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That's 2 shillings and sixpence in old money | MetaFilter

emmineb — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:58:31 GMT

Ever wondered what old amounts of money would be worth today? Or what you could buy with your current salary if you went back 200, 400, or 600 years? Now you can find out with a tool that converts English currency from 1270 onwards into today's prices. Based on Treasury records, it tells you that Mr Darcy's £10,000 a year would now be worth nearly £350,000, or that your house would only have to be worth the equivalent of £500 now to qualify for the vote after 1832.

BBC NEWS: UK | Lawrence of Arabia's Mid-East map on show

emmineb — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:52:15 GMT

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Gateway: Why Operation Sealion Wouldn't Work

emmineb — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:01:47 GMT

The Second World War has always been a favorite stomping ground of alternate historians, especially the writers of alternate history novels. Probably the most popular single alternate history in the western world is one where the Nazis win the war. In order to accomplish this, the creators of many timelines utilize Operation Sealion, a German plan in 1940 for the invasion of Britain. Unfortunately, what most don't realize is that Sealion was nothing more than a pipe dream - utterly unworkable in any alternate history at all similar to the history we are familiar with. In this essay, I will examine the various reasons why Operation Sealion would not work, and could not be made to work (without _extremely_ large changes) in an alternate timeline. Check out my

Operation Sealion I do not say they cannot come, only that they cannot come by Sealion

emmineb — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:58:55 GMT

One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of: "If Hitler hadn't switched from bombing airfields to bombing cities, then Operation Sealion would have worked." Unfortunately for these suggestions, the plan for Sealion was perhaps the most flawed plan in the history of modern warfare. Getting it to a workable state requires so many changes that an author's artistic license would be revoked. What follows is an analysis of Sealion in OTL

St Bloggie de Riviere

emmineb — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:43:24 GMT

The English-to-American Dictionary - category insults

emmineb — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:44:43 GMT

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon ne

emmineb — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:37:24 GMT

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Timeline 1755-94

emmineb — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:28:17 GMT

TIMELINE 1755-1794 Enter Francis Swaine 1754 28 May. Major George Washington, aged 22, at Great Meadows, by the fork on the banks of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers, fires the shots that sparked the Seven Years War. 1755 8/6 Boscawen took Alcide and Lys 1756 12/2 Watson and Pocock took Geriah

V/STOL - WAS IT A GOOD IDEA? By David Hobbs

emmineb — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 14:00:20 GMT

The concept of producing a practical, winged, aircraft able to use aerodynamic lift for flight, yet capable of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) has fascinated designers since the dawn of powered flight. Whilst helicopters have achieved it, their fixed wing cousins have not, to anything like the same degree.