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    Alternate Atomic Africa

    If I had to give an unlikely reason, as a vanity/prestige project and a way to make the country more important to outsiders, ie "Boy, it'd be a shame if something happened to our nukes, so you'd better increase the international aid budget."
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    When I see that pronouncation, I think of Yinka Dare, a marginal basketball player who could not pass the ball, as he had four assists in his entire career. Announcers even joked about it.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Kirov of all things did this in a military fashion by having the time travelers introduce designs they knew they could build (as an excuse to get say, early post-ww2 equipment into WW2 wargame scenarios). One of the things I liked about series villain Volkov was that he was an unintentional...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I have AH airports in the Rockaway Peninsula, the Shea Stadium site, and in the Green-Wood Cemetry.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Well there is the Qattara Depression Project.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Seriously, geoengineering AHs don't get much respect, and I'm not even talking soft ones like Atlantropa. One of my little worldbuilding exercises is finding open space anywhere in a city (even if it's a park/memorial) and throwing an airport into it.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I'm reminded of the "Mid-Canada" proposal.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    As of this post, San Francisco has never had an acknowledged homosexual head of government. Serbia has.
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    Could The British Car Industry Be Saved?

    Yeah, my impression after seeing every single British major industry suffer the exact same fate (more or less) postwar has also become a lot like that.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Well it makes sense: If you have large coordinated armies, you want to be able to tell units apart for C3 reasons. Anyway, have a Dutch East Indies flag carrier 737 (actually a post-independence Indonesian airline)
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    (raises hand)
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    Caribbean Cold War: It's Jihad, Then

    I knew of Trinidad's South Asian population from, of all things, the demographics of the victims of the Paria pipeline disaster (where five divers got sucked into an oil pipe and four died).
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I just invented an alternate aviation term. What are called "shrouded propfans" or similar awkward terms in real life (jet turbine engines with a ridiculously high bypass ratio like the Rolls Royce Contrafan or NK-93 ) I decided to call "Hyperfans" in an ATL where they see widespread service.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    The original Battle Royale novel takes place in a victorious Japan AH, but it's an incidental background piece that the movie removed without changing the immediate story at all.
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    Review - The Years of Rice and Salt

    To me it was exhibit A for the issues almost all alternate history has: Getting worse the farther away from the POD one got. (Not that it's not a good book, mind you. Just that it has that weakness).
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