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  1. oshron

    Names for an independent Black republic in the American South?

    ignoring that nasty bit in the second post, the real answer would probably be "New Afrika", a real proposed state in/for the region and its African-descended population. that's not especially creative, though :P
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    again, the "factor of ten" thing i mentioned before--the whole idea that Atlantis is a giant lost continent that was destroyed 10,000 years ago could easily come from a translation error and the "real" one was the Minoans, which there is plenty of evidence for
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    that's pretty much exactly what i said twenty-two hours ago XD :P
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    with Atlantis in mind, though, one theory i've heard is that--assuming it was a real place at all in any way, shape, or form--Plato (or Solon, whichever, i'm starting to fall asleep right now) may have gotten it wrong by a factor of ten: it didn't exist ten thousand years ago, it was only about...
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    agreed. that's utterly ridiculous. everyone knows that Noah's Ark is in Armenia ;)
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    Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    you could've said that it was from a video game adaptation or something :P
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    Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    so a movie from 1972 used computer-generated graphics that wouldn't be invented for another thirty years or so for one scene? XD
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    Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    so people who get banned also get Jaguars? lucky sonsabitches.... :P
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    The ACW lasts longer, and its consequences?

    hey, all. this thought occurred to me recently and i wanted to get some peer review for it. for clarification, i've long been considering that the alternate version of the American Civil War in my ASB ATL would be shorter than it was IOTL as an unintended consequence of a completely different...
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    Pop culture of a surviving CSA

    here's a link to the "Pop Culture in TL-191" thread for those interested: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/pop-culture-in-tl-191.463675/ unfortunately, my morning coffee hasn't quite kicked in yet so i don't feel like typing much more right now, but i wrote a fair bit in the...
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    WI: Rome was founded at Pompeii?

    part of the premise here is "all other things being the same" :P it's no fun if it's completely different and we don't get Marius and Caesar and such ;)
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    WI: Rome was founded at Pompeii?

    well the relevant POD for my ASB ATL is much earlier than that, but this isn't necessarily for that one. i just thought it was an interesting possibility ;) you raise an excellent point on Vesuvius as a whole that i hadn't considered, though off the top of my head i don't know if it ever erupted...
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    WI: Rome was founded at Pompeii?

    also a very interesting question :)
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    WI: Rome was founded at Pompeii?

    well, obviously :P ;) the basic idea is an examination of that, and particularly if Rome could somehow survive it
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    WI: Rome was founded at Pompeii?

    hey, all. this idea has been rattling around in my brain for a while and i finally decided to make a thread about it after deciding minutes earlier to commit it to paper (well, to a digital-only document, at least) in the main notes file for my ASB ATL. the premise is simple enough: all other...
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    Multiple Capitals more common?

    *shrug* it's still in extreme-early development as an idea
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    Multiple Capitals more common?

    i came up with a multiple-capitals idea for Brazil in my ASB ATL (not sure if it'll go through at this point--the whole thing is under heavy revision at the moment) as part of a deliberate analogy to OTL's South Africa while still mainly being its own thing--Rio de Janeiro is the executive...
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    Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

    shall we assume that the enclosed part of Arabia is some kind of Bedouin reservation? :P
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    Alternate Names for Belgium

    Wallonia, Flanders, or a combination of them (as in "Wallonia-Flanders" or "Flanders-Wallonia" rather than "Wallanders" or "Flandonia")
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    Interesting AH ideas that aren't commonly used

    this one occurred to me just earlier today: in Egyptian mythology, Set is basically the god of evil, fitting in where far too much media thinks Anubis goes. if memory serves, it wasn't always this way (a relic of this being that Set is the chief protector of Ra when he passes through the...
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