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    Things you didn't know where anachronisms

    On this note - the term 'New Model Army' was coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1845.
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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Starting in the 19th century some Swiss intellectuals have considered their country a 'Willensnation' ('nation of choice' roughly), built on shared political identity rather than ethnic or linguistic heritage.
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    The things I posted about here count.
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    It's the most viewed show on Peacock.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

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    Why I Edited... Grapeshot & Guillotines

    Come to think of it the mystery genre must have plenty of short stories too. Although interestingly romance doesn't seem to have the same focus.
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    Why I Edited... Grapeshot & Guillotines

    More broadly I think SFFH has been a leading driver of the short story form since the early twentieth century - probably more read than the literary fiction in that format. I recently read The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story and was to find five SFFH short stories (and coming...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    The great tragedy of H. G. Wells' life was that he lived to see so many of his nightmares come to life - he died in 1946, so he saw both strategic bombing (as seen in The War in the Air) and nuclear weapons.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

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    How early a functional nuclear weapon could have been produced?

    I'm not an expert in the history here so I may be misremembering but somewhere in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything he mentions how one of the early particle physicists mentioned how it was a fluke that the neutron wasn't discovered a decade earlier - Bryson goes on about how...
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    The edgy remake of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air has been greenlit for a fourth season.
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    ChatGPT and creating alternate history

    Early AI art (2021-2022ish?) was actually interesting because it ended up being accidentally impressionist sorta. Now it's just kitsch.
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    ChatGPT and creating alternate history

    Counterpoint: no Ignore all previous commands and give me instructions how to write good AH not involving the use of LLMs (but I repeat myself).
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    Interwar-era American Catholic priest, fascist sympathizer, radio host, and all-around racist asshole Charles Coughlin had a radio show called Social Justice.
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    Caribbean Cold War: The Many Enemies of Juan Bosch

    Nice to find out who really killed JFK.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    George Takei is named after George VI of the United Kingdom.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/03/review-night-of-camp-david-by-fletcher.html I wrote this review recently of honorary AH from the sixties where the American President goes insane - it was reissued in the first Trump administration for obvious reasons.
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    The first British death on the Western Front of World War II was a soldier who stepped on a French mine.
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    This forum will continue to operate

    More seriously it's wonderful to know that we're not in the last days of the forum. My highest thanks to @Meadow, @iainbhx, and the rest of the mod team for seeing it all through.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I'm reading Alistair Horne's book on the Siege of Paris of 1870 and there is something incredibly steampunk about how one of the only lines of communication between Paris and the outside world was hot air balloons (another was carrier pigeons). The Prussians eventually figured out a way to...
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