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Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped. open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
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Who knows the story about Miklós Zrínyi and the wild boar? No, this isn’t Games of Thrones, but it may have been…

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“Candia was a slow bleed. 21years of salt, siege, and silence. A Venetian outpost left to rot. Not in a blaze of glory—it eroded under fire, famine, & indifference. By 1669, Venice limped home nursing the memory of maritime majesty. It could have broken another way… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

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“At Monticello, the Sphinx brooded. His idealism bruised. His cabinet split. Madison called the affair “an error of instruments.” Gallatin: “misallocation.” The quiet truth: others blamed Jefferson’s version of control—purge, reduce, without anything in its place… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

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Is ONE weekend off too much to ask?

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“But what if the child had stayed? What if, instead of being dragged across Alps and raised amid German courts & Sicilian splendor, young Conrad had been in Acre—the sun-bleached jewel of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the last flickering candle of the Crusader dream?.. open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

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Taking recommendations for alternate histories! This team has a focus on Europe, North Africa, Middle East: antiquity, Medieval, early modern, up until German and Italian unifications. If not, don’t fret, just direct message us why you’d love to see it remixed and how! substack.com/@maximaldisp...

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The Boy Who Stayed. The Kingdom That Lived. What if the Holy Roman heir never left the Holy Land? A boy king becomes more than imperial legacy—he becomes Levantine legend. In our history rerouted, Conrad II grew up in Acre. A kingdom reimagined. A Crusader crown reborn.

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“History often turns not on battle, but on brother. 118 BCE, two brothers stood at the edge of kingdom & empire. One ruled by letters. The other by blades. One to protect the Senate. The other to buy it. Jugurtha’s blade won. What if Adherbal’s dagger struck first? open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

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Next up in “Whose Dynasty Is It Anyway?” The Numidian Succession & the Jugurthine War, 118–105 BCE pictures: rerouted role reversal in the Roman Republican era.

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“At the center of it stood Queen Malicha, radiant in a robe of crushed lapis and copper-threaded linen, holding the scorched Roman eagle and the scroll of surrender. Prince Neos stood at her side, but she did not need him to speak: the voice of Petra was feminine… open.substack.com/pub/rerouted...

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Queen of the Sand. Prince of the Nile. And a Pact That Changed Everything. Would you like to know more, Remixers?

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Check out why Canadians were correct in choosing Carney after he embarrassed Trump on the G7 stage today from our Uffizi Archives: open.substack.com/pub/rebootth...

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“Ottomans find their Aegean ambitions barricaded. Siege of Corfu fails. Cyprus, once the inevitable next domino, is reinforced instead. The Knights send engineers, doctors, canon-lawyers. It is called The Contemplative Crusade. The lone isle of Rhodes… reroutedbyhistory.substack.com/p/the-citade...

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A Humanist pope again—refreshing! Imperfect, but we all are, but a continuation of positive forces at work. www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-l...

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