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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Arguably this doesn't look like alternate history, it's not as though Napoleon III wouldn't have expressed this opinion even though it feels anachronistic... but in the actual context this is T. Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy, Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Big Dig: 1920s-era initiative to tunnelize rapid transit services in New York City. Many New Yorkers regarded elevated train lines as dangerous, unsightly, noisy, unreliable, and archaic; the mayoral administration of Meyer London saw tunnelization as a way to win support from the middle-class...
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    The Fifty-First HoS List Challenge

    Pamphilus (wrote six books) if you had a good time writing a list, Crescentius (invoked against headaches) if you didn’t
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    The Fifty-First HoS List Challenge

    Deinde aspiciat eius ecclesiam 1914-1914: Pius XI (Domenico Ferrata) 1914-1927: Gregory XVI (Gaetano de Lai) 1927-1935: Innocent XIV (Rafael Merry del Val) '35 assassinated 1935-1957: Pius XII (Nicola Canali) 1957-1962: Benedict XV (Alojzije Stepinac) 1962-1977: Pius XIII (Alfredo Ottaviani)...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Bluebird is the U.S. Railway Service's term for a high-speed route. Its origin is unknown but believed to be a reference to the Blue Riband award for transoceanic passenger ships. Merchants (NY Grand Central to Portland Union via New Haven and Boston) 21st Century (NY Grand Central to Duluth...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    The Mona Lisa (or la Gioconda) was a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and "one of the most beautiful portraits ever made", the painting disappeared after a 1911 theft from the Louvre Museum in Paris, now...
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    The Fiftieth HoS List Challenge

    Without Wallace as SecAg (Bryan pushes hard for a Democrat and separately there was possibly-one-sided bad blood between Wallace and Bryan), and with a slightly stronger Democratic Party in the Great Plains defeating Landon, Milt goes into state politics and wins the Kansas governorship sometime...
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    The Fiftieth HoS List Challenge

    Mr. Bryan Consents To Run Again 1921-1923: Warren Harding (Republican) 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge (Republican) 1929-1933: Herbert Hoover (Republican) '28 (with Charles Curtis) def. Al Smith (Democratic) 1933-1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) '32 (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert...
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    All the public health departments of Europe and Asia, with a Buonaparte for a commander, could...

    All the public health departments of Europe and Asia, with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force stop me from taking a drink from the Ohio River in the trial of a thousand years
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    “Make Nevada Territory a state, they said. It doesn’t matter that it has a population of about five men and a dog. It’s definitely going to help win the war, they said”
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    This forum will continue to operate

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    Political and cultural figures who could've had lives/careers in different countries

    This is one hell of a stretch, but Yosuke Matsuoka spent a lot of his adolescence in Portland and even attended the University of Oregon, before returning to Japan, eventually serving as Foreign Minister and being a key figure in forging the alliance with Nazi Germany that we all remember today...
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    If those who had died in "their time" had lived longer (if Oscar Wilde had seen WWI and other ideas)

    I've been reading A Peace To End All Peace, and - so much of wartime British policy in the Middle East was determined by the preoccupations and blinkers of Mark Sykes (as in -Picot), a Tory MP who died during the Spanish Flu at the age of 39. Had he survived that, he could easily have lived into...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    From the Wikipedia page for Andrew McNaughton:
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    A grim example, but - as late as 1964, the American Colonization Society still existed. It hadn't sent settlers to Africa for sixty years by that point*, and it spent its last few decades solely as an aid society for institutions in Liberia, but - technically speaking, the paternalistic...
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