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    Scenes We'd Like To See: Alternate Movies, Television & Other Pop Culture Miscellanea

    When you're a film director you get to actually make the scenes you'd like to see. Since there isn't a documentary about the shooting of Godard's Breathless, Richard Linklater has invented one, complete with fake behind-the-scenes takes.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    It's incredible how much of the world looked like Spain in the 1960s according to movies. The American West looked like Spain. The Belgian Ardennes looked like Spain. Even Beijing looked like Spain.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    The last election held under the Nazi regime took place in August 1945.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Ha, the idea for that one is an American version of Petit Nicolas :)
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    That's a delightful story. Would it be all right to repost it on the France Fights On board? My own take from years ago:
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Then there's Goscinny, who first met success in the world of comics while working with Harvey Kurtzman in New York in the late 1940s. He might very well have decided to stay permanently in the US instead of returning to France.
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    Things you didn't know where anachronisms

    Another retronym is Art Deco, which only became known as such in the 1960s, long after it had been superseded by newer styles. Back when it was in vogue people simply knew it as modernism.
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    Things you didn't know where anachronisms

    Chanced upon this video, which explains that the tumbleweed as a Western trope was introduced by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Before that it was just some annoying invasive species which Midwesterners wondered how to get rid of. (Spoiler: not only haven't they got rid of it, but the problem...
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    In the 1995 Jim Jarmush Western Dead Man, the main character is named William Blake, which leads a Western-educated Native American to consider him the reincarnation of the eponymous poet. Turns out there is a First Nations actor named Graham Greene.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Do you guys know if the YouTube channel History Undone with James Hanson is any good? They seem to do a fair bit of alternate history, but I haven't watched their videos yet.
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    What if De Gaulle made his own rival NATO structure in 1954?

    Personal anecdote: when I was studying Chinese, the classes were held in the former NATO headquarters at Place Dauphine.
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    The long-delayed birth of public transit: WI Pascal's other wager had caught on?

    Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher and venture businessman, invented what is arguably the world's first public transit service in 1662, with horse-drawn carriages taking fare-paying passengers along fixed routes throughout Paris. No hiring necessary, one just waited at a fixed stop and...
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    What if De Gaulle made his own rival NATO structure in 1954?

    Indeed. De Gaulle stepped down in 1946 because he disagreed with the draft constitution of the Fourth Republic and would spend the next 14 years out of power. When he returned in 1958 it was too late for him to set up a rival military organization; the most he did historically was take France...
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    This forum will continue to operate

    Great news! Thank you to @Meadow, @iainbhx and the team for your work! AH.com lore has it that Christopher "Kit" Morgan once head-butted David Cameron, so British politicians know we mean business.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    The shot could imitate the opening scene of For Your Eyes Only, where what initially appears to be a run-down fishing trawler is in fact a British electronic surveillance ship.
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    Whoever is writing OTL was way too on the nose when they decided that the international summit that sold out Ukraine would be held in Munich.
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    AH Challenge: Ridgway and Peng Dehuai switched

    As commander of the US Eighth Army during the Korean War, General Ridgway was pitted against People's Volunteer Army commander Peng Dehuai. David Halberstam writes in The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War: Your challenge is to come up with circumstances in which Halberstam's...
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    The recent tragedy at Ronald Reagan airport makes one wonder what's the deal with Russian ice skaters and plane travel. In 1950 the USSR had lost most of its national ice hockey team in a similar accident (which was covered up since the manager of the team was Stalin's son, something referred to...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Not sure where it's from. I've looked around for AH maps of Greater Finland but haven't found a match.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I wish the alternate history part was the person posting this.
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