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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    In isolation, Victoria wasn't a bad choice to put the terminal for the airport link since it had the in-town check-in facilities, but taken as a whole the capacity would be seriously constrained without the addition of more tracks or removal of some commuter trains. It's not surprising that...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    There's not a whole lot of information on the scheme in a single place, but I think this is it. It seems that the implication of a surviving British Transport Commission led to the BR proposal being chosen over the LT one.
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    Bonnie's Struggle to Learn Wikiboxing

    Welcome to the Port of Liverpool! Our adjoining Riverside terminus offers a range of railway journeys to various parts of the United Kingdom, as well as local connections by Mersey Metro, Overhead Railway, trams, and buses. The High Level platforms serve high-speed InterCity boat trains to...
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    Hong Kong lease is 199 years long?

    The Chinese cared enough about Hong Kong to threaten to invade if Britain so much as considered introducing popular democracy with universal suffrage to the colony.
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    Political and cultural figures who could've had lives/careers in different countries

    Indonesian President B.J. Habibie, the successor of Suharto who brought an end to authoritarian rule and the occupation of East Timor, was an aerospace engineer by training and became politically involved due to Suharto wanting to build a domestic aviation manufacturing sector. His early...
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    This forum will continue to operate

    Thank you for all your hard work ensuring the site's continuation, and condolences for all the hours that could have gone to more productive endeavours lost to this headache.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    The Williams F1 team used to be sponsored by one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    It didn't just happen to the Russians - the crash of Sabena Flight 548 in 1961 killed the entire U.S. figure skating team.
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    What if a Panay-style incident happened during Japan's first assault on Shanghai in 1932?

    I doubt there will be any more appetite for war than there was historically in '37. There was already even less appetite to Do Something about Japan in '32, so the incident will pass with the requisite protests, at least for the U.S. Where things get interesting is the resultant diplomatic...
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    Your choices for the most over-estimated 20th century what-ifs or what-if tendencies?

    I did have an idea in the back of my mind to do a deconstruction wherein Britain and the Dominions stumble into Imperial (Con)federation after an overextended Empire falls into a crisis that leads to widespread social unrest at home and the resource colonies being lost to anti-colonial uprisings...
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    Your choices for the most over-estimated 20th century what-ifs or what-if tendencies?

    Imperial Federation. It was a largely middle-to-upper-class project far from having mass buy-in, its main proponents in Britain were considered outsider radicals, it ran up against the political establishments of self-governing colonies unwilling to surrender responsible government, and its...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Reminded of how BAC built the One-Eleven to go through an absurd amount of flight and pressurisation cycles (100,000 cycles with no fatigue cracks, 240,000 for the landing gear, which would be three or four times more than contemporary products from Boeing et al) because they expected it to be...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Imagining what a continuously modernised Three-Eleven or VC10 would look like with GE90s.
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Are the Class 393 and 95 respectively meant to be analogous to the 390 and 91 with higher speeds, or a different platform like the Siemens Velaro?
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Political career of Jordan B. Peterson 1975-1980: Volunteer for the Alberta New Democratic Party 1983-1986: Assistant to Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley 1986: Candidate for the Alberta New Democratic Party in Grand Prairie Won by: Bob Elliott (Progressive Conservative) 1986-1992: Alderman for...
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