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    Do you, Archibald Hetherington Nastyface, take this woman

    Do you, Archibald Hetherington Nastyface, take this woman
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Very innovative idea @Walpurgisnacht .
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Which led to this Central Powers victory parody of it from Life magazine, where they forgot to change the Japanese part despite them being on the Entente side (and also added Romanian Jamaica despite them being Entente as well - though I don't think they'd joined the war at this point tbf).
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    There's a similar thing in Doncaster (and other places) where Iranian/Persian delicatessans often use the Shah-era flag on their signs. I was a bit surprised to find a case of it on sports memorabilia though!
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Ah, I take your meaning.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Are you thinking of Parnell?
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I've made that observation before as well, there is definitely a connection. It feels like part of the same theme that the Chartists' leader and only MP (for Nottingham) was an Irishman named Feargus O'Connor.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Well, why wouldn't it? ...OK, that's worthy of the thread. While Lord Mayors also still exist in Britain itself, former British colonies often preserve usages that have ceased to be used in Britain itself: A similar example is the fact that the Dáil in the RoI has university seats (albeit...
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    The Alternate Lavender Island: Jack Tindale.

    Thank you for the "Look to the West" shout-out Jack; I fear sometimes I do fall into the category of 'lots of sources but they all sound the same' despite my best efforts though :D
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    As seen in my 2023 Canada travelogue, there's a sport stuff shop on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls that sells baseball caps of every nation...including South Vietnam.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    But by that point, the Soviets had pretty much abandoned any attempt to design their own personal computers in favour of pirating western ones. I always thought a surviving USSR might end up paradoxically dependent on the West as more and more of society becomes computer-centric.
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    Alternate Technologies: A Nuke By Any Other Name

    Completely managed to forget that. Mind you I don't think it's clear whether it's a name for nukes in general or one specific type.
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    The Way Things Were. Maybe.

    It's not quite the same, but I remember having a similar realisation about trying to get men in close order over broken ground the first time I played Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars. (IIRC, its predecessor had not been so sophisticated and had ignored such terrain effects). I also remember a...
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    Max's election maps and assorted others

    Very interesting Max. Of course the urban-rural divide makes the Swedish-speakers look like an even smaller proportion than they are, but I imagine there aren't exactly many 1880 census Finnish cartogrammes knocking about...
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    Cartographicum Thandeum

    After about a month's work, finally finished that map of the 2019 notional results on the new Parliamentary boundaries! edit: Fixed an error in Ulster thanks to - er - @Ulster spotting it.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Speaking of Albania, I recall commenting how Rita Ora and Dua Lipa feels like a clear case of the writer of OTL having forgotten he'd already used an idea for popcultural development and accidentally duplicated the same character and backstory.
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    The Marbles are very important to Mickey.

    The Marbles are very important to Mickey.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    That was the headline joke made at the time, yes.
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    Fiction Friction: Beloved Characters That Nearly Weren't

    Yeah, it does illustrate Nintendo's relentless focus on gameplay mechanics, they just replaced Kass with Penn the journalist from a gameplay standpoint so, as far as they're concerned, there's no reason for him to be in there. I just find it funny how stark the disconnect is between Nintendo's...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I was going to respond to this with a photo of then-Prince Charles riding a killer whale in 1974, but inexplicably nobody seems to have photographed it at the time.
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