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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    I get the impression that Marmaduke Grove is one of those people like the Marquis de Lafayette, where the writer of OTL has one name from a country or ideological faction he likes to bring out as being involved in current affairs, and forgets how often and for how long a period he's using the...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Great work as always. Is there a reason for the disparity of the depth of Conservative support in the middle of the country in the Senate vs the Chamber of Deputies?
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    Taste the Weight! Human Face!

    Taste the Weight! Human Face!
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    My gut says that kind of setup is probably more common in more timelines than what we got, which seems so inexorably tied to the end-of-history, post-Cold-War, deregulation-mania zeigeist of our 1990s.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    On looking it up, this is a bit less random than I thought it was because 1880 was the famous Midlothian Campaign, but Gladstone was also simultaneously standing for Leeds (as was not uncommon in those days) and these are the results being reported - hence why it's on Leeds Town Hall...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Here's the one I was thinking of: Description Crowds wait outside Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire to hear the results of the 1880 general election won by William Gladstone (Liberal Party). The picture is titled "The general election - the result of the poll at the Town Hall...
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    Horse and Cat: The New Adventures

    Horse and Cat: The New Adventures
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    You can choose whether to interpret things on either basis because you lived through that period. People who didn't live through it are inevitably going to be stuck with an incorrect narrative unless they pry farther, is the point. I wrote an article a while back where, to Kids Today (TM) 'a...
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    Review: Superman - Red Son

    Which is interesting, because in the 60s it feels like it was DC that was more obsessed with alternate universes. Reading the early JLA stuff, almost every villain is like "Let's create some alternate worlds dominated by dinosaurs or insects or where everything's evil or something...and as an...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I recently wrote on the detective fiction thread about a similar misconception - because we've all grown up with at most one post per day, we picture people in (say) the 1930s being stuck with snail mail and everything moving much more slowly. In reality, as I learned from reading such fiction...
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    I was going to make a joke about the guitar brand, but apparently that was of wholly Japanese origin (but named after Salvador Ibanez, presumably no relation). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    With Carter I wonder if we can combine that with him putting solar panels on the White House roof for added chronausea.
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Also a good point. In many ways I think the most interesting alternatives in AH are when you combine something familiar from before the POD with something unfamiliar after it; this is a technology terminology example, but I also like to use "Reference to Chaucer - reference to Shakespeare -...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Always love to see implied alternative internet setups.
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    Mazda's Maps and Mwikiboxes

    Great work, very interesting as a chemist to hear how the nitrate mining industry influenced politics with the challenge from the Haber-Bosch Process. That 1930 managed election feels somewhat similar in character to fascism in its original form, albeit still geographically distributed.
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