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  1. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    The new trailer for the Napoleon movie showing some good ol' "monumental defacement" trope in action. No, it's not the myth of Napoleonic troops accidentally knocking off the Sphynx's nose with a cannonball, but what is probably the Battle of the Pyramids taking place right at the the foot of...

  2. Map Thread XXII

    I always found it funny, looking at the map, how Umbria (still) has the province of Rieti, which in the real world was ceded to Lazio all the way back in 1923. I should also add that in "La Nostra Guerra", which is a prequel to the book set in TTL's World War II, there's also one map inside...

  3. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    "Vogliamo i Colonnelli" ("We Want the Colonels") is a quite well-known 1973 Italian tragicomedy, openly spoofing to some extent the attempted coup by Junio Valerio Borghese (for that, see the Wikipedia entry) which had recently come to light, but also incorporating facts that happened sometime...

  4. WANTED: WWII Documentary

    That reminds me of "WWII from Space" for some reason, which I also watched in full on Youtube (the video has since been taken down though). Visualization of the maps and fronts as if shot from space, info windows and statistics appearing in a computer-like fashion, highlights on the maps...

  5. If Doctor Who was produced in Italy

    I remember coming across that years ago. It's a little silly experiment and a little toungue-in-cheek, actually (the most obvious example is the way Daleks are named Bialeks, in reference to the bottom looking like that of a Bialetti moka machine). I appreciate the fact that they weren't aiming...

  6. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    So, wait, in the ending they showed Paris still standing if heavily battered, yet right after in the final, world shot, they showed all of Europe this side of France completely wiped out into the ocean ...?

  7. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    Indio Black (published internationally as the third episode in the Sabata trilogy, apparently) is a classical Spaghetti Western B-movie published at the last tail end of the Western boom. It has the distinction of being set specifically during the reign of Maximilian in Mexico. Despite him being...

  8. Map Thread XX

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Yesenin

  9. Map Thread XX

    I need to ask whose photos you used as pictures for alt-Castro and alt-Khrushchev because they don't even turn up even by doing a reverse Google Image search.

  10. Third competitor to tea and coffee

    I'm surprised nobody brought up chicory yet, because this is what actually Romans used to drink (that is, chicory roots "coffee") and what continental Europe drank as a whole during the blockade on British imports at the time of Napoleon's Continental System.

  11. [AHC?] Jesus Christ as an emanation of a Roman god?

    A little off-color consideration I had as inspired by some recent readings. It is rather well known that Romans did not actively ban or suppress the local deities cults, but rather either with the support of Roman authorities or even Romanized locals the worship continued, if only by taking the...

  12. Map Thread XX

    Interesting, maybe I can help provide some background. When I read this part what came up to my mind was this old Japanese map which, according to the Harvard University in which is stored, was printed in the 1850s during the Tokugawa Period. I went to check and there were indeed several...

  13. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    Rather than being about aftermaths, this is about alternate history implications in the backgrounds, but in the movie "The Invention of Lying" it is explained at the start that since prehistory human beings never developed the ability to lie or make up facts. This hardwires them to also say the...

  14. Alternate history timelines incorporating OTL natural events/disasters?

    In my perusing of alternate history stories, I have found that there are way too many that, as they progress into the timeline, fail to take into account or give little to no importance to natural events which instead occurred OTL and left a significant mark/impact on history as a consequence...

  15. MotF 142: Perversas - Voting Thread

    Decided to join the MotF contest again ater a year or so since I though the theme was up my alley, really surprised at how few entries we had this round. Hope I didn't jinx it or anything.

  16. MotF 142: Perversas

    --- The Crisis of the Third Century and the unexpected Age of Exploration To say that the turmoil that hit the Roman Empire in the IIIrd century was a near-death experience is no exaggeration, but it surely also served as a wake up call for its people. While Rome concentrated on bringing the...

  17. Map Thread XIV

    And here's the map

  18. Map Thread XIV

    A near-future scenario based on a certain sci-fi B-movie by the same name, that I hold too much dear for my own good. Probably more time and thought went into rationalizing the plot, than the director did to write the original script. Oh well... --- POD: 1945(?) Local time: 2019 Does anyone...

  19. MotF 118: The Pale Continent - Voting thread

    I couldn't help noticing there has been lots of first-timer this round (including myself, of course). Well, as a participant I guess it's also my duty to chip in my vote. I want to say I reall respect SRegan's map skills, but it kinda bothers me that the map itself doesn't really show Europe at...

  20. MotF 118: The Pale Continent

    And here's the map. Whoefully eye-hurting, aliased version can be found here.
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