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    What if Henry Turtledove never wrote Alternate History books?

    There was also the "What Might Have Been?" anthologies edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg that came out 1989 through 1992. Also, MacKinlay Kantor wrote "If the South Had Won the Civil War" for Look Magazine in 1960 which due to reader response was released a book in 1961.
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    Fast Food Chains in Alternate Timelines

    Another pair of restaurants from an alternate history comic series, Captain Confederacy, are McDonald's Burritos and Colonel Sander's Kentucky Fried Catfish.
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    Fast Food Chains in Alternate Timelines

    The Watchmen comic gave us Burgers 'N' Borscht (Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian) and Gunga Diner (Indian).
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    AHC: Make The Spirit more popular than Batman

    Easy, don't have Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, and Dick Sprang work on Batman. This would no Joker, Robin, Riddler, etc. That alone would drop him to second, if not third tier character.
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    Alternate Electoral Maps III

    The Electoral College map for this post. Superman/Clark Kent is elected US President (Action Comics Annual #3). As this issue was published in 1991, I used information from the DC Atlas to adjust the state populations to account for Metropolis, Gotham City, etc.
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    Effect of changed city names?

    The story I was told was that the two cities (St. Petersburg and Detroit) were the home towns of the civil engineers involved. The winner of the coin flip got to name the town, the loser the first hotel. There was an old hotel called the Detroit in St. Pete, I beilieve they converted into condos...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    More film infoboxes: James Cameron Cameron's early film career is similar to OTL as he gets a job with Roger Corman and works his way up the ladder. In OTL, Cameron's first directing job was Piranha II. In TTL, there's no sequel to direct because the original isn't made. Jaws wasn't a major hit...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Some Ridley Scott infoboxes As I mentioned in a previous post, Alien as we know it wasn't made. So, what did Ridley Scott make instead? Before he was attached to Alien, he attempting to make a move about Tristan & Isolde. In OTL, he eventually makes the film in 2006. In TTL, he able to secure...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Hopefully some coherent notes on the presented films. With the success of Westworld, MGM decided to restart pre-production on Logan's Run. However, after two producers left the project in less than eighteen months, MGM decided to put the project on the back burner. It was this point that...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    While most of Hollywood ignored the success of the Kentucky Fried Movie (KFM), Sean Daniel, an executive at Warner Bros., did not. He would meet with three of the film's writers Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (ZAZ trio for short). The meeting would go very well and Daniel would...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Quick and dirty notes. The Wiz: Barry Gordy gets the rights before Diana Ross does. This version better recieved by the public and critics. A Star is Born: The Colonel is absent from the Presley-Streisand meeting. Biggest musical of the 1970s. The Kentucky Fried Movie: Doug Kenney leaves for...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    More badly written notes about James Bond and the Roger Moore Era Despite the success of Diamonds Are Forever, the producers agreed to Lazenby leave the role, especially since a previous choice, Roger Moore, was available. In an effort to make a clean break from the Lazenby era, the producers...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Right now, I'm only working on films from the 1970s. These film infoboxes are a world-building exercise to help with my writer's block.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Badly written notes about James Bond and the George Lazenby Era As production takes place very close to my nebulous timeline POD of July 1968, there are no major changes in what was filmed. Instead, the major change comes via Lazenby's agent. He advises Lazenby to do one more Bond and then...
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