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Totally not a screengrab from The Man in the High Castle.
You say that-there's an entire episode that lifts it's aesthetic from the Nazi Rally in Charlottesville.
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Things that look like alternate history but aren't
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You say that-there's an entire episode that lifts it's aesthetic from the Nazi Rally in Charlottesville.
An alternative Cold War where Germany was divided three ways, with an independent or Danish Schleswig-Holstein, maybe a more extreme outcome of a scenario like @Meadow 's "Zonen"?
No - they just forgot to colour it in on this news broadcast from 1988.
No - they just forgot to colour it in on this news broadcast from 1988.
The infallible Youtube algorithm introduced me to this channel (which really deserves more attention). One of the video styles he does is when he does e.g. listing US Presidents or German Chancellors through time, showing what age everyone was and which former ones were still alive in each year as it progresses. Same with family members of public figures in the 'Life Through Time' format. As well as being a good resource for writing historical fiction so you don't have to look it all up individually, there's also plenty of examples worthy of this thread where you're like "Wait, (this guy from a different era) was still alive in (much later year)?!" all the time.
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Subscribed to itThe infallible Youtube algorithm introduced me to this channel (which really deserves more attention). One of the video styles he does is when he does e.g. listing US Presidents or German Chancellors through time, showing what age everyone was and which former ones were still alive in each year as it progresses. Same with family members of public figures in the 'Life Through Time' format. As well as being a good resource for writing historical fiction so you don't have to look it all up individually, there's also plenty of examples worthy of this thread where you're like "Wait, (this guy from a different era) was still alive in (much later year)?!" all the time.
The Time Travel Artist
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Arsenic meanwhile was considered and developed for military use in the 30s: arsane (arsine) was trialed several times as a chemical gas weapon but abandoned due its inflammability making at an excellent "friendly fire" weapon when deployed.
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Yes, some viewers seem to have taken it as a 'how to' guide rather than as a warning.
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Walpurgisnacht
Shmuel 8:19-20
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- Banned from the forum
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- He/Him
Not only is that real alternate history, it was created by a user on this very site, @Blackentheborg!
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- Arlington, Virginia
If you go far back enough, 'Raj' and 'Reich' are the same word.
In the course of my study of the Dharma, I have been exposed to a number of texts in Sanskrit, and it's endlessly fascinating to me how one can second-guess the etymology of key terms thanks to the common linguistic roots of the Indo-European language family. Atma, the soul or living breath? Yeah, atmosphere. Swa, the self? Yeah, it's pronounced the same way in French to this day.
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Dennis Skinner's molotov
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- Grand Hotel Abyss
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- He/Him
oh goD WE'RE LOOPING BACK AROUND IT'S FULLY OUT IN THE ETHER NOW LADS
LSCatilina
Never Forget Avaricon
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- Albi
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- ēs/xsi
Incidentally, sang by the same person that makes the french dub for Gendo Ikari in Evangelion.
And then, in 1981, whatever this thing was supposed to be.
If we're talking Indo-European words, the ones for family relations and numbers are almost always almost disconcertingly conserved - which makes sense of course. Then you get other things whose meaning have drifted.
Take the region of Punjab (or Panjab) in India/Pakistan, for example. The name means Five Rivers: Panj + Ab, ultimately from PIE
The Panj is related to, say, Pente in Greek for 5. It's harder to see in Germanic languages because P became F, but it ultimately became both 'Fiff' (-> 'Five') and words like 'Fist' and 'Finger' - think how many fingers on a hand.
The Ab on the other hand, strangely, is (probably) related to 'Ape' in English and other Germanic languages, because the word originally applied to some kind of mythical water spirit (maybe).
Take the region of Punjab (or Panjab) in India/Pakistan, for example. The name means Five Rivers: Panj + Ab, ultimately from PIE
pénkʷe + h₂ep-
The Panj is related to, say, Pente in Greek for 5. It's harder to see in Germanic languages because P became F, but it ultimately became both 'Fiff' (-> 'Five') and words like 'Fist' and 'Finger' - think how many fingers on a hand.
