française du Nord...

  19. Greek monarch plebiscite goes differently

    George I of Greece earned his position following an election in 1862, when he (taking Wikipedia's numbers as correct, even though they're not self-consistent) received six votes out of 241,202, which isn't a very high percentage. However, everyone who got more was rendered ineligible by...

  20. 2013 Turtledove Poll Other Artwork (Poll 2 of 2)

    (READ BEFORE VOTING!) Remember that this is an Approval Voting poll, which means you may vote for multiple choices. Don't forget! There's another Best Other Artwork poll! Poll 1 Air Patrol - Color-Copycat Japanese Aerodreadnought - Color-Copycat Roundel of Catalonia - LSCatilina...
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