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Things that look like alternate history but aren't
- Thread starter Meadow
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Speaking of which, one of my favourite places in Cambridge (even though I only really used its libraries when doing History & Philosophy of Science) is the Sidgwick Site, which has a load of mismatched but architecturally interesting libraries and faculties all shoved together like it's the hub world of an adventure game.
Law Faculty - futuristic aircraft hangar
Divinity Faculty - lab from Tiberian Sun
Seeley Library (history) - allegedly supposed to look like an opening book - I once spent an afternoon researching the Manhattan Project in there
Some of them even just have staircases on the outside that end in blank walls etc., as though it's a buggy level from a beta version of Myst or something. You can't see it very well in this image, but the Faculty of English has an extra blank wall with an empty window in it in the middle of the bike park that doesn't connect to anything, as though one of the devs misplaced it.
The seeley is very James StirlingSpeaking of which, one of my favourite places in Cambridge (even though I only really used its libraries when doing History & Philosophy of Science) is the Sidgwick Site, which has a load of mismatched but architecturally interesting libraries and faculties all shoved together like it's the hub world of an adventure game.
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Law Faculty - futuristic aircraft hangar
Divinity Faculty - lab from Tiberian Sun
Seeley Library (history) - allegedly supposed to look like an opening book - I once spent an afternoon researching the Manhattan Project in there
Some of them even just have staircases on the outside that end in blank walls etc., as though it's a buggy level from a beta version of Myst or something. You can't see it very well in this image, but the Faculty of English has an extra blank wall with an empty window in it in the middle of the bike park that doesn't connect to anything, as though one of the devs misplaced it.
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Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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The inverse of that is how healthy actual football was in the US before the competing leagues shattered the sport out of existence—they placed fourth in the 1930 World Cup!
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- Arlington, Virginia
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- Western New York
There's a double barrel ATL for you - Brady stays in MLB (for how long?) and the Belichick/Brady Dynasty doesn't exist.
LSCatilina
Never Forget Avaricon
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- Teuta Albigas - Rutenoi - Keltika
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If we're speaking architecture, there's Antigone neighbourhood in Montpellier, definitely not an ISOTed fascist or Stalinist planned city.
A prototype SELNEC interactive display board (for the cancelled 'Picc-Vic tunnel' connecting Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria stations), now on display at the Museum of Transport in Greater Manchester.
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- Derbyshire
SELNEC is one of those really fascinating council areas that everyone would have been desperately trying to find a better name for but never succeeding.
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- NYC (né Falkirk)
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From the same era that generated Avon and Solent City.
Interesting chronauseous use of the term "United Nations" in a contemporary (well, 1759) account of the negotiation of the Treaty of Easton (1758) between 13 Native American Indian nations and the colonial governments of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (@Ciclavex).
(For more, see here: https://archive.org/details/sim_gentlemans-magazine_1759-03_29_3/page/108/mode/2up )
(For more, see here: https://archive.org/details/sim_gentlemans-magazine_1759-03_29_3/page/108/mode/2up )
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- NYC (né Falkirk)
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I get the same feeling whenever I see the Iroquois Confederacy referred to as the Six Nations, or the Five Nations for that matter before the Iroquois admitted Italy.
Alexander Rooksmoor
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I think the most what if? Fascistic architecture has to be at Norwich city hall especially its lions.If we're speaking architecture, there's Antigone neighbourhood in Montpellier, definitely not an ISOTed fascist or Stalinist planned city.
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Given Nottingham’s radical history, it’s perfectly possible that you could see Nottingham Council House in an Alternate World being named the ‘Hall of Fallen Brothers’ or something.
I really didn’t like working and having lectures in the Seeley building, looks horrible, felt very exposed to the weather and the library was so open and bright.Speaking of which, one of my favourite places in Cambridge (even though I only really used its libraries when doing History & Philosophy of Science) is the Sidgwick Site, which has a load of mismatched but architecturally interesting libraries and faculties all shoved together like it's the hub world of an adventure game.
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Law Faculty - futuristic aircraft hangar
Divinity Faculty - lab from Tiberian Sun
Seeley Library (history) - allegedly supposed to look like an opening book - I once spent an afternoon researching the Manhattan Project in there
Some of them even just have staircases on the outside that end in blank walls etc., as though it's a buggy level from a beta version of Myst or something. You can't see it very well in this image, but the Faculty of English has an extra blank wall with an empty window in it in the middle of the bike park that doesn't connect to anything, as though one of the devs misplaced it.
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Sometimes you can tell you have slipped into a slightly different TL from small details. These pictures were taken at the same spot during my first and second trips to Taiwan, and somehow, instead of reading "Hall of Integrity", the words now read "Liberty Square".