The Ab on the other hand, strangely, is (probably) related to 'Ape' in English and other Germanic languages, because the word originally applied to some kind of mythical water spirit (maybe).
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Well the two hydrogen atoms are definitely in there.
Multiple layers of Things That Look Like AH But Aren't here, discovered while doing research...
Firstly, at the southern tip of Manhattan, there used to be a fort founded as Fort Amsterdam by the Dutch, then going through various other nations when New York became English and then British. By the time of the American Revolution it was called Fort George (of course). It was used not only as a defensive site but also as the meeting place for the colonial assembly.
At the end of the American Revolutionary War with the Treaty of Paris, the rebel forces had completely failed to retake the city, but nonetheless got it back at the treaty. The British promptly pranked them by disabling the flagpole before they went so they couldn't put their own flag up, but eventually the Americans were able to raise theirs. As depicted here in 1883, a century on, by someone who has the basic qualification for being an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century cartoonist (including a British one) of being completely unable to remember what the Union Jack looks like.
Following taking the fort, the new New York government (can you say that?) promptly demolished it in order to build a new Government House there and spent a long time sending passive-aggressive letters to George Washington asking when he he and his government were going to take up residence in this, the obvious new capital of the United States, didn't you get the memo. (He never did). (Amusingly they had to then build a new fort next to it for the War of 1812!) The Government House got demolished in 1815, the site was occupied by the houses of wealthy New Yorkers in the 19th century, before finally getting replaced with a new US Customs House in 1907. This was renamed after Alexander Hamilton in 1990 because, idk, they were very forward-thinking when guessing which founding father would eventually get a hit musical. Anyway, the reason why I post this is that said Customs House includes a statue to the British Empire's naval supremacy, which seems a little surprising given what happened on the site.
The caveat is this is only one of several statues and includes maritime powers of the ancient world (including Phoenicia, nice for them to be remembered) and the Renaissance (Venice and Genoa probably got on there because of Columbus) as well as Britain, France, the Netherlands and others. But still, an amusing irony.
Firstly, at the southern tip of Manhattan, there used to be a fort founded as Fort Amsterdam by the Dutch, then going through various other nations when New York became English and then British. By the time of the American Revolution it was called Fort George (of course). It was used not only as a defensive site but also as the meeting place for the colonial assembly.
At the end of the American Revolutionary War with the Treaty of Paris, the rebel forces had completely failed to retake the city, but nonetheless got it back at the treaty. The British promptly pranked them by disabling the flagpole before they went so they couldn't put their own flag up, but eventually the Americans were able to raise theirs. As depicted here in 1883, a century on, by someone who has the basic qualification for being an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century cartoonist (including a British one) of being completely unable to remember what the Union Jack looks like.
Following taking the fort, the new New York government (can you say that?) promptly demolished it in order to build a new Government House there and spent a long time sending passive-aggressive letters to George Washington asking when he he and his government were going to take up residence in this, the obvious new capital of the United States, didn't you get the memo. (He never did). (Amusingly they had to then build a new fort next to it for the War of 1812!) The Government House got demolished in 1815, the site was occupied by the houses of wealthy New Yorkers in the 19th century, before finally getting replaced with a new US Customs House in 1907. This was renamed after Alexander Hamilton in 1990 because, idk, they were very forward-thinking when guessing which founding father would eventually get a hit musical. Anyway, the reason why I post this is that said Customs House includes a statue to the British Empire's naval supremacy, which seems a little surprising given what happened on the site.
The caveat is this is only one of several statues and includes maritime powers of the ancient world (including Phoenicia, nice for them to be remembered) and the Renaissance (Venice and Genoa probably got on there because of Columbus) as well as Britain, France, the Netherlands and others. But still, an amusing irony.
Nelson's Pillar in pre-1966 Dublin sticks out:
