It happened to the original Virginia colony of Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s. It had almost happened to the next one led by Captain John Smith in Jamestown. it could easily have happened with Samuel de Champlain’s first Habitation settlement at Quebec. It is perhaps most clearly seen in...
What happened to Rhineland in WW2? What was the Russian invasion of East Prussia? Who won the Franco-Mexican War? Who was the leader of Austria during WW1? What did Spain do in the Seven Years' War? How did King Frederick II begin the Seven Years' War? What three countries did Otto...
The chart makes a lot of sense to me, at least superficially; the 1950s–1960s was an era where college attendance and job mobility were first greatly expanded and democratized, and where a lot of young adults who might have grown up to work on the family farm in older times instead fo...
Ukrainian lands are located at the gates of Europe and since ancient times foes have been threatening its inhabitants, not all but most of the times from the East. However, the very first statehood was brought to Kyiv from the North, by means of rivers and Vikings, and over the 10thand ...
What happened to those years between having kids and now? I remember their births, but not the pain. I remember their first steps but that’s because they were recorded on video. Perhaps I need to get organised, upgrade my experience and put everything on the computer so one day when ...
to cloud my judgment of what happened, why, and what should be done about it ~ I’d set out to achieve payback as well as create more of the same in Hades or paradise or whatever the hell you wish to call it with the inevitable echoes that will cause among the living in 1964 and...
He emigrated from Prussia in 1850, and moved to San Francisco in 1851, and left for Virginia City in Nevada in 1860. He made a fortune in connection with the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States. He returned to San Francisco around...
What could other developing countries learn from the Chinese story when they avoid the kind of economic and political crisis that happened in the Soviet Union? Which nation has the leading economy as compared to other states and nations in the world?
I really enjoy these what if style games where you have the opportunity to play out something that might of happened had certain conditions been in place. Ty Bomba is really good at thinking these things through and then putting them into a playable wargame. Such is the case withOperation St...
After what happened to Emperor Saint Carl, Austrians are unlikely to see themselves as Germans The death of Emperor St. Carl would have such a huge impact on the empire that it could lead to a common identity with the whole of the empire (they might see themselves with...